The Absa Cape Epic is often known as the Untamed African Mountain Bike Race. It provides the ultimate off-road cycling challenge, across eight days and 650 kilometres, of rugged and remote racing. Akin to the Dakar Rally in motorsport and a mountain biking allegory for the Tour de France, cycling’s most famous event, the Absa [...]
USWE Hydration Packs Partners with the Epic Series, across European and African mountain bike stage races, to provide riders with their technical know-how and industry leading products. They will be the official hydration pack and luggage partners of the Epic Series for 2024 and beyond. As mountain bike stage races have become more technical and [...]
Mountain biking legends, Karl Platt and Tomás Misser – or Tomi as he is affectionately known – will be teaming up for the 2023 Absa Cape Epic. Not only will the Team Bulls and Mondraker riders be pursuing the NTT Masters category victory, which Platt won in 2022 alongside Christoph Sauser, but the pair will [...]
The Dutch KMC Mountain Bike Team will once again start their season with a South African adventure in 2023. The squad spent time in the country in September 2022, racing the Momentum Medical Scheme Cape Pioneer Trek, presented by Biogen, where Teus Ruijter and Gerben Mos placed fifth overall. This year Tim Smeenge and Ruijter will [...]
songo.info, the education and sporting charity founded by Christoph Sauser in 2008, will once again be represented by some of Specialized Factory Racing’s global superstars at the Absa Cape Epic. In 2022 the story goes beyond the elite men’s and women’s races however, as Sauser teams up with his former rival, Karl Platt, to target [...]
Behemoths of the automotive and cycling industries, Toyota and Specialized Bicycles, have teamed up to support two of South Africa’s most talented mountain bikers in 2022 and beyond. Racing as Toyota Specialized, with the support of Ninety One Asset Management and in benefit of songo.info, the team will target marathon, stage races, gravel bike events [...]
Squirt Cycling Products has been trusted by mountain bikers to keep their bicycles clean and drivetrains running smoothly at FNB Wines2Whales since 2010, the Swiss Epic since 2018 and at the Absa Cape Epic since 2019. Now the South African brand has extended their involvement with the IRONMAN®️ Group’s global Epic Series. The relationship sees [...]
The leader in South African cycling wear, Ciovita, is proud to announce their technical cycling apparel partnership with IRONMAN’s global mountain bike stage race group, the Epic Series. The partnership covers the Epic Series’ full range of events, including the series pinnacle, the Absa Cape Epic. Ciovita and the Absa Cape Epic have their headquarters [...]
The story of the Covid-19 pandemic is still unfolding. Seamus Allardice looks at the effects of the Covid-19 crisis, thus far, on the South African cycling industry where events have been cancelled or postponed, bicycle shops are closed and manufacturers have shut their doors. When they open will the economy be in a fit state [...]
Chef David Higgs is bringing his love of food and cycling even closer by partnering with a top female team for this year’s Absa Cape Epic. Together with his business partner Gary Kyriacou, their “Pazzo Italian” restaurant in Sandton has announced it will support top female cyclists, Nicky Giliomee and Cherise Willeit, for their 2020 [...]
