Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Distance: 66 km
Climbing: 950 m
Max Stage Time: 5h 50min
Start Location
Meerendal Wine Estate, Durbanville
Finish Location
Fairview, Paarl
Time
A spicy new feature for the 2025 Absa Cape Epic. A point-to-point time trial. A true test of teamwork, tactics, and tenacity. No time to “fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way.” With climbing in both the opening and closing kilometres, linked by rolling roads, dual tracks and trails across the vlakte of the Malmesbury Farms. It should be a day which suits the powerhouses of mountain biking, though the weather could have a pivotal say in who succeeds on Stage 2. If the South Easter howls or the African sun bakes down, even the strongest could wilt en route to Fairview.