Grondpad

Still my dream bike. What a machine.

Hye G-man Where is this place? The website has some nice picks, but doesnt say where the reserve is.

If I can share my opinion on the race: I think that this race is really an awesome all round MTB route. It has it all. Nice long climbs like Greek church, steep climbs like the concrete strips and the section thereafter, sand to kill the humour, fantastic decent where your skills are rewarded and when you are absolutely hammered, you get a nice flat part to make some distance up and recover. Then at the end you have fantastic single track and lastly you have that one part to discuss around the braai which in this case was “jou blixem”. I really want to congratulate Eric from VG’s and then the Trailseeker team for this event. The water points were great (banana loaf, marshmallows, Pepsi, PowerAde, banana, chocolates). I did not even stand in a line to get a beer afterwards. Top notch event!

+1 here. I have done the same now for a while and it works. During the week I am strict LCHF. Come weekend long rides I take a bottle of 32Gi with but usually I only drink half of it. This is on rides of 5+ hours. On race day I don’t hold back and chow whatever I can find. I saw the results of this during the VG race this past weekend. The race did hurt (it still is one of the few hard MTB races around GP), but I did a good time and managed to ride where others walked. The VG race just once again confirmed that the LCHF way (with a little adaptation for races) works!

An interesting article by Dr. Dwight Lundell . “The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.” http://myscienceacademy.org/2012/08/19/world-renown-heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease/

The first 1.5 to 2 km of the run of the bike is always the worst. Get of the bike, force yourself to run. Find your rhythm in the first 10 to 12 min of the pace you want to do and the rest of the run will be much easier.

From the TV broadcast, it didn’t seem like they were going downhill on the ADH. It looked like they had another transition on top and they ran around the village. Like I say, that’s what it looked like to me so I can be wrong

It was on one of the “Mass Participation” broadcasts. 18 Aug @ 18:00

I saw the Alp D’Huez triathlon last night on SS7 Anyone here that did it? It looks fantastic!! It seems like it is after the TDF, so it would be a great trip to go and watch the last week of TDF and then do the tri. 2.2 swim, 115 bike finish it with Alp D’Huez and then a 22km run on and off-road. Freaken awesome!!

The road race went well but I could feel the lack of training during the winter. Started in batch A and got dropped on the climb at the 40km mark. Got into a nice rhythm with 2 other gents and a lady. We worked well together but the two other gents did the bulk of the work. They were super strong! Respect. Picked up another A bunch cyclist that also shared in the work until the first group of B batch caught us with VC, VB and other A group riders. Nice big bunch and we did made great progress until a massive crash about 10km from the end just before the joining of the 60km riders. I was in the first 3rd of the group and I just heard all the crashes and saw the bikes flying. At that moment we were doing around 38/40km/h. Some people must have gotten hurt really bad and it was a massive shock to the group cause as soon as the 60km riders joined the group also split up and most just staggered home on their own. I finished in 3:08. Happy with that time. The MTB route was great (but I did hope they would have taken us through the Valley of waves). I think if I did not do the road the prior day, I would have loved just about everything of the route. Great climbs that bites really hard and some nice technical descents. At about 20km into the race I was riding with 4 other okes and we got lost. As we cycled along we saw some other riders but they were lost as well. We formed a group and whilst looking for the route we found more lost cyclists. Eventually we were about 25 riders that cycled through a township and managed to find the tar road towards Sun City. We got on it and after a short while we saw the ranch and went in there. We found the route again but obviously we were now screwed with our distance and time. I was at 27.5km here. The leaders of the race passed us not long after that. Most of the ride I rode with another very pleasant cyclist with a massive beard that did the road race as well which made the ride back much more pleasant. I took a DNF after mailing them today cause at the end I did 64km but I heard that the ride was actually 67km. I see the result are not out yet and I am glad I don’t have to try a sort that out. I heard many many riders got lost and even o the 25km route riders went astray. My sister did the 25km route and ended on 29km. Even after getting lost and so on, I really enjoyed the day out in the bush. Did a 3:11 Great two days on the bike, I just hope that the riders that went down are OK. The crash was really hectic

Wow!! Ordered yesterday just before two and got it today at 11. I assembled it and it looks really nice. Just a bit heavy but I think all platform carriers are. One problem that I have now is that the lights on the carrier doesn’t work, but I don’t think it’s the carrier. A week ago a random dude started talking to me when I got into my car and asked me if my plug on the towbar is working as he has the same car and Ford cannot seem to get it to work. I replied that I do not know as I only got the car a couple of weeks prior to that. So it seems like I have the same problem but I think I will test the plug of the carrier on another car before I book my car in at Ford. WRT the carrier. It look great, seems like great quality and took about 20min to assemble. No worries here

Yes, I agree. I think that is what he will do and then just get those bottles at the back of the seat

Aaaa. That makes much more sense. Thank you

My buddy bought this TT bike for Tri’s. What an awesome machine. Just one thing. We cannot figure out how the hydration system on the bike works (presuming that we are right and it is a hydration system). How does this thing work? I tried google without any luck. Should he have received a pipe that runs to the handelbars or something like that with the bike? Anyone that can shed some light here?

Thanks for all the feedback. I placed my order now for the Winny 3 with rack and carry. Will keep you updated.

Jip, thats where I saw them. Thanks for the feedback

Anybody have a Menabo Winny 3? They seem to be priced well, but its about 4kg heavier than the Thule Euroride 3 bike. Its about 1200 bucks cheaper so it looks like a good deal. Anyone got some input?

Ping Tim_Fair

Looks like A for me in both the road and MTB.

I need a battery replaced on my CS300 but not in the mood for the schlep to get it to Polar. Where did you get the battery with the o rings if I may ask?

I would love to see the outcome of the study regarding High intensity on LCHF. From my rides thus far the last 5 months, I don’t think the two should mix. I can do 90km + MTB rides with fairly high avg speed but at low intensity. Yesterday we did a 93km MTB ride at and avg speed of 21.4 and I had no problems. But up the intensity and I come crashing down within 25km of the ride. I just cannot keep up a high intensity. Maybe its because I have only been on LCHF for 5 months, so I will wait and see. Seeing that the longer stuff is my thing anyway (I never amount to a racer ), I don’t mind that I cannot keep up with high intensity.

Great news this!!

OK, found the info. On the email you got look at the “Team ID”. Mine says Waitlist - 33

I would think very good. Still 24 spots better than me

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