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| The TREK Fuel EX. What an amazing Weapon of Choice. Smashed the technical climbs; shredded the singletrack; devoured the rough stuff; and powered the marathon sections. I could not have asked for a more all-round platform. |
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| UCT Prologue. Great vibe being so close to Cape Town. Plum pudding was in a bad shape by the time we got there. 14 broken bones on the Prologue! Eish. |
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| The never-ending climbs of Groenlandberg. We went up and down and around and up and then down (and definitely UP again) this mountain range from various angles!! Yoh! |
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| I do remember this place - Eagle Cliff wine farm (or close to that), We faced an absolute bastard of a climb after this waterpoint! And then sand! And then wind! Shit man - this was a tough 128km day. |
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| Possibly one of my favourite pics - because I look all pro-like! I think Sauser was just ahead of us when this shot was taken. (But only just hey..?) |
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| This was taken at a climb called "Powerlines". Apart from being steep (no surprise there) there was a whole group of the day-trippers who had congregated around a technical rocky turn on the climb. I remember they were so encouraging and supportive and certainly gave you reason to WANT to try and make it up the climb. #nopushingforNgunis |
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| Teams Fat Bob and The Nguni Bulls - always a privilege to ride alongside Fat Bob. Here we lick our wounds in the Woolies tent after another tough day in the saddle. Stage 5 - the day that Welvanpas went on and on and on!! |
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| It wasn't called the Cape Town Epic for nothing. With the race villages so close to home, Rocky and I snuck back to the creature comforts of the home front on more than one occasion. Maybe two...or three...I forget! But here is a photo of the race village as I remember them from previous years... |
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| Hot, rocky, dusty and mountainous - that typified most days of riding. We averaged over 113km per day for the first five stages. A very challenging course was set for the 2015 edition! |
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| Rocky and I were fortunate to leave with the front batch for the second half of the race. This was a great experience because all of the lead motorcycles, media, and many helicopters would follow the yellow jersey. OK admittedly the yellow jersey was out of sight within the first 20 minutes, but we got the buzz of the choppers and hype for some time. We knew we were about 20km into a stage when the first of the Outcasts would come haring past us...they would leave at the front of the second group so they could not aid or influence the outcome of pro teams still in contention - so the likes of Stephan Sahm, Kenny Luser; Sally Bingham etc would all come whizzing effortlessly past us as we were already spinning away in granny gear up some monster climb. Test those people!!! |
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| Very stoked to now be part of the Amabubesi - that's 3 Epics under the belt. Will there be more? Hmmm. Who knows? |
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