News bot Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 The 2016 Absa Cape Epic route has been revealed and will contain more singletrack than ever before in the race’s 12-year-history. A total of 110km of the 647km route will be made up of singletrack trails as the eight-days of riding takes riders from Table Mountain to Tulbagh, Wellington, Stellenbosch and Durbanville. Although the 647km is shorter than previous years it includes more climbing per each of those kilometres than ever before. In 2016 riders willclimb 14950m during the Prologue and seven stages. That means riders will be ascending 23,1m per kilometre, even more than this year’s 21.4m per km.Click here to view the article
JohanMalan Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 16% single track?Eish! that's not a lot. Dan Dob 1
Captain Fastbastard Mayhem Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 16% single track?Eish! that's not a lot.it is for the Epic...
banna Posted October 14, 2015 Posted October 14, 2015 16% single track?Eish! that's not a lot.Hmmm....647km's of ST? Sounds fantastic, but you'll be really fooked afterwards. Jocklaw 1
JohanMalan Posted October 15, 2015 Posted October 15, 2015 Nobody expects 100% ST, but a good 50% would be nice.
rock Posted October 15, 2015 Posted October 15, 2015 there is such a big window of opportunity for a gravel race from Knysna to Cape Town on gravel grinder 'cross type bikes. overly long gravel road stages, make it a 4 day event
Dubbin Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 there is such a big window of opportunity for a gravel race from Knysna to Cape Town on gravel grinder 'cross type bikes. overly long gravel road stages, make it a 4 day event Doesn't the Trans Cape already do something like this?
Danger Dassie Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 Doesn't the Trans Cape already do something like this? And Tour of Ara ....
Danger Dassie Posted October 16, 2015 Posted October 16, 2015 there is such a big window of opportunity for a gravel race from Knysna to Cape Town on gravel grinder 'cross type bikes. overly long gravel road stages, make it a 4 day event Tour of Ara ... and on only on 90s or pre 90s era South African road bikes. Not Knysna to CT, but still Western Cape and properly hard enough.
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