Mamil

I suppose if 8 people show up you've got no risk and no overheads apart from the website and a strava membership to create the route file and you've made 20k. There are 5 events and if you get 8 people per event that's 100k with no overheads and minimal time investment so you sort of do have a side hustle. I'd love for someone who does pay the entry fee to post here and talk about what happens ....

I still don't get it - I love long distance riding and I love new routes but now the website invites a 3k annual membership less 25% limited time special and I get a gpx file and an ethic about no support, riding in isolation, no drafting unless I'm with mates and an appeal to keep this non rule rulebook to myself and not to share the routes which are on on public land anyway. I'm also told that the events I am doing keep me within my boundaries .... And there's an affiliate programme that bike shops can join. I love spending money on bike events and bike gear and bikes but this looks like a kind of post modern business model where there isn't actually a product or a service - just a brand.

Tour du cap!!!! Can't wait. Going to be my 3rd one. I think I was 5th or 6th in unseeded open last year .... This year I'm aiming for a podium. Please note ... Anyone in a pure savage jersey please note.... Compulsory entry to age group racing bunch. No open unseeded savages please

One of the 3 percent possibly. They are legion

It's worth bearing in mind that 3% of the USA population meets the criteria for anti-social personality - so 3 out of every 100 people in the GenPop " consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others. People with antisocial personality disorder tend to purposely make others angry or upset and manipulate or treat others harshly or with cruel indifference. They lack remorse or do not regret their behavior." Arguably the social conditions of our country could increase this number. Considering that as a cyclist on a 5 hour ride around the peninsula my varia radar reports that I could encounter 1000 cars approaching from behind, the stat suggests that 30, perhaps even 40 of them behave as described. Add to that those antisocial personalities that are actively criminal and congregating in Woodstock at the moment. Sobering. Chilling actually

I simply don't believe there is any meaningful initiative in Cape Town to cater to cyclists of any description - the design of the roads around the monstrosity that is the new riverclub development is the most immediate evidence for this assertion. The general lack of any meaningful infrastructure maintenance and security noted above really hammers home the point. I also believe that this creates a climate of disregard for cyclists and pedestrians in the minds of motorists who, because almost all public space is designed around the motor car, automatically and correctly assume that their needs come first

Having complained bitterly about the snoring of my fellow riders the only Muppet whose snork makes it into this excellent munga movie is mine. Sometimes life is cruel

I would join a protest ride. If that is going to happen please post details

I fear there is going to be a tragedy on that stretch if there isn't some sort of intervention soon. I raced the rain home. Toyed with the idea of running the gauntlet with the north easter at my back and thought better of it. Took slightly less risky route over railway bridge past good hope center and set pr on the M4 instead.

It's a tough one but I definitely feel that it is important to keep using public spaces for walking running and riding otherwise we yield even more space to the cars and criminals and that's not good. This doesn't mean I'm going to ride through Woodstock n1 until the current spasm of nonsense has passed but it does mean that I'm going to be on my bike, owning a lane somewhere. That's why milkys routes are important and why giving feedback on these pie in the sky city initiatives and promises and egging the authorities and PPA on is essential.

Id love to take that for a spin ... Seriously conflicted personality on that bike

I like option 2 better than the M5 interchange which I have been using in both directions for some time now. Thanks. I'll use that when headed out to melkbos and the gravel out north

Paarden eiland - carefully through the koeberg interchange using the pavement - bear left and cross over voortrekker road - past the eyesore that is the new Amazon Riverclub temple of Mammon, Woodstock, then either up to Walmer estate into top end of town via Roeland street OR , past the castle, adderly, to waterfront. Tons of risk of all sorts and not a pleasant ride by any stretch of the imagination .....

Die muishond?

Went for a little road ride on Sunday to get my legs moving again after Munga and was shocked at how cr@p it was. Aggressive drivers, drunk rugby bros around Greenpoint, pampered kids revving engines that no one can afford to see if it really is 0-60 in a fartbeat .... Jesus wept. I got hooted at on the little climb out of Camps bay for not riding close enough to the cars lining the left hand side by some some corpulent, high blood pressure, boozy lunch, tight belt digging into his swollen belly above his E.D. afflicted undercarriage who wanted to squeeze his 3 million rand narcissus mobile past me .... so that he could wait in the traffic jam ahead. He got the more caustic edge of the mamilian tongue as he got left behind. Plotting a route back avoiding what we euphemistically call "hotspots" but which are really zones of lawlessness is a fear inducing nightmare. Had the highfalutin language of the NMT document distributed by the CoCT in mind as a MyCiti thundered past me at 70kmph to my 40 - thought about sending the Garmin tail light footage to them but watched my "What's the point?" reaction that is the inevitable defence against the irresitible force of "the economy" or whatever justification we give for this utterly unsustainable and dehumanising k@kshow that is modern urban living. I love road riding as much as I love gravel and the trails but I don't think I'm going to be spending much time on the road bike this December - I think it's Tyberberg for me over December - and zwift for intervals --- how sad is that. IT's Monday morning and I miss the desert winds and the roads that stretch empty and forever.