Cape Epic 2026

[Eugene Oppelt]

Cool content

 

[ajnkzn]

Matt and Tristan

Marco and Travis

Lood and Jaedon

Edited March 5 by ajnkzn

[DieselnDust]

beat me to it.....

 

excellent for Tristan and it will open the race up a bit because he is an unknown as paired with Matt.

Edited March 5 by DieselnDust

[betaboy]

[bolt67]

Was bound to happen with Marco injured. Trsitan is proper climber 

 

[amac]

20 minutes ago, bolt67 said:

Was bound to happen with Marco injured. Trsitan is proper climber 

 

Wait Marco is injured ? 

[Danger Dassie]

4 minutes ago, amac said:

Wait Marco is injured ? 

He’s teamed up with Stedman, so may not be serious if he is. Unless it’s very recent.

https://www.treadmtb.co.za/beerss-replacement-cape-epic-teammate-announced/

[DieselnDust]

34 minutes ago, amac said:

Wait Marco is injured ? 

bokkie donnered into him at Tankwa Trek. He's still not mended so no point in trying to compete for ACE win

Edited March 5 by DieselnDust

[Irvin85]

Matt and Keegan was a very strong team and probably the outright favourites to take the Yellow. It is more open now... Hoping for some good weather and great racing. 

[amac]

16 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

bokkie donnered into him at Tankwa Trek. He's still not mended so no point in trying to compete for ACE win

Hopefully close enough to recovered to compete for something. Long days if hurting before the start of every day.

[Jimmy 2.0]

1 hour ago, DieselnDust said:

bokkie donnered into him at Tankwa Trek. He's still not mended so no point in trying to compete for ACE win

as well as a broken collar bone from w2w. both situations he had mild concussion

[peetwindhoek]

Glad Matt got sorted! He’s shown he can team up with a variety of partners. I think they’ll do really well (sure, they are not favorites anymore which could work in their favor)! I remember a couple of years back when Tristan's partner dropped out and he ended up getting great camera time sitting just behind the leading 2 teams with no other teams in sight.

[Shebeen]

23 hours ago, Danger Dassie said:

He’s teamed up with Stedman, so may not be serious if he is. Unless it’s very recent.

https://www.treadmtb.co.za/beerss-replacement-cape-epic-teammate-announced/

I expect some team to hammer the prologue, Beers to klap the field on stage 1 with TN hanging on for them to move into Yellow with a nice cushion. Then blow up by stage 4 latest......

For Toyota Specialized Imbuko, the goal is clear: race aggressively, build partnerships and earn the yellow leaders’ jersey.

 

my armchair advice would be the opposite:

Nortje came 3rd last year, which must be the best so he is not totally out of depth here, but was a comfortable gap to Braidot and Avondetto who came 2nd and are back. The hammer needs to chill on the nail for the first 2/3 stages and see how the field plays out.

[Headshot]

On 3/4/2026 at 11:22 AM, Eugene Oppelt said:

Makes me wanna go ride

 

But is it actually "tough" or just what normal people call a fun track?

[Michael S]

These threads are classic, every year.

1) Debate why entry fee is so high and higher than back in my day.

2) Seeding chatter

3) Early weather and wind chat / where to park

4) Expo is worse than last time an goodie bag complaints 

5) More accurate weather chat

6) Fantastic day out, definitely back next OR the bunch didn't have experience and caused my wipe out or ruined my day so I fellback

 

[Shebeen]

13 minutes ago, Michael S said:

These threads are classic, every year.

1) Debate why entry fee is so high and higher than back in my day.

2) Seeding chatter

3) Early weather and wind chat / where to park

4) Expo is worse than last time an goodie bag complaints 

5) More accurate weather chat

6) Fantastic day out, definitely back next OR the bunch didn't have experience and caused my wipe out or ruined my day so I fellback

 

even better when you post in the actual Argus thread