The 5th event in the Drakenstein Super Cycle Road Series, the 2-day cycle tour delivered some good racing for the local riders of Boland and Western Province. The Tour was held on 28 &29 August 2010 in Paarl and surrounding areas.

It was Charles Solomons of Team Daikin GU that showed his dominance from the start and eventually won the 2-day / 3 stages cycle tour. The tour consisted of a 6km Individual Time Trial, 50km circuit race and a 125km mass start road race.

Boland Cycling is proud of one of its clubs supporting the Mandela Day in the true spirit. Click to view their report.

The EMG YORKSHIRE CYCLING CLUB, one of the leaders of cycling development in the Boland, traveled to Gariep for the annual Eric van Enter Inter-Provincial Schools Competition as part of the Boland Cycling Union Schools Team.

The event was hosted over 3 days, from Thurday 8 July to Saturday 10 July 2010.  EMG YORKSHIRE had a strong representation in the Boland Team with Daniston Perrins, Luc Green, Lee-Arthur Green, George Perrins, Jean Claude Jantjies, Graeme Ockhuis, Franklyn Stoffels, Angelo Diedericks, Dino Daniels, Xabiso Maxam, Shaun Gayiya, Michael Magongo, Byron Martin and Joshwill Davids.

The riders in the different age categories, from under 10 to Juniors participated in the Team TimeTrial, Road Race, Hill Climb and a Criterium. The Criterium was completed on a 1km circuit route inside the Aventura resort’s grounds. Team spirit at this event is the name of the game and riders had toaccumulate points for their provinces in the different races.

The Eric van Enter is mainly a development event with its different characteristics. Surely Cycling South Africa needs to build on this and make their Transformation and Development programme more sustainable and using the Eric van Enter as one of the steps in their Development and Transformation Plan.

Riders need to come through the ranks and be present at national classic races as well as national championships. CSA, with the assistance of its provinces need to ensure that moreblack riders come through the ranks and compete at the top end of racing. The Boland Schools Team was 25 riders strong. The Boland had a very strong Under 14 Team and theboys showed some guts to win the Overall Under 14 title of the 2010 Eric van Enter. Competition inthis category was strong, especially between the reigning under 14 SA Road Champ, JC Jantjies andthe silver medalist at the SA Road Champ Janrich Kotze (North West). J.C. Jantjies had a strong team in the likes of Graeme Ockhuis and Ivan Venter (younger brother of Jaco Venter riding for Team MTN).

On day 1 the Boland Under 14 Team, consisting of Jantjies, Ockhuis, Venter and Lee Arthur Green rode a strong Team Time Trial to finish in 1 st position. In the afternoon Jantjies did an early breakaway in the 60km road race. He rode away from the bunch after just 20km into the race. After about 50km into the race, Jantjies was joined by Kotze of North West. Kotze went on to win the final sprint from Jantjies.On day 2 Kotze also showed his strength to win the Individual Hill Climb event. Jantjies finished 2nd and Venter (Boland) 3rd.

Unfortunately the two day event scheduled for this weekend, as part of the Drakenstein Super Cycle Series, needs to be postponed. Some of the riders and officials are going to Oudtshoorn for the Interprovincials this coming weekend. Please communicate the message to other cyclists / clubs, etc.

We will inform you as soon as possible when the event (2 day event) will take place.

To those who travels, safe journey! Enjoy the school holidays and the Soccer World Cup.

Kind regards,

Ian Goetham

The next event in the series is on May 8, again with a start and finish at the Florida Farm Stall near Wellington.

The rest of the events for the year are as follows:

*8 May 2010*

*12, 13 June 2010*

*26 June 2010*

*31 July 2010*

*28, 29 August 2010*

*24,25,26 Sseptmber 2010*

*13 November 2010*

*11 December 2010*

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Cyclists were greeted with some glorious summer weather just outside Wellington for the first event in the new Drakenstein Super Cycle Road Series. The series caters for all Cycling South Africa age categories and also a funride for those not so serious cyclists.

It was the team of Cape Town Market that dominated the first event of the open category series. The open category bunch was 45 cyclists strong. The open race (Juniors, Under 23 &Elites) was over a distance of 117 km. Anton Wynand of Team Cape Town Market was allocated the first position when 4 of the team got away from the main bunch and stayed away until the end of the race. Tredoux Odendaal, Daniel Heyns and Stefan Ihlenfeldt came in 2nd,3rd and 4th respectively.

To crown this, the Junior section was also won by a Cape Town Market cyclist, young Kyle Donachie. He crossed the finish line in 6th position overall. Second Junior was Matthew Merington (Toyota CycleLab) and 3rd Junior was Emile Jacobs (Toyota CycleLab).

The first attack in the main event came in the first round of the 13km circuit which the riders had to complete 9 times. Cape Town Market’s Tredoux Odendaal and Willie Brink (Maties) broke away from the main bunch and quickly created a lead of 42 seconds over the bunch. Brink could not hold on, and Odendaal, who actually had a great day, just kept on going at a steady pace.After lap 4 Anton Wynand (CTM), Daniel Schmeisser, Daniel Heyns (CTM), Theuns van der Bank(CTM), Jan Hendrik Verdoes(Maties) and Hanno Fourie(Maties) took on the chase to close the gap to Odendaal. Wynand then attacked on one of the hills at the 60 km mark and pulled away from the others. Wynand closed the gap on his teammate Odendaal and the two worked well together. On lap 8, Daniel Heyns and Stefan Ihlenfeldt closed the gap to the two leaders and they went on to take the first 4 positions of the race.

The first ever Western Cape Track Championships was hosted at the Bellville Velodrome, the only indoor cycling track in the country, from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 March 2010.

Cyclists participating in the under 12 to Veterans categories were from Western Province, Boland and also Southern Cape.

The riders of the EMG Yorkshire cycling academy were in full force represented at the champs and took the racing to their opponents and guarAnteed for some exciting racing. Good team spirit was also evident amongst the riders, from under 12 to Elites!

Despite the strenuous terrain, the high temperatures, and the distances per stage, Team Medscheme’s Hanco Kachelhoffer and Nic White managed to finish the 2010 Tour de Boland on exactly the same time.

Kachelhoffer won the Tour overall on stage count back - as he had finished in the top four on every stage.  Kachelhoffer and White’s winning time over the four days was 13 hours 2 minutes and 46 seconds.

White won the last stage when he crossed the finish line in a solo ride up the steep Taalmonument Hill in Paarl.  Medscheme’s Kachelhoffer and Luthando Kaka took second and third place respectively on this final stage, after having spent almost 4 hours on the 140 kilometre stage.

The German, former Tour de France participant David Kopp (Kuouta-Indeland) took the overall third place at the end of the Tour, beating David Garrett (Daikin-GU) into forth by one second.

An overall victory wasn’t part of Kachelhoffer’s plans: “Naturally, we wanted someone on the team to win the tour. My goal was to win stages,” said Kachelhoffer. “I tried in the first and second stage but couldn’t get the victory and then finally I won the third stage and with that took the lead in the tour.”

Kachelhoffer was full of praise for the Tour de Boland: “If you look at the limited budget Hendrik Lemmer had to work with, he did an amazing job. It was my first Tour de Boland. Medscheme will come back again.”

Kachelhoffer added that Lemmer only need to get some more prominent teams to ride in the Tour de Boland to bring it on par with the Giro del Capo.