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and here it is PRESS RELEASE 2 September 2025 For Immediate Release Organisational Processes for Tour du Cap and Boland 100 Miler halted. Following the recent successful liquidation action brought against De Villiers National Cycling, all organisational processes relating to the Tour du Cap and Boland 100 Miler have been formally stopped. As a direct consequence of the liquidation order, no further planning, coordination, or execution of these events will take place under the auspices of De Villiers National Cycling. The matter now falls within the jurisdiction of the appointed liquidator, who will oversee all related assets, contracts, and financial implications in accordance with the applicable legal framework. We recognise the historic importance of both events to the South African cycling calendar. However, until the liquidation process has run its course, no further commitments or assurances regarding the future of these events can be made. Any enquiries regarding the liquidation proceedings must be directed to the office of the appointed liquidator. De Villiers National Cycling has no authority or involvement in the matter from this point forward.

Interested to know who is wearing what brand of aero socks - I'm looking to replace my ciovitas which have worn out, who knows if they make me any faster but youchoob tells me they're a gamechanger so I have my mastercard at the ready...

Fair comment. I think for a lot of people its "there but for the grace go I".

So bleak this - That's Tour du cap, boland 100 miler and the gravel monster - I entered them all. Think it's about 4 or 5k all in but the bigger loss is my springtime into fun ride world champs season which now needs substantial revision

Is that a thing, credit card insurance?

I don't actually know where the incident was - is it in the concrete section between the CTICC parking area and the N1?

I'd imagine that tour du cap is also headed to the trash heap of cycling history - Not holding my breath for a refund on either one. Oh and not to mention the boland 100 miler. Hmmm --- time to reformulate my training peaks training plan -

Maybe we should.all just pitch at the start and ride along the.main road. Photos of us 10 abreast to follow.

I.got my core in march 2020. hasn't skipped a beat since then.

Absolutely stay away from those - if they must be identical stretch the budget to look at Titan entry level bikes or Trek also do some nice entry level stuff that's great for kids.

Again!!??? is this bad luck?

Terrible - with adrenaline pumping it is hard to keep one's wits about you - that's useful information because in those circumstances I think I might have wanted to believe the apologetic demeanor

Let me know account - initial response from informal probe with the city is not so positive

It will be a great pity to lose this stage race - if DC teams were to enter it would make all categories much more interesting too.

Well Boland Gravel Monster is 14 September and I have a ticket.... might put it on the classifieds ........ Will my seller rating be affected? Asking for a friend

It was never clear to me how events for the artist in question were associated with devilliers cycling. it doesn't look good for my domestique role for @peetwindhoekfor the tour due cap 2026

They spam the cycling newsletter with adverts for these concerts which is annoying. I'm in for the 100 miler and the tour due cap. Agreed it would not be a good thing if these events are a casualty.

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This morning on the cycle path outside Rondebosch girls high an Audi Q5 with ZN plates pulled out suddenly to get past the cars turning right. I slapped the side of his car hard with my hand and let out an expletive that would have made the mummy's blush. The oke catches up to me and driving right next to me winds down his window "Why'd you hit my car" "It could have been the other way around - you hit me" "Don't hit my car" "Maybe you'll look next time when it's one of the schoolkids on the bike" A roar of however many kilowatts that particular narcissus mobile has under the hood. I have a radar and a flashing front light but I was wearing black so I must have been my own worst enemy again. Contrast that with the 3 other interactions I had on the 2.5k from my home to my work 1: Ridaah the coffee trailer man - we spoke about the dangers of burnout when being self employed 2: Two women walking where we had a smiling moment of confusion about who had right of way - it was them but they behaved as if I did 3: The dustbin man who was running hard with a dustbin in tow behind the lorry and we called out "ewe!" cos we see each other quite often. ------------------------------ Quite apart from the endless stream of fatalities on the road - the privileging of the car in law and in the mindset of the populace has a destructive impact on the air, social relationships - a host of other effects tangible and intangible. _______________________________________ @Mook @RobynE 🚵‍♀️next time you see okes out and about like that, I suggest simply sitting back, admiring the bikes (all those sexy flared handlebars) and give a friendly wave as you drive past. I's a way bettr approach than joining the greek chorus of impatient motorists who don't understand bicycles and who think we should all be in 6 inches of space on the side of the road so that they can roar off to the next traffic light in an never-ending queue of frustrating stop-start traffic.

Nah the scripting here is cyclists are lucky to be allowed on the road where the car is king, people on bicycles have only themselves to blame for what happens to them yada yada yada. Just to be clear, "the behaviour" is a group of mates headed out into the countryside to enjoy the fresh air and physical exercise. I don't approve of the ad hominem comments directed towards @Mook but seriously this pic and the expectation that riders join in condemnation because they're giving us a bad name? No man, that really is the motonormative koolaid.

Never looked back .... I.see what you did there

I will permit myself the label scientist - and perhaps qualify it with the prefix social. So I know a little bit about perception, sensory inputs, concentration, attention and so on an I know how to read a scientific paper. As an aside, I have noticed how the appeal to science or to research carries a lot of rhetorical force in debates these days, perhaps in the way appeals to religion and canon used to in another era. I'll look into it further but a brief internet search suggests that the research is equivocal on the topic which makes sense to me because sensory perception is mediated by a number of personal and situational variables which confound the common sense notion that a bright jersey will attract attention to a level sufficient to produce a measurable difference in accidents and deaths. As an example of this complexity - I observed earlier, and I can't find the reference now, that wearing hi viz yellow unconsciously leads drivers to classify us as a bollard or as road furniture. Someone says "Good, I avoid road furniture". Actually what's happening there in the interface between emotion, perception, attribution and behaviour, is that the driver sees us as not human and is therefore more likely to take a risk to get past us. The assertion that bright colours will attract attention belies an enormous complexity of interacting factors that occurs between the image hitting the retina and the response to that image. Here's an example of an equivocal finding https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25085469/ reading a few other abstracts it seems that in dark conditions, reflective clothing produces statisitically significant positive outcomes. Bright clothing in bright conditions - evidence is mixed to the point where the strength with which okes here are defending it's use suggests to me that the bright colours are something of a talisman, a safety blanket in the face of a danger over which there is little control. What is overwhelmingly clear is that driver attention and awareness is the most significant variable at play on the roads. And this is where my objection to this "clothing colour really matters" debate is that it has a social effect. It steers the conversation away from the biggest determinants of the danger and becomes part of a broader set of ideas in the public that we shouldn't be on the road, and that a cyclist is responsible for being seen rather than a driver being responsible for seeing us.

I don't think it makes a substantial improvement over non radar lights. Except maybe the fact that it changes it's flash pattern as a car approaches which possibly improves visibility a little. The biggest thing I like about the radar is knowing that there is a car coming up behind me and how far away it is. It doesn't change what I do, except that on quieter roads with less traffic, as a car approaches, I extend my hand and wave it to signal that I need space. Also knowing the relative speed and number of vehicles approaching does I feel improve my situational awareness. Another thing it does change in my behaviour - in situations like the curves through bantry bay, if I radar senses a car, I signal and move into the middle of the road to prevent being cut off by an unskiled driver drifting inwards towards the apex of the corner. No idea about the stats though.

What a fatuous and frankly offensive comment. If I am ever "taken out" it won't age well at all - or perhaps you will say "Ah well you see, he was wearing a dark blue jersey you see, no wonder" This is the problem with the "you must wear bright clothing" line. We have 3 people killed on bikes in the last fortnight and we are talking about what we wear as if it's a significant variable. Noone ever changed anyone's mind on an internet forum. As a last comment before I check out of this thread, every near miss I've ever had has been because the driver wasn't even looking at road at all (cell phone, makeup in rear view mirror, veering into cycle lane to avoid stopping behind a car that was turning right) or saw me and simply didn't recognise that I am a human being not a piece of road furniture or an obstacle to be got past with minimal delay. What jersey I put on before the ride would have made no difference at all.

Who believes the any of the recent fatalities would have different outcomes if the riders had been wearing.different clothing? I would suggest that the emotional experience of having little control over how people in armoured vehicles respond to us on the road makes us.want to reach for any lever that looks.like it.might give us some sense of safety. One of the worst close passes I had I was in a yellow stay wider shirt which the dude mocked when I enquired about his behaviour. I have also read research that says that bright lumo kit unconsciously leads to you.being.classified as a road hazard, similar to a bollard. Lights absolutely. don't leave home without.them. Radar, essential kit for sure. situational awareness and knowing when to own the road and when to get out.of the.way, also crucial. Big yes to reflective strips at night. But I really don't think that, in terms of.clothing, anything other than perhaps a battery powered neon neglige over the Mamil moobs will make a jot.of.difference.