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GARDEN ROUTE NEWS - After some of the toughest riding they will ever have to do, Sebastian Stark and Nicky Giliomee won the 2019 BUCO Karoo to Coast, ultra-marathon, mountain bike race in truly terrible weather for bike racing on Sunday 22 September.
The 2019 BUCO Karoo to Coast may not have featured any professional mountain bikers but with a host of top amateurs having taken part in the race, victory – in South Africa’s largest single day event, was always to be fiercely contested.
The 96km route, from the Karoo town of Uniondale to Knysna, featured 1 560 metres of accumulated elevation gain.
While those figures may sound relatively benign, especially when viewed in conjunction with the route profile, which trends deceptively downhill towards the sea, the riders endured a really tough tough day on their bikes as they battled through high winds, rain, mud, and even hail.
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Stark and Giliomee prevailed in the tough conditions, recording highly-impressive times of 03:19:53 and 04:10:01 respectively.
The riders endured a really tough tough day on their bikes as they battled through high winds, rain, mud, and even hail.
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