Tim Brink

The caveat in wanting the stretch of road after Smits fixed, is it is not going to be a couple of weeks or months to sort out. It is a very long piece of road that needs proper rehabilitation, not just a new layer of tar, and having it closed for a year or two or three could be disastrous to the CTCT. Main road was doable, with Boyes Drive as an alternative and a small amount of low-speed roadworks deviations. This would be a different story - you can't make safe temporary solutions for big groups of bicycles doing 50/60/70km/h.

This is online bullying at its richest. Now you guys need to work on a chamois sponsor, a glove sponsor and the weather gods. And what poor Jewbacca will do next (he will have many, many, many bumpy hours contemplating this next December). The Rhino? Freedom Challenge? Frontal lobotomy?

The only sensible outcome here is a BMX tandem.

"Stage". It's only been a 41 years so far...

https://www.capetowncycletour.com/race-entry-terms-and-conditions/

Cycle Tour has never gone over Constantia Nek.

Eskort's marketing department might be able to tell you... https://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/rugby/2023-09-15-court-orders-food-producer-eskort-to-remove-springbox-ambush-marketing/

He fell ill just before the Vuelta - like the day before-ish. I think she has done a wonderful job in the circumstances.

It doesn't answer the first question, but Bicycle South produced this: Wheelies are illegal! https://bicyclesouth.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SOUTH-AFRICAN-RULES-OF-THE-ROAD.pdf

Coolheat doesn't peddle Garmin

I only saw this today, on Vleisbroek, with objection window closing today, but one interesting line within it: https://www.sanparks.org/assets/docs/parks_table_mountain/2023/revised-draft-implementation-plan-2023.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2zsV-_6CqGv2f92TzqX_87i50dOmuh0-L6ow4p3avoD4NF8jcodNyn38o It should only take 13 years to implement, but at least they are aware it is needed!

Biggest challenge here: Where to find room for the Burger King tattoo. Inside the Oakley one might be too small?

The biggest learning I have had in the last couple of years talking to riders and nutritional folk is fuelling for every single ride you do. Both before it and during it. I interviewed a few pros for a nutrition story a while back.... even recovery rides, Zone1/2, they eat properly a few hours before, and head out with 40-60g carbs an hour, unless it is a specifically fasted ride (which seems to be, thankfully, going out of fashion again). If you are doing intervals/HIIT/efforts, train with what you will be racing on, my guess is your sluggishness is part time of day - afternoon is famous for energy slumps - and 11h30 is far too far away to fuel your session. You can't expect your body to get stronger/fitter without fuel. You might not think you have issues on your Saturday ride, but what if that isn't even close to your potential, and you are missing out by not making sure you take in the carbs or whatever you would use in a race. The old days of a bottle of water and an emergency pie on the way home are gone, thankfully.

You didn't price the S-Works Hand Planer.

Some people are special. https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/rider-disqualified-from-zwift-uci-world-championships-hit-with-mywhoosh-dq?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1sEUtiD4uTacpzVeF5qf20KBnLInBRPKBWNOgecPTxdtxY48RgyLKNDyY

There was a pair of singlespeed entrants - One from Panama, one from Germany. I think the Panamanian finished, but not the German, but i am too lazy to check. This must be one of them - not an on-course emergency conversion, for sure, that's a dedicated SS setup.

2h24. You did ask...

2E is the highest anyone who was honest about the ebike bit when entering will be - I was pushed back from 2B.

He is the history fella, not the complicated SACF (see what I did there) rules fella.

Yes.

Wait until i am asleep. Sneaky.

Detour years were 2000-2003.

Like, you might end up going through a big chunk of Botswana to make the routing through/past Gauteng simpler and faster.

For me, FKT route would start at Beit Bridge border post - not geographically the northern most place, there are a few farms that are further north, but I think that's the northern-most publicly-accessible starting point, and finish at the cairn that demarcates the southern-most point/meeting of the oceans at Aghullas. That's the easy bit. The route is a lot more challenging. Plenty of bikes-banned freeways you will need to avoid, presuming this is a road/gravel bike expedition.

EDIT Deleted wrong info, got into length of Africa not South Africa, in my excitement.