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With all due respect ITO your mugging incident, how can you complain about being done for riding illegal trails? Illegal riding just screws it up for the hard-working guys trying to get official permission to ride that trail. Every time a ranger sees a cyclist there riding illegally, that process is held up. Don't do it, and you won't have to appear in court. Illegal riders are the problem, not the TMNP rangers. If they weren't having to waste time fining entitled mountain bikers, they could get on with making the parks safer.

OI. DON'T RUIN A GOOD RUMOUR WITH COMMON SENSE.

I got stuck behind a tipper truck on this exact stretch of road the other day. Took nearly twenty minutes from Top Gate to the Nek. I almost wrote a long letter to theTipperSA online forum to complain.

Just off the phone to a number of Epic insiders, this passing-away story is pure rumour. Let's leave it alone now, for his family and friends' sake? When the family is ready to give updates, they will.

Apparently listening is more important than speaking.

I never left...

Small correction - Cycle Tour Trust owns the event, correct, but the trust is made up of the Rotary Club of Claremont, and the PPA, equal partners.

Send the details to PPA anyway. please - they represent all cyclists, not just members. If they turn you away, please let us know. We need prosecutions to set legal precedents, to make this work long-term.

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Hi Skippy. Please PM me your contact details and I will get them to MEC Robin Carlisle so you can lay the appropriate charges with the police, especially the 1m passing law charges, and so the other side of the story can be told. We need cases to be brought to court to start enforcing this new law, for it to work.

I wonder where he bought it?

My absolute favorite phrase in the South African cycling lexicon. (just ahead of 'hold your line') We ride 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100-plus-thousand rand bikes, and then bitch about being charged very little, in the grand scheme of things, for something quite special. Nobody is forcing you to ride a second lap, it is a privilege. And it costs the organizers money to have you ride a second lap, no matter how much you try to convince yourself it doesn't. Extra staff/man-hours to handle more complicated entries, extra staff at the gate to OE (in my experience) to collect two-lappers' cards and apply fetching pink stickers, extra man-hours to manually strip out our results and remove the second lap so we get an accurate first one - lord knows how ape we would have gone if they got that wrong! Don't wanna pay? Then don't play. Simplest thing ever.

We rode on a safe, closed course, with full access to all the safety, support and other amenities the Trust offers every entrant. Our second entry went through similar processes to make it happen (I suspect it cost more to process second-lappers than regular entries, as there was/is no system in place to manage automatically). So, let's turn your question on its head: Why shouldn't they charge for lap two?

Fixed.