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  1. Both the men’s reigning Olympic champions, a Tour de France winner, a host of world champions and several previous Absa Cape Epic winners will be in the South African stage race’s strongest field yet when it kicks off on Sunday. Click here to view the article
  2. Saturday morning at Meerendal Wine Farm saw five excited individuals waiting to meet Riaan Manser and find out who would be selected to ride with him at the upcoming Absa Cape Epic. Click here to view the article
  3. We are launching our famous CTCT Sale for 2017. We're going all out to bring you unbeatable prices. Keep your eyes on this thread... we will keep loading more and more as they come in. All sale items and prices are "While Stocks Last". CWC reserves the right to end this promotion at any time. Enough with the fine print... SALE!
  4. So the Absa Cape Epic is only days away and the butterflies are starting to flutter around your stomach. Click here to view the article
  5. Sven Nys is arguably the best cyclocross racer ever. Now the legendary Belgian – who earned the nickname “The Cannibal from Baal” as he notched up an astonishing 140 career victories – has set his sights on the 2017 Absa Cape Epic. Click here to view the article
  6. The 2017 Absa Cape Epic sports the strongest men’s field in the 14-year history of the race, with up to six teams aiming for the top step of the podium. Several years of a special focus on the women’s race has born fruit in recent editions: the standard of the field has steadily got stronger and the racing more exciting. The trend continues in 2017 and the racing is bound to be thrilling as a number of the world’s top marathon racers pit themselves against one another. Click here to view the article
  7. Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes form the “African MTB team” PYGA Euro Steel. Previously teammates riding as Scott LCB Factory Racing, 2017 sees them with new sponsors, and of course new bikes. The pair have a solid track record riding together, and have their eyes firmly on the Absa African jersey at this year’s Cape Epic, as well as on an overall podium spot. We caught up with them to check in on their race preparation, find out more about their plans for 2017, and of course their new bikes. Click here to view the article
  8. For the first time in its history the 2018 Absa Cape Epic field will include teams who have qualified to take part by completing another event. Click here to view the article
  9. The contest for the Absa Cape Epic’s prestigious Exxaro Special Jersey just got a whole lot more intense with news that the winners will get to spend eight days at an elite sports performance academy in Belgium. Click here to view the article
  10. OMX Pro Team’s Martin Gluth will pair up with Julian Schelb for the 2017 Cape Epic. The German duo will be aboard the Silverback Sesta Superbike, and with unparalleled and focussed support from their bike partner, will ride under the team name, ‘Silverback OMX’ for the eight days of untamed African adventure that is Cape Epic. The Sesta is tried, tested and proven at the Cape Epic, having been raced to a stage win and a third place in 2015, and numerous top tens in 2016. Click here to view the article
  11. Hailing from the country’s two biggest townships, Thulasizwe Mxenge, 23 from Soweto and Mthetheleli Boya, 24 from Khayelitsha, have their sights set on conquering the 2017 Absa Cape Epic. It's their goal to ride away with the R50 000 education bursary and a trip to Belgium, which is up for grabs for the winners of the Exxaro special jersey prize. Click here to view the article
  12. It’s going to be the strongest Absa Cape Epic field yet and the racing should be thrilling. Click here to view the article
  13. Ariane Lüthi says that replacing Annika Langvad as an Absa Cape Epic partner was an “almost impossible” challenge. Click here to view the article
  14. Grant Clark will be taking on more than just the 2017 Absa Cape Epic. He's currently somewhere between Cairo and Cape Town, on his epic journey #AfrikaLegBurn, for the literacy charity Shine. His mammoth undertaking includes riding unsupported from Cairo to Cape Town, completing the Cape Town Cycle Tour, the ABSA Cape Epic and finally Ironman Port Elizabeth. We caught up with him somewhere between Cairo and Cape Town to find out a bit more about his crazy plans. Click here to view the article
  15. In 2016 South Africa’s Robyn de Groot, riding with Swede Jennie Stenerhag, started the Absa Cape Epic like a house on fire, winning the Prologue and Stage 1. Click here to view the article
  16. In her quest for a fourth Absa Cape Epic women’s title, Ariane Lüthi has put together the first-ever women’s back-up team for the 2017 edition of the mountain bike race. Alice Pirard and Sabrina Enaux will make up Team Spur Foundation and ride in support of Lüthi and her new partner, German Adelheid Morath. Click here to view the article
  17. If somebody were trying to track down José Hermida in the Absa Cape Epic race village they would simply have to follow the laughter. And the chatter. Click here to view the article
  18. Hannele Steyn is the only woman in an exclusive group of four people (known as the Last Lions) to complete all thirteen editions of the Cape Epic. She lives in Durbanville, Cape Town, where she coaches cyclists and triathletes and owns the whole foods company Passion4Wholeness. She has held Springbok colours in biathlon, triathlon, duathlon, road cycling, mountain biking, and has a list of other achievements too long to comprehend. We figured no one could know better about Epic preparation, so we caught up with her to find out more about her experiences, and to pick her brain about the importance of preparation for Epic newbies. Click here to view the article
  19. Swiss mountain biking legend Esther Süss and Swedish champion Jennie Stenerhag will joined forces for the first time at the 2017 Absa Cape Epic, and might just have a surprise or two up their sleeves. Click here to view the article
  20. The Topeak Ergon and Centurion Vaude teams will forever be linked through an extraordinary act of sportsmanship at the 2014 Absa Cape Epic. In 2017, however, they will be major rivals for one of the biggest prizes in mountain biking: the Absa Cape Epic overall winner’s yellow jersey. Click here to view the article
  21. No all-South African team has won the Absa Cape Epic overall, but riders from this country have enjoyed success across many categories when partnered with foreigners. Most notable among these was Burry Stander, who triumphed three times with Switzerland’s Christoph Sauser. Click here to view the article
  22. Winning the 2016 Absa Cape Epic was the “biggest feeling” ever on mountain bike for Urs Huber, and now he and Team Bulls partner Karl Platt are determined to defend their title. Click here to view the article
  23. Last year Italians Damiano Ferraro and Samuele Porro arrived at the Absa Cape Epic as dark horses. They had competed with distinction on the world marathon circuit, but how would they manage the rigours of eight days of racing? Click here to view the article
  24. Swiss mountain biking maestro Christoph Sauser has come out of retirement in a bid to win the Absa Cape Epic for a sixth time, so what was it that persuaded him to get back in the saddle? Click here to view the article
  25. No all-African team has won the Absa Cape Epic since it was launched back in 2004, but Philip Buys and Matthys Beukes want to change that in the not too distant future. Click here to view the article
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