The Ouzo

For many years, as a weekend warrior, just finishing the 100km was an accomplishment. Heck the first couple of times I did it the wind blew dust into my eyes as I crossed the finish line, thats how much of an achievement it was for me. I try not to forget that,

Does my bike need to go through road worthy to register for a CAA reg plate ? 😄

might be a bit late for everyone else to do anything about it, I'll probably only go on friday or saturday

As I've understood it, the one we have for 947 is a permanent one and should work for CTCT. I'll be taking mine with to the expo to confirm.

Todays long term forecast that peak in the wind is as you get out of Simon’s town and over Smits

are you asking about adding the route to the app ? I've done the race before, so I link it to Strava and pull past rides from strava into the app.

I've been using Garmin (not the dual) for plenty of years. Got my first one with my edge 130 probably 8 years ago. Only last year did it start with erratic readings because the strap started to come apart. Changed batteries on the transponder thing a number of times and transferred that to the new strap. Maybe I'm just gentle on my stuff, the only thing I do though in terms of taking care of it is to rinse with fresh water after every ride.

I'm to scared to do this calculation. And petrol about to go up R1.21 on the day that we leave. Going to try and get a full tank in before the price goes up.

must have been the cyclists fault. He probably was not wearing a hi viz jacket, was not riding in the dirt on the side of the road and his bike did not have a number plate.

FFS!!! Sending healing vibes Dale, this is getting ridiculous now.

Todays long term forecast

this makes for some interesting comparisons, especially the fact that it has the 2022 responses in too.

All the points above is why I often land up either pulling the group or being right at the pointy end. I find the further back you go the less etiquette there is. Between that elastic band effect, getting stuck behind dead wheels and people just not holding a proper line, its nerve racking and frustrating at the back.

or go around the next corner

also received it yesterday, 3 times. Great that they are at least working on things, lets see how well they are executed.

I have no medical knowledge, I was advised by someone that it helps and for me at least it has helped. My wife would tell me in the morning that I was cycling in my sleep again, but the worst part was that the twitches would come just as the body is relaxing right before you fall asleep, that would keep me awake and I just was not getting a good nights sleep.

the year of the rain I dropped back 30 minutes or something like that, was amongst the best rides I had around the cape. Stronger than everyone around me so pulled them for a looooooong time before I peeled off to wait for my friend. After that it was Zone 1 / Zone 2 to the finish, even stopping for pictures and a toilet stop on Chappies before catching him again before suikers. If you're not worried about your finish time its a great thing to do.

everybody is different. i take slow mag daily, it helps with muscle twitches when I'm trying to sleep, but before that I took Repleni Mag. First time I took it I spent the entire night up and down to the toilet emptying the bladder. I tried it again 6 months later and it worked fine, then about 1 month after that it started to irritate the bowels. So far slo mag has been constant. Everybody's body is different. for me, the times I've cramped have always been when I've done efforts the body is not used to, the fitter I've gotten the easier its become to back off and spin through the spasm. But I seem to recall an article/YT vid a few months back where it was said that doctors have not been able to pin point the exact cause of why people cramp and others dont.

he is an e-bike rider, they're normally a bit slow

developing high end tech generally eventually means the technology trickles down to the lower end. Think about cars, tech we have as standard in lower end cars now was high tech stuff reserved for top end models only in the past. Think groupsets, Shimano 105 today has tech from Dura-Ace and ultegra of a few years back. Thats generally how the normal R&D works.

Sometimes even the easy days are hard.

agreed for 99% of use cases, heck Seth from Berm Peak is still running baby oil in one of his bikes, most people wont overheat the brake fluid on their bicycles.

If this is something you're interested in then let me know and I'll chat to the guys sitting opposite me

Racetec did provide "live" tracking for a few years, but it didnt last long and I'm not to sure how well it worked as I never used it.

Agree and disagree, at least something is in place. Hopefully it work with some sort of accuracy to be usefull. Last year my mate did Ironman in PE the week before CTCT, the Ironman app allowed me to track him the entire time even though he was not carrying a phone or using a Garmin. I'm guessing it also used some sort of predictive algorithm to estimate where he was. Oh and Garmin Live Track relies on connection to your phone, so you would need to carry both.