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Nope. Not now.

That is very good news.

Seeding for substitutions have been released and got my seeding this morning: 3C. I have no active seeding, as I do not race but I did 200km with 1800m of climbing last week at an ave of over 30kph. I am not sure if 3C is good or bad in that light. Do I stand in the long queue and try and get reseeded ?

31%? Are you paying anything to his mother as well ? Wrt the age question, I stopped paying the maintenance of my daughters to my ex when my children left school and went to University. However I kept the obligation and used the money to pay varsity and res fees, allowance etc. Both are still studying and I still pay even though they are in their twenties. But, they also work and earn their own money. Remember, just because he has an 18th birthday does not stop him from being your son.

I stopped trying to deal with airlines and bicycles over the CTCT weekend. It just is too complicated. I have used the courier people ( there are a few companies that do it) and it makes the logistics a breeze. You drop the bike a few days in advance, pick it up at the stadium when you register, drop it off after the race and fetch it from them when you get home. No need to pack, carry, worry about it getting trashed on the plane, etc. This year I will be using these guys: https://secure.trans-sport.co.za I see they service Durban as well, give them a call.

I did not ask to be. But what does being on it imply ?

I got conned into signing up for the Active Rewards program, but for some reason they got Chris Froome and myself mixed up. I am an old man and social cyclist yet they have set my weekly target at 1200 points. Is this in the ball park, or was it just a mistake to sign up the week I finished the Rapha Festive 500 ?

Staying in Greenpoint, 500m from the finish. It has worked well for me in past years. I invited a recent cycling partner to join me for a "dirty weekend" in Cape Town. I had to quickly explain to her that I had no lascivious intentions but had been referring to an inability to have a shower......

Exactly. Like the Double-cab Hilux with two bikes on the back that nearly ran us off the road while he was overtaking a slower vehicle between Kloofsig and Avianto yesterday morning.

Ditto. May just do SBR or a fast cradle ride instead ......

^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^

It is a dating site, but as you have been warned there are likely to be some weird woman on it. Rather use Grinder, apparently no loony woman on it.

Naai en waai

For an extra R299 the ease of this option is worth it. http://www.trans-sport.co.za No worries about packing or reassembling or getting trashed by baggage handlers. Deliver your bike to them, they put it in a BIG box in front of you, only removing the front wheel and you can put your tools, helmet and shoes in the box and then collect it at the stadium any time from the Friday. After the race, ride 200m from the finish and the process reverses itself. Pick up your bike anytime from the Tuesday. QED.

We saw lots of droppings on the road and a big herd of what looked like wildebeest some distance away. Hope there is more.

Where ? I can't find it...

I only did the first one, and it was a wonderful and memorable ride. Unfortunately the logistics for someone who lives in Jo'burg made it (practically) impossible for me to get there again although I promised myself that I would do another.

Big difference between the technology and the product. Plant hybridisation = good technology Tulip bulbs = bad investment product

Breedts is worse than I have seen it in the 7 years that I have been riding it. Wrt the Grand fondo we must remember that there are two other, longer stretches of dirt road and as I recall the stretch from DeRust towards the caves is rougher and longer than the pass itself...

I tested my race rig (Niner RLT steel with 40 mm gravel tyres) up, over and back at Breedts today. Some discoveries: Tubeless is a must. I had a slow leak and fitted a tube on the back. The pressures to avoid pinch flats make it a harsh ride. Being in the drops is easier and gives much more control than riding on the hoods when descending. Practice. Momentum is your friend. You can ride anything on the route. Don't forget your gloves at home. It would have been easier on a DS MTB and faster down the steep bits. 48-12 is faster than 32-11 1x on the flats

I rode it last weekend from the circus and it was fine. You can also park at the gate or, if coming in from the north, at the centre.

You need to update your spellchecker....

When I got divorced my daughters were 4 and 6 years old and spent every weekend with me. What else was there to do with them but to watch BBC food on a Friday, shop for ingredients and cook on a Saturday. The upshot was all three of us learnt to cook, eventually quite properly. I still do and when they got to University they were the only ones of the friends who knew their way around a kitchen. Cooking is an easy skill to pick up but one that always is worth having. Fixed

Oh, look : Please help if you can. https://www.bikehub.co.za/index.php?app=hubmarket&module=core&do=view_item&item_id=287176&new=1

Surfer Please see the advice I gave Landy earlier. The advice you will get from the Hub is well meaning, but you ARE fighting for your future and you are not in a position - emotionally, legally, financially, socially, to make a reasoned decision on anything. To emphasise, no matter how much you want it to be "amicable" it will become confrontational. Quite simply, how hard do you think she will be prepared to fight to secure her financial future ? For her, the choice is between financial security or ongoing struggle for the rest of her life. What do you think any rational person will choose?