wayne's world

Most popular bike is the 29er full susser x- country style of bike, but there are 30-year old 26’ers, Cyclo-x, enduro machines, single speeds, tandems- you name it. Some hard-core guys do the event and then the following weekend run the Leadville 100 miler!! I custom built a ‘everything’ carbon, 19.4 pound 650b hardtail x- country bike, that in my opinion was perfect for the event. 29er hardtail, carbon is the best race weapon I feel.

Forget the nine hour unless you are seeded in the front, say 200 riders, are really fit, and have a good day-this is one tough ride-it all has to come together on the day!

Wayne here-ex RIDE photographer, now living in USA. I raced the 2015 edition of the Leadville 100-9hrs 29 minutes. Raced the inaugural Cape epic from Knysna to CT, 2004. Leadville 100 is a 1-day out and back event. Massive climbs, beyond anything i've ridden in SA, or Lesotho for that matter. The big shite is the altitude-starts at 10 650 feet, climbs up and down to the 50 mile point at 12 500 feet and returns up and down to 10 650 in Leadville. Not technical at all (cyclocross bikes manage) Also, if as I did-you get an entry into the race by lottery and you want to race, not just complete the event, then you will have to-as I did, go and race another 100 km Mtb event and do a really good time to improve your start position, or potentially have a 1000 palookas in front of you-all yapping in American and screwing up your line into the first massive climb only 10 km's from the start!! Really a cool event, but nowhere near as scenic as the Western Cape-y'all will be disappointed. Watched Ben Meldt Swanepoel come in 11th-the top dogs there are super tough athletes.

yip-here we go

thanks man! wayne

A few pics from the hillclimb/time trial earlier. Great crowd participation on the hairpin and awesome display of riding talent and power.

GC as follows: Pfannberger 14h26'03 hanku kachelhoffer @1'04" jacques van r @1'08" vroome, chris same time cardenas, felix @2'35" george, david @2'40" could be an interesting hill time trial given how awesome both hanku and jacques are performing-stick it to them boys!

Barloworld and MTN beating the snot out of each other and letting someone else take the stage win.

some general pics..... i need sleep....

sean-at times it felt as if someone had opened the oven and fanned that heat direct at us. these are tough customers our pros-i reckon some of these guys dug deeper today than ever before!

this was the ride of the day-mannie came from the chasing bunch and paced dan for the best part of 2/3rds of the final climb and launched him into the midst of the main manne giving dan the opportunity to finish in 6th place whilst mannie himself still manages to finish10th in same time-mannie i bow down to your guts and determination today-wayne

hey sean-d'ya think it's all done and dusted or can any of our teams get a rider up the road to do some damage?, and who could that be?

seems like the belgian lad thinks so too-check out the next in the sequence!

sean, me thinks you're right on all scores here-seems there's a chink in the barloworld armour-especially after robbie visited david in the MTN camp, and it wasn't for high tea!

no sweat, thanks for viewing-it's gonna be a cracking stage on friday-keep your eyes on this site

Hot,Hot,Hot! The start of the break that made it to the finish with over 6 mins gap another nasty....... Nic sets it up for david george,but the reds are all over him oh, and did i say it was hot! waylon put in a huge effort up the final climb, but it wasn't enough-good effort though! and still in the pink.......

no posts on my site this year(very time consuming), but i will try to get as many good shots as possible on the hub for all (including myself)to enjoy

good point-here's a pic-perhaps we'll get an answer!?

thanks for the compliment sean-yip david too is a dangerous customer and marked every inch of the way! me thinks he's gonna need some help to beat the barlow boys-malcolm looked good till the big attack on the final climb-nick worked like a demon early on in the break and then ...gone-not sure what happened there.just look at robbie's expression-110%

Daryl Impey looking like the European pro:

dammit-you're right-you should be doing my job-good eye! wayne

Barloworld domination Hanco is a machine Jacques v rensb -brilliant ride david looking focussed awesome display of power riding against a fierce headwind 1st-pfannberger-b/world 2nd-robert hunter 3rd-hanco-house of paint 4th-Daryl 5th-jacque v rensb-neotel 6th-felix c-b/world 7th chris froome 8th-hugo sabido-barloworld 97h-david george photos:check out the gears up Bains Kloof-rider:Pfannberger barloworld dominates big crash-early on-around 20 riders involved jacque-you're the man the move up Bains kloof that won the race wayne's world2008-03-04 09:43:05