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WHAAAT, sure there's no newspaper business but kids doing sidehustles is widespread these days. there are exceptions, but what you say is the tough reality. Sponsors moved to backing events rather than individuals and that still seems to be the status quo. I dunno. I think you'll see cycling development programs continuing, it's not just about getting a kid from nowhere to the Tour de France. uh mean maybe the end story becomes a cautionary tale, but I can think if a MTNQ guy who worked bloody hard to go from nowhere to the Tour de France.

First prize for me would actually be just this. Take away all mass religions and we'd have a much better planet....

Did you do the epic you needed a sponsor for? It's a really high ask getting someone to pin their logo onto your team if you don't already have a relationship. Doing the epic is not special, 1200 people do it every year and if you're down in the results then the best option (it galls me to say) is to throw a charity angle and hopefully one has the ethics to pay the charity first before putting in your own costs. There was a top 10ish elite team this year simply called "Double Dutch". A viable billboard yet they chose a funny team name because they are both from the Netherlands. Jan and Piet in 276th place are really not that appealing.

3y years later. What happened? @Erik Breedt

Giant brought in some white pvc ones ages ago. Mine got stolen, miss it. Might be a few floating around

@The B any further perspective on this incident from you might be quite useful, but totally understand if you don't want to talk about it.

Exactly. As hardcore as this is, I don't see CT cyclists rushing off en masse to get gun licences. It's not a logical reaction, but the gun folk have made up their minds already so we'll never get consensus on this one.

Agreed. Is there even someone who is the "face" of the race organisation anymore? Kevin was very much the "guy" at gravel burn, and farmer Glenn/wappo/JK/Henco et al have always been part of their race brands.

ok. I'm assuming bill drill is some sort of gun/self defence maneouver. I don't think many cyclists even know what that means, and robbing coffee drinking cyclists is hardly ever going to see retaliation of equal force. These cowboys don't seem to know what they're doing, but he wasn't scared to fire into the roof and didn't flinch so he'll do it again. but ja, on reflection a security gate with striker lock might not be the worst idea here - guys are soft targets and that would make it just a little bit harder to walk in and guns blaze. sorry for the shop, even more hurdles to running a legitimate business.

All rather hectic, not much you can really do to stop this at 6am. other bike?

WT podium, not the deepest field, but assume he was actually working for team leader too. https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/settimana-internazionale-coppi-e-bartali/2026

Jokes aside, expecting this to actually happen in the next 5 years. Just need to find a way to separate the digital bikers from the analogue back markers who fund the event.

Ha. It was slipped in non hyperlinked in the fifth post. Needed eagle eyes!

100%, asked and answered! looks awesome.

just freeze framing the voting on this one..out of date since this thread started and a 64kg classics rider started klapping tarmac as TdF training

Always wanting to support people creating things. BUT what does it do that isn't already here (apart from your cool videos)? https://mtbroutes.co.za/ not a diss, just a genuine question with hopefully an answer that showcases what you've been building.

sold out, (so enough bucks to settle the open invoices due this month end)! If you want to skip the waitlist/lottery - plenty of options in the classifieds to pay ~R10k for this privilige.

entries still open - got 24hrs to go for it folks

ja did similar - to buy some flights - wasn't really worth the effort for the savings if it's only intermittent, plus i have to transfer money into the account to pay for the flights. I'd be totally happy to be ALL IN with a group for all my stuff, if it really was a deal. but everytime I question people who are purple kool aid Disco I back off. the cult vibes are too strong.

I get that. query is about these "fitness goals" - are they achievable or do they just move the goalposts as you get fitter.

And unavoidably so if you wanted to go on a journey from Knysna west - so much that a long slog on a district route was even known as "epic roads". here's a good example why you can't just compare raw numbers to get a "tough" index https://www.treadmtb.co.za/tougher-than-the-2008-cape-epic-looks-like-it/

early bird entries open, and race date set for 14 March. Hoopla

back to vitality - in the market for a new gps watch. eyesight is going shortsighted, so would be nice to actually read the numbers - seems amoled is the way to go. did they change the device discount? it's capped at R4k(is that new?). So if you want an R8k watch, and you qualify for 40% off, it's actually just R6400 or 20% effective. I've been a suunto guy, but would maybe move to garmin for this. BUT I see so many Ts and Cs that they will schnaai you in the end, won't they? device discount is

Any feedback from riders here? Really cool that they went to Montagu, will we see more travelling in 2027, or back to the paarl/stellenbosch combo?

it (half) works again! was offline on monday