Yesterday while out training I got a flat at the Stellenbosch turn-off on Baden Powell road near Eersterivier.After removing my wheel to change the tube I noticed two guys on an old yellow moped keeping still on the opposite side of the road to the the right of me, as well as another one running in my direction from the left, which I assumed was running towards the moped.As he came running past me he actually greeted me,and the next thing I heard about three seconds later was "jou ma se p*#s!",as I heard that I immediately looked behind me and he struck me with a shovel,aiming for my head,but I was able to react and block with my upper arm and shoulder.I still had my rear wheel in my hand,which he shouted that I give it to him and he tried to strike me again to get it.At that moment I took off running,still with my wheel in my hand,from just before the stop to the middle of Baden Powell road to try and stop some cars,at the same time noticing an old red volkswagen golf pulling up to the guy who attacked me,and saw them throwing my bike into the back.One of the cars which came past was a police van.The police van only braked about 10 seconds after me signaling them,which was obviously the amount of time it took them to figure out what was going down.As soon as they stopped,the old volkswagen golf took off,with the police van also taking chase again sirens and all. For the next minute or so I stood there alone,before another guy pulled up.As he was also a cyclist,he decided to stop when he saw me standing there with a wheel in my hand.We waited for a few minutes to see whether the police van would come back,but after a few minutes he offered to give me a lift so we could try and find the van down the rode.Couldn't find anything so he offered to drive me home. After I got home,I made a few phone calls to the SAPS and they told me to go open a docket at the Eersterivier(Kleinvlei) SAPS.About two hours later after filling out all the forms and statements and ****,they realized that where the incident took place actually falls under the jurisdiction of Stellenbosch.So now my whole case has to be transferred to Stellenbosch SAPS,which I was told will take a couple of extra days. My favourite part of it all is that the chasing police van didn't even take the registration number of the volkswagen golf.So we don't have anything on any one of them. I'm thinking of putting a reward n gumtree,"1kg "tik" for Merida road bike.".Then I'll surely get back.
