{"id":16793,"date":"2018-03-12T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/video\/2014-fnb-w2w-ride-stage-1-highlights\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:30:08","slug":"2014-fnb-w2w-ride-stage-1-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/video\/2014-fnb-w2w-ride-stage-1-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 FNB W2W Ride Stage 1 HIGHLIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cool start to the 2014 FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Mountain Bike (MTB) Ride at Lourensford Wine Estate (Somerset West) on Monday, 03 November 2014.  With the promise of rain looming, over 1200 eager mountain bikers toed the line to take on the 72km route that included having to trek over the historic Gantouw Pass, the only piece of trail to feature a compulsory portage, before crossing the finish line at Oak Valley Wine Estate (Elgin-Grabouw).<\/p>\n<p>Reigning 2013 FNB W2W MTB Ride Champions, Frikkie Hartog and Gerard Dirks of Team Knersus put down the hammer crossing the finish line at Oak Valley Wine Estate (Elgin-Grabouw) first in an impressive time of 03 hours 47 minutes 24 seconds.  \u201cToday was hard, but great,\u201d said Dirks.  \u201cThe weather was humid, but ok.  It would have been worse if it was sunny.  We chased to stay out of the rain.  This is definitely one of the best stage races.  The course is clear, the routes are well marked and the atmosphere is great\u201d.  Fanie Steenkamp and Pierre Andre Knoetze of Team Xtreme Riders came in second, while Harry Orr and Ehlers Smit of Team The Fast Traks finished third.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O86hNEsQhXU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC9dY5prdd7E0KK7dtJolNoA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NewsportMedia<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Sport Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a cool start to the 2014 FNB Wines2Whales (W2W) Mountain Bike (MTB) Ride at Lourensford Wine Estate (Somerset West) on Monday, 03 November 2014. With the promise of rain looming, over 1200 eager mountain bikers toed the line to take on the 72km route that included having to trek over the historic Gantouw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1212,3274,3221,3269,3294,3296,3276,290,3295,3291,3293,3257,3286,3289,2193,3275,2821,3219,3287,3233,3288,3290,3223,319,3273,3292,2733,3258,2732],"class_list":["post-16793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-video","tag-africa","tag-awesome","tag-best-of","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-bucket-list","tag-canon","tag-cape-town","tag-cycling-interest","tag-daily","tag-day-1","tag-edit","tag-elgin","tag-epic","tag-fnb","tag-gopro","tag-grabouw","tag-highlights","tag-mountain","tag-race","tag-rain","tag-sauser","tag-single-track","tag-south-africa","tag-specialized","tag-stage-race","tag-w2w","tag-wines-2-whales","tag-wines2whales","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}