Chingy182

The notoriously legendary boob flasher has, unfortunately, still evaded me

Biggest disappointment of the day surely has to be the guy in his Borat Man-kini on a spinning bike around the start of Smits was nowhere to be seen this year...

Haha I enjoyed this part of the report

Yes, I got recorded as I entered at the gate.

Went past him at Ocean View and was well impressed with his effort!! Would have loved seeing him taking on descents

My racetec results shows as 6 hours 19 minutes when I rode a 4h45 on strava I shifted down from 2F to 4J. Seems like I was recorded with 2F. Still beat 4 others in the group... Now for the fun part to query this with Racetec

Hmmm, I saw a guy with 5E come racing past us around Misty Cliffs somewhere. The tempo the guy was going at was enough to make you think he was on an E-bike compared to the rest of the groups he was riding with. But that time seems extremely unlikely as he had absolutely no groups to go with and was basically just doing a massive solo effort.

Silent during the first few groups perhaps, but by the time 4J got through there was a proper party, beers flowing and the whole shebang.

Were you riding in a K2C shirt today? Then I definitely spotted you two or three times, but was one of those days I didn't go up and make small talk along the way like I normally do.

Dare I even attempt to get this starteds so long

I rode today again with the Fiancee doing her second CTCT. Started in 4J with her and we tried getting her over the line in under 5 hours. At one stage it looked like a 4h30 was on the cards, but with Chappies and Suikerbossie still to come it was always going to be a long shot. Official racetec result for her says 4h54 and mine 6h12...? The wind really got pretty bad around Ocean View side for us and coming down Chappies and scariest part was the last 18km coming down Victoria Road. You could feel the bike being shaken all over and just had to hold on tight. These races always seem to be a completely different world when riding lower down with guys swerving across the road, changing lanes on descents with no indication whatsover, or just stopping in the middle of the road to wait for a buddy to catch up.

I am starting to get the feeling that the expo becomes less and less of an event every year. I was quite surprised NOT to see Solomons Cycles or Shimano stalls at the Expo. Deals are getting less and less awesome each year. Normally I spend around R1000 just at Dischem, because of all the good deals, but today I only spent round R280 there. I've also gotten used to crazy queues at CWC stall, but today without even attempting to push I got to the front within about 10 sec.

Lack of information on this incident, as well as the one from the other day, is very concerning to me. We were out riding around there at 05h30 and could just as well have been us. Missus did mention when I told her about it this morning that she spotted a few guys sitting on the dunes

Takealot still hasn't realised they have Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama and Donald Trump online accounts with them...

Best wind is the one which takes you from Tableview to Langebaan

Again I'll say this was not an easy ride even for moderately fit riders. I have a LOT of respect for the guys at the back end who are half as fit as me and still manage to finish the race. I always feel sorry for the one's who come in and prize giving and lucky draws have already finished.

It was rather deceptive. And around the 40km mark some of us had jelly for legs and bike was getting a bit close for comfort to that edge...

Unfortunately, as the saying goes, it all happened so fast... Only things that I could pic up was that his hair was grey...but I'd say late 40's with greying hair and if memory serves a black shirt with red around the shoulder/collar area. I had lots of time to think about it during the next 30km, so I figured he could have been an international rider doing the epic and got thrown into E batch and so made his way through the field of weaker riders. I've never come across a local rider who just tries push you off the trail without as much as a peep coming out of his mouth. On a different note, those are some epic pics. That side of the mountain section there was hella scary once I realised how far down you would go if you take a tumble.

Ja, this was not an easy ride. Also does not help if you haven't done much riding in the last 4-6 weeks. Early morning I was a bit worried about the fires in the back with the smoke hanging over us, but turned out to be okay. Got my first skrik of the day when none of the loos had any toilet paper just before 7am. Special shout out goes to the complete box who tried to overtake a bunch of us, being slightly held up on the sharp downhill switchbacks by an older gentleman who wasnt too comfortable on these sections. He tried on 3 occasions to take me on the inside on the switchbacks and eventually got passed and caused an accident of the older gentleman as he went past him too on a corner, causing a 4 bike pile-up in the process. No apologies, just kept on riding. If I had the energy left in my legs to chase him down, I really wanted to go moer him.

Hi Gen Just wanting to check if you can still buy a fitness device from the Online Shop and then claim it back from your Health Saver? With all these changes, you never know...

So the other day a guy sends me a message with no introduction, nothing. He just offers to buy my item for sale at less than half of what I'm asking - CASH!! So instead of telling him where to shove it, I go check out his profile and see he's got a bike up for sale. So, naturally, I make him an "offer" on his bike. Only difference is that this dude did not seem to take too lightly at being low-balled, but perfectly happy to try low-ball me

Just a quick question regarding CTCT seeding... I have been seeded around 2D-F for the past 3 years now - I am perfectly happy with this seeding. What I would like to know though is what kind of avg speeds or race times would I need to be looking at to crack it into the 1's?

Possibly following this thread as we speak

Oats and a banana. Cup of coffee so I can go to the loo and not have to worry about a mid-race bathroom visit. As a matter of interest... How many bathroom visits do you okes have on race day? I seem to have 2 pit stops. First one with morning coffee at home and second visit as soon as I get to the race venue.

You mean to say no token water bottle or sachet of Squirt bum cream?