GaryvdM

Yes, and apparently a fair amount of fence hopping and gate open & closing.

Yhea - Fanie was stopped at WP6 for about 2h30.

Redshift Dual-Position seatpost. Nice

Where did you find this? Please will you post a link. NVM Found it on the facebook page https://web.facebook.com/pg/TheMungaMTB/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1906076192847338

Is this Jack Black's bike?

Nice looking farmhouse with lots of trees just after Ramses's last tracker point. ????

So have we just had a change in leader, or just a tracker gremlin? If it's a tracker problem, then Ramses should be in Loxton already. If not, then Kudos to Marco www.iol.co.za/.../portugals-marco-martins-to-defend-munga-mountain-bike-title

I know that pub. I stopped there for something to eat in the Karoo Dash this year.

Wayne McDuling is heading back in the right direction. He has to go back to where he left the route, right?

Time gap to the chasing group was 1h30 through the night. Ramses stopped for an hour in Britstown, so gap is now down to 30min.

Oh man, this is a far one. He missed his turn 3hrs ago and he still has not corrected.

Stefan le Roux is now showing as scratched. Van Zyl went back - but not all the way to where he got into the car?

Can I suggest that we all move over to https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/179549-munga-2018-race-news/ Mod's didn't want to merge the threads - why don't keep this as the pre-race thread - and we can use that one as the during-race thread. (Following 2 threads is a pain.)

What's happening with Johny Tauyatswala? His tracker is doing 120km/h on the R706.

Sarah Van Heerden - You know first hand what she is capable of.

Only a single data point. It's most likely just an inaccurate gps reading.

All the while, Shimano and SRAM have different pull ratios for MTB and Road groupsets, so if you want to put drops on a MTB or put a flatbar on a gravel bike, you can't just change the shifters, you also got to change the derailleurs.

Dam - I've entered already

Nice. Where does the water pipe go to? Do you have a bladder in the frame bag?

Last year I fitted Kenda Kwick Tendril 35x622 tires to my gravel bike. To be honest they were kind of my last choice from a very limited choice that were available from local bike stores. I've now done over 5000km on them. They are still going strong. Not one puncture. I ride them on road, and on gravel roads, and on the pavement coming from home which has lots of glass on it. Then this happened, which amazed me: On Sunday while riding 947 Cycle challenge, every now and again, I would hear a wheel speed tick. Was a little concerning, but I just kept on and had no problems. After a short ride this afternoon, I noticed this: I think I must have picked this up in the start pen. It's incredible it did not cause a puncture.

Yes, it will be interesting to see the final rig.

Sure it's not ground breaking. I think there have been mtb's with drop handle bars in every Munga. No one is saying it ground breaking. How do you know it's a bad idea? Have you ridden the Munga (or something similar) on one, or are you just assuming?

If your result is not up yet, I would recommend you submit a query here: http://queries.racetec.co.za/resultqueries

Number of timed finishers: 2016: 20726 2017: 20353 2018: 18464 This lower number might be because they are still loading the results. I'll pull them down again next weak to check. No idea what they did with the time for the people doing the shorter route.

How do you get it into the tube?