JBAY WINDFARM MTB CLASSIC

Make sure you keep Saturday 16th July open for what could be one of your best MTB experiences ever.

Purpose-built singletrack, spectacular views and fast farm roads – all a mountain-biker could wish for, really. This year’s event will once again offer something for riders of a range of fitness and skill levels.

The 2016 event will start at Kabeljous Lagoon (also the venue for the fishing and trail running events, as well as the kite festival - click 1here for more details) and feature three routes, 25km, 50km and 85km. The 25km route is designed for the adventurous fun rider looking to ride a significant distance and will be fairly flat and non-technical.  The two longer routes require good technical proficiency and some training in the legs, with the 50km aimed at trail riders and the 85km fit racers with marathon experience. The longer routes will also feature spectacular trails in Impala Ranch, a bike park outside Jeffreys Bay. The 1000 hectares of pristine countryside has been a private game farm for the past 20 years with access only to family and friends of the landowner. In that time the farm has been regularly stocked with superb specimens of a wide range of animals and rumour has it the property is home to the largest kudu bull in the Eastern Cape.

Other highlights will no doubt include the purpose-built wooden bridges and berms of race director Arthur Joubert’s, property along the Seekoei River as well as tight and twisty singletrack along an old riverbed and a tunnel of natural vegetation.

The event also carries the unique distinction of being the only MTB event in Africa to run through a wind farm. Riders taking part in the 50km and 85km routes will be racing through the Jeffreys Bay Wind Farm, riding along the roads that are interspersed by 80m tall wind turbines towers, spread more than 500m apart.

And if all this isn't enough there's R50 000 PRIZE MONEY up for grabs
ENTER HERE at http://www.jeffreysbaysport.co.za/event/jbay-wind-farm-mtb-classic-2016
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