Spinnekop

Well............ Two scenarios. If he did not want to race, then it was open for him to drop back. Seeding gets done in big race on ability or rather your seeding index. And they then take, in your case for instance, the top 50? 100? best junior seedings and bunch them together. Should he wanted to "compete" or "race" of a podium, he would had to abide by the set rules as per our sport. Get junior gears. Don't do drugs. wear correct clothing etc. Them the rules. If you don't want to be part of that scenario or set rules then you just fall back to the groups behind you.

If I read this right, this will be the route https://www.strava.com/routes/2887668731741927870

You'd probably have to go with sensors as GPS wont work in most buildings / malls and might throw out the kilos. Maybe track in time?

I don't see a bell? Where's the bell? Or are you one of those "track please" guys? Keep it up dude.

Kots????

Dura Ace Di2 12 Speed please. Oh wait........you don't do parallel imports anymore so I'll have to shop overseas if I want something any time before February 2022. ????

Not allowed to show nipples on the Hub anymore. ????

Get a Polar strap, cut the rubber thingies and plug the garmin thingy in

My ride this morning out East of Pretoria

It's a shop bike. They don't want to insert it at a "normal" height as that will scratch the seatpost.

In 2006 I came across this commuter bike that was used in the Drakensberg area.

I felt for Stuyven. His team had huge amount of pressure and they rode a stunning race. Even Remco did his part 110% and showed his is a star for the future. And then to finish 4 was a sad day I think. The racing was top notch yesterday!

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And then what bugs me the most.............the riders that did "learn" last year are not included this you to capitalize on what they have "learned" previously.

Thanks so much for sharing. Amazing rides!????

Would oom mind terribly to share some strava files? Would love to see the routes and area and do some planning myself

Jy weet ek doen. ????

Dopers

I LOVE that idea. But only because I don't have a TT bike For me they can even throw in a hill climb up Taalmonument instead of the TT (on a road bike). If they want to do TT, do a prologue the night before the first day.........just for starters orders and jersey wearers like back in the day with the Giro del Capo. Back in 2007 prologue the evening before stage 1

Hosting a UCI 2.2 or 2.1 event, you have to give food and lodging if I remember correctly? https://www.uci.org/docs/default-source/rules-and-regulations/part-ii-road/2-roa-regulations-e.pdf

TP= Training Peaks. Paid desktop software GC= Golden Cheetah. Desktop software. Personally I use GC. Works very well for what I want to know about my rides. And it's seemingly smooth operation. Walk into the house. Garmin auto uploads via Wifi to Garmin and to Strava. From there when I op GC, it auto downloads my ride.

Lately there were a couple of fun "events" hosted by PEMBI on Strava. Prizes were given sometimes on luck and sometimes on fitness (being the fastest on the segment). This drew a couple of participants to get out there and ride their bikes with prizes bigger than most big name races in the country. Sponsors got some publicity an riders had some fun. Not a bad platform to do this on.

This. Strava was never a training tool. Social media for active people. If you are serious about fitness and training and stats, you do TP or GC.

After copious amounts of research, I settled on the idea that it was very frame specific. There are people that put the groupset on and it just works from the get-go without event thinking about reading the manual. To say that I tried to make it work is an understatement. There was rides where I went out for hours and adjusting and trying new things. Nothing worked. I just gave up after a year. Sadly. Cost me a fortune to replace...........????