{"id":18512,"date":"2016-03-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/03\/17\/stage-4-a-day-for-the-purist-mountain-biker-r4373\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:32:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:32:28","slug":"stage-4-a-day-for-the-purist-mountain-biker-r4373","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/stage-4-a-day-for-the-purist-mountain-biker-r4373\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 4: A day for the purist mountain biker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday\u2019s Stage 4 will start and finish at the Wellington race finish and be spent almost exclusively on the highly regarded Welvanpas trail network. By Absa Cape Epic standards it is short \u2013 only 75km \u2013 but has some sharp climbs and an accumulated altitude gain of 1850m.<\/p>\n

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The distance and conditions suggest it will be a day for the cross country specialists, so expect the likes of Manuel Fumic and Henrique Avancini (Cannondale Factory Racing) or Martin Gluth and Sascha Weber (Novus OMX Pro) to have a good day. Sport for Good\u2019s Sabine Spitz and Yana Belomoina should also find the route to their liking and might fancy a crack at a Women\u2019s category stage win.<\/p>\n

Not long after the start the legs will be tested on the Patatskloof climb, then it\u2019s down Cool Runnings Too, up the Aap d\u2019Huez (with a mere 29 switchbacks) and down Route 66. The loop also includes Welvanpas\u2019s White Route, filled with interesting singletrack and one notoriously bumpy section called the Cheesegrater. A day for the purist mountain biker perhaps, but there are a lot of testing climbs \u2013 including three tough ones shortly before the finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday\u2019s Stage 4 will start and finish at the Wellington race finish and be spent almost exclusively on the highly regarded Welvanpas trail network. By Absa Cape Epic standards it is short \u2013 only 75km \u2013 but has some sharp climbs and an accumulated altitude gain of 1850m. The distance and conditions suggest it will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[76,24],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-absa-cape-epic","tag-cape-epic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18512","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=18512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18512"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}