Bikes of the Epic: Adriaan Louw’s SwiftCarbon Evil Twin
Adriaan Louw is riding his trusted SwiftCarbon Evil Twin in the 2016 Absa Cape Epic. Team Contego SwiftCarbon took the opportunity to come up with a custom paint scheme. They allowed Adriaan to create his own design and enlisted the services of Bogus Designs to pull it off. The bike features a custom tuned Fox […]
Videos: Absa Cape Epic Stage 1 highlights
From the race village at Saronsberg Wine Estate, Stage 1 loops around the town in the Tulbagh bowl with more than a few trips up the slopes of its surrounding mountains. It will introduce riders to many of the new tracks in the area with the action starting on the day’s Land Rover Technical Terrain, […]
Conquering As One with the Absa Cape Epic
Absa will once again be recognising and rewarding teamwork and perseverance at the 2016 Absa Cape Epic with the #ConquerAsOne campaign. At each stage of the race, an extraordinary #ConquerAsOne moment will be identified and recognised, where a team showed immense human spirit to overcome their own personal challenges to conquer that stage together. During […]
Stage 1 Wrap-up: Thrilling races in men’s and women’s categories
Stage 1 of the 2016 Absa Cape Epic on Monday set up a thrilling race for both the elite men’s and woman’s categories. Karl Platt of Team Bulls 1 during stage 1 of the 2016 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race held from Saronsberg Wine Estate in Tulbagh, South Africa on the 14th March […]
100th Absa Cape Epic stage will be a special one
The 100th stage in the 13-year existence of the Absa Cape Epic on Tuesday is shaping up to be a special one for more than just its place in history. With the racing delicately poised, the 93km Stage 2 could be a key one for the leading teams. In the men’s race Topeak Ergon Racing’s […]
Lill and Woolcock dominate red jersey race
USN Purefit was the 2016 Absa Cape Epic’s first South African team home on Monday crossing the line nine minutes in front of Team NAD Pro MTB – to climb into the red of the Absa African special jersey. Team USN Purefit, Darren Lill and Waylon Woolcock during stage 1 of the 2016 Absa Cape […]
Dramatic finish in Women’s race
When Robyn de Groot and Jennie Stenerhag of Team Ascendis Health crossed the finish line first in a time of 5:22.18,4 on Stage 1 of the Absa Cape Epic, the most surprised people at Saronsberg Wine Estate were the two of them. Robyn de Groot [L] and Jennie Stenerhag [R] Win stage 1 of the […]
Birthday boy Karl Platt celebrates with a stage win
The Team Bulls pair of Karl Platt and Urs Huber, along with Cape Epic first-timers Periklis Ilias and Tiago Ferreira (Dolomiti Superbike), went out hard from the start, with the small bunch of four leading practically from start to finish on the 108km Tulbagh to Tulbagh Stage 1. The tactic paid off for Platt and […]
Conquering As One with the Absa Cape Epic
Absa will once again be recognising and rewarding teamwork and perseverance at the 2016 Absa Cape Epic with the #ConquerAsOne campaign. At each stage of the race, an extraordinary #ConquerAsOne moment will be identified and recognised, where a team showed immense human spirit to overcome their own personal challenges to conquer that stage together. During […]
Investec songo Specialized: Mentor and protégé off to a solid start at Absa Cape Epic
The Investec songo Specialized duo of Sipho Madolo and Christoph Sauser got their 2016 Absa Cape Epic campaign off to a solid start with a 1 hour 14 minute and 12 second blitz around the 26km Prologue route. Their time was good enough for 29th position in the open men’s category and sets them up […]
Prologue Wrap-up: Platt rides like the wind
Four-time Absa Cape Epic winner Karl Platt of Germany and Swiss partner Urs Huber (Bulls) laid down a marker for the week ahead by blitzing the course to win Sunday’s prologue. Gareth Chilton of South Africa and England’s Adam Foster were the first riders of the Prologue of the 2016 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike […]
Absa Cape Epic: A tough race awaits on Stage 1
After the thrills, and a few spills, of the Absa Cape Epic Prologue in Meerendal on Sunday the riders and crew travelled up to Tulbagh for Monday’s Stage 1. As has become the tradition, the first stage will be a tough one. The riders will ascend 2 300m over 108km, a lot of it on […]