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Event Date: 29 May 2010
Event Venue: Buffelspoort ATKV
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED! If you still want to enter then please see details below regarding Late Entries.
REGISTRATION/RACE NUMBER COLLECTION/LATE ENTRIES
Venue: Buffelspoort ATKV - Registration tent
Date and time: 28 May 2010 – 18h00 to 20h00 (for those of you who arrive night before)
29 May 2010: 75 km - 05h30 to 07h00
45 km - 05h30 to 07h30
20 km - 05h30 to 08h00
A "Late Entry" penalty of R50 will apply
Distances/Entry fee/Entry limit:
75km - R150 - 600 riders (R200 Late Entry)
45km - R90 - 600 riders (R140 Late Entry)
20km Fun Ride - R40 - Unlimited (R90 Late Entry)
START TIMES:75 km – 08h00
45 km - 08h30
20 km – 09h00
T-shirts to:
75km - all online entries by 24 May 2010
45km - all online entries by 24 May 2010
Medals to all finishers!
Bokomo Breakfast Zone: Free pass to all entrants to the Bokomo Breakfast Zone
Open from 6h00 on Sat, 29 May 2010
The seventh Magalies Monster MTB Classic took place on the 30th May 2009. The Classic has grown in numbers and reputation since its humble beginning of an “out ride” with 25 riders in 2002, to 240 participants competing in the first Magalies Monster in 2003 and now to 1250 participants taking part in 2009. The idea of the Monster came from a former resident of the Buffelspoort Valley – Karl Schubert, who spent many days and nights exploring the area for the best possible riding routes.
After participating in a number of events across SA he also realised it was about time other like minded Mountain bikers should have the opportunity to experience what he gets to experience everyday. Karl began taking out small groups of 5-7 riders from Johannesburg and Pretoria for weekend out rides, and then in 2002 a slightly bigger out ride was organised that started at Buffelspoort ATKV and followed a significantly different route to what it does today.
After being talked into turning the ride into race by a close friend – Chris de Bruyn (who is also a passionate MTBer as well as race organiser of the Groot Marico and other MTB events around Rustenburg), Karl set to work of putting together the best possible route that would match up with the other great events in the country in terms of: scenic beauty, technicality, toughness and the sense of accomplishing something unique. The key to the event was around getting to ride up the northern slope of Magaliesberg range along an awesome 9km climb that is affectionately known as the Monster.
The Monster gives riders the opportunity to experience the real beauty of the Magaliesberg Mountains with amazing rock formations and pristine vegetation as well as magnificent views of the Buffelspoort Valley. Karl soon realised putting a MTB event was not as easy as just finding the route, the original farm lands that the route covers have been subdivided and then subdivided over the last 150 years and as a result permissions for land access is required by more than 50 individual land owners and community stakeholders. This did not deter Karl and he saw this a great opportunity to get to know the valley even more in terms of the people that live there, one of his greatest challenges was convincing the land owners that MTB was not an acronym for a “MoTorBike” and that Mountain Bikers did not stop and make a fire in order to cook lunch. Karl even had a pistol pointed at him and was threatened with being shot (and than arrested) whilst riding up to a neighbouring landowners gate to ask him for permission.
Since then the route has become relatively fixed, with some minor changes each year as fences get erected or opinions change, but The Magalies Monster has become a reputable MTB event in South Africa and can be fixed in the calendar of MTB events for the last weekend of May. Even with Karl and his family moving over to Canada in late 2008, the event continued very successfully under the capable hands of his father – Harry, who has some great ideas to make it even better in 2010.