Ryan

Any one on this thread still live and ride in the area?

Tippex.

Does anyone else commute from Fourways area to Centurion?

90km at 12kph? Long ride.

Cavendish is pulling the bus?

Who uses GU for training anyway. Or even 'racing' for that matter!

Excuse my ignorance but what / where is this?

Nothing in particular, but after the third race in as many weeks on the same roads. Got a little boring.

For full road closure and an amazing race on our doorstep... can't really complain. We can always go ride out in the Far East again...

Do you know how you would kick yourself if you didn't fit new tyres and then punctured on the day.

From a mate who has done it. This will be my first (and probably last) and I asked him the same question. 1. Don't break your partner, you need him. 2 .Pack your days clothes and food in seperate packets and lable them. then each morning you pull out the bag and put the stuff on.If you have to pack and unpack every day you will forget stuff. 3. Zip lock bags for the drink powders. Its smaller to pack and you just pour it in the camel back or bottles. 4. Don't bother with clean clothes for everynight, i used the same stuff the whole week 5 .Scants are crap, your ass will be sore, so boxers. 6. If you start to get chaff on your ass, go to the bum clinic. if it blisters you ignored it too long. mine healed from a blister in three days. the clinic great.

Largely irrelevant, just beacause you spend half a mil on a car it doesn't mean you won't complain about the cost of fuels going up 25c every month.

You're a good man malcolmt.

I use Epic pro too, it doesn't taste great but it seems to work for me.

An amazing improvement... http://www.racetec.co.za/ShowResults.aspx?RiderID=460817

Fair enough. Thanks for the answer.

06:10 - Elite Ladies 06:55 - Vets 30-39 45 minute gap? Why so?

That's about right.

No, I found the route and the roads perfect. FFS, people complain about everything. the road was too bumpy, there were too many corners in the lead up to the finish line. It is all part of racing... okes would complain if there was a cobbled section too. Everything about this race was spot on, the parking was easy, the start pens worked well, the start was on time, the route was perfectly marshalled and everyone in my bunch behaved themselves. Well done to TNT and his crew for a brilliant day out.

I saw a fight too. A chap I started with in HL appeared to have take another chap out. Punches were flying when I cycled passed.

Well settled chaps. So easy.

Picture?

what have you been quoted just out of interest?

Yeah, that is not wrong. the 'racing license' entitles you to enter the races and costs R75. The racing license (that i suspect you bought @ like R350) puts you in the racing categories (Elites or VA/VB etc depending on your age). The VA chaps are fast. But you are lucky that you will have an early start then just try hang on. That is as far as I understand.

That is what happens when you buy a racing license instead of the normal membership.