Cape Epic Bike Check: Matt Beers S-Works Epic 8

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The pairing of Matt Beers and Keegan Swenson as Team Outride | Toyota | Songo didn’t go as planned at the 2025 Absa Cape Epic. Keegan battled back problems throughout the race which meant that the team had to settle for a single podium finish, placing third on the final stage. Despite the setbacks, the duo delivered a masterclass in resilience; fighting through each stage and continuing to push on in support of the causes they were representing: Outride and songo.info. As a three-time Cape Epic winner, Matt knows a thing or two about bike setup for ‘the race that […]

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[Shebeen]

Tyres changed 3 times. so 4 sets in total!

(brake pads every day.) 

Surprised to see he didn't go with a dropper post on the more single track heavy stages.

 

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this is a great feature, thanks for doing it

[RobynE]

Super cool feature

[RobynE]

Those chain ring sizes yoh 

[mikkelz]

What's that thing in the middle of the seatpost? 🤔

[DieselnDust]

The dropper post control unit and battery

[mikkelz]

2 hours ago, DieselnDust said:

The dropper post control unit and battery

Ah, I looked at some Google images for Reverb AXS and they looked a bit different, hence my confusion. 

Thanks! 🤦‍♂️

[DieselnDust]

3 hours ago, mikkelz said:

Ah, I looked at some Google images for Reverb AXS and they looked a bit different, hence my confusion. 

Thanks! 🤦‍♂️

This is the new Reverb AXS which is about to be officially launched along with mechanical Transmission called Eagle 90 and Eagle 70

[Danger Dassie]

22 hours ago, mikkelz said:

Ah, I looked at some Google images for Reverb AXS and they looked a bit different, hence my confusion. 

Thanks! 🤦‍♂️

There were a few around at Epic, as well as on Trippers there was someone riding with the new wireless Fox dropper. 
Quite like the fact that Epic is fast becoming a showground for new equipment and testing. Saw some shiny new XTR teasers. Also a few teams were running new bits and bobs, especially the SRAM dropper and Motive brakes.

It was a bit of a laugh when one of the team support staff (not Specialized) was all authoritative like with us taking pics of one bike's components "ja that's under embargo hey, bla bla bla" ... yes at one of the world's most media saturated public events chum, ok thanks>