Local cycling star Bester in action in Great Zuurberg Trek
Pretoria’s Shaun-Nick Bester will try to give his mountain biking career a boost in this weekend’s PwC Great Zuurberg Trek mountain bike race.
The popular Eastern Cape mountain bike event, the PwC Great Zuurberg Trek takes place this weekend.
The race starts and finishes at the Zuurberg Mountain Inn about 70km outside Port Elizabeth. It will finish on Sunday.
Riders will cover a total distance of 209km over the three days, traversing a variety of trails, which include sections in the Addo Elephant National Park.
Pretoria’s Shaun-Nick Bester will be one of the riders to watch in the men’s category. He will compete partnership with Andrew Hill, from Durban, who will be chasing his third title.
Riding for TIB-Silverback-Best4Sport, Hill said he had developed a nice partnership with Bester, a former road ace who has taken to the mountain-bike trails.
“I am definitely looking forward to this weekend because it is a top-class event. The riding is great and we are always so well looked after. I felt this was a wonderful opportunity to invite Shaun-Nick to experience something different,” said Hill.
Bester has shown his mountain-biking skill by winning the PE Plett team race and finishing third on the podium at the joBerg2C, partnering Declan Sidey on those occasions.
Race owner Siska van der Bijl said they believed there would be good competition in the men’s category.
“The strongest are definitely Andrew Hill and Shaun-Nick Bester, but then you have teams like Joel Stransky and Andrew McLean, as well as Jason Peach and Jason Reed from East London, who are capable of doing well,” she concluded.
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