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I actually feel sorry for the competition 😜

It's crazy, so many people who travel all the time live there, 3hr drive before and after flights sounds like a massive drawback ! I guess not paying taxes on a massive income makes up for it.

Frowned upon ? I've been doing it since I started cycling, never had one car hooting at me there

Let me know when you plan a 3x Tokai Mast then Well done man, looked like a proper sufferfest !

About time. We’ve been calling for officers to ride bikes there with a backup team for months ! the fact that it happened this morning means the arrests that happened a month ago didn’t solve the issue then…

thanks, as long as he's alright

what happened to beers ? he was right behind colombo at the top of the climb and disappeared?

There was good cooperation between us (2 Asap, both in VB) and Rdx (2 VA) as well as one other team that I think was a mix of VA and VB, they actually won the VA by the way, not sure where they were from, I think garden route. But none of the teams were going to sacrifice themselves so that a guy from the other team wins, just to bring back the title in CT 😅. I was disappointed in the end that we didn’t get any title for sure, but provincial tactics, meh I don’t believe that’s a thing 😅

What do you mean by provincial tactics ? Joburg guys letting Joburg guys win against CT guys ? Tbh I doubt that's what happened, but maybe. I just think everyone thought there's one team with 6 strong guys, nothing can be done against them. Let's just be passengers and maybe get lucky. What is for sure is that the team that won played it perfectly sending a guy up the road in the first minutes of the race, then another joining him quickly, and then sitting in the bunch with their 4 other guys, ready to jump the minute we close the first gap. They had numbers so they could afford to take those risks. Everyonelse racing for themselves had no interest in burning matches so early. That's road racing. Hopefully next year a course more like last year, where team numbers and tactics play less of a role, and pedaling hard decides the race.

I started road with oval chainrings, because that's what was on the bike when I bought it, had tons of chaindrops and issues with shifting between big and small blades. I also ran ovals on my MTB for years, because I don't know, guess I was told it was better. Eventually went to round chainring because it was more convenient, felt ******* difference, except for less chaindrops while backpedaling (not that I had many either on ovals to be honest). I'm personnally rather convinced it's a gimmick, haven't had ovals on any of my bikes for years and always am surprised when I seen someone still using them. I think some youtubers proved more or less convincingly that they could go over technical climbs better with round that oval chainrings 😜. Can't say I've had the same experience.

That was actually pretty pro hey, except I didn't like it when they showed the bunch 3VB-1VA, because then everyone was looking at us even more to bring it back 🤣

Sounds like the SV race, except we never gave them more than 2 mins

100% BMW's fault for sure 🤣

wearing a R5k shirt on a boat last week on his IG. seems he's doing better than just that (and good for him !)

He was there at WPL Philadelphia, but also not really there, as in he didn't really play an active role.