Steve Pike

WHAT happens when you have a buffalo chasing you down a mountain? You go faster and try to outrun it.

We were in a game park, but this was no real buffalo in the wild bovine sense. These are human buffalo with a mass of more than 90kg competing in the Grindrod Berg and Bush Great Trek mountain bike stage race that drops down from the escarpment of the Drakensberg.

The three-day Great Trek