South Africa’s Kevin Evans has changed partners for this year’s Absa Cape Epic and will now compete alongside countryman Max Knox.
Max Knox of Team Burry Stander-SONGO 2 during stage 5 of the 2013 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race held. Photo: Greg Beadle / Cape Epic / SPORTZPICS
They will be aiming to be the first all-South African team to win the world’s leading mountain bike stage race.
Team FedGroup Itec announced the change and that it had signed Knox yesterday. Evans has previously finished second and third in the Epic and Knox has finished the event five times, often riding as a back-up to leading teams.
Neil MacDonald, who had been scheduled to ride with Evans, will now partner Johann Rabie in another all-South African combination.
The Epic starts on Sunday with a prologue at Meerendal Wine Estate and finishes on March 30 at Lourensford Wine Estate after traversing 718km of the Western Cape.
“It’s a late change to our team for Cape Epic and it took me a bit by surprise,” said Evans.
“It’s taking a while to sink in that I have gone from African leader jersey (for the top all-African team to finish) contender to overall title contender, which is quite a nice adjustment to have to make.”
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