Ozzie NL

Anyone understood the logic of Moviestar pulling in the group of favourites today?

I'm not clear why Alan finished he race yesterday. Given he was a bit sick and it was clear points were out of range by second lap, I would have thought the sensible thing is to abandon?

Well aimed squirt of water bottle usually sorts them out

Or just ride races without paying CSA license at all... easy as I have never been checked... true anarchist style

Hmm to me this is more about the principle of CSA forcing me to pay for something I do not want nor need and does not do anything with the funds to support cycling in SA but just uses it to pay salaries. That's when the anarchist in me takes over. Know that acting on principle is usually not the financially astute route but it feels better and given my rationale above re day licenses, checking at events etc it is pretty close to break even (joining CSA and ROAG works out to R470, which equates to 9 R50 day licenses)

You can contact CSA and ask for a refund which they do honour (been there, done that).... after trying to convince you to join some virtual club

The rule has always been there but they only started enforcing it late last year. Prior to that you could just leave club blank and go issued a valid licence. Given CSA's permanently cash strapped position, I think this is a daft move. It is designed to encourage people to become club members but I suspect the vast majority of clubless members (which is the majority of the cycling community) will choice to simply let their membership lapse and take out the odd day licence if needed. Break even point between day licenses and annual is ~3 racing days per annum. Proof of membership is rarely checked at events (incl the big ones) and sometimes not even available on their site (such as 2022 S2C race). Moreover, quite a few events choose not to be CSA sanctioned to avoid the associated costs (with very limited upside). I see this move as just another step in CSA's death spiral.

You mean too much visible branding? Does not seem more excessive than any other brand or am I missing something?

Did you buy the MAAP kit online?

Deore / XLS specifically. XT and XTR is good and not that much cheaper than X01 PS; Deore Brakes are actually very good especially for the price point.

Hmm shifting not as crisp ...X01 is expensive but you'll miss it if you don't have it anymore....A bit like women

You'll regret that downgrade ...... alot

Whatever you do keep CSA (and by extension UCI) out of it ... they're main skill is to suck the joy out of anything they touch.

Do it ... awesome trails and experience. In my view the main difference between climbing in GT vs WC is the length of the climbs (which in turns comes with insanely long descent to us GP-ers). One of the best places to get some hill climbing in would be Breedtsnek as it is long and pretty rutted. W2W is not very technical and a couple of loops around places like Cradle Moon, Avianto and Kings Kloof will give you plenty practice Also agree with all comments that 7-12h training per week is plenty ...... and indeed probably double of what most of the field does

Did some experimentation and found the main use for MTB power meter the post ride analysis of the numbers. On the road you can consciously ride to a certain wattage whereas with MTB the terrain forces your power delivery with little obstacles, rocks, sand etc. Therefore found that the wattage is all over the place as opposed to a certain zone. Additionally you have a lot less opportunity to check what power you're doing when mtb-ing as the trail requires your full attention. Anyway, above is my reasoning not to put power meter on the bike. When it comes to types of power meters, I personally prefer hub based systems

I think that ff the elastics had snapped for MVDP on the last hill Pogi would have been the winner

^^^^^^ in spades. Rode for first time this year and would like to think I was reasonably well prepared but still took plenty lashings. Stage 1 was a whole new dimension of afk@k, then got better till both partner and me got spuitpoep on stage 5. Soldiered on as it would be really k@k to have a really nice travelbag you cannot use without embarrassment

That sounds very uncomfortable 😎

Wife is running a 34T oval on Epic Evo without issues. Just take it to LBS and get them to put in some spacers to increase the offset

On the back of your comments regarding earlier words I went back to Epic website and seems they have effectively already normalised the data by listing individual finishers and not reconstituted teams.

Good point on the earlier years but as far as I can see the data for 2099 and beyond is comparable as I did not add the solo finishers back in for any of the years

Drop out percentages based on Epic numbers over the years. Took no of teams finishing event over no of prologue finishers

Use Halo skull cap which has a rubber strip on the inside which directs sweat to the sides of your head

Maybe Tom Jenkins? https://www.strava.com/segments/19708381

City is a big word for Duiwelsdorp!!!