ABSA Cape Epic Route Launched, Joel Stransky & Stefan Terblanche, The Diepsloot Mountain Bike Academy, ABSA Cape Epic Founder Kevin Vermaak, Cansa’s Richard Beer, Hein Wagner and Craig Wapnick from the Old Mutual Joberg2C – MTB Talk SA Episode 13
We have a jam packed show for you this week on MTB Talk SA. The route for the 2014 ABSA Cape Epic was announced this week and we have the following for you on this week’s show:
- Brad Brown caught up with former Springboks Joel Stransky and Stefan Terblanche, who are both riding as part of Team ABSA in 2014. Joel has completed four, so knows exactly what he is in for, while Stefan is riding his first Epic in 2014.
- Brad spoke with William Mokgopo from the Diepsloot Mountain Bike Academy, who is riding in his third ABSA Cape Epic and he told Brad about how he got into the sport of mountain biking. William has achieved so much through the sport of mountain biking and attributes all his success to the Diepsloot Mountain Bike Academy
- Kevin Vermaak, Founder of the ABSA Cape Epic, talks to Brad about the race as well as some of the cool initiatives they have introduced for 2014, including new tracking pods that will enable the entire field to be tracked live online. Kevin also spoke about the Epic’s relationship with ABSA as a title sponsor.
- There is also a great charity aspect to the ABSA Cape Epic and Richard Beer from Cansa joins us to tell us about their involvement with the race and how you can get involved too.
- Hein Wagner, who was the first blind person to complete the ABSA Cape Epic spoke to us about possibly riding the ABSA Cape Epic in 2014.
- Stuart Pickering from was at the Africa Cycle Fair this past weekend in Johannesburg, and while there he caught up with Craig Wapnick from the Old Mutual Joberg2C.
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The @AbsaCapeEpic route was launched yesterday and we have a bumper show this week
On this week’s show @BigBradBrown chats @AbsaCapeEpic with @stranners & @StefanT15
A new @MTBTalkSA is out! We chat @AbsaCapeEpic with @stranners, @StefanT15, @kevin_vermaak & @Hein_Wagner
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Was awesome to catch up with @Hein_Wagner yesterday a the @AbsaCapeEpic route lauch. Hear our chat on @MTBTalkSA here
#FF @stranners who is taking on his 5th @AbsaCapeEpic next year. We chatted to him this week
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#FF the @AbsaCapeEpic & @kevin_vermaak. We chatted about some of the new initiatives to look forward to in 2014
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#FF goes to @CANSA who are doing some cool stuff around the @AbsaCapeEpic. Listen to what they are doing here
#FF @Hein_Wagner who chatted to us this week about his @AbsaCapeEpic experience #Inspiring
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Get the latest #MTBTalkSA to listen to on your way to work tomorrow
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