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My hopes for this year's tour: 1) Top 10 for Maincheese; 2) Padun shows everyone what he can do on the mountains; 3) We get to see a proper battle for the overall win - no injuries to the Pog, Rog, Jonas and GT... (I think those are the serious contenders if anyone is a serious contender apart from Pog); and 4) Jakobsen (sprinting against Groenewegen) comes out as the strongest pure sprinter at the tour - which I think is likely with Morkov there to guide him.

Just wanted to give credit to Junaid and the guys at Omnico and Ryder. I have a slyder 4-up on my mtb bike and the slide on brackets on the slyder were recently stolen off. I reached out to Ryder to try and buy the brackets separately and without much fuss they simply sent me a brand new slyder 4-up at no cost to me. I know its not a high end pricey accessory, but this kind of customer service is very rare and deserves a shout-out - so well done guys and thank-you. I will continue to support the Ryder brand for sure!

Cool - I'm probably going to camp there. Looking forward to it!

I'm not affiliated with this race but it looks like a cool one and I've entered. I hope they get enough entries on the 64km to make it viable, so I'm putting this here: http://thehillschallenge.co.za/

Hey hubbers! There is a young guy of 16 years whose parents work on a neighbouring farm to ours near Villiersdorp. He is really keen on mtb and we gave him a second hand mtb for his birthday last year. Its not the latest and greatest, but it enables him to ride decently. Last week his front wheel buckled completely, so I am trying to find a replacement. So does anyone have a 29" rim brake front wheel that is looking for a home?

Giving my first triathlon a go this weekend at the ultra- only doing the sprint... my goal is to just survive the swim

Is there a section of gravel between Gouda and Riebeek?

Thanks! PM sent

Doing with my father-who turns 71 this year (beast). Am not able to make it through to Rondebosch or Chris Willemse Cycles though. Anyone going who is willing to collect race numbers for my dad and I?

Ok, thanks for the feedback... i always wanted a garmin anyway.

Thanks -There are a number of GPS options out there - but if you want to be able pair with discovery you are limited to the list above... Just wondering if the anyone using other devices (Lezyne, bryton, Giant Neostrack etc) have a way around this...

I recently lost my polar computer. Looking at options for replacing it... anyone using a bryton computer and able to pair it with their vitality to get discovery points?

I lost my Polar M460 bike GPS/computer... I think when I was loading my bike on the rack after the race Parked at additional parking above the school fields... If anyone picked one up (or has a useful contact at the school/race organisers that might be able to help) please PM me.

Brilliant - thanks

How are you guys seeing your start group? Or is this just your ppa seeding?

Ok, must be something on my side. Can view all the other tabs but when I try open the leaderboard it just says: This page isn’t workingfantasytour.bikehub.co.za didn’t send any data. ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

Anyone else unable to open the Leaderboard tab?

Thanks- a man with true climbing pedigree- I'll be sure to pick him

Not sure how to begin trying to pick who will get big points in the combativity and KOM categories... any tips?

Sounds like a great weekend trip...

So you don't see the support vehicle playing the a safety role

Don't see the need for a new thread... poll gives good context

Want to revive this discussion. One thing I've really enjoyed in the past is a road cycling trip/holiday where you ride a route (like Cape Town to PE) with a group over a number of days. We have always done this with support. And have had a car driving behind us. The purpose of the car was to warn motorists of the cyclists ahead and to warn us of passing vehicles. In order to warn the cyclists we had a simple code: -one hoot means a single car is passing -two hoots means a larger vehicle or multiple cars are passing -holding in the hooter means get off the road asap We have also learnt that on roads which have a combination of being very narrow (with no shoulder) and having very limited line of sight (windy- as is the road curves a lot not the weather condition) the support vehicle only served to frustrate other motorists and caused more problems than it solved. In such cases we preferred to rather ride single file and use our ears as much as our eyes. We avoid such roads again. On weekend club group rides I have not experienced any communication between the support car and the riders - it is basically there to help people who have had problems and to force cars to pass wider. Interested to hear any lesson learnt in terms of the what the role is of a support vehicle? And what are some important do's and don'ts for the support vehicle? Also what are the reasons for not wanting a support vehicle at all?