dave303e

Mine comes and goes, currently the first 20 odd steps int the morning are hell and then they warm up and I don't feel it the rest of the day. Rest, Ice, stretching and rolling on a massage ball are my go to remedies. Also check shoe mileage, I was lazy and let 2 pairs click through 1000km and boom, issues. But take it easy, if you ease up on it early enough you can manage it.

Most bike shops have rivnut tools and will sort you out without breaking bank

I must say I saw that picture and thought to myself- rock wall on the left, no yellow lines and a lovely steep drop down to the ocean on the right. I wouldn't be riding there regularly if I didn't need to. Same reason I wouldn't want to ride a motorbike or drive a car there regularly either, just a high risk that really doesn't need to be taken. Yes accidents happen on safe roads all the time, but if you look at controlling the controllable, you give yourself that element of a chance by sticking to 'safer roads.' The same way we pick and choose roads to avoid potential bike jackings, work the odds in your favor. I saw a youtuber the other day let slip that he doesn't ride his garden features daily, he hits those when he needs to film content only, it is just too risky for a daily ride. I was so glad to see it and think we all need that taste of reality.

No, saw a few friends had PB's, looked like ok conditions except for a headwind later in the race. How is everyone's training going? I am in the last tough week before a longer taper into my first marathon. Been enjoying the lower training load being focused on running only. Still looking forward to the taper though.

If it is such a dangerous hot spot for cyclists and motorists, why do people bother riding there? Surely a view is not worth risking your life for? I have been there a few times in a car but the last few trips to the Cape we have avoided it as much as possible, just not worth it. Unfortunately in my opinion, you don't put on a 1 piece leather suit to potter around on a Sunday morning. Just my 2c, same way you don't take out a skin suit and a time trial bike for a Sunday coffee run unless you plan on hurting your riding partners. I have never owned a superbike because I know I cannot control myself. Signs are pointless in SA. I have worked numerous race events where people ask things like where are medics or where are bathrooms? 90% of the time you can point at a clearly visible sign that answers their dumb question. In theory yes, but like motorbikes, no front facing number plate, so good luck unless they pull you over right there and then. Valentines day in SA is a dangerous day hey. So here is a big one- somewhere on a thread there were comments on the UK driving laws being silly and too restrictive, I think it was in connection with e-bikes. In SA you can be over 18 and have have never touched a motorcycle ever in your life. You can write a written learners text at a desk and then if you pass you can legally ride a machine capable of 300+kmh on our roads. In the UK, you need to ride a smaller bike for 2 years and then do another license test before you can legally get on a properly powerful bike. Makes a lot more sense. The other thing- where do you cut off high performance bikes for track only and not road. Surely every AMG G class, all sports cars and other high performance vehicles should be illegal as well. You can do 200 easy in an amg g class, and that is a 3,2ton chunk of metal rubber and plastic hauling down the road.

squish and co are easy to get down, but most of them are actually really low in energy or carbs, so read the label and make sure before you need to rely on them.

prepsol and a high pressure hose

That is not in RSA, flippen scary but doubt it is in RSA

Bike should not be too big. I would maybe try the rack on a friends car to rule out the tow ball itself. I would also maybe take some brake cleaner and clean the ball. Often people over grease trailers(rentals especially) and it might be really slick/greasy from that?

I have a heavy duty hitch, that has a removable ball and pin coupling. I need to to tow agricultural trailers(firefighters etc) and it is safer for pulling vehicles out the mud(dairy farm, this happens monthly in summer). But the ball and pin rotate. Huge PITA with a bike rack though. I have 2 straps cut to length that I use to brace it, each goes round the bike rack frame and up over the bakkie frame and then it doesn't rotate. With them cut to length it takes like 2 extra mins to put on the rack.

deep heat on the balls is the secret strategy to fight sleep monsters on the 3rd night of an expedition...

If you are hitting the limiter of the ebike then step onto a bicycle like the rest of us, because your fitness and or capability is not actually a restriction worth riding an ebike.

If your body is capable of hitting a jump at 45kmh, you will be strong enough to pedal a bicycle. But it is not the new MX, it is just parents thinking their kids are safer and more socially acceptable than the mx kids. MX kids are real, those lighties can ride, those bikes have real power and take real skill to ride. ebikes have no gears, no clutch, really average suspension and tyres and weigh a lot less. The day you clear every jump on an mx track you can think about that comparison. Rich moms are just happier thinking their sons are cycling not being hood rat MX riders. There are a bunch of Isle of Man riders that will win this class, all they have to do is bring their TT Zero bikes to the e-road race. I think the 2019 TT Zero was won with a 121mph Average speed. The derestricted ebikes will get destroyed. The new electric mx bikes are also stupidly fast

I agree with not needing expensive stuff for training days. Biogen pure energy works out at 45grams carbs in a 750bottle. But your Rand per bottle is around R8,50. Think 32gi Endure is around R22/bottle for similar carb value. Cadence carbofuel is R20/bottle for 40grams carbs. Maurten is at R57/bottle for 80grams carbs for reference. I am happy to train cheap on biogen and then spice it up for special days and save the bank balance a little. I am only running at the moment, but last year I was going through 10+bottles a week and it adds up very fast. You do need to test your stomach can handle it as well.

give yourself plenty of time... You don't go anywhere fast in that neck of the woods, Mafika Lisiu pass on the way to Katse on your rough route is a SOB of note. Are you planning on a mtb or gravel bike?

these events are also seeded, so they reward the people who ride them often and ride them well. Starting in the faster batches does a lot for not getting caught in bottlenecks...

Advendurance knows what they are doing, no doubt they will put the route together in a way that will not cause too many issues. They will probably find jeep tracks and gravel early on and then get into the singletrack later in the race. Most of their races do similar.

walk 2 light poles, run 1. Build from there till you run them all. Slowly does it though. Alternatively there are a lot of couch to 5k programs free to download that are a good start.

All Enduro/offroad motorbikes have kickstands and handle it fine, I have hit 20m table tops on my crf and never noticed the kickstand drop down, dirt whoops at 80kmh and it is fine. If it does drop down due to the angle and direction of travel, the ground would just kick it back up. KTM also solve the issue with a simple rubber loop to 'lock' it up.

That is great, unless you don't have a license from the previous year, ie new to the sport. Event organisers always go on about growing the sport, but then you have this massive barrier to entry(quite literally)

having same issues, you can't buy a 2023 ASA license because it is 2024, but the 2024 licenses are not available yet meanwhile there is a marathon every weekend. dumbest thing I have ever encountered. There is an elegance to the simplicity of trail running. You enter a race and then run it. No license, no clubs, no admin, no qualification races...

I did it last year, was a good ride, lekker to have good waterpoints on my usual riding routes. Good training ride and lekker gees. Boerie roll is always a win at the end. Entry fee was really not bad either. 160km singletrack would take forever to ride. As it is singletrack in gp is a joke with winding back and forward aimlessly trying to get distance so your strava looks like someone chundered spaghetti on the map. At least this route has varying scenery and you actually cover some good ground. Certain riding venues in pta east had incidents around security on their trails inside the parks, so you are no safer there than on the lovely open gravel roads far from people.

Try search for makerspaces, I know there is one in durban. Blacktail studio also has a world wide database of such places as well. We use it to create templates and prototype stuff for my wife's new venture, much easier using a cnc router and then for manufacturing we use the template and a router table with a bearing/follower bit.

Luckily on a dairy farm I know where it was coming from, what is scary is our cows are hormone free, I would be scared of getting it from a cow with a GH tablet in the ear...

Clarens has some amazing mtb trails as well