FootballingCyclist

Guys are still hungover from World Champs.. I for one am super keen to follow the Epic and looking to go and watch a stage or 2 at the finish line this year. Always such a lekker vibe.

If I'm not mistaken the Conti ones are brass. Had set on my previous set of wheels which I completely forgot to take off when the insurance collected them. Needless to say any attempts to retrieve them went terribly so just wrote them off basically.

Yeah makes sense, But with that introduction of the shorter route, it means the M3 is closed in both directions, I'm pretty sure the cost to run the event will then also increase somewhat, And it's the M3 then Eastern Blvrd inbound which needs to stay closed to cars later than outbound with the short route and also requires more medics on stand-by, ambulances, traffic services etc etc. I'd hate to see what next years event will cost for both routes if they try to take less entries into account because we know the price won't come down, But the qu is, how much will it increase by to compensate for less entrants? Oh well, Guess we won't know till later this year.

The main question then for the organizers would have to be, If they are guaranteed to lose lets say 3000 entries due to Ramadaan, Financially, Will the event still be able to take place? I mean it's gone from 35k a good few years ago when I started and even a lucky draw entry system because there were so many people wanting to do the event, to just over 18k this year and people literally entering at the expo and doing substitutions there too which was never a thing before. So already they're almost at half of the entrants they were 10years ago. Yes the entry fee has doubled in that time to possibly compensate for that and the fact that everything has become more expensive, But I'm pretty sure once they only start seeing 15k entrants, it's going to become a major worry. I think they've already lost their title/"slogan"/selling point of "the biggest timed cycling event on the planet", and if not yet, They will soon.

You should probably go home, Your family is probably worried and wondering where you are. LOL

Lol naah I meant this for the real world champs.. Like, the okes fighting for Rainbow stripes world champs! LoL

Hahahahaha naah I was pulling @Pure Savage leg because Brendan rode the 2nd lap with his son sporting some fast Zipps LOL

First lap normal CTCT route but up amd over Camps Bay drive, down signal hill then back onto the Freeway again, then end of M3 go right, then over Ou Kaaps, then Chappies again, the over Constantia Nek, and down, back onto M3 going back to Town(short route) then through Town, and up Kloof Street to finish on Signal Hill... THAT would be Epic...

No way his shorts were aero enough. Negated all the gains which the angled shifters and red colour bike provide. Also he needs to be taught sock length is a thing.. 🤣

Me, I finished on Sunday

So you're assuming Tim is a boy? What if for his 1st ever cycling event Tims dad said he can identify as a girl?

The 42km was quick because some Dads were riding Zipps.. Should be a rule that no wheel depths are allowed to be bigger in mm than the race is long in kms...

Was lekker seeing you, Not lekker with your arm strapped up though...

Yep he is, Saw I think it was last year or the year before where he made the switch. Think a big part of it had to do with getting zero support from SA for the World Tri series but full support from the Dutch, His wife is also a top female Dutch Triathlete. He also said he wants to coach in the future and Netherlands has a much bigger opportunity for him to do so than in SA..

Yeah my buddy was in the & group, came 7th, He said that he never knew they were gone until someone mentioned it after Smits only or else he would've gone with, He started too far back clearly LOL.

Possibly then the fact that the road on that side started to become too narrow with the road cones set out for the amount of riders all starting their descents. Too many guys trying to squeeze in not realising the cones are there..

I see Richard Murray won &. Am I correct in assuming it's the same ex SA now Dutch Triathlete Richard Murray? I mean he was at the expo and is now a Ciovita brand ambassador so too much of a coincidence to not be him?

Looks like the rider hit a cateye, front wheel burst and that was that....

Everyone saying the wind was "non existent" either only started after 8:30am because then by the time they hit Lakeside it had dropped completely all the way through to Smits, or they never sat on the front. I learned very quickly just how tough it was on the front with the wind..

That's alotta family LOL. On another note, Those ham & cheese croissants at Olympia are a major reason why I cannot fight off the urge from gravity to pull me backwards on any incline above 0.01%

Weather was ALOT better though

Sub3 group Totals. @ - 156 & - 141 # (Racing tadnem) - 6 1A - 69 1B - 3 Haven't checked further than that.

Isn't your bunch mat to mat? or also gun to mat?

Eish I feel for the rider from 1B with 3:00:01....

*ATTENTION ALL* Start groups and times have been updated on racetec