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Certainly a tough man to pin down but we eventually managed to find a slot in the Western Province superbike champs busy schedule to bring you the fourth rider profile of the series. Risk assessment,strategy planning,hostile take-overs….it's all business for this ex rugby player who sees his career and his career in motorcycles as a…
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Time to meet the guy who came to within a hair's breadth of the 2013 Western Province superbike championship,Aran van Niekerk. It was a season filled with thrills and spills and Aran was always at the forefront.His new Kawasaki meant that he could compete on level ground where in previous years his slightly aged (in…
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From scraping pegs around Helshoogte on a Dyna to squirting dirt at Zone 7 and taking his first checkered flag in the 2013 regional championship.Meet the Western Province Motor Club's most promising new rider,'Rookie of the Year',Andre Calvert.There was a rumour (mostly started by myself) that Andre is testing on a liter bike but for…
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In no particular order,the first in our series of profiles on the players in the Western Province motorcycle championships.Meet the current W.P.M.C. clubman champ…Wessel Kruger. Date of Birth– 4 March 1985 Hometown: Initially from Gauteng,my family relocated to Cape Town in the early 90’s, after this I grew up at the foot of the Tygerberg…
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We've taken a cursory look at the work coming out of Different Bike Customs in the northern suburbs of Cape Town but this nearly complete commission is definitely worth some closer inspection.The Yamaha Trailway 200 has always been a good seller in South Africa where just about everyone can remember riding a 'farm bike' at…