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NO !! What happened Seven ??

Any other Hubbers doing this on Sat? Ray, Barhugger?

Passed this on the way back from Bloem on Sat:

Hey Dale, my buddy just got the same bike last week, doing his first race at Magoebaskloof on it with us on the 5th Nov. Has broken all his previous segment times at Modderfontein by huge amounts. I think you are going to enjoy it Makes my battered old Flash look old !!

You are right - he never did gloat when he was proved right. I also miss those fights between him and the Lance fan boys !!

Agreed, my Bike Shop were only to happy to help me with any Cannondale Frames including a Scalpel.

Wanda sports who own Ironman are the biggest sports group in the world so they have the capabilities.

I suppose we must be pleased in this day and age they can still get sponsers - its a tough world out there in pro cycling.

Ja, one moment it was Garmin involved and now it all changes again - hopefully will bring the results !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Morning Dale - I see you need to change the thread name again . We have a team name change !! Cannondale - Drapac Pro Cycling Team.

Yip - still have a couple of rounds of the .50 - was a .50 short. I was in 7 SAI, 78 intake had a LT Rassie Erasmus fresh out of Oudtshoorn as our Anti - Tank instructor - he must have been at Infantry School the same time as you? That Bang as one let go with that Beast could be heard for miles !!

Yip - old faithfull - R1 - used for my two years as well as camps.

I was trained to hunt tanks with this 106mm recoilless rifle courtesy of the SADF. Penetration ability - 450 mm armoured steel plate or 2 metres reinforced concrete. BTW if you have problem storing this would go with a 308.

Simon Clarke wins GP Larciano; Paddy Bevin impresses with third place in Paris-Nice prologue Cannondale Pro Cycling Team scored its third win of the season when Simon Clarke soloed to victory in Larciano to win GP Industria & Artigianato on Sunday. A strong team effort netted Clarke the victory on a day that saw four Green Argyle riders finish in the top nine. “I went in knowing we had an awesome team,” said Clarke. “We all knew with the team we had there, we should come away with the win if we did everything right.” Earlier in the afternoon, Paddy Bevin put in a brilliant performance on the opening stage of the Paris-Nice. The Kiwi time trial champ powered to third place with a time of 7:41 over 6.1km in the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine prologue. Michael Matthews (ORICA-GreenEDGE) won by one second over Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin). Bevin was a mere two seconds off the winning pace. “Last year I watched this race. I was on the ergo at home in New Zealand training in the rain,” said Bevin. “To be here a year later and pretty close to the top guys is a good feeling. That’s what you train to do – to be a part of that race.” Slipstream Sports CEO Jonathan Vaughters expressed pride in both new signings who he sees flourishing at Cannondale Pro Cycling Team. “Simon’s victory was just a matter of time. He’s an experienced and talented rider who just needed the right chance,” said Vaughters. “On the other hand, Paddy’s prologue ride was a surprise. A very pleasant surprise! First time the kid has done a WorldTour race in Europe, and he makes the podium. That is damn impressive.”

That's the one

URAN TO MAKE CANNONDALE PRO CYCLING TEAM DEBUT AT ALGARVE The Volta ao Algarve begins this Wednesday in Portugal and signals the first race of the season for Rigoberto Uran — and the first in argyle for the Colombian all-rounder. “I really want to compete again,” Uran said a few days prior to the race. “We have a very strong team but really for me Algarve is my first race of the season,” he added, noting his build toward the Giro d’Italia. “From what I’ve seen of him — since he started working with us and over the last years, he’s not somebody who’s going to come in half-cocked. He’s going to come and race and he’ll be at the front,” Cannondale Pro Cycling Team director Charly Wegelius said. “And that comes from him. That’s just the way he is. There’s no great pressure from us or great expectations. That’s just how he rolls.” Algarve marks another debut for the team - that of sport director Juan Manuel Garate. With stage wins at each grand tour to his name — including up Mt. Ventoux at the Tour de France — and a win at San Sebastian, Garate brings a depth of knowledge to the team. He’s finished in the top 10 at the Giro d’Italia on two occasions. Cannondale brings a deep squad to the season’s first true gauge of those with early season ambitions. Joining Uran will be Andre Cardoso, Kristijan Koren, Sebastian Langeveld, Moreno Moser, Ramunas Navardauskas, Dylan Van Baarle and Wouter Wippert. Wegelius taps Navardauskas, a Tour de France stage winner and bronze-medalist at the 2015 UCI Road World Championships, as one to watch. “If he can freelance, he can win very hard sprints, or he could clip off and go his own way,” Wegelius said. Wippert gives the team a second sprint card. Over the course of five stages, Algarve offers a test for those with stage-race ambitions and riders looking for one-day success in the coming months. There’s a mid-race individual time trial of 18 kilometers and two uphill finishes (stages two, five). “It’s sort of the first race of the season that is challenging enough on all fronts that it can give you a real indication of who’s going to be a force to be reckoned with early in the season,” Cannondale Pro Cycling Team CEO Jonathan Vaughters said. “People who have performed at Algarve are the people who’ve performed well at Paris-Nice, Tirreno and even through to the spring classics.” Cannondale Pro Cycling Team Roster, 2016 Volta ao Algarve Andre Cardoso Kristijan Koren Sebastian Langeveld Moreno Moser Ramunas Navardauskas Rigoberto Uran Dylan Van Baarle Wouter Wippert

Something like that Imagine how well he will do inthe Epic if he does not race !!

From competitive racing yes - is just enjoying a gentle trail ride here.

When ?

Okay - first major race of the season finished, Tour down Under - Cannondale wins Team Classification !! Hopefully the first of many results this year !!

Good Song !!

Hey Dale - complements of the Season - the first post here for 2016. I agree, strange seeing him in anything other than Europcar - going to be good seeing him on a Cannondale !!

Eat s**t, I dunno, 20 Billion flies can`t be wrong !!

Listening to it on 49 meter band on Short Wave radio from LM. Used to in the evenings change to Medium Wave, forgotten the MB though. Brilliant radio station, the only one at that stage playing decent music, all the SABC offerings were *** and Government controlled not to corrupt the youth with Communistic and from the devil music offerings.

Grant Maben, Robbie Wicks, Gary Bergstrom, Darryl Werner, Tyrone Stevenson and Charlie Tissen to mention a few names from the past.