This was my first time doing the Jacaranda Satellite Classic and while I enjoyed a hard race I was concerned about a number of safety aspects. My group BL was far far too big. For the first 20ks it spread out about 500m on the road. This meant whenever there was a gap in the traffic tens of cyclists went over the white line to overtake - at 45kph very dangerous. At the turn after Hekpoort, the marshals didn't even see a car turning right into the racing line as my group was in the corner - nearly took out the whole group. The finish was a joke - up over a hill, race at full speed dodging cars turning left out of the parking area across the race line and then get directed hard left into the finish road, across the line at 40ks only to slam on breaks to stop riding into the masses of riders that had just finished. It's easy to fix the finish, just have the finish line on the main road 200m before the car park. Nice set up at Saloon 66, but don't know how many cyclists saw it. It was too far away from the start finish.
