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Bought a pair of Ciovita in December, to me there sizing is definitely smaller than other brands. Fit is too tight and I won't use them for long rides. I did email them querying this but was just ignored. Won't buy again.

I believe there will be late registrations for this?

What a joke. He dropped him like grade 10 maths as soon as he wanted to.

Anybody else having trouble syncing Zwift with Discovery the last few days? Tried delinking and relinking but nothing? Strava and Garmin still syncing properly.

I'm 1.85 and ride a L Scott Spark but it's not the latest model. Any decent bike shop should be able to advise you based on your height, inseam etc.

Hennops!

I see on social media they have decided to close the trails from the end of Feb for financial reasons. Very sad news indeed, some of the best trails in Gauteng in my experience.

Lovely looking bikes!

My 12th one but the first time riding this route, extremely well organized and roads were well marked and safe as far as I could see. Definitely a route to leave something in the tank for the last half! Well done to all organizers and cyclists.

Always take your own anyway, you’ll be back on the bike sooner. Enjoy it and have fun!

Literally paid one of these stores 3k to wash my bike. Never and NEVER again.

Seems like quite a few for transfer on the cradle group on Facebook...

“Good morning The 1st batch Start for Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg is delayed by an hour due to lightning and flooding risk. Safety personnel to reassess at 7:30 and communicate again. All participants should stay in vehicles and all staff to stay under marquee tents. Team Ride Joburg” Hard pass for me

Thanks for the suggestion and to @JMK1 who sorted my gears out in no time and had some good suggestions for the bike going forward, which I look forward to taking him up on!

Please can you guys point me in the direction of a bike shop that really know how to service Campy. I bought a bike recently with a 10 speed Chorus groupset and it needs a basic service and check. The guys I just took it to actually made the gears worse, not here to name and shame I know everyone is super busy at the moment and probably taking on more repairs than they can manage properly - just want to get it sorted properly. JHB or PTA. Thanks!

Go for it, they reseeded me and my last 947 was 2015. Was pushed up from 8:30 to 7:25 based on previous times.

As far as I can tell the only way to get people to enter more road races is to get more people to actually ride on the road. In order to do a race event you need to train and as you said, the roads are a disaster and unsafe. I recently bought a road bike again after 7 years after taking up MTB but I already know the only time it will be used is in the Cradle, on a trainer and events like 947. Its a pity because there were some really good road events like the Telkom Satellite Challenge, Race for victory, Dome 2 dome, Ride for sight, Bakwena Challenge etc. that were well worth doing in my opinion. Not sure which of those are even around still or what they're like now.

They were pretty quick with me, moved up from EE to N. I contacted them via Whatsapp.

This was at Buffelsdrift, their trails are generally very well marked but this one had me at 50/50 guessing.

I've never ridden the same route at Wolwespruit twice 😂

What's your inseam measurement, that's more of an important question? I'm 1.85m and ride a 56cm frame. Agree with Mongooseman and also prefer slightly smaller as opposed to big.

So I have a question, not sure if anyone knows the answer. I haven't done a 947 road race since 2015. I have done 11 of them previously but been doing mainly MTB and did the 947 55km one in 2019. I've registered to do it this year but because I haven't done it in few years will I be starting at 10:00 with the newbies or will my previous ones carry some weight at least? Not looking for a super early start but right at the back can be a bit of a nightmare.

Friend of mine bought one a few months ago, his came with x-fusion so maybe they changed the spec. Didn't know SX was so ***. Interesting.

Brand new Titan Cypher would be my choice.

No the big elephant is, “sure leave your bike with us, we’ll charge you for parts that we don’t replace and not fix the bike properly.” Don’t put the blame on me, the client here. I’ve paid a lot of money in good faith actually.