{"id":16063,"date":"2018-03-26T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2018\/03\/26\/songoinfo-to-auction-kulhavy-and-langvads-epic-winning-epics-r7222\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:03:47","slug":"songoinfo-to-auction-kulhavy-and-langvads-epic-winning-epics-r7222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/songoinfo-to-auction-kulhavy-and-langvads-epic-winning-epics-r7222\/","title":{"rendered":"songo.info to auction Kulhav\u00fd and Langvad\u2019s Epic winning Epics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Specialized Bicycles have been supporting songo.info since the charity\u2019s inception ten years ago. Since 2012 Specialized have produced two exceptionally distinctive bikes for the riders representing songo.info at the Absa Cape Epic. Upon the completion of the race the bikes are donated to the charity and auctioned off to raise funds for the education and sport programmes songo.info runs in the Kayamandi community.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-17341400-1522039241.jpg\"<\/a>A pair of two-of-a-kind custom Specialized S-Works Epic bicycles has been donated by Specialized Bicycles to go under the hammer, to raise funds, for songo.info. Photo by Etienne Schoeman.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2018 the bikes set to go under the hammer once more, from Monday the 26th of March at 12:00 CAT. They are arguably two of the most beautiful incarnations of the Investec-songo-Specialized custom design yet and boast the unique pedigree of having been piloted to Absa Cape Epic victory. For the first time, in 2018, the bikes were ridden to Epic glory in separate categories \u2013 by Specialized XCO Racing\u2019s brightest stars Jaroslav Kulhav\u00fd and Annika Langvad.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-18256500-1522039245.jpg\"<\/a>Jaroslav Kulhav\u00fd\u2019s Absa Cape Epic winning bike features a large frame size and the distinction of having spent more time at the front of the 2018 Epic field than any other machine. Photo by Michal \u010cerven\u00fd.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kulhav\u00fd\u2019s impressive palmar\u00e8s includes the 2012 Olympic gold medal, silver from Rio 2016, 3 Marathon World Championship titles, a cross-country World Champions\u2019 jersey, a Mountain Bike World Cup overall title and 3 Absa Cape Epic titles. Langvad, despite only taking to elite mountain biking in her mid-20\u2019s has already notched up 3 Marathon World Championship titles, a cross-country World Champions\u2019 jersey, numerous Mountain Bike World Cup race wins, an overall Mountain Bike World Cup Champion\u2019s title and of course 4 Absa Cape Epic titles.<\/p>\n

In total the bikes notched up 9 stage victories, out of a possible 16 in the UCI men\u2019s and women\u2019s categories. In addition to the Cape Epic success Langvad\u2019s bike was also ridden to UCI Mountain Bike World Cup gold the weekend before the Cape Epic, making it a the most successful bike ever to be auctioned by songo.info \u2013 defeating programme founder Christoph Sauser\u2019s 2013 Cape Epic machine from the Swiss legend\u2019s most dominant victory at the world\u2019s most famous mountain bike stage race.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-79418300-1522039242.jpg\"<\/a>Annika Langvad\u2019s custom Specialized S-Works Epic boasts a medium frame size and the honour of winning every race it has been ridden in; including the Stellenbosch UCI MTB World Cup, the songo.info Champions\u2019 Race and 7 stages of the 2018 Absa Cape Epic. Photo by Ewald Sadie\/Cape Epic\/SPORTZPICS.<\/span><\/p>\n

The two-of-a-kind bikes are 2018 Specialized S-Works Epic mountain bikes, with custom songo.info inspired livery. The primary white, black and world champion rainbow colours are drawn from the songo.info logo. With 2018 marking the 10th anniversary of the charity the design was updated to include the silhouettes of stylised children, holding hands, to symbolise the young people of Kayamandi whom the programme has already aided in its first decade. These silhouettes are displayed in the rainbow colours on the cuffs of the songo.info jerseys and bib shorts. They also appear in the S-Works decaling on the bike\u2019s downtubes. The chain- and seat- stays feature icons denoting the sport and education functions of the charity, while the downtube also features a list of children in the songo.info programme. At the junction of the head-, top- and down- tubes the iconic Investec zebra and Specialized S logos are displayed in black, with the multi-coloured songo.info logo providing a flash of colour.<\/p>\n

\"ccs-62657-0-84815400-1522039246.jpg\"<\/a>Both bikes have been meticulously maintained by Specialized XCO Racing team\u2019s mechanic, Holger Friesen (pictured). Photo by Michal \u010cerven\u00fd.<\/span><\/p>\n

The S-Works frames, in size medium and large, are built with top of the range components from Specialized XCO Racing\u2019s co-sponsors SRAM, RockShox, Magura and Rotor. The wheels are supplied by Specialized\u2019s Roval brand, while the tyres, bar, stem, saddle and seat post are all from Specialized\u2019s ranges too.<\/p>\n

\nThe songo.info auction of the Investec-songo-Specialized custom S-Works Epic bicycles will start at 12:00 (South African time) on Monday the 26th of March and will close at 12:00 on Thursday the 29th. Bids can be placed online at www.songo.info\/2018bikeauction<\/a>. The reserve is set for R100 000 (\u20ac6 900) and bidding increments are fixed to R5 000 (\u20ac350). Following the closure of the auction on Thursday, at midday, the two rivals with the highest bids for each bike will be contacted and the auction will then be concluded telephonically.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Specialized Bicycles have been supporting songo.info since the charity\u2019s inception ten years ago. Since 2012 Specialized have produced two exceptionally distinctive bikes for the riders representing songo.info at the Absa Cape Epic. Upon the completion of the race the bikes are donated to the charity and auctioned off to raise funds for the education and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,454,699,95],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-cape-epic","tag-songo","tag-songo-ingo","tag-specialized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16063"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}