Nancy Drew

So if the conditions are this bad we might be looking at using the full 24 hours?!?

anytime leet.. no need to worry if you do the homework!!

I'll assume you're referring to the part that wasn't in gale force wind Musashi, or maybe you were fast enough to have missed that part

Nice! Well done Of course it all starts with 8.23kms

Cool Wil6, also in a 4 person team this year Still many, many hours of training ahead

to be a bit more helpful, here's one way: Go into windows explorer and select your pics. Right click and say ‘send to’ ‘mail recipient', a dialogue box will give you a "do you want to make your pictures smaller" prompt, click on “make all my pictures smaller” then ‘ok’ and then it will open a new mail message. On the menu of that message, go to ‘file’, ‘save attachments’ and then select a new folder to save you pictures viola - smaller pictures

Why don't you make the pics smaller Behan?

Anyone know if there have been any more incidents since the original post, or have the locals settled down?

99 Days to go! not that I'm counting or anything ;-)

Yes

I thought I saw you, in a biggish group... I was on my way back already when you lot passed me. I was riding there solo yesterday, fortunately I was back before this dude was on the road. I would seriously recommend that you report him to the Hekpoort Police before he runs one of us over

Hope you and your bike are ok CF... I had a similar experience when I fell on the spruit a couple of years back. I managed to break a couple of ribs. Sitting in the grass on the side of the trail, loads of riders passed me and shouted "are you ok?" but were gone before I had time to even respond. I started pushing my bike back home before a group of riders passed me... 2 guys in the group realised that something was wrong and turned around to assist me back to the main road where my husband could fetch me

Not cool. I ride on the Nooitgedacht/Magalies/Hekpoort roads by myself very often. This incident is pretty scary...... but having said that, I've used these roads (often back roads and quiet ones if I'm exploring) for the last 5 years without incident. I wish this poor lady a speedy recovery from this traumatic experience

ok, not half as impressive as some of these posts, but I was quite happy to just finish Panorama Tour and my first Transbaviaans

Is this still happening? I see no one has posted for a couple of days....

Just so we're clear on a few of things: I'm a woman and I'm white (although with my skin tone this point could be up for debate, I don't own MTN kit and I started way back from R There was however a woman who was riding behind me on the back to the car, who felt the urge to shout "HOLD YOUR LINE"...... on Maxwell drive... I kid you not. I was riding in a perfectly straight line, next to another rider, chatting about the race when I heard her squeal from behind. I was flabbergasted. My instant reaction was to say in an equally loud voice "You have to be kidding me?! did you just tell me to hold my line?!" She overtook me on the left and said something else which I couldn't make out, so I wished her well on her race to the parking lot. shame, she obviously didn't get to say it in the bunch so just needed to let it out. I was the unlucky recipient.

This is such sad news. Strength to Ilma and the family at this time. I will never forget the support that Mark gave Barry & I when we rode Cradlequest. From giving me directions on the morning to going right out of his way to be there and cheer us over the line... we even stopped midway during stage 1 for a chat He was such a supportive and proud dad and although I've never met Kurt, I could list a lot of his achievements! Sorry that we didn't get that Breedts Nek ride in that we joked about on FaceBook this past weekend, but the rides I did have with you were always fun. To the friends that I am aware of that were close to him; Di, Hardus and Barry.. I hope you find comfort. Mark, you will be missed in the cycling community - RIP

Sounds like a good plan Joe. James should be easily distracted with the hoards of pretty young followers he has... we just invite some of them around on the same day

So when do we see it on TV? or have we missed it already?

Wow!!! stunning pics, thanks for sharing! B)

Shame, you poor dear... a whole week of cycling in Malawi on loaned Pinarellos? Glad you had some fun whilst raising some bucks for a worthy cause. My best cycling week to date has to be 2010 Sani2C, it was just such fun from the time we left Joburg until our return. Best cycling weekend was just a few short weeks ago at Transbaviaans. I love cycling road trips with my buddies

It is a seriously good looking machine! but maybe you should consider changing your hub name now to NotsoFeltCrazyanymore

Niiiice.... I just have to wonder though, why woman specific bikes always have to be pink?

Well done to those that got in. This ride is an experience of a lifetime. Sadly, I didn't even try to enter for next year... but I'm fortunate enough to have ridden the last 3. Hopefully the new date will bring better weather