Pure Savage

Look what dark place my bike took me... I

ha ha!! That oke is now out and about!! You never really get over the sound of carbon getting run over, the shock from hitting the windscreen and then the thump as your face hits the ground. Then start crying uncontrollably as you are grateful to be alive and will see your wife and kids again, but everything is sore and then they turn around and try run you over again and your mates drag your half limp body into the veld to hide.

Please send the support cars to the Cape!! I could do with some protection in Ocean View and into Hout Bay

Could not have put it better. Check on your friends and talk.

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Well in Cape Town, we have lodged a land claim on Chapmans Peak Drive. Its now called Pure Savage National Park on Google maps. We will be taking over the management of the toll gates from Etekelini and there will be no cars allowed in Pure Savage national Park on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday between 6am and 8am. People with custom number plates may a x3 surcharge. We will have a person at the look out point to take photos for you as well.

Smoking a pipe maybe?

Its not hypothetical, when I get stuck behind cars in grid lock traffic, I wait till its safe to pass and ride on past them listening to taylor swift enjoying life. Not that hard.

You are going to lose your mind when you find out what cars do!! I have only seen a cyclists throw out a full McD's family meal from his bike once..

It is interesting. Everyone is out there trying not to die, if riding 3 or 4 abreast forces the driver behind to engage their brains to pass the cyclists, then the cyclists would be safer. Obviously unless the group is massive there is no need to ride 6 or 7 abreast.

Couldn't agree less with previous poster that you really see how schiet motorist are when you are on the bike for a change. When I do drive my car, I pass the cyclists in the road like I would any other slow moving vehicle in the road. Every motorist should have to cycle a few laps and feel what its like being passed by a car and truck at 10cm gap. Why is it that when we get off our bikes and into our cars we become in a hurry and nobody else matters?

When looking at that Cannondale I would check: 1. Check that the bolts are not coroded on the seat clamp 2. Check for play in the headset 3. Take a test ride, the bottom bracket will creak, its a cannondale, dont panic. Check it shifts nicely. 4. Look over the bike for any signs of carbon damage, if its more than a chip, beware. (Check for cracks near clamps for over tightening.) 5. Check for serial number under the BB. 6. Check the wheels run true, those Mavics are bulletproof, but impossible to replace a spoke or nipple. But if they running true, no issue. 7. Check the rear casette is a 32-11.

I had the same, ran out of legs at bottom of du toits and this lekker oke in PNS kit rode with me all the way to the top of the pass. I was without water otherwise I would have offered him some as he was parched.

This makes our DC plan look like Team Sky Circa Froome hay day...

It was a late contender, but that article is the dumbest thing I have seen today.

Long, shot, but not the same Andrew Stam that used to ski?

How was that ride to the car

Oh, he was great!

Needs very long arms

???? He said push up mountain passes, one cannot push you up a mountain pass if the person is sitting second wheel.

NASA or Mr Merida?

I need to write to specialized marketing department as my aeroness helped F-all up Du Toits, they claim at least 65W is to be gained from being aero.

We did get our own race, we started in the Aluminum group! My right shifter came off my bars at 32km so had to ride from there in the drops, my back was not over joyed by this by the end of the day. I was very happy that the organizer got the KM boards to the finish spot on!

Yeah, thats impressive, I saw the one wife 4 times! I get messages like, its 2pm, you may as well play golf..

Dont worry, I also paid for it up Du Toits! I want to know though, the people that sit 3rd wheel in a paceline, then dive away when its your time at the front, your Sworks SL7 likes the front dont be shy.. Same person must have been a pro, as going down Hells to Boschendal had his wife pull into the chasing bunch to deliver a bottle and a GU. Which was very hard as he was sitting 3rd wheel keeping out of the wind... To those that rolled through, you okes were lekker, pink top MTB goats, then a black top with a red cog on it. Mr Merida with a camel back, love the enthusiam but the surging off the front was tiring. My favourite though was when there was a split before Stellenbosch turn we just sat on the front and were coming back rotating nicely. Mr NASA decides he is going to cannonball off the front and bridge over to the break and not help pull the paceline he has been sitting in for 10 minutes. Then got nowhere, sat at back and then did it again. Strangest moment, when I had a nature break at the bottom of du toits, I ran behind a tree and a lady from the medium route slowed and asked if I needed help... Was not really sure how to respond..