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This is what I need to do - I failed last year by not staying above the average daily requirement

Ride with me, I have no idea what a high intensity ride is

Summer has not arrived on the garden route - a rare dry day as I did a loop inspecting flood damage - bit smelly around the lakes and wilderness

This sounds like an awesome adventure

This is actually a workable plan

So Plett to just past Storms on the N2 in December or do you have a different route up your sleeve? I ask as I used to live in Cape St Francis and both sets of parents still do so I often think of this trip but I have to head inland from Knysna to Uniondale and the trans bavaiaans to Cape St Francis I know how to get to St Francis on Gravel from Eerste Rivier but I don't know how to get from Plett to there without hitting the N2, something I wouldn't personally do. I spend too much time on that stretch in a car to consider it on a bike. If there is an option to avoid I'd love to get the info Enjoy the trip

What route are you taking ? Are you going over the bavaians ? I ask as I’ve been meaning to do this for ages

3 or 4 weeks ago possibly less Kevin wasn’t going to ride I think he got Fomo when Lachlan entered but I definitely had a recent chat and he told me he wasn’t riding that means he just keeps Munga level fitness as his default setting which is remarkable

My young mate Braam Wannenburg is slowly climbing up the leaderboard and pacing himself nicely - at 25 I was in the bar like all Braams friends have been while he’s been riding his bicycle at night

these haven't hit SA yet - I'm waiting. If I am wrong please let me know. Due new shoes but I want the bling ones

Micro adjustment whilst riding is easy with axs - press a button and shift up or down depending on the problem you know it’s simple if I can do it axs is the best money I’ve spent

I’ll WhatsApp you - amusing clues were given earlier in the thread

I’ll give an example - I was at the berg and bush (can remember if it was descent or the other one) 2019 I think, cancelled due to heavy rain edit - just thought of another this past Saturday - same day as the DC was the annual 7 passes mtb (a gravel race really) it was cancelled earlier in the week because of the weather forecast Could have gone ahead but I’d hate to be the organizer, medic or traffic cop in any of these cases - one serious injury or even a death and then it’s all your fault as the organizer

7 passes - started great, finished into wind

Cannot confirm but heard Lachlan is leaving SA immediately

Surprisingly English first name

Which I’d wheelie across of course

My neighbour is an NSRI volunteer and has been using the rubber duck on George streets - I’ve seen videos of waterfalls on the Outeniqua pass - hope this gets to some of the farmers on the other side of the mountains

My bike will be taking me nowhere for a while as the rains hit the garden route hard - here is a section of the 7 passes road - this is a tar section on the George side near the Saasveld campus

They’ve closed the road to motorcycles although with permission from louvein you can do it in a 4x4 but you’d need skill - on a bike you’d need Danny Macaskills skill with Ninos power - I don’t think it could be done on a bike now

Looking at this list it looks like the Afrikaners are tough or insane or both - I’m not sure what the demographics are in SA between English and Afrikaans 1st language. My young mate Braam Wannenburg is doing his first one and I’m expecting him to surprise - I did a 100km recovery ride with him not too long ago and into a serious headwind I nearly puked sitting on his wheel - that said, if you can’t do that to me, you shouldn’t consider the Munga

There is definitely a way - I’ve done it and it comes out very close to the road to your folks - a loop from my house to louvein back over montegu and home is 112km here’s why I won’t do it again on my own - The first 15km is almost spot on 1000m elevation - it’s actually not as brutal as it sounds until the last 1.5km where it’s not possible to ride and you need to carry your bike. I’d guess this section took me at least an hour and a half. Alone I lost my sense of humour what blew me away was that this is how the Voortrekkers crossed the Outeniqua mountains - it’s a tough walk, never mind ox wagons and in their day it wouldn’t have just been the 1.5km section The day I rode it the weather varied between 7 and pouring with rain and 35 on the Karoo side

Correct

About 500km of great gravel just outside my front door - today I saw a cyclist

Passed through Wilderness twice on my loop