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The live broadcasting looks like a kumbaja besigheid...
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I assume Martin took a rest somewhere during the night.. Franso caught him and they are now riding together at the front.
Hanno(Johannes Smit) says weather on day was cooler this year.
Apparently they have a nice tailwind at the moment.
Other Wellington/Paarl local boitjies we are closely watching is Franso Steyn, Johan Fourie and Henk Gouws.
Currently Franso is lying in second. He and the leader both still ahead of the Ramses record dot 🤯
39 minutes ago, mrcg said:Otherwise, it was you who started to cramp and launched a late "attack" on the 2nd last downhill?
Lol, yes that one!
24 minutes ago, mrcg said:As with everything, being underprepared is an enormously vague assertion meaning a whole lotta different things to different people.
As in my case, having done much less riding this year than ever over the last 10 years, but my overall physique of having been sporty all my life, fairly competitive (despite advanced age lol), I am able to better manage my prep and race/ride output. Hence managed to equal my "well prepared" time of 5 years ago. Very happy with that, especially since I also managed better to take in views and "enjoy"
This is very true.. three years ago I thought I was well prepared, fit, and in shape when I did the K2C.. This year felt underprepared at 95kg, Covid in May, and did not train consistently since then through the winter, still ended up 30mins quicker when I thought I'd have trouble just to match my 2019 time.
I see I finished only 2minutes behind you (7 minutes race time since you started a batch behind me).. We probably rode together at certain points yesterday haha, you couldn't miss me - the fat guy in the black and pink kit flying on the downhills..
I have an idea - how about you prepare next year, and I go on a diet, then we get that Sub 4 train going!! We were so close yet so far this year..
19 minutes ago, MORNE said:And then when all the juice is gone, you are confronted with that last climb up to simola haha.
Simola is mos downhill according to their website route profile haha
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This is by far my favorite downhill race - I'm 10kg heavier than in 2019, so technically gravity is on my side this year and I should be able to better my 2019 time!
Definitely looks better than last week, but still too early to be accurate.
Ride forecast for September 25, 2022 at 07:30:
Temperature: 10.8°C to 17.6°C, feels like 10.8°C to 17.6°C
Wind: 4 to 12.8 km/h, with gusts up to 19.6 km/h
Probability of precipitation: 0%
Can't ask for better conditions than that!🤞
Just realized the Monday after the race isn't a public holiday this year.. Ai man, makes this a bit of a schlep. We usually make a long weekend out of it at the beach, now it will just be a rush.
I'll have a look at the long term weather forecast and then decide if it's even worth it to go.. not in the mood for another rain soaked race. Luck has not been on our side so far with this year's races.
I've been running a GX AXS derailleur with my XX1 casette, XX1 chain and XX1 crank for about a year. Probably around 8000km. Went through the Cape Epic with zero issues. Only starting to pick up problems with the indexing now that I mounted a new bigger chainring without replacing the chain and cassette with it, I should know better.. before that - no issues.
4 hours ago, Shebeen said:some choice french when that little muddy river crossing came was totally appropriate.
One of the few times my wife's forgiven me for dropping multiple P-bomme in front of her
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2 hours ago, MORNE said:
ps2: where is the @JohanDiv and his tandem??? Surely not? How? Will he be divorced? 😅
I don't know what you guys are complaining about? We loved it on the tandem! Flip that thing flew like a rocketship on the descends!! In hindsight we should've attempted the 160km instead of the 100km. We were done in 4h56min, which meant we had too much time on our hands afterwards and afterpartied from 13h00 till 01:00😵💫.
But yeah, the bike took some shots - lost the front derailleur 30km into the race, which meant we were stuck in the middle chainring.. climbing sucked from then on, my knees exploded, and we then also couldn't take full advantage on the downhills. Brakes failed somewhere after the pont, so the last 8km were sketchy as hell! I had to brake the front wheel with my foot coming into town.
Slip and slide the last 8km, pulled off a few great drifting moves on the tandem there! We only had to walk the one little hill after the culvert crossing because we kept spinning when we tried getting on the bike.
Awesome day out!
50 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:Right so it’s not muddy like sticky sloppy slippery clay gravel
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14 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:Right so it’s not muddy like sticky sloppy slippery clay gravel
Not from what I can remember of 2019.. Maybe someone else that rode remembers differently? I'm trying to locate old pics from that year to rejog my memory now haha. Will post if I find any.
Edit: I rode with 2.25 Aspens that year and I can't remember that I ever gave my tyre choice a second thought while riding
18 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:How muddy will these muddy roads be?
maxxis aspen or ardent sort of question
Aspens are more than okay! We're running 40c ramblers..
Looks more and more like we are dodging most of the rain.. Prediction shows rain through the night, so will probably still leave us with muddy roads...much like 2019.
Wind direction looks pretty favorable!
Temperature: 10.6°C to 17.3°C, feels like 10.6°C to 17.3°C
Wind: 6.1 to 15 km/h, with gusts up to 21.3 km/h
30% probability of 0.55 precipitation
9 hours ago, Mamil said:Ha ha ha... I wonder if that will still be the case on Saturday evening!!!!
Kudos to you both. If a woman is willing to be your stoker on a 100mioe gravel ride in the winter rain with 5km of singletrack at the end on that bike she's definitely a keeper.
Haha luckily only doing the 60miler.. and she's done the previous one in the rain on her own, so she knows what she's in for 😁.
The rain prediction is looking better.. 4mm of which 3.3mm is predicted to fall before 8am. Still gonna be muddy though
23 minutes ago, Mamil said:Hmmm... Some people ride bikes and others have real b@lls.
And she still doesn't want to divorce me! 🤫
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I see Hannes Basson also just pushed through Ceres, so he is still in with a slight chance of making cut-off.