Results of Event 7 #    Howick Fire Tower  04 JULY 2010… (more…)

Greg takes his new carbon fibre Santa Cruz to its first win in Maribor… (more…)

South Africa’s Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate) is recovering in hospital after a crash at the weekend saw him break his collarbone, and have surgery on his left leg for the treatment of blood clots that had formed after the accident. The medical term for this injury to his leg is ‘compartment syndrome’. (more…)

NSRMTB regular Nils Hansen from Cape Town found this old newspaper clipping of Greg… (more…)

Sept. 8, 2009 – Canberra, Australia

Finally in the record books, Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Steve Peat (SRAM/RockShox), makes history as he bags the big one winning the UCI Downhill World Championships in Canberra, Australia. Syndicate’s Greg Minnaar finishes a mere .05 behind Peat in the closest margin in World Championship history, and Mick Hannah takes the last medal just .69 behind Peat. (more…)

The good folks at dirtmag.co.uk are pushing out tons of sweet content from the world champs already. Some of this includes so very interesting bike checks… Here is a snippet of Greg Minnaars green and gold V10 (full feature on the dirt site), and there are some other very good bike checks as well (Gee Atherton running a lock out?). Check it all out HERE.

So race day has come and gone at Bromont and Minnaar was victorious. After last weekends disappointing performance he managed to gain maximum points in the final and climb back up to 2nd place in the rankings. He is now well within striking distance for the overall this year, so with only one race to go it should be a very exciting end to the world cup series. Here is the video of the finals brought to you by MTBcut.tv

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July 25, 2009 – Mt. Ste. Anne, Quebec, Canada

Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Steve Peat celebrates his 50th career UCI Downhill podium by placing 2nd in the UCI World Cup Downhill in Mt. Ste. Anne, Quebec. Greg MInnaar’s race run was marred with a high speed crash, yet he managed to salvage a 22nd place finish, and young Josh Bryceland put together a 18th place run. Not a stellar weekend, but “Old School” pulled it together for the Syndicate and Minnaar is licking his wounds. Sam Hill takes the win and the leader’s jersey going into Bromont next week. Aaron Gwin has his first career UCI podium and Gee, Fabien, Sam, and Steve destroyed him with a champagne blast. (more…)

By Press release:

MINNAAR CRASHES IN MT. STE ANNE

Mt. Ste. Anne, Quebec, Canada

Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Steve Peat celebrates his 50th career UCI Downhill podium by placing 2nd in the UCI World Cup Downhill in Mt. Ste. Anne, Quebec. Greg MInnaar’s race run was marred with a high speed crash, yet he managed to salvage a 22nd place finish, and young Josh Bryceland put together a 18th place run. Not a stellar weekend, but “Old School” pulled it together for the Syndicate and Minnaar is licking his wounds. Sam Hill takes the win and the leader’s jersey going into Bromont next week. Aaron Gwin has his first career UCI podium and Gee, Fabien, Sam, and Steve destroyed him with a champagne blast. (more…)

MINNAAR TAKES LEADER JERSEY BACK WITH A 3RD AT MARIBOR DOWNHILL

June 21, 2009
Maribor, Slovenia

Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Greg Minnaar (SRAM/RockShox) overcame an ankle injury to place 3rd at the fifth round of the Nissan UCI World Cup Downhill in Maribor, Slovenia and takes the leader’s jersey from teammate Steve Peat. This marks Greg’s 40th world cup downhill podium out of 70 world cup starts. Steve Peat was on a great race run and was .06 faster at the first split than race winner Fabien Barel. He then suffered a rear flat and finished in a distant 38th place. Josh Bryceland struggled to find his form and placed 25th. (more…)