MudLark

Looks like a good flat fast one after 947. Maybe worth entering. Anyone got any idea what the deal is with timing chips? See it is timed by SS and they have some partnership with Finish Time. So will our new SAS timing boards as used on 947 be of application?

Concerning the number of participants et cetera, there is actually a data page for that on the official website (linking I imagine to Finish Time). Go to the results page and select the details tab. You'll see 12606 people enetered and 9517 finished. The average time was 4:02:58. There are details by category too. I guess the number of participants is way down from the past when I think there were sometimes 20k+ participants?

I should flippin' hope so. I would hate to try and keep up with you on a decent road bike!!

Doesn't matter which way you unpack it. The person in charge of the lead car screwed it up. Not even the Garmin GPS on my bike with GPX file uploaded onto it got it wrong. You'd expect the lead car to know *exactly* what the correct route is, especially so on a confusing part such as this.

Suspect the same. Ride this route on a stinking hot 32 degree windless day....

No. My fifth. We planned so as to be able to be in the parking an hour ahead of time but got badly messed around (and a great many other cars found themselves having the same issue) by the Marshalls etc and sworn are for no good reason. I have explained above. I have nothing further to add.

We were trying to get from inside the ring to NASREC. Metro police gave us directions. We followed the directions and passed through a number of Metro police control points (we were a number of vehicles following each other) following the directions of the Metro police. Then, as we were nearly at NASREC (about half a kilometer), some cowboy in a 'Search & Rescue' marked bakkie came racing straight at us with all his headlights flashing, green lights flashing etc. Okay, so we turn around and head back to the Metro police point about 100m behind us that we had just been waved through. Cowboy goes racing past us to the point. As we go past he winds down his window and shouts '**** you' at us. Now we haven't done anything. I haven't flashed lights at him, made any signs or hooted. All we did was comply and turn around. This just leaves a bad taste in the mouth. So we ask the Metro police for other alternative routes. We get instructions. We follow the instructions. Only to find after another 7km or so that a different group of Metro police have now blocked that route too. By this time I am ready to go back home. My partner decides it's time to ignore the police. We eventually figure out our own alternative route and arrive an hour and a bit late. Etc. It was all very disorganized from our perspective. But that aside, I must say that it was well organised.

Was a great ride. Well organised. Except for the traffic entry from the north side

Whoever organised this should be shot. The traffic is a complete and utter disaster.

The rise in ransom kidnappings is extremely concerning, to say the least.

Weather seems okay. Thunderstorm at 5am, one at 1pm and cloudy and cool inbetween. Looks like 13 degrees on the start line and 15 on the finish line. Going to be good as long people can handle wettish roads and wettish braking systems.

Been too many incidents at the Cradle to call it safe anymore. But then that's true of the country as a whole…

But in fairness though, if the runners and everybody else can use the singletrack, why can't the guys on the off-road motorbikes also do so? The point is that if everybody is entitled to do anything and everything, it becomes a complete mess.

I found the 50 km enjoyably challenging but not too hard – and I am a pretty mediocre cyclist at the best of times. All I can say is that if you found the 25 km too hard, maybe mountain biking – or at least participating in mountain biking events – is really not for you.

I suppose the answer is that you don't (or should not) enter an event like 947 unless you expect to be challenged, at least a bit.

I am so not going around Kyalami this year. I swear I am going to cheat… ????

Bit concerned about it all. 50km/h gusts. With possible rain. Some people wearing spectacles. Some on bikes with disc brakes and some with rim brakes. Lots of novices and lots of people in packs. Lots of crashes.... (?) Maybe better to just stay home.

Thank you Droo. I need some of that fancy grease as well. Or advice as to an appropriate substitute.

Hi guys, Is there anyone who stocks 9Point8 service kits in SA? My Fall Line needs a service and I think some new bits etc. I bought it from TrailTech but it looks like they don't stock them anymore. Otherwise I guess I'll have to order from the great blue yonder.

A bit too much of it but it was liveable. The single track was mostly pretty good.

The sewage was a bit much in places. I liked the single track very much. Found sufficient opprtunity to get past slower riders. .

You got lucky. When I went in everyone was being QR scanned. And again at the finish line. And we got told to put on our masks in the chute.

Was actually an okay ride today. ????

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I'm confused. Is there or there not any race pack collection for the MTB event? Looks like there isn't? Only requirement is to have an SAS board? So where does one get the batch sticker thing? At the entrance? Comms are not very clear. And one more thing. So they'll have this Biogen stuff at the waterpoints (I can't tol;erate it). Will there be plain water too?