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I love riding up Constantia neck, how price drive compare to going up canterbury drive? How do I get to it from claremont side?

Hey great going.

Bianchi on principle.

Are you riding on flats or up the hills? My lowerback was also giving me grief especially up the hills, but after I had the bike setup done, it went away. If you had the setup done correctly, (Sports Science Institute is the best - if you in Cape Town) then I would agree that its probably fitness level, go easier and build the distance and intensisty.

Thanks guys great info.

Thats classic. I think I must start stressing about those minor things rather it may actually take your mind off the training, and inadvertantly do better ride.

Agreed, I find that cycling can be so fickle, sometime you work very hard and on the day you show up and dont have the legs.

PeterM when you say Max your training do you mean distance and intensity and then reduce both down to race day.

Thanks for that, very informative, almost bordering on too much info there Marius So effectively you have the day before as complete break and that works for you? Have you experimented a bit to get to this routine, for instance have you tried with two days off before race day and has this felt worse for you?

Hi So I am one of those guys that always feels he is not doing enough, with the result that most often I over train and then my legs feel like lead on race day. Was wondering if the more experience racers can give their thoughts in terms of when they start tapering and how much effort they still put in the week leading up to race day.

I was there first time it was great, guy had puncture right in front of me on one of the bends and that was a bit dodgy as it was right after we picked up speed, enjoyed thoroughly my max speed was 51 and average 35, will be there next week.

Will be my first session looking forward to it.

Cool sms me also.

Man, would have loved to join you W, will make a plan after next week. promise.

I have seen a few at Chis Willemse, very nice bikes.

Sucks that there is no one in Cape Town that can do this.

Please organise emergency back up servers... Lets have a copy of the disaster and recovery plan, we cannot have even a few minutes with the hub down....

Best value for money would be to buy a good second hand bike off the hub. There are some really nice bikes posted with high spec, should be great for starting out. shop around to get a feeling for prices and components etc... but keep a look out on the for sale area here.

The police should have at least attempted to get the bike, when they realised could they not organise something they were on the scene the guy could not have gotten that far by then???

keep a look out in gumtree

So how much did you pay for them?

Terrible to hear, on the way in today also heard a cyclist was knocked down this morning, its become such a common phrase in te traffic update. I start riding into work next week...

That is normal, you need to get IDT tire. Its normally thicker smooth rubber, I have the Continental one and it works well. If you use your normal tires you will feel the flat spots on the road, or make that your idt tire now and get a new tire for the road.

Saw the same thing this morning on my way in to Cape Town CBD, taxi wheel came off and he basically backed up traffic all the way up hospital bend, but again full taxi. Cops should confiscate and scrap these taxi, so that strong message gets sent to the taxi owners..

Hi The bike is not at cycle traders its at Neil, another guy who deals in second hand bikes. You can go check out similar bike at Chain reactions, they have it advertised there for 21 or 22k on special. If you like what you see then contact me for the details of the owner of the spec. The spec also has carbon flat bar which was selling for around 2k so thats a nice extra as well.