Breezer

B group. Always a difficult group to get out. Workers are the same every race and 1km before the end you see people in your group for the first time. A group race for position, time does not matter. B ride to get into A, for that they must work together, but there are a very few times in my live that that happened.

I am BL. 6.25. Wonder what the L is for. Look like 5 min between start groups. That is alot.

I ride with a saddle bag and if I pass a guy without a saddle bag along the route screaming and begging bomb, bomb, i just smile and wave.

Actionphoto

Over 44 avg. They were flying!

I was asked Sunday to join a team. One of their riders got sick over the weekend. So 2017 dc, here I come with no training!

Ouberg en gifberg. Sand wind en baie klim.

Upgrade from the muna balance bike.

Another thing to remember is how expensive new bikes became. I bought my first roadbike 10 years ago for R4000 brand new and with 105. A new rider would have to put down R10000 now for a bike and kit and that would be for a entry level bike.

Ditto

Look like entries are not flying as fast as previous years. I just got a mail saying that they have extended entries till the 3rd of October.

If I lived in Cape Town, I would have entered without thinking twice, but I live in the rural areas and have to choose my races carefully. I do not want to go to CT for nothing. I will skip this year and hopefully the race will continue without a problem. I will enter again if things settle down and my little boy is big enough to ride. I just have a funny feeling these guys realized they have the ctct by the balls.

Bolla, who took the photos of the event and where can we view it?

And the singletrack was also removed this year.

Yes, if you can handle sinkplaat. There is about 400m singletrack at the end, but that is the most technical of the route.

Malcolm, I will pm you a link to my strava later today.

Much like the malmesbury 100 miler, with just 1 big climb. If you have done the cederberg 100 miler then you would know the part from Clanwilliam to Algeria. One year there was a lot of sinkplaat. I do not know what condition the road is in this year.

Add a eastern wind and this can become a long hard day.

Hi Bolla, is the down ride the same as the 2015 ride where we went to Clanwilliam first and from there to Algeria?

I got 1100 on endomondo, but 1300 on strava

Stunning route. I love real rocky mtb routes and this one is. Hopefully I can do this again.

My weekend changed just now, so i will be there tomorrow. Last time I was there it was raining so much that we had to do loops. I hope this will be the case again, we need the rain!

Sorry to hear about your puncture. Unfortunately that is part of cycling. Weather was perfect today. Lets hope the next one will be the same. If you could stick that much longer with your group, you should be happy. That means you are getting better. Good luck next time.

Best of all, they are the same people who benefit from the charities of the ctct

Perfect statement.