Shebeen

So you want to do ~Cape Epic, ~Around the Pot and ~Jonkers fun sessions on the same bike? What's the budget? What do you have in the garage currently, because this seems like an N+1

@Dexter-morgan in my (totally unsolicited) opinion, don't put training wheels on a bike for kids to learn properly. You don't learnt to walk with crutches, you just go for it and fall down a bit along the way.

didn't realise the bikes were available overseas, interesting mix of dealer locations! https://titanracingbikes.com/dealers

https://efprocycling.com/our-team/stefan-de-bod/ this gives a 404 error now. bummer. classy goodbye post https://www.instagram.com/p/DEPhws_sjus/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

the original Ceder used to be a ~240km race in october start finish at Cederberg oasis. Wasn't there a "renegade" tour/race in may using the same route but none of the race support/frills/costs? so the obvious thing is to do this in october now on the original route?

https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/stefan-de-bod/start geez, he's off to a malaysian team. that's a big step down. he is ranked out of the top 1000 uci riders, no great results with EF (but doesn;t mean he wasn't a team player)

I know, I've done over half of them. The disappointing thing is that the Argeeees was started to get better bike infrastructure in the city. Despite growing into the monster event it is(was?) unfortunately I don't think it has achieved much on that front.

As the random person behind his keyboard you will n o doubt be disappointed to hear that I am incredibly overjoyed to see how well this went. I'm sorry you thought I have the wrong type of attitude and was being negative on the subject and my opinion was not welcome here. If nothing else it kept the topic active and top of mind. I dropped in the little easter egg of critical mass rides 15+ years ago, you missed it.

No, you have that very very wrong not trying to be negative at all. An effective awareness ride needs effective awareness before it starts. Sounds like there is going to be representation from press and local gov so that is a great outcome for all.

ok, maybe I am from the dark ages but that name did not ring a bell. My apologies, I don't want to sound negative here - the more awareness the better. I tried searching the hashtag, and only this thread came up, Now that you have given me the name I searched and found this post https://www.instagram.com/p/DEkis6rK3Lb/ 15 likes, we had more people at the weekly critical mass rides at 7am on a friday 20 years ago. I'm very happy to be wrong, but it seems this circle needs to be made bigger if you're expecting meaningful numbers. (and before you ask, no I'm not personally going, already had a weekend planned in the overberg with the family)

have you tried info@cycletour.co.za?

Sorry to sound so obtuse in flogging this very dead horse. If someone is adding their name to an event to add awareness to it, wouldn't it be more effective if their actual name was known?

is this an actual 3D Xray scan of your body? is this what they do now, or just an example of what happened

um, ok, to narrow it down further. Phil Ligget has a house in Gordon's bay Gerald de kock has been around the block. Jonny Koen can talk the skin off a pampoen Max Cluer is probably at some doef doef red bull snow party event Neil Gardiner has been on the epic media team before Kevin Vermaak even went to Costa Rica

Brilliant response, if any of my own speculation seems unfair it was mainly due to there being no public knowledge. Wish you all the best in getting bums on bikes and smiles on the trails.