Case study
Unathi Nxumalo
Pro XCO & Marathon Mountain Biker
A single page that keeps his sponsors visible, hands media kits to organisers on download, and tracks his results season by season.
Racing gravel and marathon MTB by weekend. Building websites by trade.
XCM, gravel and road racer competing across South Africa, based in Cape Town. Coached by Absolute Motion. Founder of Big Mood Agency. Racing toward an international start line.
Two tracks, one engine
The racer
A 2026 season spread across three disciplines — marathon and cross-country mountain biking, gravel, and road — chasing sponsorship, sharper form and bigger start lines.
Racing across provinces — from the Cape Winelands and West Coast gravel roads to national XCO and road circuits — with the goal of taking that form international.
Coached by Absolute Motion, training year-round out of Cape Town on the doorstep of the Tankwa, Swartland and Winelands race calendar.
The founder
A BCom in Business Management and Entrepreneurship (EMERIS), put straight to work building a company rather than a CV.
Founder of Big Mood Agency, a Cape Town web design and digital marketing studio working with athletes, professionals and small businesses.
The same eye that reads a race profile reads a homepage: what matters, what gets cut, and what makes someone act.
Same discipline either way — show up prepared, finish what you start.
Numbers that matter
The tested figures behind the results — the same numbers a sponsor or team manager asks for first.
- Coach
- Absolute Motion
- Base
- Cape Town
- Disciplines
- XCM · Gravel · Road
Structured, year-round programme
Western Cape, South Africa
Three race calendars in one season
2026 season
Sixteen race days across mountain bike, gravel and road, in the order they were ridden.
- 01
WP Road Champs
- 02
Rhodes Winelands Classic Road Race
- 03
Ford Trailseeker #1
Banhoek
- 04
Tankwa Trek
- 05
Imbuko Big 5 MTB Challenge
- 06
WP XCO #1
Spice Route
- 07
SA XCO #1
Spice Route
- 08
Cape Town Cycle Tour
- 09
WP Road League
Redhill
- 10
Filthy Fondo
Malmesbury
- 11
Spirit of Bonnievale XCM
- 12
WP Road League
Philadelphia
- 13
Ronde van Riebeeck
Riebeek Kasteel · 100-mile Gravel
- 14P10
Ford Trailseeker #3
Van Gaalen
- 15P4
Gravel Rush
100-mile Gravel
- 16P3
Darling Brew Gravel X
Why sponsors should know me
Three disciplines, one season
XCM, gravel and road racing means more events, more brand exposure, more weekends covered.
National circuit, international ambition
Competing across South African provinces now, with the goal of lining up on international start lines next. Early support goes furthest here.
Cape Town base
On the doorstep of South Africa's biggest gravel and MTB calendar — Tankwa, Darling, Bonnievale, Riebeek.
A growing following
Building an audience at @riding_with_dawid that overlaps cycling and small business owners.
@riding_with_dawidContent-ready
As a working designer and marketer, I produce my own race content, reels and sponsor deliverables without needing a media team.
Full race calendar, audience numbers and partnership tiers in one document.
Media kit PDF coming soon.
I build the same kind of site you're looking at right now.
Big Mood Agency designs one-page portfolio sites for athletes and corporate professionals — built to make you look sponsor-ready and easy to say yes to. This site, and unathinxumalo.co.za for pro MTB racer Unathi Nxumalo, are both examples of the work.
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- One-page build, designed and written for you
- Results, stats and sponsor sections built in
- Mobile-first — made for the link in your bio
- Fast turnaround, no monthly lock-in
Get in touch
Sponsorship, race partnerships, or a site of your own — tell me which and I'll come back to you.
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