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It's always cold at the start and beginning of the ride but it warms up. Here is the closest I can find to Uniondale with detailed weather. Otherwise, this site shows Uniondales weather with less detail. From Friday you should be able to get more accurate detailed weather for Sunday. Essentially it'll be cold at the start, warm up later and be overcast most of the day. Knysna will be overcast but warm. Saturday is going to be good weather!

At K2C we will get number boards so we won't be using our PPA boards with the timing chip in them. We will need to use our old racetec chips for K2C. Is my bet...

Welcome to the cycling world, Zamorano! It bites hard and you'll be hooked. I would suggest you get into a gym and do some spinning classes (there'll be a lot of debate about this ) but you will build fitness and muscle memory keeping straight up. Another tip to keep going straight, your bike will generally go where your head is pointing, took ahead and not straight down. Keep your knees together (don't knock the top tube though, it'll hurt) and don't lean on the handle bars (use your core muscles to keep yourself upright). That'll be a good start.

The square tubing whistles like crazy on the open road. It'll drive you crazy before you get to where you're going. Even more than that taxi that cuts through traffic in the emergency lane! This is one area where you should cough up the bit extra to get the wing bars instead of the square bars.

Thanks for all the useful advice! Spoke to my LBS for a valve core remover, said no such thing exists, won't be using them again. Changing LBS and will take all the advice as above.

Hello All, I need to top up the sealant on my MTB but don't have a compressor to reseat the tyre to the rim. Can I do the topup through the value and if so what's the best way to remove the core? Where can I get a core remover if it's needed? Or can I just finger unscrew the core? Thanks for the help!

This is from 2015 but the route hasn't changed unless they have this year because of the fires. 20150920_055453.gpx

Is it just my Garmin that's out or did anyone else also record 790m of ascent and not 1064m like on the profile map? Was looking forward to some long steady climbing training for K2C. All said and done, I enjoyed the ride but share some of the gripes about the route, especially the loop on the other side of the Simondium road where the distances joined and chevron taped off corridors to split traffic, the single file was a killer in traffic. Also, thanks to the MB rider who stopped to loan his chain breaker on the first climb! Was able to fix my technical and return the breaker at the end. Big thank you!

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I'd put less importance on the groupset and more on a budget for light wheels. You can upgrade the groupset bit by bit later if it's really a problem. But you're going to get the most benefit out of a good set of wheels - it'll help on hills, a better groupset won't.

Hello all PE roadies! Is anyone planning a group ride in PE over the December holidays that wouldn't mind someone joining them? Also is it feasible and reletively safe to do The Herald route? Please give me a shout, I'm keen to join.

I'm really keen to join, see you all at 6am. The weather out that way is going to be really good, just pack on the sunblock! It's going to be low 30's in Paarl.

Substitutions are done at the race number collection. It cost R100 to do it and all you need is the letter from the currentl owner (you in this case).

http://www.stellenboschcycletour.co.za/ is up, basically the old Die Burger website at a new address.

I'm sure the story of how you came around to having a R30K voucher would be rather interesting?