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The cyclist changed lanes without looking at all just put his forearm out and went. There was nothing a truck could do to avoid him. Why anyone would cycle in that environment baffles me. Might as well swim off Fish Hoek with a bloody tuna strapped to your chest.

I have the same response. Viva the free market, viva!

If after ten years you create a super popular event, you can do like IMSA and start a new event with 3000 entrants @ R2500 per head three months before the event. Long term effort equals long term returns.

Unfortunately with smaller/newer events you still have fixed costs. For example: You have two ambulances for a typical race whether you have two hundred or two thousand entrants. Triathlon events are also commercial ventures unlike cycle and running races which are run by clubs and play off the charity of members for their time. Organisers tend to pay for labour rather than try and build a volunteer culture. Affiliation fees are not cheap and if you want it on TV, prepare to pay some big cheques. So the two hundred entries have to pay a lot of salaries. Sun City Ultra has 241 starters and the Sprint 240 starters. I seriously doubt they made any money out of that. Triathlon has also a fanatical following which is less price sensitive. If you halved the entry fee, I doubt you would get twice the entrants (although you would probably need three times the entrants to make the same money as there are also lots of per capita costs).

ICE ID. Medical personnel will look for it. Mine got me into private hospital when I could not speak for myself without any other identification. There are several systems where you carry a number and then your rescuer must phone to get your details. Why involve a human? ICE ID is visible and has all the details available immediately. I also have on my car keyring a little aluminium capsule (Sportsmans Warehouse) which has all the same details in for when I am not wearing my ICEID.

Hi Rockman I suggest you move this to Multisport forum. You will get more views and discussion from us Multisporters there than under Events.

So curiosity got the better of me and I downloaded the document and read what seemed like the relevant sections. The specific rule "No licence holder may participate in an event that has not been included on a national, continental or world calendar or that has not been recognised by a national federation, a continental confederation or the UCI." Licence holder means a racing licence and what the UCI call a 'Cycling for All' licence. So everyone who is a member of CSA. Event is not defined that I could see. They have a whole section on Races and the registration thereof but they only talk about races that have been approved or have applied to be approved. A race is only a race if included on a national or international calendar. In terms of the specific words in that document, a CSA member could be sanctioned (in their opninion/intent) for participating in a charity fund raising event (possibly even if it was in a different sport.). IMO, the document is ambiguous and very poorly written. A decent lawyer would pull that to pieces quite easily. (I am not a lawyer but do read a lot of legal docs).

So I drove to Pretoria, cycled back to Joburg, and then cycled back to Pretoria and then drove back to Joburg. Well marshalled. Good parking access. Cones kept the cars out of the lane but was not involved in any big groups so did not have problems with the road width. Not a memorable route but an excellent, challenging training ride. More toilets at the start would have been preferable. Although it was good to see a person in attendance to keep them tolerable.

Is it my imagination or can you not see Like count anymore? Bad parenting when you only show the bad and not the good

Going down the trail and someone overtakes you and his drone takes out your drone! First world problems. Can a drone call "Track!"?

Funny how ASG is all over here when doing product promotion but don't keep an eye on the threads about their races.

Frail was tired after a 115km ride. Don't believe it. Must have left a zero off.

Wear in over your helmet so you won't get hit!

Good luck. Have fun out there.

I gotta ask, did Lance order a set?

No person would ever touch a strangers balls. That is a sure way to keep those motorists far away. 1.5m is just not enough.

It is also dependent on the saddles you use. I sit on my ISM on the tribike completely differently to the road saddle. One is geared for getting low and aero, the otehr for a more upright pose. My contact points are different. The way I got my ISM fit right was doing laps of Kyalami doing adjustments every few laps. The comparability of the laps made the changes measurable. When I found the sweet spot, the difference was obvious. The end result was a combination of both height and forward/aft positioning. I also have effectively two positions on the bike, firstly where I am just doing the distance, comfortably on the saddle with good power at not too high an effort. Secondly I move right forward so my butt is just on the tip of the saddle. The saddle provides little support, more just for stability and that's when the fun power happens.

D2D is from Heia Safari this year. The website claims it is an Argus seeding event.

R299 for 22km! A warm welcome to the sport of cycling.

You don't need 1500 cones for that. On the race website they say that it is for lane splitting the N14.

Where you measuring you saddle height from? Your tri geometry will rotate you forward. The triangle should not change. So your contact point on the saddle will be the same distance from the bottom bracket. Depending on your saddle contact point, in my experience, you saddle will actually move up slightly.

He made them cry in the first place! Paul is an exceptional Race Director.

Nope. Riding tandems at the moment with my wife. Next triathlon will probably be TriRock Durbs

I am in. ASG say they have invested in 1500 traffic cones to demarcate the right hand lane which we will be riding in. That is one cone every 60 odd meters. Great investment. Will hopefully keep the cars at bay. My concern is how will a bunch successfully negotiate a cone every 60 meters. The N14 has a big wide shoulder on the left (where we are NOT riding) and no shoulder on the right.

He is running for Rabies Awareness. Did the dog catch him?