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I work with a whole bunch of people who wouldn't get this. They have never seen the movie on the left because they "weren't born when it came out".

I love this comment in the Youtube comments:

I love Floyd:

Is there anything more satisfying than passing car after car stuck in traffic? Especially when the decision to ride into work was a last minute one. I think I walked around with a smug look on my face for the whole day!

We're still looking for a couple of strongmen. Diesel engines with thighs of thunder that don't mind spending hours on the front, wallowing in their own pain and misery, tapping out a solid tempo. That's not to say that we won't accept skinny mountain goats, but let's be honest - wheelsucking a skinny mountain goat is about as useless as a Friday thread on a Wednesday.

This section: reminds me of this: Lawyers trying to do science.

I see a former Savage is the first to give kudos...

It's a toss up between the Swellendam route, and the Montegu route. I only started doing this silly event on the Ceres route - the 2nd version with the climb up to the cherry farm at the start. I hear that the first version was a killer! The stories about the early days when it done with no teams and no support, from the prison out over Franschhoek pass, and off to Villiersdorp and back sound crazy!

I think a couple of teams have gotten this right in the past - I think the Investec guys being the most recent (the sub 5 with 12 riders part). Good luck, and be sure to wave when you come storming past us!

The extreme version of this is crossing the line with 5 people. No waiting for the weak! (We've done this, once missing out on a podium)

Yoh - I admire anyone that gets 12 people to the line in less than 5 hours. You've either got to go for the win, or the 12 man option, but I don't think both are going to happen.

hehe - calling them Brakpanners would be a compliment. Their behaviour was despicable. (In fact, I could think of a thousand other things to call them )

As things stand right now, my biggest fear about DC 2018 is getting dropped before we hit the N2. I've got a *bit* of work to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

3rd in the ITT. And she's a demon on the track. But what to you expect when both of your parents were pro cyclists...

He doesn't have a son, but he's got two daughters that are probably better bike riders than most of us here. And they're still juniors!

We've contacted all the other Paris-Roubaix winners, and even they were scared to replace Magnus. Prospective members shouldn't feel bad. On the flip side, anyone who fancies themselves as a future Roubaix winner can test their form out in our mixed team.

I think it's those Brakpan okes that we're up against (I can't be too harsh on the East Randers, I'm a Benoni boy married to a Brakpan girl). We're trying to fill the rather large and ominous hole that Magnus left in our team, but I doubt we'll find anyone nearly as talented or as imposing

A super fast, bleed from your eyeballs, have the ladies crush your ego, kind of team?

There is riding OneTonner in the bunch, not taking a turn, and getting a good time, or there is riding the OneTonner on the front of the bunch (or off the front of the bunch), producing litres of lactic acid, and fading to a quivering wreck and barely being able to ride back to the car park afterwards. I'd choose the guy with latter approach. (The reality is that we only need 3 guys to get to the finish with the ladies - the rest of us should be so broken that we have nothing left to give. The last 30kms at DC should take us two hours, and we should all vow to never ride bikes with ladies ever again!)

https://twitter.com/JosephNtahi/status/1050311003530059776

We're putting in a mixed team this year with podium ambitions. We have the current SA Ladies U23 Road champ, and 3 other rather hardcore ladies. We need a few more okes to get them to 170kms, and then be humble enough to have your ass handed to you as they out climb you on the final 3 climbs. We did 5:08 last year, finishing as the second mixed team, and we'd like to improve on that. Mixed Martial Arts experience is an added bonus.

I am tempted to report you for such actions. That will teach you! How can you pass up on awesome?!

Yeah - I missed this one with the manflu!

Yoh Fanie - I'm counting 3 bottle cages there. One cage is hardcore Two cages are functional Three cages show signs of panic and desperation!

I saw this guy on the R304 outside Stellenbosch on Saturday. I'm guessing it's a mole snake or a house snake of some sort. He was keen to cross the road (which is when I went past him). He then turned around and went back into the grass...