I had a great weekend away at Buffelspoort. Started the race in the front batch and that helped alot compared to last year. All the short steep climbs were not congested and could move easily, I rode at my own pace all the way. Monster this year was much easier than last. I got to meet Divernick at about 42k, spoke to him for a while before he slowly left me with my 30 gears and he with his 1 !!!!! I had a slight lapse in concentration looking at other riders and almost bought a game farm in rustenburg. I wacked my rear derailer and snapped the cage, tried to bend it and it made it worse. i lost my top 2 granny gears and my 2 fast gears..... I used my front 3 a lot more to compensate. at the zip line centre I cramped BAD, and got off bike, Luckily there was a guy in need of bombs, so I hung with him for 10min trying to sort his wheel, pity his valve was also damaged. Cramped every 6/7km from there home Did 5 min more than last year, but 1,2km avg speed higher, so I was actually happy after cramps and mechanical!! Good to see there are still a lot of 26"s out there!!! Thanks Stillwater, FNB, Buffelspoort and all the rest for a great weekend. Next year awaits!!!
