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The Absa Cape Epic 2021 took amateurs and professional mountain bikers over some of the most magnificent mountain passes in the Western Cape, South Africa. The 2021 route started off at the iconic slopes of Table Mountain National Park and finished today with the Grand Finale at the Val de Vie Estate. The Cape Epic is classed as hors catégorie by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), known as the “Tour de France” in mountain biking.

Stage 6 marked the penultimate day of the 2021 Absa Cape Epic. Steep but mercifully short vineyard climbs started the day before the Wild Boar Rollercoaster provided singletrack thrills. District roads and farm dual tracks, through iconic wine farms demanded complete concentration. Upon exiting the reserve, the climbing began in earnest.

Stage 5 was short and brutally steep, a major physical and psychological hurdle for the riders on their trail to Val de Vie. The climbing started virtually instantaneously. Leaving Wellington, the only way was uphill on the lengthy Hawequa Climb.

After three days of racing it was time for a transition stage from Saronsberg, in Tulbagh, to the Slanghoek valley. The early kilometres ticked past with unnerving ease, but once the surface began to roughen the challenges came. Brutally uneven dual tracks through a private game reserve provided a sudden shock.

With two converging mountain ranges to explore, Stage 3 of the 2021 Cape Epic was not short on climbing. Nestled in the nook between the Groot Winterhoek and the Witzenberg Ranges the Tulbagh Valley was not hasty to reveal its rewards.

The Witzenberg Valley was undoubtedly one of mountain biking’s most challenging playgrounds, making Stage 2 a fitting holder for the title of Queen Stage. Sheets of sandstone provided the ultimate testing ground for the riders. Crossing the Ceres Valley was the first step on the journey, followed then by the Old Gydo Pass. On the Bokkeveld plateau the dual track climb gave way to singletrack.

Stage 1 (98km distance // 1850m climbing) of the Cape Epic 2021 took the riders around Ceres today. In a tight finish on Stage 1, the BULLS (Urs Huber & Simon Schneller) and BULLS 2 (Martin Frey & Simon Stiebjahn) teams claimed first and second respectively, with Canyon Northwave MTB (Andreas Seewald & Martin Stošek) racing home in third.

In 2018, Koomo and Marmot & Hare lodge and adventures partnered for an epic trail running week through the landscapes of Jämtland. https://web.facebook.com/MarmotAndHare/

In 2018, Koomo and Marmot & Hare lodge and adventures partnered for an epic trail running week through the landscapes of Jämtland.

12H Chrono. Si Jeremy Prevost est avant tout un skieur, il est aussi un amoureux du VTT confirmé qui travail tout l’été sur le bike park de Méribel. Entre deux coups de pioches il profite avec ses amis de l’énorme potentiel qu’offre la vallée de Méribel, en enduro comme en DH. Dans cet épisode il nous emmène dans une visite des pistes qui débute au petit matin pour se terminer au coucher du soleil. Plus d’informations sur / More informations on : www.meribel.net

[BIKE PATROL] À quelques jours de l'ouverture des remontées mécaniques, retour sur le travail des bikepatrols et découverte des nouveautés de l'été 2018 avec Adrien, responsable du Méribel Bikepark ! /// few days before the opening of the Méribel Bikepark, our bikepatrol Adrien explain his work and tell us what's new on the slopes this summer! Plus d’informations sur / More informations on : www.meribel.net https://www.facebook.com/meribel3vallees/

Whakatane’s Sam Clark made it three wins in a row while South African Robyn Owen claimed her first win in today’s Kathmandu Coast to Coast World Championship Longest Day. The hyped women’s race lived up to expectations with Owen, who was second in her first attempt last year, storming through the mountain run and kayak to build a 20 minute lead heading into a nervous final 70 kilometer bike leg admitting she was “riding scared.” 2013 and 2011 Coast to Coast winner and three-time world champio...