Nick

Has this track been UCI approved for safety? I particularly like the loose spears at 18 minutes. Potential chariot racing vibes if side-by-side 😆

I think you have raised this before. We do have some solutions on our roadmap but they are not currently a priority for a number of reasons. Including... There are endless classifieds type photos of bikes available on the internet which makes our efforts somewhat futile. Almost every image on the internet can be copied. Most solutions are not too difficult to get around with photo editing or cropping. A watermark would likely have to be across the whole image. Also, don't use Facebook 😏 We've put a huge amount of work over the years trying to make Bike Hub safer than anywhere else (with support from the community). Selfishly, we're somewhat hesitant to spend our time failing to help a competitor with their shortcomings.

Thanks for the heads up! But it's unlikely that the advertiser has the bike in their possession. Those photos are taken from thebikegarage's advert here: https://bikehub.co.za/classifieds/item/dual-suspension-bikes/650961/merida-96-rc-5000-m-carbon-xt12spd-rs The scam is usually to take your money before you receive the non-existent bike. Or worse, lure you out to get robbed.

A brief look at the numbers for road and MTB don't show as interesting a trend as gravel bikes, mostly flat. I'll possibly take a deeper dive shortly and create a separate thread about it and some others things.

I haven't done any verification on these numbers so don't take them as fact but.... The number of gravel bikes listed for sale per quarter: The number of enquiries sent to gravel bike advertisers per quarter. A sign of shopper demand.

Damn the quality of this free service! How dare they!

I've been keeping on eye on the splits using the live timing. It seems pretty on it this year. https://www.epic-series.com/capeepic-riders-liveresults Select a category "UCI Men" to get the splits. Doesn't show in the all results mode. A bit late for today.

I've ridden a few of them 😆 2019 Epic Evo: https://bikehub.co.za/news/review-specialized-epic-expert-evo-r7530/ 2021 Sworks Epic Evo: https://bikehub.co.za/news/review-2021-specialized-s-works-epic-evo-r8142/ 2021 Sworks Epic: https://bikehub.co.za/news/review-2021-specialized-s-works-epic-r8141/ I'm sure history repeats itself in all the comments. Even though I've dabbled in the SWorks good life, I'm exceedingly happy with my own Comp level Epic EVO. Somehow I manage to pass a lot of SWorks riders on it 🤔

So like have you seen the bargains in the hardtails section of the classifieds? But yeah, I suppose you can't take the risk of losing out on that podium spot if your frame wasn't moulded by hand or the shifting isn't done with a motor 🤷‍♂️ The problem is us, not the bike manufacturers.

Wild guess, kickstand?

It was the removing of the behaviour manipulation for me 🧘‍♂️

To keep their speed measured and to prevent them from racing and getting tangled with / influencing the more serious unassisted riders.

If you don't come right, get to the start early. There are usually mechanics at the start. They should have.

Birkenstocks bru. I'm a brand conscious hippy.

Or simply don't. Drop back to a less stressful start time. Enjoy the vibes and scenery 😉 I'll go back to my drum circle now.

They entered Die Hel from the West and exited out the road going East and Swartberg Pass. Simplified directions: Ride up Seweweekspoort, turn right at the top. Ride along until Die Leer, hike down into Die Hel. Ride through Die Hel and out on the road via Swartberg Pass.

Hi Robert I did discuss your concerns in the email above with the team. A number of them have been worked on. The rest I felt were not a priority in the context of our other plans. Are the Chat keyboard and pagination issues still a problem for you? I seem to remember that you use Brave on your phone? It's not a browser that we do any testing on, so it'd be good to know. We overhauled the whole Chat feature, since your email above. You might have noticed that it is a lot faster this year. I recall that parts of the work specifically tackled the Chat problems you were experiencing. Although not a priority, the favourites ordering is a 30 second fix that we can pop into the next sprint. You're welcome to report the forum related bugs to our forum platform here. Matt is regularly threatening to migrate the forums to another (more modern) platform, so maybe he'll convince us (and himself) to go through this schlep in the nearish future. Between Intercom and the forum threads, I feel that we do fairly well at keeping track of bug reports. I use the Now-Next-Later framework for roadmaps. But I fear you're looking for more precision than that for ticket tracking. If any of this a dealer breaker, let me know so I can proceed with the account deletion.

Officially, 416 finished the 109km route in 2023. A few would have been disqualified for going faster than 3 hours 50 minutes. And probably a few more oblivious riding in unassisted categories.

Type As. You can't blame them. It's a disability. They are blind to the word "Fun" in Fun Ride World Champs.

While I'm also a proponent of a wave and smile campaign, I can't find much evidence of riding in the gutter and meekly obeying the demands of the motoring overlords shifting a country's transport policies. Even the poster child required protesting and tantrum throwing to help it shift to a more inclusive transport strategy.

In summary, what has developed to be the acceptable behaviour is likely not the safest behaviour. But we're all encouraged to follow the acceptable behaviour nonetheless.

Same reason that I ride in big groups that take up the whole lane! Disclaimer: I don't. Speaking of bending the rules; a law that blows my mind (in the Western Cape at least) solid lines can be crossed if you are overtaking a cyclist (and only a cyclist). A piece of road that is deemed too dangerous for an overtake is suddenly fine if a cyclist is present.

Something like? Be seen and it'll likely solve some of the two abreast tendencies.

Would it really? Then why have a speed limit at all? It's only because we've become normalised to the behaviours of breaking the speed limit that it would become dangerous to suddenly strictly enforce it.