New kid on the block, Aaron Gwin officially made his mark on the DH scene by taking the number one spot at this past weekend’s DH world cup in Pietermaritzburg. Showing some of the long standing legends of the sport a clean pair of heels… (more…)
Sick Mick Hannah qualifies first at the UCI World Cup Downhill race in Pietersmaritzburg, South-Africa. Pinning it with a time of 4.22:15 sec… (more…)
It’s always great to race sections of an upcoming World Cup track, but even more so when you do it against a multiple world cup winner and local legend like Greg Minnaar. This past weekend of 26 & 27 March saw the Greg Minnaar Mongoose provincial cup series take place in Pietermaritzburg… (more…)
The new year is here and the first month is on it’s way out. And so too the 2011 DH season begins and it’s time for the first round of the KwaZulu Natal, Greg Minnaar Racing Mongoose DH series’s first race… (more…)
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.
