Skubarra

haha! must remember that one!

For me its always somewhere after Bonnievale - so I hook some fast teams on the flats & crawl up the 3 bit%hes trying not to cramp. Very aware of the "banter" from mates in the social teams I will be at the receiving end off if they catch up to me so I still try to get to finish as fast as possible.

I'm more of a "time over team, lets see if we can get 6 to the finishline" type of rider, makes for far more entertaining war stories. Problem is I haven't been in the front 6 of a team since 2019, its getting embarrassing 🙈!

I'm skipping next year, so the weather should be perfect

You guys need to get in early and do this race while its still affordable 👍

Kirmack (Team 286)

Yes - a good seeding doesn't actually does not help for anything other than boosting your ego. Would have preferred an "average" seeding for us.

Thank You!!

weird, wonder if it is done on purpose... Also - it seems there are more teams than last year? Or at least the team numbers go higher.

Not bothering to create a new thread for this year.... But does anyone know whats going on with the seeding? Seems they updated about 80% of the teams yesterday and then got bored or distracted.... 🤷‍♂️ https://doublecentury.co.za/race-information-centre/race-day-event/team-seeding-and-start-order/

True - it might buy you a few moments to react but if the attack is planned... I mentioned this few months back on this thread, but I was riding 30km/h+ when I saw mr bad news standing next to the street, I crossed over to the other side and sped up. As I went bye oke flung a massive rock my way which hit & bent my back wheel. Probably helped a bit that with the distance from him the rock lost some momentum before it hit my bike, but being on the other side of the road did not "save" me.

Have to agree with you - other side is not going to be of any help, especially on a climb like Hels. Best to turn around and wait for others if you really have to cycle that way. Or even better join a group and dont cycle alone. If nothing else it will improve your odds...

Normally they are much more generous with the beta as well but to be fair the conditions were favourable

Now you made me learn something today - had to google why there is a shortage of snake venom and why you can't just speed up the production You basically take the venom of the 10 snakes and inject it into a horse in very small quantities – just enough to trigger its immune system, not enough to harm the horse in any way. At that stage you can draw about nine litres of blood every second month, and the serum is removed from the blood, purified. That pretty much is the antivenom. So you’re injecting patients with horse serum, and that horse serum finds the venom and neutralises it.

Subjectively I think there are some good trails on the farm. Looks to be safe. as everything is enclosed on a single property. Nice views. A restaurant and coffee shop at the start - that is about as far as I can praise the "value offering" I get the vibe of lets make as much as possible money from a few riders then we don't have to go through the effort of managing the masses (more trail maintenance, people wondering off trails into areas they are not supposed to go, missing the 11h30 deadlines etc)