LIVE | STAGE 1 | 2025 Absa Cape Epic

Noon Gun

The mountain peaks of the Western Cape are dotted with signal guns dating back to Dutch colonial times. These would fire to alert farmers in the interior that a ship was docking in Table Bay and required restocking of supplies for the journey east. Stage 1 has a reputation for being a shot across the bows, a day which sees hopes dashed and protagonists for the week ahead stake their claims. 2025 will be no different, steep gradients are the order of the day which begins benignly enough before devolving into a brutal series of back-to-back climbs. There will be no strength in numbers or hiding in a group. It will be team vs team, mano a mano, across the cols of the Cape.

[jasonrafeld]

Incredible coverage 🎉. Super cool that the farmers are so welcoming and open up their land for the race.

[LaerteMSantos]

Congratulations on the quality of the transmission!👏🔝

[paulchapman]

SUPER Coverage. love the amateur stories too!

[Spunday]

Nino and Filippo were super strong at the end! It's crazy to see how much these guys put themselves into the pain cave! Amazing to see Langvad just kill it after being absent from the sport for five years! Her and Sofia, barring any mishaps are gonna be hard to beat!

[mtbxcristian]

Very nice performance! Congratulations! go go team Orbea!!

[Hoss-]

Watching Keegan struggle to even get up that climb 🥵 hope he comes around! 😤

[MarielaBeragua]

Vamos los equipos de Epic Bikes!!!! A no aflojar que van muy bien!! Vamos que llegan

[toancao]

Màn trình diễn thật tuyệt vời của 2 cô gái ❤❤❤

[Behine.DeChilis]

Great footage! Awesome race.

I would FAR prefer to remove the background music. It is very distracting.

[simonnrgaard]

Just and amazing day. Well done to all

[conociendorutas]

Lo único malo de la transmisión es solo en inglés y solo ven los elite uno quisiera ver también a los otros líderes como Master y otras categorías 😤

[dougmcdougall]

in the grand masters category are there any 70 + riders competing ?

[eduardogoncalves]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷Nino e Filipo🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[alastairgilchrist]

Really good race! Beautiful scenery. Disappointed with the amount of camera signal break-up. This is 2025!

[lloydjarm]

fyi Zugasti comes from Spain, not Italy.

[Ryansmith-fznq]

Yusus every time the commentator mentioned the dust the frikken helicopter was blasting them or the was a motobike bike … why not use drones ?? I know I get angry when I’m tired and trying to pedal up a hill … if I had a helicopter blowing dust at me or a motobike in front of me kicking up dust I’d practically turn into the hulk it would piss me off so much

[jjpmoolman]

If anyone here says this is good footage then you have never seen coverage of the swiss epic or any epic in europe. When you compare those races with this one you get abother perspective of how bad this coverage really is. Then the organizers and commentators want to make excuses for this horrible picture quality.

[trailzrock]

Cape Epic would be better if there were teams of 3 but they didn't have to stay together. More like a tour de France rules.

[jenives]

I wish they could fix the levels so that the commentators' microphones were at the same one