In an electrifying race Team Spur's James Reid fought back a 45-second deficit behind Scott LCB's Philip Buys to claw his way back and take the Elite Men's victory at the STIHL 2016 South African National Mountain Bike Championships at Cascades MTB Park in Pietermaritzburg at the weekend.
Reid finished in a time of 1hr 32min 56sec - 14 seconds ahead of Buys. Buys' teammate Gert Heyns rounded out the podium in 1:36:53.
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