Pandatron

I would estimate somewhere between ghoulish and journalistic

I can confirm that three cyclists were hit on Cedar road. The driver was detained on the scene by JMPD & Private security/individuals. 1x Deceased 1x In ICU 1x Minor Injuries The deceased's memorial will take place 07 November 2025, he is survived by his Wife and Daughter.

Reach out and ask them nicely with your reasoning, God loves a tryer

This seems to be the norm now, just seems to be glorified moto biking at this stage. ChrisF please take your heart pills before replyin

S-Works Epic 8 at the very least

Were you driving the bus? ? Sounds like it

Dont forget an oil change - Thad Castle

Are you down tapering ahead of the race? What's your training approach?

New bike with flight attendant and power meter at the minimum

Meant to add that the SRAM stuff is also discounted at the moment, no dobut due to the release. Normal price would be 3250 for the SRAM

Is it enough to tip the SRAM cart?

Seems like both

Dont know if you read the Cape Epic thread, aren't we supposed to be chasing him with pitch forks and epic hate?

Size would be 205x53mm, one might possibly pop up on the hub, dont think 130mm is possible. Your more likely to find 100mm

Cant blame them, Cape Epic hardly make any profit /s

Great stuff from SRAM

My biggest thing was actually spending 10 hours on the bike first a week, to figure out the routine and how i would approach dealing with this calendar and family wise.

Is there a point responding to this?

I'm asking the question not making a statement.. but i will provide my own answer. You should be arriving at ACE competently prepared in my view and have the ability to at least clear the cut off by 30 minutes. Survival of just making it Waterpoint to Waterpoint day after day increases your risk exposure exponentially, there will definitely be days where something goes wrong and stuff happens. But going or attempting to day after day in a completely blown state/dehydrated and then wondering why bad things happen, is doff.

If your just aiming to make cut off or be friends with the Hyenas, should you be at Epic?

Willing to bet that a lot of people who 'Trained', didn't actually train as much as they thought they did or ultimately just junk miled themselves into a state of perceived readiness.

Its the bikehub forum, every year this follows the same journey. We watch Epic, cheer our people on and then write a masochistic self flagellation of how we would never ride epic due to the price and whatever flavour is going of the current year. We then end this off with a disclaimer that if we got a ticket for free we would do it.