Epic top step beckons for Team Centurion Vaude
In one breath, Nicola Rohrback will tell you that there is no secret to winning the Absa Cape Epic. In the next, the Swiss will smile and let slip that Team Centurion Vaude may have some “secret tactics” for 2018. Rohrback has finished twice on the podium in his two attempts at the Absa Cape […]
Rohrbach & Pfrommer pip leaders to the post on Stage 5
Nicola Rohrbach and Matthias Pfrommer of Team Centurion Vaude by Meerendal 2 today claimed their second stage win at the 2016 Absa Cape Epic in a sprint finish under the oak trees of Boschendal Wine Estate, Stellenbosch. The “back up” Centurion Vaude outfit only came together about a week before the event, but they’ve pieced […]
Centurion Vaude take Absa Cape Epic century stage
Stage 2 of the 2016 Absa Cape Epic, the 100th stage in the history of the event, was held in another hot, windless day in Tulbagh. The racing was fiery too, with the Team Bulls pair of Karl Platt and Urs Huber determined to scorch a path through the Witzenberg Valley. Nicola Rohrbach and Matthias […]
Kaess, Kaufmann due some good karma at Cape Epic
Before the 2014 Absa Cape Epic four times winner Karl Platt of Germany told journalists that they should keep an eye on his countrymen Markus Kaufmann and Jochen Kaess as potential race winners. If they did not take him seriously at the time they were certainly doing so after Stage 1, when the Team Centurion […]