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I need a wear and tear replacement for my legs. Anyone?

The most dangerous thing about Table Mountain is that it is in close proximity to the City and has easy access for hikers (and crims of course). The ease of access belies the danger it poses to inexperienced hikers. More people have died or been seriously injured falling or coming to some other grief than have ever been harmed in muggings. Security on TM has been stepped up considerably of late so the risk of a mugging has been reduced. That said, I agree with others who have advised to get a guide. Try Awol Tours. They do hiking and MTB guiding.

Many of the MTB stage races are gravel events in reality, aren't they?

What seems to happen is dirt gets in around the rear of the piston and causes problems. All I did was dismantle and thoroughly clean the piston and lever mechanism and reassemble with silicone grease on the piston and silicone spray on the lever mechanism. This totally revived some leaky 785 levers I am still using.

AH just needs to get a few TUE's and he'll be there like a mare.

Going to be very interesting to see how AH does. What kind of team has he joined - top tier or not? I wonder how many XCO races he will be at...

Ya, no orange trails that i have ever seen. Reds are blues. Red Phoenix is a blue graded trail Cobra at Hoogies is a blue. The upper section of DH0 is a double black for the upper section. The AM trail at Tokai is also black and even more so than it ever was. Trails change - Phoenix can get gnarly and even when well maintained is a high consequence trail due to the speed and exposure.

Jonketshoek uses what you refer to as the forestry system. A red is a blue in IMBA speak. Maps may differ and for instance on Trailforks a double black is shown as a red trail on the map but described as a double black. This is to differentiate it from a single black diamond on the map. It can cause confusion.

Okay its not that bad but reminds us how things have changed...

Should the title not be changed to" Who in their right mind rides anything less than a full power EBike on the mountain"?

Sounds like you Gravelers need MTB's with all that moaning about "corrugations". HTFU man. I think the organizers should ban flat bars and any form of suspension. Gravel purity FTW.

Plus the US gravel scene will find it and come in droves. It will be like the Epic only 'Merican.