The Monte Casino, Emperors Palace and Groot Trap rides are poorly organised in my opinion. My wife and I rode all 3 and it is extremely dangerous riding amongst traffic. I almost got taken out by cars on 3 occasions. Motorists and bikers do not care about a cyclist safety and some continuously get as close as possible to you intentionally. These events should have total road closure. In a total road closure event you can only be hit by another cyclist. In a an “open road event” you can be hit by a car, motorbike, trailer, truck and even be trapped underneath these vehicles ( and your chance of survival much less). We pay a lot of money to enter these events and these events are now becoming a death race. Soon it will become a norm that a few cyclist will die in every race. It may be you or your family member next. My wife and I are really considering to no longer support these events till there is full road closure. Safety first. I do hope that others also have this opinion and perhaps this thread can make a difference. No one deserves to be killed in a cycling event
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