JohanDiv

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.

One of the few times my wife's forgiven me for dropping multiple P-bomme in front of her

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!

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

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

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

And she still doesn't want to divorce me! 🤫

You won't need a light for the 160km.. The start is at 07:15. At Waterpoint 3 (Malgas Pont @ 100km) you can get your Support Box at the water table.

That's going to be a proper test for our road bike tandem on gravel tyres! Just doing the 60miler though.. Don't think I'll be able to handle the full 100miler on that thing!

It's race week and still zero comments?? Am I the only one looking forward to this event?!

Haha when have you ever paid the listed price at your LBS?

Haha yes, also happy with the initial performance. Just for interest sake I want to put it on my Kickr 4 and do a power reading comparison. I like that you can adjust the power reading % on the app, so will be able to match it to the Kickr's power reading if it is under- or over reading.

Super disappointed with this new MTB power meter spider.. It reads at least 50 watts below what I THOUGHT my power should be! 😝

Listening to Johan Bruyneel's podcast it sounds like he heard a little birdie sing that Wout will be on domestique duty today to protect the Jumbo GC guys.. and apparently MvdP has earmarked today's stage 12 months ago already to go for victory - up until now he has just played lead-out man for his sprinters, and not very well. Pogacar can't just sit in the middle of the bunch today like he did in the previous stages, if he's not up in the top 20 wheels he'll be at risk of dropping time on GC, so I think we can expect some sparks from him/UAE today for the first time this tour.

Doh!! Why didn't I think of this before!? I hate the Wahoo SYSTM/Sufferfest workout videos and it gives you unrealistic kms and zero elevation, but the training programs are quite good... Do you think I'll be able to turn off the controlled portion on Zwift and control the trainer through Wahoo SYSTM? On your first question: Last time I checked the Workouts badge is greyed out during events, so not possible. I've managed to create an event before with a few mates. Everyone join the event early. While waiting for the clock to run down everyone goes to the workout screen and chooses the same workout. Then when the clock strikes zero and the event starts, everyone starts doing the exact same workout at the same time. Obviously works best with the rubberband effect on.. but this is obviously not what you are trying to achieve.

My partner did the entire Epic with just his phone and a HR monitor tracking with the Strava App on his phone. He has one of those toptube bags that holds your spares and snacks, and your phone on top. Connect your HR monitor to the Strava app on your phone that tracks your rides with GPS. While you ride it shows you everything you need. Speed, Average Speed, HR, Average HR, Elevation Gain etc. This would probably be your cheapest option. I wouldn't worry too much about a cadence sensor at this point..

Paarl Mountain Night Ride with the BicycleGarage crew with beers and pizza afterwards at Copper Club...

Malcolm is correct.. Plasir de Merle weren't part of the Epic. We were supposed to do the final descend down Plasir, but the organizers pissed off the land owners, so they gave us that k@k descend down Tietkop. And the only piece of Franschhoek trails that was part of Stage 5 was the little single track section next to the Bergriver Dam.

Frequency more or less the same as Jewy.. https://www.instagram.com/johandiv/

That's nice if you have an extra Garmin device lying around, but I'm definitely not buying an extra device just for Vitality points. Just a bit bummed about the hassle to get the correct points loaded into the app at the moment, but not that big of a deal. My wife was paying R1000/month for her Fit45 classes.. we decided to rather get an additional R2mil+R2mil Discovery life insurance policy to gain access to Vitality and cheap Virgin Active memberships. All in all works out at R1100/month for us both. So we are already getting the benefit that we were after.. but I know myself, I like a bit of a carrot, so I'll definitely try to get max Vitality points as much as possible.

I joined Vitality on Wednesday and it's been quite a steep learning curve to try and figure out how to get points..especially being a Wahoo user. I actually got some nice tips here on the hub on old threads to get around this issue. Already changed to endurance category to get max 1200 pts per week. Record activities on Wahoo Roam. This Syncs to Strava. From Strava I donwload the fit file, then use Fit File Tools to change the device to Garmin. Manually upload new file to Garmin Connect. Garmin Connect syncs to Vitality app. I see Christiaan from Wahoo said in 2019 that they are working with Vitality to get Wahoo as a recognized device, but the communication about this on the hub stopped around the time Covid hit in 2020.. Surely there must be an easier way by now?! I mean Vitality ran a Wahoo Kickr promo earlier this year.. I'm missing something, right??

Those F'ers took me over twenty tries before I got them! My wife on the other hand has more Meilensteins than gloves!!