Written by Gerhard Nel & Stuart Barnard Images by Maranda Muller On the 5th and 6th May, the annual High Rising XDH event was held at the Houwteq Science Complex, Houw Hoek. The course is one of the shortest on the South African racing circuit, but what it lacks in distance it more than makes up for in [...]

Nestled between pine forests, fynbos and Martian like landscape, the Houwteq complex is situated 4km off the N2 just out side Grabouw. The course is quick and fast, starting at the top riders push down a short straight into a tight right-hander. The hill banks to the lef…t as you speed down the hill, about [...]

Eebin van den Bergh for SAGRA The 2012 Faircape Downhill Challenge held on the 17th and 18th of March saw one of the largest amount entries for a national event to date, with 42 entries for Downhill Skateboard and 35 entries for Junior Skateboard. Faircape is usually held in the late summer months in Cape Town, which would [...]

SAGRA has been working with the Tygerberg Volunteers on streamlining the emergency process. Eddie Cumpsty has put together a medical form that all participants must fill out if you want to race. The information that you give us will be stored for the year, this is a once off medical information for for 2012 In [...]

The Location The Fair Cape course is situated 10mins from Durbanville, which is about 20km from Cape Town, amid wheat fields, vineyards and dairy pastures, looking across to Table Mountain. Race Course The course is 1.9km long from start to finish. The road surface is extremely smooth and all about the speed. The course starts [...]