Two links worth reading/watching: 2018 Cape Town Cycle Tour WILL take place Lunch with Dave – Facebook Live Q&A (25 January 2018) This year's event will be entirely off the municipal water grid. Desalinated/purified grey water will be provided to cyclists at the start... Don't fill your bottles at home. More on this to come in next week's Q&A. --Some notes from Dave's video… FiguresMore than 50% of participants come from Cape Town (theoretically zero effect)Around 15,000 from outside of CT 30,000-32,000 of 35,000 entries actually start the raceAverage stay is 2.3 days WindNo significant set of data that says the wind blows any more or any less at the CTCT time of yearWind will blow 10km/h less at the new Grand Parade start than at the Civic Centre (importantly, there's no tunnelling effect) Civil unrestAffects all areas of society, target because its a large eventPart of the strategy is to engage with local communities + inclusion Work being done via Rotary in Masiphumelele - working hard to link this work back to CTCTMoving water point from Sun Valley (has to move cause of roadworks) to Masiphumelele – ownership of that water point to the community (funds to be used for high school Matric dance) There are six different alternate route options, if needed SeedingMinor changes are being made to the algorithm (he did not go into any details) - will be consideration given to the fact that there was a cancellation last year Road surface on Chappies "Not ideal" but not unrideable; it is safe to ride on"Would it be the first choice for us as cyclists? No it wouldn't."Surface has got a lot better since the first laying of the tarIn future years when the road has to be redone, it will get a better surface [edit to update with notes from video]
