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I’d avoid the first one personally (no shoulder on roads and not the best areas) but it’s one of the safer areas to ride in SA. Get out and explore - from Hilton towards Howick and out on the Karkloof Road is stunning. And as above re around Grace College - park at The Avenues Centre and seek out some singletrack. https://strava.app.link/on02RjxBB2b Gravel bike / MTB?

For this use case 11 speed is perfect as he shouldn’t run out of gears at the top end (fast) and the races are quite short. As mentioned way cheaper to maintain / replace, lighter etc too.

And Travis Stedman I see 👍

Marc Pritzen and Hayley Preen in the mix too 🤘

Jeez I love this sport. The way that it has of writing stories you’ll never forget.

Yoh. Cannot wait.

I saw that - not really April fools when it was posted on 30 March. Clickbait deluxe from the Tread crew.

Entered 🤘

Accommodation hopefully booked in Three Anchor Bay - thanks for the recommendations. Asking for a friend...does anyone ride the race route with a little detour to do the full Mast Climb in Tokai for fun? Not going to be fast on the MTB anyway so may as well do extra some cool stuff...my friend says 🤣

The two year old is currently one of those rare small creatures that DOESN'T sleep in the car so we're going to have to split the trip over three days to maintain sanity haha. Hopefully she changes by next year...

Thanks in advance - road tripping with little kids though the Karoo to arrive 2-3 days before so own car but it seems the main challenges of this race are surviving registration / expo, getting to your batch to start and not getting kamikazied by a rogue ebiker 🤣

Thanks for this - we’ll have a car likely so registration admin we’ll tie in with a Cable Car trip or Platteklip mission if I really want to murder the legs before the race 🤣 But yes that area sounds really good an the train ride vibes would be awesome I’m sure 🙏

Talking about 14th March 2027... Say that I wanted to try out this CTCT thing. Where is the best area to stay that is slightly out of the carnage of central Cape Town / Sea Point / Greenpoint and would allow a simple ride in to the start and back to accommodation afterwards? Not scared to have a good day out, so 20km ish "warmup" and 20km ish "cooldown" would be ok. But for a country bumpkin what area / routes to the start offer the least traffic / chance of getting mugged / lost etc please? I'll be on an MTB -maybe try fit in some of the gravel / trails that go around table mountain? Thanks in advance.

Seriously? After Winter Olympics not being shown this is probably the last straw for my subscription.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWB1mxxiO36/?igsh=MjZuNHlvNzd3dXIz Here’s a candidate for the “interesting bikes of Epic” story