Celebrated adventurer Riaan Manser will be taking on next year’s Absa Cape Epic from March 15 to 22.
Riaan Manser and Vasti Geldenhuys. Photo: Supplied
He will be riding with Vasti Geldenhuys who joined him on a 6000km journey by rowing boat from the African continent to New York.
Geldenhuys said the urge to compete in the world’s premier mountain bike stage race had taken root when she and Manser watched the finish in 2012: “We were on the spectator side of the barriers and it just felt wrong.
“Riaan and I had a lot of time to talk on the boat and the Absa Cape Epic was one of my favourite topics.”
Manser laughs: “Vasti was nagging me about it for 6000km across the ocean.”
Manser rose to international prominence by completing three world firsts: cycling the entire perimeter of the African continent, circumnavigating Madagascar on a single kayak and then paddling around Iceland with partner Dan Skinstad in a double kayak.
