Team KT18

Huge congratulations to this legend and fellow KT18 founder.

🥇2020 MC3 Kilo World Champion 🌈

A few more races to go out in Milton, Canada. Fingers crossed he can add some more silverware to his 🥇🥈he’s already bagged.

@ Mattamy National Cycling Centre

Huge congratulations to for winning two gold medals in both the pursuit and team sprint at the track World Cup event in Glasgow yesterday 🥇🥇

Great article in the recent Blesma magazine for what both and achieved at this years

were a huge part of the support to get the team out to South Africa and achieve such a huge milestone

The team have also been in some exciting discussions recently and have some exciting news to announce in the coming weeks

Great 6 page article in Outdoor Fitness on our challenge back in March

Make sure you go and grab a copy

"The only limits that exist are the ones in your own mind."

Jaco van Gass and Stuart Croxford of Team KT18 were the very first double amputee team in Absa history to successfully tackle the African MTB Race. They completed the 624km and 16 650m of vertical ascent in a time of 48:54:44,6.

We caught up with them after this year's Stage 1: https://www.cape-epic.com/news/1190/heroes-in-the-making/

Descending technical single track at speed is tough for most but when only having one arm it proves a little more challenging. Especially when feathering both front and rear brakes through one hand independently

A bespoke prosthetic to help control the bike and some cleaver but simple brake lever positioning by meant disability was never a limiting factor and opened up the world of possibilities

Completing the is a team effort but you need to be comfortable with the silence of your own mental fight to keep the pedals turning to cross that finish-line

Rolling out of the start chute at the prologue at The University of Cape Town

A very short day in comparison to what the had in store for us over the 7 days to follow. The course had everything from climbs to some great technical single track. All with amazing views over Cape Town and Table Mountain

(unfortunately we only got to enjoy the views on the route recce thanks to the British weather we seem to have brought with us)

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Getting our post race recovery spot on with the best tasting gin & tonic’s at the finish line after a hard 8 days racing

We promise these weren’t stolen out of the hands of and

Fuelling the machine ⛽️

Nutrition was definitely one of our biggest concerns when taking on the 8 days of tough racing in the

We’ve both done our far share of endurance events and sometimes even after one day you can experience some pretty horrific side effects to certain sports nutrition products

Clean and natural sports nutrition is definitely a must and having some variation with flavours to prevent your taste buds going on strike

provided us with their wide range of new products giving us huge confidence that we’d be fuelling sufficiently day after day. Definitely try out their pineapple & coconut energy drink 🤤 A firm favourite from us 👍🏻

We could have eaten bars for days (we did for 9 constantly). Natural ingredients and a huge range of flavours meant every day was a different selection

@ Cape Town, Western Cape

Quick press morning with Super Sport before we head off to relax and sample what all these vineyards have been producing 🍇🍷