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Check out Nooitgedacht Village on the outskirts of Skelmbosch. Close to all Stellenbosch and Bottelary Hills Conservancy trails and very close to the massive new Devonbosch Lifestyle Village currently being built which has its own 7km mtb pump track.

Common problem on carbon frames, James Perry can fix it for you.

Lets be honest here... that advert is misleading, Fun Day and Hill Repeats should not be used in a sentence together 😅

Saddle S-Works Romin EVO with Mirror 198g Wow, they think of everything nowadays, even a Mirror on the saddle to check for saddle sores.

I was reminded this past weekend again of the versatility of a gravel bike. I have an extra wheelset for my bike, the one is running 28C road tires with tubes & a road cassette and the other 45C tubeliss gravels tires and a more mtb oriented cassette. Took it out on Fri for 120km road road with mates and Sun evening just swapped out the wheelset and did a 110km gravel ride yesterday. The best of both worlds, I absolutely love my Revolt 🤙

I was at Lake Garda last year for just over a week watching the Giro and riding some of those climbs. My word, what an absolutely stunning place to ride a bike. Garda and Como have bike rental shops on almost every corner of the town, it's a cycling mecca.

You forgot about them being Vegan

Keyboard Epic riders are the best, they're always quick to point out what you should & shouldn't be doing 😄 to quote Theodore Roosevelt “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Eish, sorry to hear. You really need an old banger to get around in Stellies, these high end bikes are just targets for those thieving bastards who troll around the town.

Proof that 26ers were better and the younger generation are getting softer 😉

Damn that's beautiful, congrats 🤙 Please give us some feedback on the ride.

And you're fully entitled to feel & think that way. Many of us don't however, much as we don't believe in the "spirit of gravel" BS that floats around.

It still holds water for me. Burry never mentioned that was the only race that determined whether he classed someone as a true mountain biker, merely one of them.

Bike packing trip through the Cederberg this past weekend. This is the view from the Pass going out of Wuppertal.

Pretty sure they'll extend cut off today due to the abortion on the climb

I just mentioned to some friends that the thing most Epic first-timers fail to train for is the hike-a-bike sections and they absolutely kill your legs for the next days stage. You end up with massive muscle stiffness because you're only conditioned for cycling so the glutes, hammies & calves take a beating. It sounds inconsequential but believe me, you pay the price. It's literally only the Pros that can climb those massive mountains on the bike, for the rest it's a 30min to 1 hour hike, almost every day.

That's total BS, everyone knows that all KTM's are Race Ready >> It's their slogan after all 😉

Yes, 2 x Lead motorcyclists on scramblers that ride well ahead and check trail markings are correct, gates are open etc. etc. They would have given those hikers ample warning. Certainly not an ideal scenario though and heads will probably roll tonight 🤣

I bitched and moaned about the price last year as well (see old thread), until I went and rode the event. It's pretty damn amazing and this year I'll pay the R700 without complaining 😄 Those Lourensford trails are incredible... oh, and don't forget the "free" Spur burger afterwards 🙃 🤙

As someone who's been part of that media crew for a few years (okay I only rode the motorbike with the cameraman on the back 😄), I can promise you that they won't be happy with that feed today and will be doing everything in their power to improve it for tomorrow. BigShot media take what they do very seriously and no one is harder on them than themselves. That media caravan is not the place you want to be during a stage if you can't handle stress 😄

Gees, we're a hard bunch to please... live streaming for free, from multiple choppers, motorcycles and e-bikes and we still bitch about all aspects of it 😲 1st world problems in a 3rd world hey !!!

As some who has both, IMHO the hardtail is a more versatile tool. I'm about to depart on a Cederberg trip on mine after using my Gravel bike on the Plett2CT trip previously.

Bettiol won Milano - Torino on Wed 🤙

I suspect you never had enough beer, hence the cramps. I had 5 and had zero cramping issues ☺️🙃