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Let's Go! Have an awesome day everyone!

It is very warm here in Montagu. I am going for a very slow 20km ride now and then at 9am head towards CT for expo collection. 1 more day (:

We arrived safely in Montagu at the Guano Caves yesterday morning and am enjoying the campsite at the foot of the mountain. I am consuming much beer. Tomorrow we will pack up in the am and head towards CPT to the expo for number collection and then to Somerset West. Am looking forward to Sunday morning!

Making a bed in the back of my van for them so they can sleep and move around. Also why we decided to drive mostly through the night.

We will hit the N1 southwards later this afternoon.

Wow - Is there a special millionaire start group?

Wanted to go and do a very slow 40km ride this morning but I am rather going to stay inside with warm coffee ....

Drive back to Somerset West to go and have a lekke braai and some beer with family. Next day drive to Darling to have some more braai and beer with more Family. Next day drive to Langebaan to have more braai and beer with more family

And get 1c for every R100 spent at you beloved PnP

Ok I see no one want's to ride with me from way back in 3K. It is fine - I will just see myself as the backstop who will make sure everyone is ok and that no one get's left behind I will carry extra tubes and spares ....

Please wait for me coming from behind with much force from 3K

Enjoy that GP500 Spy007 !!

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I am taking my entire family with me, 2 boys and wife, because she doesn't like to let me out of her site. This pushes up my costs a bit.

Did you hear back from your supplier / manufacturer? What do they have to say?

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Watch your backs!!!

I had 4 x bad quality Dot's The first 2 that I bought was shipped to me on the 4th Nov 2019. I received 2 x replacements on the 22nd Nov Replaced them with Pathfinders on the 24th Jan All 4 of them was similar and a very poor quality tyre. I sent an email on the 27th Jan to inform Farr about the failures on the replacements and my decision to use other tyres. I received a response here yesterday after posting my experience on this thread.

Yes lucky you, but for me it was strange to encounter such issues after they were recommended on this forum -and I thought there was something really wrong with the way I applied them since no one else reported issues - on the contrary people raved about them. So when matthieup reported very similar quality issues my sanity was restored. I went out this morning for a 40km ride on my normal routes with lots of small glass pieces and every now and then I would hear that dreaded pssst pssst pssst pssst sound of sealant spraying out, but when I look down I saw no signs of any sealant on my frame - just to learn that it was the sound of early morning garden sprayers or the sound of cicades singing and not the sound of Dot's failing

Forgot to mention. I did contact the guys at Farr after the failures on the replacements they sent me and told them what happened and that I decided to try the Pathfinder's and see how they perform compared to the Dot's - but they never replied to my mail - not sure if you guys never read my mail or just didn't bother to reply?

Yes they are great if you are looking for a gravel tyre but want to do a-lot of road riding with it. Not as wide as the Dot's with much less volume and you will at first feel a bit less grip on the rear than what you are used to with the Dot's, but they will not fail you and they are faaast and tuff and have a very nice ride feel!! So go get them! The Dot's are 'n great idea and would be excellent if the quality and durability were better. But to struggle with small cuts after and during nearly every ride along with the bubbles / bulges became an absolute pain. Here where I live and love to cycle 100km + loops in Centurion & Voortrekker Hoogte area are a-lot of small pieces of glass in the roads and on the sides. The Pathfinder Pro's simply crushes the glass, but the Dot's would swallow them and the glass will sit in the tyre and slowly cut through. At least once per week I had to remove a Dot and patch it from the inside - even the smallest of punctures would become big problems - even after trying tubeless repair plugs it would not seal and seemed as if the holes just got ripped wider. Too soft a rubber? Perhaps. They are not worth R550 - even my much cheaper R250 Chaoyang semi-slick tyres are more robust and gave much less problems than these Dot's I then started talking to some shops and riders about this and the guys at the Specialized store in Centurion said yes, there are lots of glass on the roads, but they have never seen or experienced failure feedback from clients like what I had with the Dot's and advised me to try the Pathfinder's. So happy I did and I guess my money wasted with Farr on their tyres became school fees and taught me to rather stick with reliable brand names.

Start Group: 3K Start Time: 07:35 Race Number: 39492

Oh dear!! Seems I was not the only one then?? I went through 4 x Farr Dots within 2 & 1/2 months and ended up tossing them because they were the most unreliable and lowest quality tyres I ever used ! Yes they ride great and feel solid, but I ended up not feeling safe out on the road with them. Around 1200 km's on 4 x tyres and a total waste of my money. Farr did send me 2 replacements after the first failures, but those replacements also failed Bubbles in the tires, endless punctures that wouldn't seal with sealant and more bubbles. I also had the imperfections. At the end the only way to get rid of the bubbles were to puncture them and they would escape gas and go away and then new bubbles formed somewhere else. I thought that if I puncture the bubbles and they leaked sealant then it must have been failure or from the inside, but no sealant and only gas escaped and gone was the bubble - yes one has to make a plan when you want to ride and have no other tyres, so I punctured the bubbles I ended up buying a set of Specialized Pathfinder Pro's and they are excellent and so durable + from the start the quality that one would expect from a proper bicycle tyre. For only R110 more than the Dot's per tyre. Have done about 750 km's with the Pathfinder's and they are great - not one puncture and they are still as good as new. I run my tyre pressures on the higher side at about 65 - 70 psi because 90% of my riding is on the road. Farr told me that my pressures are very high although they were within the specification printed on the tyres. So I felt that maybe the fault was with me and the way I utilised them, but after seeing your post I now realise that these Dot's are just plain crappy and inferior and that I made a mistake to spend money with Farr. The question now is, was this just a bad batch and were we unlucky to have wasted out money on the bad ones, or is this the general quality of the Farr Dot tyres? And ..... what about the other Farr products, because I really like the look of their Carbon forks, but now not sure if they and the other products might also fail me?

Just received an email! YAY!

Would love to, but I have to first drive through to CPT from Montagu on Sat. morning to go and pick up my race pack. Am camping at the Montagu Guano caves Thursday and Friday night with a group. By the way, was thinking if it will be a good idea to load myself with an acceptable amount of beer on the Friday evening in prep for Sunday???