Nino Schurter and Filippo Colombo (SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing) won the 2025 Absa Cape Epic at Lourensford Wine Estate in Somerset West today. The win is Schurter’s third Absa Cape Epic title, while Colombo claimed the crown at his first attempt. In the Aramex UCI Women’s Category, Annika Langvad claimed her sixth Absa Cape Epic title [...]
The UCI elite riders might term stage 4 of the Absa Cape Epic a ‘romp’. It was a short, punchy day of cross-country racing over 80km with 1950m of elevation gain. Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto (Wilier-Vittoria) won the stage - again just one second ahead of Zebra Striped Yellow Jersey overall leaders Nino Schurter [...]
Stage 3 of the 2025 Absa Cape Epic was shortened from 90km to 78km due to a weather warning of extreme heat in the Western Cape’s Paarl region. Approximately 150m of climbing was also chopped off the stage. The changes in distance and elevation gain did little to change the fiery attitudes of the racing [...]
Belgian rider Wout Alleman and Czech partner Martin Stošek (BUFF MEGAMO 1) powered to a Stage 2 victory at the Absa Cape Epic near Paarl today. Starting at Meerendal Wine Estate and finishing at Fairview just outside of Paarl, the all-new team combination blitzed the 66km time-trial stage to finish 27 seconds ahead of Zebra [...]
Nino Schurter and Filippo Colombo (SCOTT-SRAM MTB Racing) timed their attack to perfection late on Stage 1 of the 2025 Absa Cape Epic to claim the stage victory and move into the overall lead of the men’s race. In the Aramex UCI Women’s Category race, Annika Langvad and Sofia Gomez Villafane (Toyota | Specialized) took [...]
First time entrants Luca Braidot and Simone Avondetto (Wilier-Vittoria) claimed a surprise win today at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic Prologue on Meerendal Wine Estate. The Italian duo are cross-country specialists, but ahead of the 2025 Absa Cape Epic they weren’t listed among the favourites. In hot, dry and dusty conditions, they claimed first place [...]
There is only one name mountain biking fans are focused on ahead of the 2025 Absa Cape Epic: Annika Langvad. The great Dane is back from a 5-year hiatus and will start her 6th Untamed African Mountain Bike Race as the overwhelming favourite. There can be many a slip between the Prologue and the Grand [...]
Kate Courtney and Candice Lill’s She Sends privateer super squad and Lukas Baum and Georg Egger’s ORBEA x Leatt x Speed Company headline the 2025 Momentum Medical Scheme Tankwa Trek, presented by Biogen, elite fields. The South African star returns to the Koue Bokkeveld to defend her title with the popular American when the Stage [...]
Matt Beers and Alex Miller completed a clean sweep of FNB Wines2Whales Shiraz stage victories on the final day of the 2024 race. The Toyota Specialized men charged through the trails to Benguela Cove and crossed the finish line ahead of their general classification podium companions, Imbuko and Honeycomb Pro Cycling. Sunday, 10 November, brought [...]
Nambian, Alex Miller endured a bad looking crash, with just a few scraps and bruises, en route to victory on Stage 2 of the FNB Wines2Whales Shiraz race. For the second day running the Toyota Specialized team were joined on the podium by Imbuko and Honeycomb Pro Cycling. Alex Miller, of Toyota Specialized, survived a [...]
