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I used Chromecast from a laptop to Xaiomi MiBox worked pretty well. Buffering was minimal.

Alan H in 8th after being as low as 15th earlier on...Nino 35th...

That's the same as last year. There is a streaming service for R115 per month for SA and many other countries so you can watch the elites and DH. It works fine but only on a computer. No smart TV app.

This has just been announced by the UCI as a streaming option in SA and New Zealand. I haven't looked at the pricing yet... Checked - its R115 pm at current exchange rate. Ive signed up monthly. Not sure how it will work on my media player. https://app.staylive.io/cycling/ucimtbworldseries

An admirably mature attitude on display. Well done!

I second the - more modern geo and sizing vs older with fancy components - like what Bob said. The very modern slacker than 64deg enduro bikes have little place in SA terrain. Longer is also not always better from a trail riding point of view and bigger bikes don't corner was well or easily as slightly shorter bikes. That said, you'd get used to anything and adapt to whatever you get within reason.

Eish, I'm looking for 5600 hoods right now. Ordered some knockoff on Temu, but who knows when and if they'll arrive...

I drive through there regularly and wander around the area near the SAPS sometimes for work. No issues. I have commuted down min road Wynberg a couple of times to fetch my car and the biggest issues were the taxis. Outside rush hour I.e early on a Sunday morning is when the lowlifes come out I suspect...

That's what I always said until a rock smacked my valve and I could not undo it without pliers. Thats once in maybe 25 years though. I still ride without caps 🙂

Nah, I do gravel on my Steel HT. I did the PA to the Top and back on Saturday though.

As more and more of SA's roads turn to gravel, so the demand for the bikes increases. Gravel is the new road?

Thanks. Spent the Easter weekend there and loved it. The dry river beds have some potential for technical riding I think...

I see a bike industry in trouble....

Are there any decent MTB tracks in Prince Albert - nothing on Trailforks and little info elsewhere. Karoo terrain has the potential to be such fun proper mountain biking territory.

i saw some people riding gravel bikes up Swartberg this weekend. I think they and many others decided to sell them after the descent. 🙂

HTA from a 2011 Enduro bike. Took them 13 years. * which is not to say I don't like the new bike. I think the geo and features like a dropper seatpost are great.

That applies to all riders, or are you saying the people who overtook you on the climb to dive into the single track ahead of you and then walk, did it on purpose?

Oh really. but we're talking specifically about flowing tech single track with a few rocks and bumps, not the very wide gravel roads where anyone can overtake, even the single track walkers.

I am somewhat skilled but not very fit.

Danny rides a carbon trials bike with a very long stem most of the time... Maybe if the Epic 8 had come out a bit earlier, you know around xmas time, more people would have been riding the slackerest marathon MTB out there and flowed down the tracks like Beers?

True, but his comment needs expansion. Imagine paying over R120k to do the event only to discover numbers of plonker riders riding so slowly or even pushing their bikes and of course failing to get out of the way (cos they know no etiquette and their big ego's wont allow it) and therefore ruining your very expensive single track experience. Now of course everyone knows that this is what happens on the Epic and lots of other marathon type events so I have to wonder why guys like Kolesky even bother moaning. This and the fact that so many other people come back time and again even though they know the best tracks will be littered with riders makes me think many people aren't necessarily doing this for fun, but rather for a bit of masochistic bragging rights. I'll wait for your response 🙂

Why say I'm bitter, its not like I've tried and failed. Actually i tried to enter once and failed at the first hurdle. How do you know someone's done the Epic? They tell you. 🙂 Met a guy recently who has done 7 Comrades and is aiming for 10, notwithstanding a recent back op. No ego on display at all. Makes me think its just the limited X section of my sample of epic riders. Type A personalities in the main.

He left so you're wasting your breath tough guy...

Agreed. And yet there are a whole bunch of riders who view the Epic as the pinnacle of achievement and have enlarged egos as a result of riding it.Or perhaps its just attracts the kind of personality who make lots of bucks and think that way.

Sorry to hear. Please clarify exactly where this happened.