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Either way, how do you fit a guy and a bike into a bottle's neck so they can try it? It's like those ships in bottles. How do they do it?

Complete with moulded plastic wheels. That's Epic!

For a couple of R1000, I would rather have luggage lost in Turin than in Lourensford (or wherever that Stauser benefit ride happens). Thanks anyway.

Yes, and the race organisation provide airport transfers. You'd have to fly into Briancon, Turin or Geneva, something like that, close-ish to the start...

Um: 2013 Epic: Entry Fee: R39, 800 per team R25k(or less with the right flights - And that other oke's flights would have put it at R21,800) is in the ball park.

Exactly. Mine was just an illustration for the swiss nay sayer.

Well stop walking on the line and causing bottlenecks.

A quick search: Your departure flight Johannesburg - Turin Your return flight Turin - Johannesburg Passengers : 1 Adult Total : ZAR 10,784 So only R25k. And I'm sure you can get cheaper fares somewhere...

Yeah. After riding the Tour, the Giro and the Vuelta in the same year, the Epic isn't really all that much of a challenge.

An example of the cost of shipping cargo by An-225 was €266,000 for flying a chimney duct from Denmark to Kazakhstan in 2008. Farking Hell!

I won't drink during the week, so then I can have 11-ish Guinness a day over weekends

Which is why I asked if the other 4 prototypes are still knocking about somewhere?

David? Is that you?

Yeah. One flight. Sad that it was destroyed. Are the other 4 still around somewhere?

I'd do that in a race anyway...

Just do the Freedom Challenge then.

The Ruski shuttle that never was...

Paintball markers?

Where's old MJ? We need his input on this subject.

Because of that I don't tell people I ride a bike.

Well, now you know.

And team's not so weird. Apart from all the Italians on an Irish team. Only concerning thing, is that it is basically the old LPR Brakes team, and they had quite a culture of doping with Di Luca et al...

As long as he can stay upright, he should do ok.

What I've learnt from this thread, is that race organisers need to make deaf riders wear specially marked bibs or helmut covers or something to make them stand out in a crowd.

Seems like they also want you to feed them e-mail addys so they can spam your mates.