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Argus segment update!! not sure what is the king climb, Chappies? peleton smashed it this year, Luke Moir the new KOM (that contract will come in now) https://www.strava.com/segments/631028?filter=overall or Suikerbossie '25 Peleton hoovered up there again, but couldn't sneak past the Cape epic guy. https://www.strava.com/segments/627076?filter=overall in related news, Candace Lill's mechanic was quite a beast in his prime and is still up there.

I see a human mud guard there. She's spotless! Cool vibes. Storing the damn thing is a bitch though

Design change. Rotary still very much involved in the operation as well as being a partner in the trust. I know that because my family volunteers had much longer days than me riding it. I'd have to look again but don't remember actually seeing the year on the medal.

weird one. How do you start an hour and a half before your batch, that's not an honest mistake?! Must have got tuned so much along the way. Software should red flag this, whether CTCT want to do something or not is up to them.

similar experience. got plenty of Argus medals but first time on a tandem with my10yr old stoking. Mine 11 in October, but sure there will be some younger even. (back in the day 7yr olds were doing it solo!). Was happy just to finish and see how it goes. halfway at 2hrs and sub 5 looked doable, but always keeping matches in the pack for chappies and suikerbossie. no issues there and we flew into finish at 4:09. great day out.

I sense some competition here, time to get the Buggy comp onto the podium ceremony! (logistically impossible because it's already a long day)

well that's not some average dude coming from 1D, he probably would have been in the $ batch if he wanted to. Looks like he pulled two more along the way, kudos to them for hanging on to the beeftrain. Some people take their Argus finish SERIOUSLY, and if you're going to have seeding from races then it's not that hard to police it. If someone jumps ahead of their batch, the software will pick it up, just annul their result. even disqualify them. Make a scene and you will be able to stamp it out. Comrades takes this pretty seriously, it does of course have qualifiers that get ratified by your club. It is VERY embarrassing for the club to have a cheater exposed. Last Feb 2024, they said there is ZERO tolerance and we're serious about it. Did a bit of a cleanup, and banned 58 people for transgressions. Going on memory, I think they even gave you a window to withdraw before they named and shamed your ass so there was probably more initially fingered.. https://www.sabcsport.com/news/comrades-marathon-association-refunds-cheating-runners-due-to-fraudulent-information Then after the race, they got some tip offs. Some people got notice, those that didn't follow it got publicly named and shamed, don't come back next year! https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/kwazulu-natal-athletics-names-and-shames-comrades-marathon-cheats/ar-BB1pdXSa Argus has had similar issues, the Liss story early 2000s involved the ladies race winner not doing the full course. They also got very excited by a Borat outfit. I don't think they've ever done anything about batch jumping, or falsifying seeding going into the race. Moving from strict qualifying events only seeding to the whole season index has improved the quality of the batches as it rewards more recent performnce. It used to be that finishing in the top80% of your batch was enough wheelsucking to keep your start group for 2 years. The Ebike thing seems to have calmed down a bit, and the 3:50 is clearly the stick they use. This sort of thing is never going to be able to be policed, but on the road every knows you're a (read the shirt). Dad on his ebike dragging the kids up the hill, they weren't even pedalling. This is suikerbossie and after the new battery did the business up chappies first.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG9_leAKaEA/?igsh=ZTR4ZWMwcXg1bGll

Best suggestions for getting the bike park sticker and residue off back of phone? I have meths ready, but figure there might be a gentle option that is effective

It would be cool if there was a hand signal you could give to cyclists that indicated you were also cyclist, but currently driving your car.

Thanks for your perspective, amazing to see how a culture can change over a generation. *the bike touring trip(s) were amazing. I just didn't feel like it was a thing we could do here at the time, unless you were a cape to cairo type. It was an incredible way to visit BC/Alaska/Yukon territory. I wanted keep going. Happy to say we now have this happening locally and the options are endless.

Interested to hear your source!

I spent the summer of 2004 cycling this $25 Diamond back around Vancouver. Then I took it loaded to Alaska on this trip. I rode everywhere and experienced the start of bike culture being seriously embraced as a transport solution, separate lanes/traffic lights even vehicle restricted residential road routes (grid structure makes this easy). Putting your bike on the bike rack on the front of the public bus is an awesome way to unlock huge parts of the city. They do like their laws, but in my memory cycling was not policed like you describe above. Maybe this is a time warp for what 20 years of behavioral adaption does. I don't see vehicle drivers and cyclists locally working together in the future, we are at war. We don't need more rules, cynical me doesn't see traffic laws of any type ever being seriously policed in sunny south africa.

also didn;t see it, but law abiding cyclists need to do our best to stop this sort of thing. Guys are gonna be d#$%s, we don;t have to defend them if they are cycling, driving or on the internet. We need to call them out, and do it when we see it on the road. Any cyclist who reacts aggressively to a vehicle when there is no contact is a problem

great initiative https://www.instagram.com/p/DG260kWMRAO/

this! they must go jump in a lake

72hours out from raceday..conditions look partly cloudy and mild.

probably a slightly apples and lemons comparison, but ASA does seem to run the athletics calendar quite well. the road running races are well spread out and don't seem to clash within a reason, not even over a weekend. The trail running events then seem to fit in amongst themselves despite not being regulated.

This bicycle, called the "RELATIVITY Special", if pedaled at 90 rpm, is designed to travel faster than the speed of light. This is proven by a description of the gear ratios on the sheets seen on the wall behind it. One revolution of the pedals sends the bike 6 times around the earth. (It is part of the art exhibition "Circle of Time" that Pat Chirapravati curated now on display at California State University, Sacramento).

I don't think DSTV even knows if DSTV is covering it.

since this is where the chit chat is happening, i just removed the year from the topic title. I haven't followed it too much, but Beers looks like he's found another diesel to klap it for the Win again.

ma ha ha ha ha. you okes and your optimistic longterm forecast with 5% certainty factors. wait till 4 days out, if it is SE from sat to monday, then you know it will be SE on the day. just the time it picks up and severity will move. if not. wait till 48 hours out. no matter what, you still have to ride!

https://bikehub.co.za/classifieds/item/road-bikes/797011/specialized-s-works over specced unicycle

don't ask!! Chappies strava segment. the fastest time set here not on Argus day sits in 170th position. BO'C on a DDT training camp ride. https://www.strava.com/segments/942035?filter=overall

these again