The first round of the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup took place in the sleepy hollow of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, the home to Morewood Bikes. It was a first of great things to come for Mountain Biking in South Africa and Morewood made themselves well known at the event with one of the best pits on the scene as well as playing host to the afterparty which was held up at CrossWays Pub on the Sunday evening.

The weather couldnt have been any better with constant sun and not a drop of rain which bought on dry and dusty track … Read More »

Barons Volksway in Pietermaritzburg were quick to step up and support the Kenda/Morewood team during their World Cup trip to South Africa. One phone call to Gareth Britz from Barons VW, and he managed to organise us a VW 1.9 TDI Touran which was more than capable of hauling the five man team and their kit to and from the track everyday. Besides being whacked by a speeding camera, we all really enjoyed driving the vehicle and had to play rock, paper, scissors before each trip to see who got to drive.

With excellent customer service and quality vehicles, I suggest you go and pay them a vsit, … Read More »

Who ever says engineering types are serious and lack a sense of humor needs to hang out with our crew for a week, you will soon realise just how crazy and full of fun these guys are

Name: Russell Norman aka Rhino [weld without protection] Arms - Duties: Welder/ Production Planner/ CNC Machine Operator

Name: Leon Pieters aka Kayak Kamikazee - Duties: Chief Welder/ Production and Quality Control/ Powder Coating and Assembly

Name: Steven Craig aka Scoober Steve- Duties: too many to name [he's the Morewood muscle]

Name: Charl Poolman aka Twinkle Toes - Duties: First Stage Weld/ Production

The fourth leg of the South African DH Nationals was held in Pietermaritzburg the weekend before the World Cup. This saw a lot of international riders entering the event to gain practise and course time.

Conditions were dry and the track was well loose, with a steep section to begin with, leading into a long peddling section in the middle and finishing on the 4x track at the bottom. There was a domination of Morewood bikes with some of the countries best flying the Morewood flag- to name a few - Jonty Neethling, Gary Barnard, Pierre “Prime Time” Vandermerwe, Tim Bentley, Myles Kelsey, Vicky Phillips and many … Read More »

In a sign of their support to Morewood, its welders and their constant effort to learn and improve on their craft of welding, Fronius the Austrian welding and equipment experts came to the party providing the Morewood welders and crew with their latest welding helmet and protection offerings, perfectly matching the Fronius TIG welding machines used at the Morewood factory.

Having been users of Fronius equipment for some time Pat is now well acquainted with both the local and international representitives from Fronius’ TIG welding department, and annualy when the international representitives pay their South African collegues a visit they are … Read More »

Leadng on from te new sign going up, Morewood in its metro branding madness continued its roll of brand awareness by branding thier race wheels. Introducing Morewood’s family wagon: VW Transporter, 2.5TDI LWB

Wonder what lap times the Stig could post in this guy…?