Rudi Pollard

That was my big worry with Sam Gaze for this race. When he blows up it is spectacular. They are only the 4th best team in the Spez tent at the moment...

and there goes Sam Gaze... backwards

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Gaze fell off and kulhavy had to fix his cleats.

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Does anyone know why Gallileo Risk is not in the Ladies Red jersey? Dorma-Kaba is wearing the jerseys but they finished behind them yesterday...

The Cape Epic people is doing a live stream from 9am on the new app

The SPOT tracking seems accurate as always...

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How did you not know who Howard Grotts was before he rode epic last year? he has done multiple epics, won the US national jersey multiple times, represented them at the Olympics etc. And he has been part of the specialized racing team for quite some time as well... He was a very well known mountain biker before he won epic last year...

I see Nico Bell wihdrew before the announcement of Howard which meant Matt wouldve ridden with Wessel from Team NAD. Then he said he feels healthy enough and took the spot after Matt was partnered with Alan. I see this morning he has withdrawn again and now Gawie and Wessel will represent Team NAD.

In the ladies it is hard to look past Anika and Anna for the win. In second ill pick Ariane and Maja and 3rd Mariska and Jenny. 1. Investec Songo Specialized Ladies 2. Kross Spur Racing 3. Silverback-Fairtree In the men things got a bit shaken up. My original pick would have been Jaro and Howard. I don't rate Sam Gaze in stage racing as every event he's entered he has exploded on one of the stages. This is in things like W2W and Tankwa. I cannot see them getting onto the podium. From the red jersey it is really exiting to see Alan and Matt team up. Depending on how it goes with the team assistance I can actually see them getting onto the GC podium. The cannondale boys are always dangerous and Nino will be up there if he can keep his partner alive. 1. Scott Sram MTB (Nino and Andri) 2. Cannondale Factory Racing(Manuel and Henrique) 3. Specialized Foundation NAD(Alan and Matt)

Yes, they have a brand shop at registration on the Saturday where you will be able to buy any epic branded stuff. They even force you to walk through it after you receive your envelope with your race number, timing chip etc on your way to collecting your bag.

Yip, definitely not a manufacturing defect so bad luck...

My 820 is still working perfectly. It has only ever gone off when I was in an actual accident. Ive never had false alarms.

My package just dissapeared. Luckily they gave me a discount 8 weeks after the initial order

I only made that mistake once...

Quarq is a SRAM product so you're going to struggle to find a shop who will ship directly to South Africa and remove the UK VAT.

Until you're fully developed I guess?

Ramses 1st, hein 2nd, Chris 3rd, Kevin 4th, dion 5th, Fanie 6th. 4-6 finished together

Madness

Is Kevin broken or is his tracker broken?

What an insane effort

I think Kevin is way ahead of where he was last year. The field is just on another level this year. He said that if he comes in below 60 hours he will be satisfied and it looks like he'll easily do that