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Dan sleeping at the Epic

Bicycling Magazine goes tabloid

Wednesday, 18th April 2007 at 7:02 pm

Once upon a time, Bicycling Magazine was an upstanding publication of unquestionable moral virtue. Then along came Ryan Lipkin Scott, moderately successful London-based self help guru (Bob Skinstad amongst his clients), who somehow talked Touchline Media into making him marketing …

Dan Nicholl Cape Epic MC

50% off at Arnold’s

Wednesday, 18th April 2007 at 6:37 pm

Pictures and info still flying in from the Absa Cape Epic - including this one, of your hard-working editor on the microphone at the Absa Cape Epic, encouraging more lunatic cyclists to keep going on leon Evans’s nightmare route. And …

Team Bulls

Absa Cape Epic finally done

Tuesday, 3rd April 2007 at 6:28 am

If Feverpitcher has been a little quiet over the last few days, then it’s not without reason - a combination of small towns well off the 3G track, and one exhausted editor. And that was without getting anywhere near a bicycle …

Cape Epic river

Absa Cape Epic - tough but fair

Friday, 30th March 2007 at 12:49 am

If you’ve been following the mountain biking from Knysna through the Little Karoo, you’ll have picked up the general sentiment that the 2007 edition has been a rather malevolent affair, testing the riders with some brutal, unforgiving territory. And from …

Christoph Sauser Cape Epic

Christoph Sauser goes it alone

Thursday, 29th March 2007 at 5:43 pm

In 2006, the Absa Cape Epic looked almost too easy for Christoph Sauser, as he and Specialised team-mate Silvio Bundi destroyed the field and stormed home to an emphatic victory. One year on, and it’s a very different story… Riding …

Cape Epic start

Absa Cape Epic: two days in…

Sunday, 25th March 2007 at 3:54 pm

When the top-ranked riders met up at Friday’s pre-race press conference, the realisation of just how strong the 2007 Absa Cape Epic field is suddenly hit home: Olympic medallists, World Champions, seasoned winners on the world’s mountain bike circuits. No …