Long Wheel Base

Nah bud. Ever since covid my folks haven't been down for their usual 2 week holiday in Fish Hoek. The last 2 races, just my Dad and I have gone down Friday morning, come back Sunday afternoon and we have stayed at the protea hotel at the waterfront. TBH this hotel is like the perfect location for the race. Takes us less than 10 min to ride to the start. Takes us 10 min to walk to the expo. After the race its like 5 min free wheel from the finish. We are literally right over the road from the aquarium so we just walk to the waterfront for chow. It is so convenient.

I’ve entered and will race. Doing it on the tandem so luckily, at this stage, my category is still in the race. Will just be extra careful about looking out for potholes.

Jeez glad he didn’t hit the dog. I assume that is a normal bike trail, why would that one be standing there knowing bikes will come flying over the jump.

Flights booked and paid for. Hotel booked and paid for. Car hire booked and paid for. Bike transport booked and paid for. Lekker red loyalty shirt ordered and paid for. Anyone selling some decent legs and lungs? They need to peak on the 12 th of march……….

Just to confirm, we download and register a bkool profile? We get 1 month free. Let’s say we happen to make it to the finale, but our free month has expired and we didn’t take up a subscription, would we need to then take up a subscription?

Agg I’ll keep my sub 3 kit for Saturday 😉

I am leaning towards wearing it on race day. Another reason to order asap so that it arrives in time. Don't want to leave new kit decisions down to picking it up at the expo.

Red 30 jerseys for my toppie and I. Big decision now is, do we race in our usual kit or wear this lekker red top for the race.................

A few years back, whoever made the cape epic finishers shirts was getting rid of old stock and they had a sale. Anyone was able to buy a cape epic finishers shirt. I didn't know this and saw a fellow club member wearing one and asked when he did the epic. He responded telling me the above. I didn't really agree with wearing it and I wouldn't but hey, you get some strange people. At least he told me he just bought it. Some people would have said they did the race.

So when you click the link to buy, it takes you to the online entry page and you put in your name and ID and then this pops up I have not tried to click the link for the other jerseys to see if I can buy those as well but there is no option to add any other jerseys to my cart via the red jersey link. My Dad and I will probably just do one order so one of us will buy 2. There doesn't seem to be anything stopping us from buying more than one. As a matter of interest, I will click on the others and see. I assume I will be able to buy 10 and 21 but not 40......yet.

I like the fact that the finale will be live so to speak. No place for the digital dopers to hide.

I reckon I’ll definitely go for a medium then. Thanks for the info👍🏼.

So if I order now, I’ll get it before the race.

Guys that own Ciovita kit, specifically the shirts. What is the sizing like? I usually wear a Medium in my other kit and the lekker new loyalty jerseys are available to order but I am in Joburg and I don't know anyone close to me that owns ciovita.

Some hydraulic, and some electric. It allows you to control the plane. So in spokeys case, system 3 hydraulics I think he said. Pretty much all the bigger jets have 2 or 3 hydraulic systems. Each system operates different things. Some are primary for one control and then secondary for another. Airbus call them yellow, green and blue systems. Small Boeing A and B systems. Big Boeing, hmm damn I can’t remember the newer ones like 777 and 787 but 747 was A,B,C and D. Those main landing gears required lots of hydraulics and 2 of them would rotate a little bit like the nose wheels when turning.

On the Boeing and airbus’s I used to work on, they were never in a common spot. Was all dependent on the best spot with smooth airflow depending on the angle of attack used when the RAT is used for real. I’d need a refresh but I think the 787 it actually sits in the wing to body fairing just aft of the wing and landing gear. The 330 I think it’s under the wing in one of the flap fairings. But the 319 is pretty much where you mentioned. Funny thing now that I think, the aircraft I have the most hours on in my logbook, the 737, I have never tested a rat or can’t remember where it sits!!! And I have done the full course🤦🏼‍♂️

And tbh, you don’t want to be on a plane where it is needing to use it. Testing aside, when the RAT is deployed, people who know, are sweating and possibly praying. It’s worse than load shedding. Think complete blackout as in no power. Contrary to some people’s belief, it can NOT propel the plane forward, you are gliding a passenger aircraft!!!!

It almost looks like that door doesn't close while running, I am sure that has some affect.

Can you hear the RAT running during flight? I have done ground tests on them and my word they are loud. They also spin seriously fast, it is actually pretty scary being close to it.

I asked on instagram if the short route counts towards one’s total tally of completed tours, it doesn’t. Also the minimum age is still the same as the normal route. So when my boys are old enough they doing the full route with me as I’m not breaking my tally to ride the short with them. I did my first Argus at 6, so they can do the full at 11 anyway.

Off topic, I know I have been scarce here this year, but when did you get back? Welcome back!!!

It doesn’t drop straight away. It drops 5% in 2024 and then 2.5% each year until you reach your new discount. for info, the discount replacement called life returns max discount will be 35%.

I had to google auger, and then said "o is that what it's called". That thing looks cool and fun to operate.

LOL, you have no idea how many people have sent me messages asking if I have left the country. I try ride in as many different countries as I can but the app I use has quite a lot down under and they also had a challenge last month during world champs that included "local" rides so did a few of those as well. I did one in Las Vegas a few months back and a buddy sent me a message asking if I had moved and he was going there on holiday soon and we should do a ride together.

Although I suffered yesterday, race was a success. I did a 02h55m which is slow for me but it was good to get a race under the belt as I don’t get time to race much anymore. pink road markings for unrepairable surface helped a lot and the fresh tar over the rest is very much appreciated. well done and thank you to the organisers.