The Spur Schools Mountain Bike League is about introducing more learners to bikes and encouraging South African schools to adopt mountain biking as an official sport. With these simple aims, the Spur Schools Mountain Bike League has built a strong cross-country racing format, with four events taking place in each province between May and September.
Schools are encouraged to enter as many riders as possible in order to rack up points which are awarded to riders’ finishing positions in each race. The primary and high schools finishing top of the points log at the end of each season are awarded the Region’s School Champion floating trophy.
Recently, the Spur Schools Mountain Bike League started including primary schools in the racing categories to introduce a healthy feeder system for the sport. Now riders in the 7 to 13-year-old age categories can experience these exciting events and get involved in a safe and structured environment. Encouraging healthy participation and development is key here, and no primary school inter-school final is offered to the younger riders.
The Spur Schools Mountain Bike League is currently the largest high school cycling programme in the world, and Spur Steak Ranches proudly supports this initiative to grow mountain biking in their communities.
The team from Life Ministries School was made up by Jean van Staden, Madeleine Streicher (team captain), Anneke Joubert, Nicola Bezuidenhout, Jean van Staden (Jnr), Dewaldt Streicher, Duan Pretorius and Richardt Ferreira.
Except for Jean and Dewaldt, the other riders are newcomers to the event and the team did exceptionally well as first timers.
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