Absa Cape Epic 2022

[Milkman]

What a breakaway by Imbuko(Type) Dev  !!

Lets hope the legs hold .

Would be awesome for the Saffas to take a stage win .

[edgarblount]

Chicken skin moment there! Well done Pieter and Marco!!

[babse]

Absolutely brilliant win for Imbuko Giant!!!

[Jbr]

2 minutes ago, babse said:

Absolutely brilliant win for Imbuko Giant!!!

Yes very impressed ! Next time I'm getting pushed off the trails by one of them I'll say thank you sir 🤣

[babse]

2 minutes ago, Jbr said:

Yes very impressed ! Next time I'm getting pushed off the trails by one of them I'll say thank you sir 🤣

🤣

[babse]

Having spoken to 1 of their team members about a week ago, Imbuko TypeDev had a goal of stage win(s) and top5 overall....

 

Boom!!! 

[Cookie88]

I have been living under a rock so excuse my ignorance but sad to see Hatherly not taking part this year. I hope it was something planned and not a case of injury or like last year, a teammate having a last minute Op?

[JJDT]

The Ladies race is also getting interesting...Faces Rola looking good.

[Sid the Sloth]

31 minutes ago, Cookie88 said:

I have been living under a rock so excuse my ignorance but sad to see Hatherly not taking part this year. I hope it was something planned and not a case of injury or like last year, a teammate having a last minute Op?

He is racing in Brazil at the first World Cup and has been training for that as far as I know. 

[amac]

21 minutes ago, Sid the Sloth said:

He is racing in Brazil at the first World Cup and has been training for that as far as I know. 

He was going to race with Simon Andreasen, who got ill.

[Cookie88]

4 minutes ago, amac said:

He was going to race with Simon Andreasen, who got ill.

He got ill again?!

[amac]

10 minutes ago, Cookie88 said:

He got ill again?!

Last year had an appendectomy. This year got sick a week or two beforehand.

[Cookie88]

10 minutes ago, amac said:

Last year had an appendectomy. This year got sick a week or two beforehand.

Shame man - they would have added some extra spice to the sharp end surely?

[Shebeen]

2 hours ago, J Wakefield said:

It’s a marathon event that has xc points so they did it to get points to start higher up come wc’s. So now their marathon teams entering as they should.

 

to say the field is not deep is not correct. It’s plenty deep and when you compare data from the last 5 years, this years event is ******* hard and fast. Data doesn’t lie and the level has progressed. 

What did I mean by deep?

If i compare it to the 2018 event for instance where they had the XCO world cup event the week before the field was stacked with the both the best marathon and XCO riders. 

I'm not sure exactly how the XCO/XCM thing works for UCI points now, but it's obvious that the top XCO guys are all going to brazil and skipping this. It used to be that some of them used the epic to "sharpen up" for the XCO season. 

So my feeling is that there are a lot of top mtb riders who are not here. If there was Avancini/Koretsky/Sarrou/Fluckiger/Hatherly and others who have done it before the top5 could look very different now. guess what, In 2018 the marathon guys still mostly cleaned up come stage 7 GC with a few XCO in there

 

I'm not mocking the pure marathon guys, they are hardcore and maybe it's better that Epic is more marathon focussed now because that is what is at the end of the day.

[Shebeen]

1 hour ago, JJDT said:

The Ladies race is also getting interesting...Faces Rola looking good.

I really enjoyed watching that tactical battle from the top of helshoogte. that was quality riding by all four of them.

[jcza]

Can't make it on the road? Come and ride MTB. 🤪