{"id":93732,"date":"2025-08-24T14:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93732\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:48:12","slug":"greg-minnaar-showed-up-to-crankworx-whistler-with-a-norco-and-a-number-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93732\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Minnaar showed up to Crankworx Whistler with a Norco and a number plate"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not every day you stumble across Greg Minnaar\u2019s bike, let alone with a number plate zip-tied to the bars. That\u2019s exactly what happened during Crankworx Whistler, when our photographer borrowed it from Norco for a photo shoot. He quickly snapped a few shots of the four-time downhill world champion\u2019s ride from the Bosch e-MTB Challenge.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.<\/p>\n

According to event results, Minnaar raced the EMTB Bosch Challenge and posted three timed sections before recording a DNF. He clocked 04:13.4, 04:47.2, and 05:00.3 on his timed segments, but didn\u2019t complete all seven stages.<\/p>\n

The Norco hook up<\/p>\n

The Norco in question looks to be a Sight VLT CX C3<\/a>. It\u2019s Norco\u2019s 150 mm rear, 160 mm front suspension bike with a mullet wheelset. Greg\u2019s version is kind of stock and kind of pimped out. Stock shocks wouldn\u2019t do for the GOAT of gravity riding of course, so he\u2019s replaced the stock Rock Shox Lyrik with a Fox Factory 36 front shock. The rear is a Fox float x2 2026. The Shimano Deore XT brakes are not stock either, but the 165 mm Praxis cranks are. Since he\u2019s one of the cast at Cast<\/a>, he has Cast SFX bars, a Cast Greg Minnaar Bel-Air signature saddle, a Cast EFX standard mount stem and Cast Bamba grips. He\u2019s not running the stock tires, nor is he running Cast tires, but he\u2019s got a Maxxis Assegai 29X2.5 (originally his signature tire) up front and a Maxxis Minion DHR II 27.5\u00d72.4 in the rear.
The motor unit looks stock; the Bosch PerformanceLine CX. Which leads us to believe the rest of the motor drive components are also stock.<\/p>\n

An interesting build for an interesting and wet race (the eMTB Bosch Challenge ran during Friday\u2019s \u201catmospheric river\u201d).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\nStill got it<\/p>\n

A DNF doesn\u2019t matter much when it\u2019s Greg Minnaar. Seeing him mixing it up in an e-enduro at Crankworx is a reminder that the guy just loves to ride. So yeah, our photographer only had three minutes to grab a couple shots of the bike. But when it\u2019s Greg Minnaar\u2019s number-plated Norco, that\u2019s time well spent.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.
\n\"\"<\/a>Matt Stetson photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not every day you stumble across Greg Minnaar\u2019s bike, let alone with a number plate zip-tied to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,1700,82],"class_list":["post-93732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-mtb-features","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}