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South African Burry Stander and his Swiss teammate, Christoph Sauser (36One-Songo-Specialized) tightened their grip on the 2012 ABSA Cape Epic on Thursday when they won the 105km Stage 4 and extended their overall lead. The dust-coated teammates cruised across the finish line with broad grins in a time of four hours 42 minutes 49 seconds, […]
South African Burry Stander and his Swiss teammate Christoph Sauser of the 36One-Songo-Specialized team appear set to successfully defend their ABSA Cape Epic title after winning Stage 3 on Wednesday, the 2012 edition’s queen stage over 143km from Robertson to Caledon. Stander and Sauser were hardly troubled in the race’s longest stage and rode away […]
A dream start turned into the worst nightmare for Nedbank 360Life’s David George and Kevin Evans as the 2012 ABSA Cape Epic got underway this week. But on Wednesday’s monster Stage 3 the pair clawed their way back into podium contention after losing 24 minutes due to a damaged tyre on Stage 1. Shortened slightly […]
Stage 2 of the ABSA Cape Epic delivered a thrilling sprint finish among the top teams with victory going to Germany’s three-time champions, Stefan Sahm and Karl Platt (Team Bulls 1) in Robertson on Tuesday. The Multivan Merida team of Hannes Genze (GER) and Andreas Kugler (SUI) were second with overnight leaders and defending champions, […]
German squad Team Bulls may not have been able to stop an utterly dominant Christoph Sauser and Burry Stander, but the team can be justifiably proud of the fact that they have two pairings inside the top-5 of the 2012 ABSA Cape Epic after stage 1. The team’s French star Thomas Dietsch and race partner […]
After winning the ABSA Cape Epic’s short opening prologue stage by the narrowest of margins on Sunday, South African Burry Stander and Swiss Christoph Sauser (36One-Songo-Specialized) put in a dominant display on Monday’s tough first stage proper to win the day and secure a commanding nine-minute lead overall with six days remaining. Stander and Sauser’s […]
Burry Stander became the first South African to win the ABSA Cape Epic when he and Swiss teammate, Christoph Sauser, racing for 36One-Songo-Specialized raced to a dominant win in the world’s most prestigious mountain bike stage race one year ago. The 2012 edition of the eight-day race starts in Durbanville, in South Africa’s Western Cape […]
If there was a trophy for consistency at the long weekend’s Bike Buller MTB Festival presented by Giant, Adrian Jackson would be the shoe-in. The Team Merdia Flightcentre rider rode consistently fast while others around him dropped in and out of competition due to injury concerns and missing out on stages due to late entry. […]
The sold out 5-Hour Brakeburner Enduro provided plenty of frantic racing today, with yesterday’s Stage One winner, Adrian Jackson focussing on classification rather than stage win, whilst the Super-D specialists shone for day two of the Bike Buller Mountain Bike Festival presented by Giant. The placings for the Brakeburner are decided on a compilation of […]
The rain stopped and the sun shined for the final stage, the Ground Effect Surf Safari. Organisers were determined to finish the event at Narooma Surf Beach, but blown out coastal lakes and paddocks a metre deep under water meant much rerouting of the stage. In the end Course Director Wayne Byard, a Narooma local, […]
