Before the 2014 Absa Cape Epic four times winner Karl Platt of Germany told journalists that they should keep an eye on his countrymen Markus Kaufmann and Jochen Kaess as potential race winners. If they did not take him seriously at the time they were certainly doing so after Stage 1, when the Team Centurion Vaude pair won convincingly to pull on the race leaders’ yellow Zebra jerseys. The next day, however, disaster struck when they lost nearly two hours after a chainstay broke on Kaufmann’s bike. Click here to view the article
