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Nix & AF to you. the more the merrier. i will add names only when confirm to join so that i can keep track of who we need to wait for on the day! but it would be cool if you all can attend!!

What you mean forcolourchappie. You not going to join us thanks for the heads up in anycase. i think the somerset residents should make the call if we go village or g-bay way!

Sounds like Waterstone it will be. We can chat about the route out of SW closer to the time. Fandacious took us past H/Cycles and blablabla and we came out at one of the traffic lights going past all the vehicle dealers. It was quite safe the last time. that said we were about 10-15 and not 200!

KevinV Waterstone Village?? Is that the one opposite the Lord Charles?? Whatever is the most convenient!!!!

oooh , the interest is picking up!!! i like!!!

AI dis pragtig !!!! Eks so bly tanniR is terug innie kaap!!!!

awesome pics!!! MORE MORE ENCORE !!!

this Panorama talk needs to stay of this thread, i'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO jealous

Yeah, most of us struggled with the wind yesterday! Wise words of the day: What doesnt kill you makes you stronger

wow, thats me without make up AWESOME PICS Raymond!

UPDATE - Please see below Input welcome!!!!!

we usually use SW as start point, go out over SIR LOWRY'S PASS, turn left towards grabouw, go over VILJOENS PASS, over theewaterskloof bridge, left up and over FRANSCHOEK PASS and then past boschendal over HELSHOOGTE PASS and back to SW on the R44(?) about 125km thanks KevinVBMC Fan2009-01-29 01:51:51

updated

oh shoot, i forgot about that minor race ..... in anycase, thanks for the free bump to this more important thread good luck to YOU and BIGBLADE

BTW, Dick are you joining us?

OK, quick recap The route from Andrag is about 160-170km long, i tried to upload pic, but no luck. The route starting and finishing in SW is about 125km, also cant upload pic. PM me your email addy and ill forward jpeg. Kent, SlOW, KevinV will join the fast group! Rookie, Onetime and Skye will join the slower group. Rookie - the Andrag group will past your place (i think), you are more than welcome to cycle with us from there too the start in SW if you like. Racman - will add your name closer to the time if can confirm if you'll be here or not Thanks for the bit of advice Dick!! It make sense. PLEASE ALL HAVE A LOOK AT HIS REPLY. I'm quite happy with a pace of 26-28 for teh faster group and 24-26 the slower group ANY INPUT GUYS - and we should probably set a start time. Guess the Andrag group needs to start about an hour earlier. How about a 5:30 andrag start and 6:30 SW start or is that too late or too early?

WOW, lotsa action overnight I'm just reading through all qiuckly and summarize! I'm will also try and post pic of ride that i will copy from mapmyride. Give me a few secs

good question, i will make a few quick calculations tonight and post a route profile with distance etc. and propose a stop or two for the different groups. whatch this spaceBMC Fan2009-01-27 08:12:29

https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=41814&PID=661560#661560 MTB RIDE

19/02/2009 Laps in MF from 19:30-19:45 We'll start off at a leasurly pace in order to get as many people there as possible and then we will see who wants to do more than one laps. I have one set of spare lights. Lemme know if you guys are interested MTB FanieFiets BMC_Fan Colonel Mrs Colonel - no excuses TheCrow +1 Novak +2 BMC Fan2009-02-04 02:18:44

https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=41811&PID=661538#661538 ROAD RIDE

21/03/2009 4 Passes - SW start (125km) 7:00 (prelim) From Waterstone Village (updated) we will go out over SIR LOWRY'S PASS, turn left towards grabouw, go over VILJOENS PASS, just over theewaterskloof bridge we will turn left up and over FRANSCHOEK PASS and then outside Franschoek, we will turn left towards Pniel, past boschendal over HELSHOOGTE PASS and through stellenbosch back to SW on the R44. 4 Passes - Andrag Start (160-170km) 06:00 (prelim) Will go through Kuilsrivier and meet the rest at Waterstone Village (updated) and continue as above up to stellenbosch, were we will be going back on the Klipheuwel and Bottelary Road. Please advice were you will be riding and starting, so that we can make the neccesary arrangements. thinking about setting up some ground rules - any suggestions? At the moment there will be two groups: Medium 2 Fast - ave of about 26-28km/h Medium 2 Slower - ave of about 23-25km/h with lots of stops the idea is that if there are slower guys starting at Andrag to stick together up to SW. Group1 BMC FAN (andrag) NixTCR (andrag) OUT theYak (??) Kent (??) SlOW (??) KevinV (sw) OUT Fandacious (sw) Jazz (??) OUT RedDevil (andrag) Tankman (sw) ORCA(andrag) OUT Poison Ivy(andrag) OUT FanieFiets (andrag) OUT Onetime (andrag) OUT Group2 Slowbee (sw) Skye (??) Rookie (sw) racman (sw) Oiltrash (sw) TarmacPro (andrag) Mrs Colonel (sw) OUT Fatcyclist (sw) Square-circles (andrag) OUT Hagar (??)BMC Fan2009-03-17 00:54:02

OK Guys i think the water has been tested I will now open threads for 3 different events It looks like there will be enough interest to form two groups for the 4Passes Not to much interest in the track event, which is a pity. Cause it is so much fun! And the MTB evening (which will BTW be a fun evening, so bring as many as possible, with Fanie there its always a spectacular 'event')

we were planning to do the ride in one day, but i suppose we can make an exception.