Cyclo Pro

Cyclo Pro

The people behind the bikes.

Cyclo Pro is co-owned and run by Andrew and Julie Briggs (née Rudman). It’s a family business. You will meet the family.

Everyone here rides. Road, gravel, mountain, downhill, the lot. Ask any of them about it and set aside some time.

We carry a large range of quality bikes and accessories, run a full-service workshop and do specialist bike fitting. We’ve been doing this for more than 40 years. We’ve learnt a few things.

Meet the team

Always ready to help. Usually ready to talk about bikes for too long.

Rob and Margie Rudman
Founders

Rob & Margie Rudman

Started Cyclo Pro more than 44 years ago in the back of a used-parts dealership called Dismantled Motors. Not involved in the day-to-day any more. Still the reason any of this exists.

Rob co-founded the area’s largest cycle race, The Herald Cycle Tour. He is also a founder member, with Humphrey Gerretsen and Theo von Ruben, of what is now the Masters and Ladies Cycling Club. He was assistant and manager of the SA Protea Mountain Bike Team at the World MTB Championships in Canada (1998), Vail, USA (2001) and Austria (2002), and raced the Masters MTB World Champs in Canada in 1999 and 2001, earning SA Masters colours in cross-country and downhill.

Built a bike shop out of a scrapyard. Then built a cycling scene to go with it.

Andrew Briggs
The Chief

Andrew Briggs

Accountant by trade. Yes, there are spreadsheets.

Started working in bike shops in Grade 10: school holidays, public holidays and Saturday mornings. Stopped when studying got in the way. Worked overseas, raced for a local UK road team, came back to Port Elizabeth and joined the family business.

Rode the Cape Town Cycle Tour with his parents, as Cape Town kids do. Then Western Province colours in XC mountain biking and the Giro del Capo.

Now does the odd stage race. Otherwise gets towed around on evening rides by his daughters. They don’t wait.

Julie Briggs
Financial & HR Manager

Julie Briggs

Started racing mountain bikes in 1997. Raced cross-country and downhill on the national circuit for over 10 years. Represented South Africa at the World Downhill Championships in Canada (1998) and Sweden (1999), and again in Vail, USA, in 2001.

Registered massage therapist. Has travelled overseas twice with the South African road team, written for magazines and treated well-known athletes. Still enters the odd race with Andrew.

Controls the “to pay” button. Be nice to Julie.

Morne Knoetze
Technical & Ops Manager

Morne Knoetze

Elite EP colours in downhill, 2005 to 2008. Still races road and MTB, on a Giant Defy Advanced and a Trek Supercaliber. Rides the road bike most. Prefers the mountain bike. The road bike has not been told.

Started in IT. Moved to Momsen Bikes in 2012 and stayed in the trade until 2022. Left in 2023. Back in 2025.

Lasted two years outside the bike trade. That’s about average.

Kurt Rensburg
Sales Specialist

Kurt Rensburg

From Cape Town. Started at 16 at wholesaler Omnico and, over nine years, did nearly every job there: stock, packing, mechanics, internal sales. Had a short stint with us in 2012. Then six years with Two Wheels Trading (Momsen Bikes), selling to bike shops across Africa. Sold a lot of bikes.

In it for the people. Reckons PE has some of the best cycling communities in the country. Admits he’s no gifted racer, and says that’s the point: set a goal and keep pedalling.

Riding time currently limited by his junior soccer team, which he started himself and which keeps growing. They’re his kids.

Andrew Clayton
Sales & Spokerite Co-ordinator

Andrew Clayton

Joined in 2024. Now indispensable, which he knows. Runs Spokerite stock, pre-owned bike admin and courier logistics. If your parcel arrived, that was him.

Keen hunter. Has returned from numerous hunts empty-handed. The animals are not worried.

Dee Hayter
Accounts & Stock Control

Dee Hayter

Declined to be interviewed for this article.

Russel Regnart
Workshop Manager

Russel Regnart

Born in PE. Pearson High, then PE Technikon/NMMU. National service. Then 23 years at Kohler Packaging/Mondipak as key accounts manager and acting sales director. Then regional manager for Stevens & Company, covering the Eastern Cape, Southern Cape and Karoo. Then power tools at Strand Hardware, until it closed in 2024. Then us.

First bike: second-hand white road bike, 1975, bought from a friend for five rand. Followed by a Totem (still going), two Norcos and a Trek Xcaliber.

Spent his school years building jumps in what is now Broadwood while teachers looked for him. Plays guitar, trumpet and “a few other instruments”. Turns wood. Has been with Janine since 1979.

Races with his son Wesley and daughter-in-law Stacey. Reports having a ball. We have no reason to doubt him.

Sinethemba “Stix” Mkwambi
Head Mechanic

Sinethemba “Stix” Mkwambi

Sinethemba to his mother. Stix to everyone else, on account of being tall and thin. Every bike that leaves a workstand has been past him first.

Has never once needed the step ladder.

Gcobani “Junior” Gaga
Wheel Specialist

Gcobani “Junior” Gaga

Learnt wheel building under Rob Rudman, which is as close to a formal apprenticeship as this shop offers. Builds, trues and tensions wheels.

Takes a buckled rim personally. Fixes it anyway.

Owen Mushonga
Tubeless Technician

Owen Mushonga

Specialist tubeless technician. If it’s meant to hold air, Owen will seal it.

Will seal anything. We’ve stopped asking what.

Luthando “Peanuts” Didiza
Mechanic

Luthando “Peanuts” Didiza

Quiet but thorough. Won’t say much about your bike, but he’ll have checked all of it.

Also quick up a hill. He hasn’t mentioned that either.

Phumlani Tokota
Washer & Detailer

Phumlani Tokota

Expert bike washer and detailer. Your bike goes in looking like it’s done a stage race and comes out looking like it hasn’t been ridden.

Customers have walked past their own bikes. We take it as a compliment.