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No. It’s no longer a freeway there.

I don’t think that’s a Campy BB. An older mechanic should have a splined tool in the bottom of his toolbox that will fit that. Try your LBS.

Both RaceFace and Shimano are very reputable brands. Your incident sounds either like an extremely rare once-off failure of the crank (unlikely) or a damaged crank due to bad installation (more likely). Both brands make parts from the cheap and basic to the expensive and exotic. Your bike came with a RaceFace Ride crank which is about on-par with the Deore level from Shimano. So either a new RaceFace or Shimano crank will be fine. Make sure the pedal is ok - if the threads on the pedal are bad that might damage the new crank as well.

We’ll just have to work harder to drop those under-geared MTBers on the road sections then!

Had a great day out in AG - the Trilogy is a very cool event, a real skills tester, from road racing to hooking berms in the singletrack. Great course design! My only gripe is that flat-bar mountain bikes were allowed in the bunch - makes for some very dodgy bunch riding, I saw many near-misses when an 800mm-odd bar on an MTB got tangled up with a curly-bar rider trying to maximise slip. Please consider making this a drop-bar only event.

Except for the 14km of riding on the beach part, although we had to walk that when I did it, so you could just as well have brought a TT bike for that section

Cool, thanks for the feedback. Sounds like we're in for a bit of under-biking then! Fun!

The gravel route says it crosses 14 A-frames at some point - are these ridable or are we going to do some cyclocross running up and down these?

Dynaplug FTW

I have the Favero Assioma MX pedals and they are awesome. Very reliable power readings and mechanically at least as good as Shimano XT pedals if not better.

Before you do the above things, take the pads out and rub them smooth and clean on some medium grit sandpaper. Don't use alcohol on the pads, only the rotors. Works for me every time.

It’s a fantastic event, an incredibly rewarding route, even without the cliffhanger. But it’s a big day out. And fit a chainring 4 teeth smaller than usual - thank me later

A friend's ortho told him that the MTBers paid for the holiday house but the padel people paid for the yacht!

You need a permit but you can buy a day permit with Snapscan at the trailhead at the entrance to Botmaskop forest area from the Uniepark suburb and even at the top of Botmaskop as you go over onto the Skyfall trails (at the top of Bartiney Wines). The trailheads have boards up with a code for Snapscan. Honesty system - please pay and keep the trail builders employed!!