Kevin Vermaak

In the early 2000s, while working as an IT professional, Kevin meticulously planned bucket-list adventures around the world with his friends. One of many was leading the first-ever combined mountain biking and snowboarding expedition to summit Muztag Ata (7500m) in China. Then, on a beach in Costa Rica, after finishing La Ruta bike race he conceived the idea for a pro-am full-service mountain bike stage race. He left behind a comfortable life in London to start the Cape Epic back home in Cape Town, South Africa. Now, twenty years later, there’s a new spark, to create a significant pro-am gravel stage race and to give riders the world over another reason to travel to South Africa – this time with their gravel bikes.