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Weather played along for most of the race

Wow the itch used to last a year then became 6 months, now it is down to one month...... :-)

We had 6 teams from work with the last team coming in at 22hrs 22min. they took a wrong turn after the last check point. Did extra 18km. Their support guy even after the race carried in sorting their gear and food etc while they showered and slept. He finally got to sleep after 40hrs (did see him catnap for 20min on the couch). Big respect to those guys.......

Mmm little grim. Just found out why my partners daughter was giggling so much when i asked her if she could clean my glasses, which she did. Partner had cloths ready for such stuff. On problem is, it turns out the cloth was from an old pair of underpants....... No wonder i picked the pace up to the end

Arrived in JHB at 10pm last night and could already see the smog and dirt. Man wish i was on the Baviaan trails. Already started thinking there is a lot more time to be made so guess i am back next year :-)

we only turned in lights the top of the never ender. We did have our helmet lights top of the Mac for the just in case.

Agree about the stopping. We also lost an hour with check points. If i do it again it will be box 1 then next box will be top of Mac (but only emergency stuff so we may not even use it) lights real food at 170km mark and then splash at last check point. The amount of stuff i have brought back from the boxes and check points will do another 2 baviaans races

I have the very first part of the shield from 2004. Shield looked quite different back then

Almost wish i was back on the bike, eish 1100km of driving home to go. Great race, nice and fast the track this year

But these bike parts have a 30 to 35% increase. Must be the rand/dollar plus bigger bike shop :-)

Ha ha i see a lot more hong fu stuff next year. For the record the 2012 of the same frame (mine was 2013) also went up in price. May be thats to pay for the shop expansion......

yeah got the frame just in time. Broke a hanger that week (got some rope stuck in the rear derailer) and it cost 216 for a new one. Just got another spare for TB race and cost 300. Yip wish my salary went up that much....

Well so far in 3 months I have seen 2 items which I bought go up 30% and 35% respectively. One was a frame the other a Derailer hanger. From the same shop for example the derailer hanger went from R213 to R300 in 3 months... The frame went from 14k to 19k in 3 months....... Looks like 2014 bike prices and spares are going to look very grim :-(

34x16 and 10 beers

Nearly lost his voice ha ha Actually on a seminar so can't get onto the hub. He is alive though

The lone ranger and his cowgirl is about to leave work. Lucky my horse will getting taken down by trailer :-)

Way too easy. I did 32x18 at VG last year. Slap a smaller one at the front

Race you there.......... Also leaving around 12. I see this could get a little out of hand. the GF said she will drive once we out of JHB if need be ha ha as long as I drive back on Sunday

ask mackie

aaaah I was right about them mexicans

The last SS champs it did not seem to bother you much after your puncture. You just headed straight for the beer stop............. Besides from what routjie has told me, I doubt we will be riding fast enough to puncture, something about mexico and we all know what they drink there

Can't wait, found a horses head yesterday so getting sorted

Why not going to be a fun ride anyway

Well at least you have a excuse for the callouses on your right hand since you got the niner rigid. Not sure what excuse you told people before that :-)

For once the animals are being thought of first instead of the organisers wallets. Big up to them