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I'm also looking at trying the GP5000TLs, .... interesting that both Egan Bernal and Ivan Sosa from Ineos fell in the Colombian National Championships in Tunja on Sunday, and Team Ineos is sponsored by Continental? Both were front wheel slipping ... wonder if it had anything to do with the tyres they were running?
I wish I was fast/skilled? enough to push my tyres to those kind of limits 
. In my experience the grip is awesome on the GP5000s - much better than Gatorskins and on par with the best grip I've had on a road bike tyre. I've used both 25c and 28c - you get even more grip on 28c vs 25c. Just make sure you use proper sealant - Stans does not work, Revoseal has been good for me. Andreas swears by Orange Seal.
Also went down in that crash. The first fall happened about three bikes in front of me, do you have any idea what went wrong? It was on a straight and wide road!
Regardless, 10/10 to Paarl Rotary Club. Especially for not succumbing to pressure to increase the field size. Excellent event
Two riders converged at higher speed as we hit the start of the hill and went straight into each other from the side - then came down taking a lot of us with them. It was surreal and silly (as most crashes normally are ). I was right behind them. I tried to hop over but came down, going to need a new helmet and front wheel rebuild - lucky to escape quite lightly .
Ironically I'd been in front working in the pace line for quite a while, then thought, I'd move back into the bunch and save some matches for the final run in. Next up 99er, weather's looking good 
Awesome race, flat and fast! Well organised to get a full event to run quite smoothly! Unfortunately I went down in the crash in B bunch about 11kms out, luckily no major damage done, TT to the finish. Looking forward to 99er next weekend ????
Haven't tried them, but I'm interested to hear your feedback, I like trying new things. GP5000TLs have been my best tubeless by far, CWC has a special on them atm 899.
Still don't see anything up on Racetec about seeding this morning - anyone have any news on this?
Driving through from CT so would like to plan departure times ASAP!
Ditto, also still waiting for some kind of communications. I'm collecting entries for others and planning on driving through with other ppl if the times make sense.
Has anyone received any seeding details for this race?
Nope - nothing showing on Racetec either
I love going up Constantia neck from the Hout bay side. There is a parallel road past world of birds where you can ride the first half and miss the taxis etc. I normally ride up Constantia neck two or three times a week, generally around 6.30 am to be back in Claremont by 7. The sweepers over Rhodes drive make the climb worth it. Rhodes drive traffic before 7 is pretty quite and on the descent your doing close to the speed the cars do. Stick left, be sensible - great route imho ????
Is there any reason why putting sealant into a light weight tube is not an option? Why must it be either tubeless with sealant or tubed without? I see that there are prefilled tube options (Slime) but they don't seem very main stream and are hardly ever mentioned. What would be the reason for this?
Well one of the cool things with tubeless is you can run lower pressures for more comfort, better cornering grip - especially on crap roads (increasingly common in SA 
). The minute you have a tube in, you risk pinch flats at lower pressures - sealant in a tube won't solve that. Its not a huge issue at higher pressures, but I normally ride 80psi - I've been as low as 60 psi on 28mm tyres and I've hit potholes in a bunch that would have been a guaranteed pinch flat when I rode tubes.
I think the other reason would be maintenance, how do you know how much sealant is left in the tube, how do you top it up? ... you also can't just plug a bigger hole. So yeah those would be practical reasons why I'd think they aren't hugely popular ...
Plugs are hit and miss.
The new Stans Dart plugs look like an interesting proposition.
I checked out the dart plug, looks pretty interesting. I'm wondering however what happens if you need to put a tube in i.e if you've got one or two darts in and then have a big slash and need to put in a tube in - won't the tip of the darts puncture the tube . I know this probably won't happen often - having to plug a hole in the first place is quite rare in my 2 years of tubeless experience.
Looking forward to it, my first race for 2020 ????. Weather is looking good so far. Seems it might thankfully be quite a bit cooler in the morning, may need a warm-up for hels ????
Awesome, thanks for the info, will definitely try some WP Cycling events this year ????
The PPA website isn't great, but at least its kind of logical. The WP Cycling one however .... maybe I'm just silly, but I can't seem to find a simple list of the road events for this year. It seems to all lead to an empty calendar with only WP Champs this weekend?
Sad news, it went from 5 to 6 then 8 - now zero. It was really cool to have so many additional 'safe' road event options - I managed to do most of them, but the numbers last year at a few sportives were very low, so I can understand that it was not sustainable to have 8.
In my opinion it would be great if there was series of 5 sportive events spread over August to December. There are quite a few guys I ride with who are just getting into cycling and these were great events to get used to 'larger' bunches, have a good race workout and get into the seeding system.
Guess I'm gonna have to try some of the WP Cycling events now 
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Cool, ditto. My plug is still holding up great after about 800kms. Stan's doesn't work well on road tubeless in my experience. Continental revoseal has been pretty good. I have yet to try the mystical orange seal, wish a local online/lbs would stock it.
I bought a pair from Cyclelab on a Black Friday deal. They seem to be made of a new slightly thinner material than the S7's I bought a while back - apparently weight savings .
The feel is very similar to the S7, no big seams, super smooth - with floating padding. I prefer the straps on the S7 though. Its been about 1 month using them once/twice a week and so far they've been great. I'm hoping they last as long as the S7s I have which are one of my favorite bibs.
Three more rides planned, should make 12,000km - big year for me
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Heart rate is very individual as per comments above. I wouldn't worry too much about the numbers you posted if that has been your 'normal' for a while.
I'm over 40 and mine will go up to 210 on some rides if its a hot a day and I'm pushing up long climbs (chest strap). If I'm doing a road race it may average 180 for the ride. Its been like that for nearly 3 years and I haven't had any issues.
Did you go a year with the same sealant.?
Previously yes - same sealant, I did around 8000kms over 11 months without any issues (luck?). This one was however a new tyre 28mm bought about 1 month ago for my new bike, running continental RevoSealant. I think the LBS put in a bit too little sealant and it was still bedding down - gonna try top it up next week. Looked like glass cuts, I pulled out a few pretty big shards from both tyres, we've had rain in CT the last few mornings.
So around 1200km of tubeless riding before my first puncture.
Somewhere in the first 30km of today’s ride I picked up a puncture. At the halfway mark when in stopped I was greeted with this
The pressure gauge built into my right thumb told me I had plenty pressure. So I turned around and headed home.
About 5km later ....psst...psssst....psst.
I stop, I check and it seals back up again.
Thumb pressure gauge again tells me I’m good to go.
About 4km from home it breaks the seal again. This time the thumb tells me we are now getting low on pressure and any further loss will require some added air.
But it got me home.
Investigating later on there are actually 2 holes close to each other and multiple lite cuts on the tyre.
I’ve dropped the pressure in the tyre and applied super glue to the holes and cuts. Is there anything further I’m supposed to do?
I didn't have any joy with super glue when I tried that.
After 1 year without issues I noticed my front GP5000TLs tubeless tyre was flat yesterday, found a hole when I tried to pump it - seems the sealant has mostly dried. I plugged it with a slug plug yesteday and cut it flush with side cutters. I did a 60km ride today and it felt really good. I'm gonna try get one of the ryder kits - so much easier if you could plug vs having to take everything apart.
Getting to Perdeberg for a 6am start from the southern suburbs means stumbling about in the dark searching for clean bib shorts in the mass of black and lumo that is my lycra shelf while muttering expletives about Eskom with my cycling lght clenched between my teeth.
The gate motor fortunately has a new battery so it opened easily and with my brand new Emonda on the roof rack (courtesy an insurance payout and an end of line special from trek) I drove off into what still felt like the middle of the night. My spirits lifted as dawn broke and by the time I had sipped the last of my overnight oats, peanut, banana and almond milk smoothie I was in a good mood.
Bike racing in C-E batch! Yes please!
I arrived with 40 minutes to spare - strolled over to the portaloos and after waiting in the queue just long enough for the oats to provoke the inevitable peristaltic urgency, was able to restore comfort without undue stress.
As an aside I had collected my number and sticker on Friday from the PPA offices as part of my day-off ride and so felt organised and superior and as I mooched to the portaloos I was approached by two very attractive young women (yeah I wish) who offered me a sticker in exchange for a peep at my SMS. Great idea PPA! Do that more, it will alleviate the nightmare that registration can become when the event is busier.
I strolled King Edomondo (the new bike, who has entered the pantheon of mamilian bikes as an old war buddy of Captain Trek - RIP after nasty top tube incident - and ex boyfriend of Princess Merida) to the start line and he attracted many admiring glances, including from MDJ whose exploits I observe with admiration and envy on Strava.
I lined up with C-E and then thinking about a tactic BillyGoat has advised, elected to drop back to F-H. In the end, I think this was a good move.
Now - King Edomondo is more bike than my ability warrants and I think LeChatNoir is probably correct when he tells me that the placebo effect is real, but man he is a pleasure to ride (King Edomondo that is, not LeChat) and there's something about this bike that rewards the pain that I put myself through in such a way that it encourages me to hurt myself even more. This is how I managed to keep up with these mid packers - that and finally mastering the art of moving up on the downhills and dropping back on the ups.
On the long hill before Malmesbury I just managed to hang on over the top but saw that there were 2 other smaller breaks ahead of the main body. We worked well together and by the time we were through Malmesbury we had all merged back together and I was feeling like a proper racer. A mate from the MTB Goats asked me where the battery was on my new E-bike.
Then came the crosswinds. And also that horrible sound as someone went down behind me. Rainer I think is his name.
I don't know what it's like in A batch but in the mass of lycra stretched over Dadbods and grizzled hoary hair sticking out of the vents of 4 thousand buck helmets that is F batch, most of us know we want to be in an echelon but none of us realises that we'd all be better off if we rotated position in said echelon. What happens then is that one guy wears himself out completely and gets slower and slower while the guy at the back of the line feels strong and then overtakes on the outside of the second last man. He gets 20 meters into the wind and slows down considerably, but not before the people in the middle of the group have tried to catch his wheel which completely destroys any benefit that anyone might be enjoying.
We're like drunk geese with no hope of making it south for the winter.
Anyway, crosswinds ensured that a group roughly the same as the first break rode away, we tried to catch but we couldn't and after the 4 way stop the group splintered into ones and twos and we all limped home. 13th position in the group for this mamil, which would have been middle of the pack in C-E and probably top 40% of the field overall which I'm not too unhappy with.
Will I be fit enough in time for Attakwas. Is anyone ever?
The new bike really looks awesome, congrats again 
. I love your write ups - thank you!
I still get dropped, just have a slightly higher average speed most of the time . The A-B group was hectic as mentioned, nice to see the breaks and chase downs up-front in person. Not so nice to have to pick between going over the line or suffering in the wind. Its a race I guess so guys push hard and don't want to give anything away, if they kept left there would have been so much more space. At least when the bunch split at around 70kms our little group of 6 worked well in the wind, rode a better formation - much more sensible for a 'funride'.
I feel sorry for the bike marshalls - they did an awesome job as always and really tried to keep everyone safe 
. Cars passing on left, oncoming traffic - some serious thinking about why it has to be like that, guess I'm not cut our for the racing group ...
Checkout https://brakkies.photofrog.co.za some really awesome shots from the event.
so this is #7, but a week after #8 which was the final one.
am I being a bit silly to be confused by this?
as long as there's a race I don't really care what number it is
Sportive 7 was originally supposed to happen in October, but they rescheduled it to December due to lack of entries on the original date. The date for 8 was already set and I think this was the only weekend that made sense. Logistically the routes and venue's differ etc.
See you at the start line ????
[Event] Gryphon 99er Cycle Tour 2020
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