After extensive consultation with the relevant authorities, route inspections, landowners and our title sponsor, 36ONE Asset Management, Dryland Event Management has taken the extremely difficult decision to cancel the 2026 edition of The 36ONE MTB Challenge scheduled for 22 May…
In 2026, The 36ONE MTB Challenge will once again offer R36 100* for the fastest men and women in South African cycling to aim for the existing course records. In 2025, the task for the men was to beat the 13-hour…
Dan Loubser not only won the 2025 36ONE MTB Challenge on Saturday, 24 May, but also shattered the course record and the 13-hour mark in the process. The Freewheel Cycology man’s time for the 356 kilometre course was 42 minutes…
AVIS Car Rental is arguably the most recognisable name in vehicle rental market, with its red and white logo easily identifiable at airports both in South Africa and around the world. From the world's first airport car rental location in…
It is not known as the Ultimate Race for nothing. The 36ONE MTB Challenge is unquestionably among the hardest days on a bike a mountain or gravel biker can submit themselves to in South Africa. As the name suggest the…
22-year-old Wayne van der Walt gambled on his gear choice, racing a gravel bike at the 2023 36ONE MTB Challenge. Despite warnings against it and being the only rider in the elite group to be on a drop-bar bike he…
The 36ONE MTB Challenge is unquestionably one of the toughest events on South Africa’s cycling calendar. Known as the Ultimate Race it circumnavigates the Klein Karoo, taking in 4 930 metres of climbing in 361 kilometres, between the 12th and the…
You haven’t experienced a full life until you have ridden your mountain bike through a sunrise and a sunset in the Karoo. That’s exactly what you get when you complete The 36ONE MTB Challenge. Plus a lot more in the…
Liqui Moly South Africa, the German motor oil and additives manufacturer, has partnered with Dryland Event Management in support of all their events to supply cleaning and chain lubricating products to the mountain- and gravel- bikes, as well as trail…
The 36ONE MTB Challenge is dubbed “the ultimate race.” It is not hard to see why when looking at the simple statistics. At 361 kilometres long, with nearly 5 000 metres of climbing, it is a huge ride. Then there…
Multiple Namibian national champion, Drikus Coetzee bounced back from his 2021 36ONE MTB Challenge disappointment to shatter the record, in perfect conditions, in 2022. The 361-kilometre circumnavigation of the Klein Karoo takes in features like the Rooiberg Pass in its…
The 10th Edition of the 36ONE MTB Challenge was the perfect celebration of life, determination and ultimate racing. A sprint for victory, with course records broken in both Solo Men and Women categories to the last person crossing the finish…