Here are a couple of vids from the last few stages of Cape Epic, and then what we returned to from a South African summer, here in Utah.

Ever tried to solve a “mental puzzler” while at 180 bpm?

With only about 20min left of Stage 4′s TT, Ben’s spare tube came un-taped from his saddle and fell into his cogs on a pedally downhill. In a brilliant piece of skill and ingenuity, the tube looped tightly around the gears, took some chain with it (chain forward of the gears?), and had no exposed ends from which to unravel it. Without a knife, we were sort of baffled with where to start on unraveling the green monster. Maybe a …

If you click on them, the Vimeo originals are higher resolution. The new GoPro HD’s are almost like being there.

The one thing that I’ve not even tried to wrap my head around is how late the sun is setting here. We’re all sleeping until 9 or 10am, having breakfast at 11am, and next thing you know we’re thinking about dinner but its already 9pm. Not that anything is wrong with that, you know. But in just a day we have to be back in work mode and clip in at 8am.
That’s going to be a rough one if we get any more comfortable.
Better start things off by jumping into …