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  1. Velouria
    Looks like we might have recruited one of them. I'm starting to wish I was racing with the mixed team now...
  2. Velouria
    We've lost a rider already and we haven't even started. Man flu is a silent killer!
  3. Velouria
    I've never dropped that early (yet). My danger zone is that steel bridge just after the turn off the Van Loveren road - 140kms. Been in some bad places around there!
  4. Velouria
    The only reason we hired Maggie - to dish out some pro peloton justice should they pull that move again!
  5. Velouria
    Hopefully Bluff Meat don't wheelsuck us for 15kms again this year
  6. Velouria
    Pfffffft also works... (this was some road debris that flicked up and damaged by derailleur)
  7. Velouria
    I imagine that section of the form is only there to make the lives of insurance clerks more interesting as they laugh at our attempts to draw stuff. I've a whole collection of poorly drawn pictures about bicycle related incidents This is my claim for a cracked rim and broken spoke during 36One.
  8. Velouria
    The morning school run is my scariest challenge of the day. Absent mindedness and aggression - a bad combination!
  9. Velouria
    Indeed - couldn't figure out why that was Widowmaker at Hoogekraal, and yet Andy crashed out on Stage two
  10. Velouria
    I know I'm not going to change your opinion, and that you're having a great time trolling all the Epic fans... But, have you ridden the old wagon trail over the Witzenberg mountain (that's the bit in the video). I'm not ashamed to say that I left a bit of a poo streak down that bit of single track in 2013. How do you break a wheel like that on 700kms of dirt roads? Kristian Hynek - what a roadie - can't even ride on gravel without falling over. Local rider Andy Davies falling himself into hospital with a serious knee injury. Was in 20th place at the time.
  11. Velouria
    https://youtu.be/_qIgd7ndkxo
  12. Velouria
    I passed him with about 10kms to go and he looked broken - pedalling squares. Maybe he didn't finish the route or something. Was a super fast ride, although coming down the Poort into that headwind seemed tougher than going up! Another great event with Dryland's signature organisation. Edit: fixed
  13. Velouria
    I think it's more the wheels than the bike. I've never been overly confident of the stopping power of carbon rims, in the wet or in the dry. I've also almost killed myself going from my bike with carbon wheels to my other bike with aluminium rims - almost a guaranteed way to go over the bars the first time you brake! And it was down!
  14. Velouria
    I have the S5 with rim brakes on carbon deep sections. The humidity just has to go up slightly and those rim brakes become panic handles with very little relationship to pressure on the lever and stopping power. Coming down Spook Hill in Somerset West last night and I couldn't stop at the stop street! I can't see how discs are a bad thing.
  15. Velouria
    He's still around. Got a new profile and does post occasionally.
  16. Velouria
    Last day today! Wow - look at that leaderboard. Some seriously hardcore ladies out there!
  17. Velouria
    Indeed. At no point on his ride did he do anything less than 16km/h (except those 2 seconds at 12 to 14km/h) This is what a similar ride of mine looks like:
  18. Velouria
    It is all rather suspicious. Perhaps Fanie could explain a few things. This is a normal ride done by Fanie - has a heart rate, took him 10 hours (7 hours riding time), and an average climbing pace of 13km/h. This is the exercise that CranksofGlory referred to - no heart rate, 100% moving ration (not one stop in 7 hours for a traffic light, a snack, a wee etc), an average climbing pace of 21.9 km/h. Digging a bit deeper into the data - here is a breakdown of his speeds over different terrains. I can't keep my speed that consistent on a trainer, at constant difficulty, let alone out on the road with ups and downs, wind, rain, traffic etc. Here are the actual times spent at each speed - between 20km/h and 24km/h. Seriously impressive talent! Lastly - something weird happened at around 128kms. The speed line before is rather smooth, yet afterwards is rather "fuzzy" - unlike the entire 128kms before. The power also starts to jump around a lot. Lastly - he's using a Garmin 1000. They're usually rock solid. I've never had a ride look like this. Come on Fanie - open up your account so that we can see what's going on.
  19. Velouria
    If you want company (or just a wheel to suck) for 5 hours on Sunday - let me know...
  20. Velouria
    You can even do the miles on a stationary bicycle. On it's easiest setting, it's quite easy to whiz along on the Wattbike at 40km/h. 75kms from Somerset West into Cape Town in the morning, and the same on the way home. Go and stalk him on Strava
  21. Velouria
    There's still a week to go - I'm sure you can ride in the 800kms
  22. Velouria
    Boom!
  23. Velouria
    This is like following the Munga, but for 3 weeks! I see Friday is a rather miserable day for bike riding - rest day, or an opportunity to get in some extra kilometres (especially if you're riding in a Southerly direction!)?
  24. Velouria
    Like I said - sneaky stuff going on. It took me about 2 days to figure out what LTB meant after I had stalked you on Saturday (and after I'd fallen off my chair after seeing the sheer distance you'd been logging up - seriously impressive). May the best man and woman win, and I'm all for sneaky tactics! (I didn't rat you out - it was an anonymous screenshot!!)
  25. Velouria
    I see there is some sneaky skulduggery already going on between the top contenders, and I'm not talking about these guys: While Etnard might think he is in the lead, some people have yet to connect their Strava, but are still putting in massive miles. Going to be interesting to see how this pans out
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