Emazing

Thanks 😊

I ate well and drank well. I still think not was high cadence. lets see this weekend normal road bike.

hahah, you could be right!

I did eat well but the tell tell sign of the high Candace now that I think back is how my legs were burning and “legs sweating” 😓 yip I was thinking to my self I did not know legs can sweat “

60 years old. I was working hard but managed my pace. I will try a proper road bike this weekend and see what’s the story. also the front wheel was binding and I suspect that was also a issue see clips IMG_6168.mov

Yes, I’m pretty fit and I’m able to do 82 100 km without much stress. It may be my gears.

Yip crossed my mind. I’m going to do two things and that is a proper Road Bike and other thing is to go out slow and hammer the last half

Absolutely, I think you’re right because I fly up the hills and it’s only really on the straights where my cadence is high and there should be no reason why I can’t keep up with the bunch.

I generally get dropped on the open flats and the down hills but on the uphill, there is no issues.

Yes my cadence is high. As soon as it is “long open road flat or downhill” I get dropped!! Uphill I am relatively fast with no real tiring issues.

Thank you for these calculation graphs, but I’m not able to understand the answer in correlation to what’s happening to me

I don’t have much data because I just have a basic Garmin and it doesn’t have cadence or power. My first hour and bit at around 40-48 km/h average my legs were burning 🔥 and then from around 52km my speed drops to 30km/h and from 70 km-115 around 23km/k.

I have a super gravel bike it has a Sram XX1 set up and the cassette is 11speed 10-42 and the chain ring is a 42 teeth. Today we did a fast race and for the first hour I averaging around 42 km an hour. At around 50 km my legs felt absolutely exhausted “ blown “and I had to pedal slowly the whole way home another 70km! I also had some cramp in my thigh. can someone tell me if the cadence is too high for this gearing or is it OK and basically I’m just an unfit old fart? 💨 I climb up hills well and generally on rides around 40 to 70 km my averages around 28 to 30 km an hour, dep on elervation. do you think my gear races are correct or do you think the cadence is too high and this is what’s causing me to blow? Any good input will be welcome thank you so much

Any one know where to hire Mtb EBIKES in JHB asap thank you

Evening Breeds -How’s the trail- is it rideable from the one side back over to the café and then back? Has anyone done this recently with all the rain I’d like to know if it is possible to ride this route?

I’m looking for mountain bike groups that ride trails anywhere from the Atlantic seaboard and around Cape Town. It would be great if you could share the contact details and groups name and area - in order to get onto the WhatsApp group to know when the rides will be so we could join thank you so much.

Today I heard some friends went to a day concert at the FNB Stadium and there two cars got broken into and some of their friends that drove to the stadium in small tour bus actually got mugged walking from the stadium to the parked cars- so this seems to be pandemic I will never go to FNB Stadium for anything That is related to my sports and leisure there are other SAFE venues and other races.

I completely disagree with you thank to FNB Stadium is going to Third World venue with vagrants crime difficult to park just an unpleasant situation not worth enduring ever again.

yes it seems that way - I talked to the victim of the mugging and he said the security were careless and did not even want to deal with thiS. Citizens were helping more the USLESS LUMPS OF WAST called security did nothing- I am not riding this race again if it's at FNB. FNB BANK SHOULD SHOULD NOT PUT THIER NAME TO THIS VENUE

NOW THATS A GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!!!!!!! SAFER AND SENSIBLE

MOVING THIS TO THE NORTH IS THE ONLY HOPE TO AVOID A CRIME SPREE OF NOTE !

Yes its no appealing venue at all - the venue is real a drag- run down full of vagrants and crime ridden , poor parking area miles from the start , difficult to get into the stadium f all police doing there job - way way to risky. why should anyone fell unsafe on a race day!!!!! My club will not do this ride again- to much at stake with getting there , parking and then the chance of mugging.

This was posted on a bike group - Heads up, chaps*- today at the 94,7, after receiving your medal and coke and walking 20m out where non-riders are waiting for you ( there are lots of people as you pass the turnstile pillars) a big chap grabbed the riders bike’s front wheel and lifted it said “nice wheel or something distracting “( rider was walking) at the same time his partner in crime from behind remove his Cell Phone from the back of his jersey, fortunately, he felt it. He gave him as best he could. An accommodating fellow gave him a few slaps, and the 6 (six) security guards , some who were fatter than fat, all walked around in circles with their walkie-talkies and did absolutely nothing and sent him on his way. The rider went back a hour later except for the fellow that was caught the other criminals were back! It is hard to believe. He call security six times, but no one ever called him back. He takes to Sipo and Mogla. Note this seems to be common practice as you finish a race and you tired and you’re not concentrating, so please make a note as soon as you finish to move your cell phone to the front of your bib. Several people also got pickpocketed of their wallets, and I believe 20 vehicles were broken into. The security at this event needs to be addressed; please be very careful in the future. The security company needs to be fired or expect a big crime spree at the next 94.7. The people witnesses said they have never seen such gross incompetence why they had paid these people to do security no one can understand what were they actually doing? I urge everybody to share this so they can be improvement and people don’t get their possessions and cell phones stolen and the security company takes it more seriously and hopefully it’s another security company altogether!!! Please if other people have had their cell phones stolen or other positions stolen to post on the Hub on this thread as important to understand how many people fell victim to these criminals due to the poor security service!

Thank you so much you’re a real champion. What a very nice thing to do very grateful -it gives us all hope when we have wonderful things like this happen.