Captain Fastbastard Mayhem

Yeah, still zero!

The hills back are a real issue. I'd even say it's tougher than the original route. shorter distance but approx the same climbing...

sorry to hear, Ant. Still remember the day I got the call to say that my 21 year old pavement pedigree had gone to visit the kennel in the sky...

forresters arms in Newlands.

I have to disagree with you there T. I honestly think that world class cities (whatever those are) would have needed about the same amount of time given the amount of people involved,aand would not have been able to pull a new route out of a hat when something like this was going on and taking all the stakeholders attention. The enemy here was time. Pure and simple.

Not soooo bad. But historically they probably didn't even see the potential of all their redundancy being used uo in one fell swoop so close to the event. And you heard themm - had they had 2 or 3 weeks it would have been an option and it will be done in the future. But I posted as I heard they had a Terry from slumerset West

Hence my earlier post... it's Terry btw

Slowbee. Slowbee slowbee Slowbee. Sigh...

Just heard David Bellairs say that a proper alternative route is definitely on the cards for future CTCTs given the effect on this year's race.

look again... Name of the bike http://p.vitalmtb.com/photos/stories/2015/03/04/full_Fezzari_Timp_Peak_Review_915914.jpg?1425521003

Around the time the Jagermeister came out. "Dude.... check the mountaaain" was heard from Bellville to Noordhoek, the "Rich Whitey Stronghold of Lore"

Well played, sir - I couldn't see the expression on your face, for once. And I don't normally miss your troll-face!

Huh? No - I really didn't (but I had to check anyway) - I said it takes far longer than 3 days to get the requisite approvals in place - didn't reference SANRAL at all... the 3 days part was the notice for suppliers (scaffolding, drinks, etc) to start planning thier rollouts of services and supplies to the relevant areas. A full day to plan which route to take to deliver your goods, at the minimum... Plus, I'm quite certain of the fact that SANRAL will require a LOT more than 3 days to approve a route / use of a national road.

this...

Looks like a bike for Headshot!

Nope. Not enough time. Seriously... Emergency services, public participation & notification of the closed roads, etc etc etc. Takes far longer than 3 days to set that up.

TBH I don't think it was ever even considered - te guys on the CTCTT know how much prep goes into something like this, and they would have seen the timeline & done the math. It was just never possible given the extreme proximity to the race itself. If there had been a month long gap, maybe. But the primary concern in that case (after getting route planning permission from the city) would have been the notice to the residents in the affected area. You can't spring something like a full day road closure on them without significant notice. It would be challenged in court and likely overturned.

TBH he shouldn't have to. It's logical. Common sense, even. Plus it's what everyone has been saying on this thread for the past 36 bloody pages.

added to that - the existing route has about 4 or 5 levels of redundancy, each larger than the one preceding it. This disaster took out ALL of them, which no reasonable person would ever expect. The approval is already granted for the roads they are now using - except for the ones affected by the fire. Get over it.

Quite simply, because it takes FAR longer to get the requisite permissions in place than just 3 days. They MUST get the infrastructure in place from today. That implies that a final approval for the new route needs to be granted by Tuesday in order to provide sufficient lead time for the logistics of getting the suppliers of the equipment and scaffolding and drinks / food etc to roll-out given the "new route" that takes them north. Bottom line is that this was an unforeseen natural disaster (regardless of how it started, it morphed into a disaster) that is taxing our emergency services - from which the tour needs approval for any new route, and support should anything go wrong. I'm not in event management and yet I understand that. It's logical. Hence - a totally different route was never an option. Never. The city wouldn't have approved it given the pressure our emergency services are under, and the complete lack of notice that the affected public would have had in the new revised route's vicinity. To claim that the organiser is copping out is outrageously immature and highly ignorant given the requirements of an event of this size.

bahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahahahaahaha!!!! Thank feck I had just swallowed my coffee!

those forests aren't being destroyed so that paper trees can be planted, they're being destroyed for ACTUAL farmland. Soy, wheat, corn, that sort of thing.

it is for all the fynbos

It's a Mmmmmunicipal road, not a Nnnnnnational or Rrrrrregional sorry Rrrrrrural road.

because that road is one of the main ER service access routes, and would create havoc for most CB / town residents if closed... Not to mention cut off access to Table Mountain, which means no tourists up the cable car...