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The ICG ride is also an option. The ride to the start (McD Rosebank) is fine from Sandton. 15 to 20 minutes. Thursday is a tough hills day (Conrad, Northcliff, Wicklow, and a few other popular Strava segments). Friday is a slow AF coffee ride. https://www.facebook.com/p/ICG-Cycle-Group-100046230324577/?_rdr

Also considering this one.

What an unbelievable event.

Who is this Stransky character?

Thanks, Cassie. Bike is sorted with Joggie. It's just me that needs to get to the start. May have to rent a car, not the end of the world.

Yeah, maybe a last resort. The trip to PA from CT is over 4 hours though. Cheers.

Thanks for the suggestions, Roul. Nah, the race has not offered any help. I did contact them. I also emailed Coimbra, but no reply. I will try Ride Life. Otherwise, it's Zeelie Taxis.

Anyone flying down from Joburg for this? I am looking to share a shuttle from George to the start on Friday 13 October.

Good find! Thanks.

Apologies for hijacking this thread: Is anyone driving from George to the start in Prince Albert on Friday the 13th? I am flying down from Joburg and battling to find a way to get to the start. Just me and a bag, no bike. Thanks!

This event is amazing. We are back this year. Very excited!

I'll try one more time... I am in no way blaming what happened on the e-bike team. We accept full responsibility for our unfortunate mistake. Neither am I bitter or angry towards the riders, they seemed like nice enough dudes and were careful when they did pass us and got far enough ahead that they didn't delay us on the technical descents. We only really saw them at checkpoints. I just pointed out that, unwittingly, them being ahead on the final sector may have affected our race outcome. In terms of the lead bike being with e-bikes - I must disagree. I spoke to Glen afterwards who said that he had never been so stressed on lead-bike duty, even with the pros on the Sani2c race. He said that the e-bikes go just as fast uphill as down making it really difficult and dangerous to be able to mark hazards, open gates, put down markers etc. He said he may have seen and removed the markers that caused us to go wrong if he weren't stressing about staying ahead. He mentioned that there would be some rule changes next year to try and avoid these types of issues. Separate day? Separate start time? Not sure. I suppose we will see next year.

Ha ha. Okay, I am out. Nice chatting, Pieter.

Thanks, Pieter. I really don't care what brand the bikes or their motors were though.

Ha ha. The e-bikes were out of sight. We debated it but remembered being told that markers overrule GPS. We decided to head up the climb and then felt vindicated when we saw a 2nd and 3rd marker further up. We all assumed we had to be right not imagining that another race would be using the same damn markers. Oh well. There is always next year.

So... I now have an opinion on this topic. We rode Nonstop this past weekend and had a pair of e-bikes clearly racing us (for some reason). They managed to get past us on "day 3" and ended up crossing the finish line first. Because of this, Farmer Glen on the lead bike was with them instead of us. He said he could hardly keep up because they were gunning their little Bosch motors so hard. If it weren't for that, Glen would have been with us when we made our nav error 2km from home (we followed some identical markers apparently laid out by trail runners) that cost us the overall victory. I am not blaming them for our mistake, just noting that things could have been different if they behaved differently. I reckon e-bikes are welcome but they should stay the hell away from guys racing for real podiums.

Hi there I thought the GPS files were going to be released? Trying to decide on which distance to go for.

Threads like this make me feel so hopeless.

Is that a vertical or horizontal shock?

A few recent upgrades so I thought she deserved another post. Still need to cut that steerer!

A very thorough Indian doctor did the suturing in theatre and the result is not half bad when you consider what the wounds were like. Easy with the nasty comments, Theo is a great guy.

The Spruit lights up nicely...

Super jealous of all of you! The first one that I won't be riding. Best of luck and enjoy it!

Don't listen to Edgar. He will turn your J2C into a painful nightmare like he did to me last year.

1) Sports physician to get a diagnosis. 2) Physiotherapist to treat and initiate rehab as prescribed. 3) Bio to continue the rehab if necessary. A bio-kineticist is not qualified to make diagnoses or provide any manual treatment. They are exercise and rehabilitation experts.