JarradVZ

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.

The long and the short of it is that this measure isn't good enough to guide training yet. We trialed HRV4 and were in contact with the developer. We do know that measures of HRV do change after hard training or racing but the nature and amplitude of change is too complex to spit out a number on what our training should be. The PMC is your best tool for monitoring load and subjective measures such as daily questionnaires (fatigue, muscle soreness, mood etc.) are actually superior to objective measures such as RHR.

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?

Nice!

R1600 from the FRIB guys. Best of luck Mr August.

I doubt he is lying. I also doubt he was watching his left leg as it impacted the rotor. He assumes it was the rotor that cut him and he is sticking with his story.

My 2c on this here: http://waterfallsos.co.za/Blog/

I rode with Edgar that year. I'll take mine too please.

Thanks, yeah we were determined to give it a good go! Who were you riding for?

I really enjoyed the event and racing with Team FRIB. We had some pretty awful luck with mechanicals, illness and especially with Edgar crashing out on Stage 3. We got better towards the end and finished with the stage win we had been looking for (Jules you legend). The vibe in the amateur team bunch was great and there were no silly crashes that I saw. Goody bag was worth a lot more than the entry fee I reckon - impressive! All those positives BUT the timing was pathetic. I will not return next year if Great-Time does, that is for sure.

Hi guys I'll be consulting at a new sports medicine practice in the Netcare Waterfall Hospital. Also orthopaedic surgeons, physios, biokineticists, podiatrists etc. Give us a shout for your cycling injuries and illnesses or pre-season medicals. Website: www.waterfallsos.co.za FB: https://www.facebook.com/waterfallsos/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WaterfallSOS Thanks Jarrad

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