I FLY

McGregor residents are also keen on a local Woolies.

So here is how I have handled this quest for good mtb trails on my door step. I bought a holiday place in Somerset West in 2019 but ended living there two weeks a month until December 2023. Moved down to Kraaifontein from Johannesburg in December 2023 so I am in the middle of Tyberberg and the Winelands trails. I joined a housesitting forum and so far this year I have spent a week in each of Greyton, Gordons Bay and Prince Albert. I am currently doing a two week housesit in McGregor. My wife is also a cyclist so we take our bikes and explore the different options every day. I work remotely a few hours in the afternoons. In May we are going to spend a week in St Helena Bay.

I remember KV sitting at his table at the 2003? RIDE Expo in the Dome. He even tried to convince me to enter the 2004 event. I told him that Joe Averages like me could never attempt such an outrageous event. History has proved me wrong as thousands have.

His mom was also a good age group cyclist

I remember rushing to finish my ride so I could stand on Witkoppen Road to watch them race past.

I am back to boost the number of entrants. Now that I live here fulltime I decided to enter this year. My last ride of CTCT was in 2005.

It is slightly tart but I only add about 10% of the bottles volume. It just makes a nice change from the sweetness of coke/water combination

In the past few years I have reverted back to water with about 25% coke . Lately I have tried adding fresh ginger beer instead of coke. We don't ride for more than 3 hours and not at a flat out pace.

I am in. R2500 towards entry fee and R2.50 per km travelled.

Agreed. I have even done it on our tandem with my wife as stoker.

We rode here on Saturday. It is the driest I have experienced. One small patch of mud and no water in the little rock depressions. Weather forecast shows rains going to start again later this week.

Tony Huglin

A gentleman under a rough exterior.

You are talking to a bunch of cyclists. We understand the practicality of high maintenance

Try living in eMalahleni ( Witbank) - all the bakkies and Fortuners are white. I used to comment that one quick way to clear a restaurant was to announce that a white bakkie had been bumped in the carpark.