Cape Epic 2007: Ride tubeless, please
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BikeMagic had this great article about the Cape Epic. Riders, Loan Burger and Reynard Van straaten, decide to tackle the eight day grueling race across South Africa. Racing on a wide variety of terrains, Loan rides tubeless, but Reynard doesn’t. Until Loan gets tired of changing flats that is.
We had a nice chat up the hill and so managed to climb the monster - we passed the last water point and only had the “Ou Wa Pad” left to climb. Then it happened. A puncture! Reynard was not riding tubeless, and it was at this stage that he understood why I insisted that he invests in some before the race. He had his first of what would be three punctures during this year’s Epic.
Day two had similar events occur:
Day two was to be the longest stage of this years Cape Epic. And as luck would have it, right on the start line Reynard had his second puncture. So when all the other riders went off we were sitting next to the start line fixing yet another tube. We eventually got going, but had some work to do.
Day three, Reynard gets converted to tubeless:
This time I made sure Reynard was properly prepared, having given him my spare set of tubeless wheels to use. We’re not planning on having another puncture today.
With only one more puncture over the next 5 days, the pair finished a great race. Congratulations!
Read Loan Burger’s full story. Check out his 2007 machine too. Nice.
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