Good Luck Beijing 2007 – Mountain Bike Invitational Competition – Laoshan, Beijing

by patrick

6 comments

1 Fallan Griffith { 12.31.07 at 8:52 am }

Thanks for the link to this competition, I love the photos!

2 patrick { 01.01.08 at 9:06 pm }

Cool, glad you liked them Went to your site, quite useful! Need to find some spare cash for those lovely Cervelo bikes up for grabs
by the by, your site is missing two names that come to mind:
Cube Bikes and
LightWeight (now Carbonsports)
Cheers, and good 2008!

3 Fallan Griffith { 01.28.08 at 2:47 am }

I’ll be sure to add them, thanks for the tip!

4 patrick { 03.30.08 at 12:21 am }

news update just in, looks like Christophe Sauser is up to a good start in the South African Cape Epic! Some others present at the GLB are also there, (Bart Brentjens) and undoubtedly many Olympic contenders are in the field:

29 MARCH 2008
NEWSFLASH: STAGE 1 OF 2008 ABSA CAPE EPIC PRESENTED BY ADIDAS
Stage 1

Start/Finish: Knysna – George (Saasveld Campus Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University)
Distance: 123 km
Climbing: 3091m

Once again a traditional start had riders leave the beautiful coastal town of Knysna, up Simola Pass, a 3km climb with a 7% gradient. Riders then had to turn into lush, indigenous forests. This route was as beautiful as it was demanding, with sharp climbs, slippery corners and heart-in-the-stomach descents through Homtini, Jubilee Creek nature reserve, and a technical descent through Katara forest. Riders then got onto stretches of the 7 passes route, with some deviations on more rugged terrain, before they reached the first race village on the beautiful Saasveld Campus. Day 2 of the Absa Cape Epic saw another stage win for a South African with young Burry Stander claiming the yellow leader jersey stepping up to the pace of his partner Christoph Sauser, one of the world’s most prolific mountain bike riders of all times (Songo.Info).

STAGE 1 RESULTS:

MEN:

1. Songo.Info – Christoph Sauser (SUI) & Burry Stander (RSA) – 4:39:35
2. Bulls – Karl Platt (GER) & Stefan Sahm (GER) – 4:40:06
3. Etto Hoydahl (3) – Martin Bratland (NOR) & Kristian Torgersen (NOR) – 4:44:21
4. Etto Hoydahl (1) – Jo Nordskar (NOR) & Anders Hovdenes (NOR) – 4:44:43
5. Alb-Gold Mountainbike – Hannes Genze (GER) & Jochen Kaess (GER) – 4:45:38
6. Cannondale Vredestein – Roel Paulissen (BEL) & Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) – 4:49:15
7. Full-Dynamix Rsm – Fredrik Kessiakoff (SWE) & Massimo Debertolis (ITA) – 4:51:59
8. Dolphin – Bart Brentjens (NED) & Alban Lakata (AUT)– 4:55:54
9. Etto Hoydahl (2) – Rune Hoydahl (NOR) & Ola Kjoren (NOR) – 5:01:44
10. MTN Energade (2) – Mannie Heymans (NAM) & Melt Swanepoel (RSA) – 5:03:49

LADIES:

1. Rocky Mountain – Pia Sundstedt (FIN) & Alison Sydor (CAN) – 5:44:07
2. Dolphin-Trek MTB Racing – Fabienne Heinzmann (SUI) & Katrin Schwing (GER) – 5:54:20
3. Trek/VW WSD – Susan Haywood (USA) & Jennifer Smith (NZL) – 6:03:55
4. Absa Ladies – Erica Green (RSA) & Hanlie Booyens (RSA) – 6:09:24
5. Scott Contessa – Jane Seggie (RSA) & Ischen Stopforth (RSA) – 6:10:02

MASTERS:

1. Absa Masters – Doug Brown (RSA) & Barti Bucher (SUI) – 5:06:29
2. Adidas William Simpson – Shan Wilson (RSA) & Walter Platzgummer (ITA) – 5:08:07
3. Pragma Masters – M.C. Franken (RSA) & Peter Buggle (IRL) – 5:34:08
4. Gpsupload.Com – Douw Andrews (USA) & Rich Bartlett (USA) – 5:52:56
5. Oracla – Claudio Pellegrini (ITA) & Orazio Casaccio (ITA) – 5:56:35

MIXED:

1. Joybike Guided by VMT and Maloja – Ivonne Kraft (GER) & Nico Pfitzenmaier (GER) – 5:46:30
2. X.O Felt Swiss – Adrian Burri (SUI) & Franziska Roethlin (SUI) – 5:54:10
3. Novatec – CK MTB Dohnany – Janka Stevkova (SVK) & Tomas Legnavsky (SVK) – 5:56:50
4. Absa Mixed – Kobus Barnard (RSA) & Fienie Barnard (RSA) – 5:57:20
5. Cyclelab Toyota – Johan Labuschagne (RSA) & Yolandé de Villiers (RSA) – 6:03:20

OVERALL RESULTS:

MEN:

1. Songo.Info – Christoph Sauser (SUI) & Burry Stander (RSA) – 5:12:05
2. Bulls – Karl Platt (GER) & Stefan Sahm (GER) – 5:12:28
3. Etto Hoydahl (3) – Martin Bratland (NOR) & Kristian Torgersen (NOR) – 5:18:18
4. Etto Hoydahl (1) – Jo Nordskar (NOR) & Anders Hovdenes (NOR) – 5:19:09
5. Alb-Gold Mountainbike – Hannes Genze (GER) & Jochen Kaess (GER) – 5:19:22
6. Cannondale Vredestein – Roel Paulissen (BEL) & Jakob Fuglsang (DEN) – 5:21:17
7. Full-Dynamix Rsm – Fredrik Kessiakoff (SWE) & Massimo Debertolis (ITA) – 5:25:46
8. Dolphin – Bart Brentjens (NED) & Alban Lakata (AUT)– 5:28:41
9. Etto Hoydahl (2) – Rune Hoydahl (NOR) & Ola Kjoren (NOR) – 5:36:34
10. MTN Energade (2) – Mannie Heymans (NAM) & Melt Swanepoel (RSA) – 5:37:41

5 Krizy@Used Mountain Bike Sales { 08.24.09 at 10:05 pm }

I am a mountain bike enthusiast myself. Thanks for sharing this links and I must say, you really have good photos there.
.-= Krizy@Used Mountain Bike Sales´s last blog ..Exalting the Switch Commuter Bike =-.

6 patrick { 08.25.09 at 10:23 pm }

Thanks re pix, I was asked to do these semi-professionally for a friend in the Czech Republic at http://www.mtbs.cz my pix at the actual olympic event are not as good as access was not as easy and i got some setting on the camera wrong (kicks himself…)

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