{"id":19449,"date":"2013-04-26T18:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/one-track-mind-for-van-hoovels-and-knipe-at-joberg2c\/"},"modified":"2013-04-26T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T16:05:33","slug":"one-track-mind-for-van-hoovels-and-knipe-at-joberg2c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/one-track-mind-for-van-hoovels-and-knipe-at-joberg2c\/","title":{"rendered":"One-track mind for Van Hoovels and Knipe at joBerg2c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team Contego-Giant\u2019s Louis-Bresler Knipe will combine forces with Belgium\u2019s Kevin van Hoovels for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Old Mutual\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_Mutual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Old Mutual<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"JoBerg2c\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JoBerg2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">joBerg2c<\/a> mountain bike race.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-day race starts on April 26 at Karan Beef near <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Heidelberg, Gauteng\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heidelberg%2C_Gauteng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Heidelberg, Gauteng<\/a>, and finishes 900km later in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scottburgh\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scottburgh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The route is 99,5% off-road with lots of jeep and single track.<\/p>\n<p>Knipe and Van Hoovels have been training in Cape Town since March and a few weeks ago decided to tackle the joBerg2c.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to the race and the opportunity to ride with Kevin. It is a special race with much diversity and I can\u2019t wait to start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Knipe and Van Hoovels are excited to see how their combination will work. \u201cWe have a good idea what each other\u2019s styles are,\u201d said Knipe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure what we are going to be capable of, but I\u2019m looking forward to the experience,\u201d said Van Hoovels. \u201cI\u2019ve only heard good things about the race and Louis speaks really fondly of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter riding the Cape Epic three times, I think it is time to do another race in South Africa. I don\u2019t know yet what to expect of the racing, but I heard the food and the trails are good!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knipe hopes that the joBerg2c will be a new start to the season for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t made my mark yet this season, but if the body and the bike keeps up for the nine days I just know that we have the potential to set the race alight.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/macdonald-takes-centrestage-at-joberg2c\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bb88f_162836672_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/macdonald-takes-centrestage-at-joberg2c\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacDonald takes centrestage at joBerg2c<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/olympic-rowers-head-for-old-mutual-joberg2c\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bb88f_162170293_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/olympic-rowers-head-for-old-mutual-joberg2c\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic rowers head for Old Mutual joBerg2c<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/old-mutual-joberg2c-goes-international\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bb88f_161489413_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/old-mutual-joberg2c-goes-international\/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Mutual joBerg2c goes international<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sykose.com\/2013\/04\/24\/macdonald-takes-to-joberg2c-stage-sa-cycling\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bb88f_162855157_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sykose.com\/2013\/04\/24\/macdonald-takes-to-joberg2c-stage-sa-cycling\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacDonald takes to joBerg2c stage SA Cycling<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/nedbank-sani2c-all-at-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bb88f_162486162_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/nedbank-sani2c-all-at-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nedbank sani2c all at sea<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/bb88f_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Contego-Giant\u2019s Louis-Bresler Knipe will combine forces with Belgium\u2019s Kevin van Hoovels for the Old Mutual joBerg2c mountain bike race. The nine-day race starts on April 26 at Karan Beef near Heidelberg, Gauteng, and finishes 900km later in Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal. The route is 99,5% off-road with lots of jeep and single track. Knipe and Van [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-19449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}