32" wheels get first race win with Cape Epic stage

A year ago, 32" wheels were barely on the radar for most mountain bikers as Maxxis had not yet released the first performance 32" tire, the Aspen. And while production bikes and equipment are still rare, the first major race win on 32" wheels is already in the bag as Swiss rider Felix Stehli won stage 2 of the Absa Cape Epic.

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Stehli, who rides for the team Honeycomb 226ers, was aboard a Stoll P32, a carbon fiber flexstay design that uses an Intend inverted suspension fork. The bike is in limited production now but it'll cost you. Framesets run CHF5,000 (plus another CHF1,500 for the fork), and complete bikes start at CHF9,500, with a lead time of 3-4 months.