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I have NEVER seen a "restricted" e-bike in SA. 😄

You talk about Kyalami as if it was yesterday. It was 5-10 years ago? After Kyalami came a couple of Steyn City starts and after that FNB for past 3 years? The roads have improved a LOT around Allendale. Maybe something to consider again? FNB stadium, for me, is a dangerous area. For one I will NOT let my wife drive there alone. Never. And if I feel unsafe, so will some other people. This will be my MAIN reason why I won't enter again. The crap security, poor car guards aggression towards getting money and now a couple of incidents where they tried to steal phones. Not thank you.

Having done 22 of them, I would like to see: Scrap registration. I can sign in with my number. If I have paid, I can start. Change the venue. Move it more North. Kyalami was way better. Better security / Safer venue. (Location)

I've done 16 already. Day out on the bikes, racing the buddies.......should be fun

Well said.

Looking at my own stats, I have definately toned down on race participation. My km riding per year have gone UP though so more cycling.....less racing. 2006-2008 Pre kids. Elite racing. Young and wild and free 2011-2019 Vets racing. 2020 onwards. The covid effect. Not a lot of races. Lots cancelled. 2023 would have been way more but "regular" stuff like the Kremetart, Carnival city, Satellite cancelled.

You can upload that GPX file into Google Maps

Voice of Fritz Pienaar. Head and owner of the Faces group that is organising the 94.7 Seems legit. Very technical finish. The front bunches are going to be tricky. The back markers are going to be pissed when they see there's another 3 or 4ks to go with a kick or two. 🤣

Well. It's not. Its getting recognised in a small way for getting up every morning at 4am to go train hard, eat right, be disciplined, work on your seeding in order to get a better seeding. To then get ****** in the ass by an organiser that cannot do math or think like you that it's just people being egotistic, is a slap in the face and that organiser will NOT get my money for next year. If you advertise that bunches are based on seeding, please deliver the advertised service.

Second on Cogent. Very good service. Well priced and they know their shocks.

That's pretty decent for disc bike. Those wheels are SUPER light.

Saw a very nice build this morning also: I like the rigid fork more

I got second in A bunch last year. 2:29 (38 avg) Everyone was pretty much together yes.

Got a reply via WA now that A batch is rated 45km/h average. That would give the expected winning time of the A bunch at 2:06. 5 Minutes faster than last year's Elite winner Reinhardt Janse van Rensburg What a F($%$ JOKE

I'd go for the 454 just because visually they are the sexietst wheels alive. Love them. Practically. The hubs are BEYOND **** in my opinion and they are super expensive. 353 same hubs but less money (Still priced at that of the GDP of Zim) but super light. Also........places like the Cape will be more stable riding the 353 profile. I was never a fan of the Enve wheels as the different rim depts. front and back bugs my OCD. The Enve also depends on what hubs you build in them? But. The 454 will be my choice. If I could get a good deal on a set, I'd buy them today.

Still waiting

Can't you just box it and fly it with your baggage when you head over?

Goes without saying in any country. Frist go try it out on the 32. I know guys riding their MTB's in the club road ride, averaging 40+ over 2 hours. It can be done. So try it out with the 32 and if it doesn't work, throw on a 34 or 36. R1500 should solve that easily. That's like €2 or something up there. 😁 I would definitely invest in some sort of gravel or commuter road bike depending on the roads that are commuting on. The wind is going to be your enemy.

Looking at my own history of entering races over the years, you can clearly see a pattern. I wont muck around with bad seeding or service if I was a race organiser these days........ After 22 of these I just might call it quits and never do it again.

Nothing received yet. Requested yesterday also.

2:29 last year. (A bunch podium) That deserves a Seeding C Interesting...........

Sadly, when it comes to good braking in the wet, it is a HUGE function of the wheel and not necessarily of the pads. I had various wheelsets over the past 28 years of racing and riding. If we talk about carbon wheels, the best ones were my Zipp 404 with the little ribs on the brake tract. The most shocking carbon wheels in the wet? Lightweight.

Info received from one of the club mates that was at SAPS is that the bikes found were the bikes of illegal immigrants that were arrested. Not stolen bikes necessarily.

Will keep ears to the ground. Gut feel it will be at Boschkop police station. But I might be wrong

Stick with Swissstop. They are that good. Also. Zipp tangente (grey) as well as Lightweight pads are manufactured by Swissstop. If you can some of that you are also good to go.