Mamil

I have secondary trauma seeing that photo and the ones you shared after the crash. We keep riding though cos it's lekker. Glad you are recovered and still giving Mrs Dale reassuring calls

Brain donors on the M3 this morning cresting hospital bend outbound in orange and white kit - giving mamlhood a bad name - I hereby strip you of MAMIL status and declare you MOFOs. Hand your mamil card in at the gate to the 9F start pen.

Sorry to hear it. Traumatic, infuriating and just downright horrible.

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2022 Rooiberg was pretty rough ja and someone told me it had been rougher before. 2023 it was a mudbath, spent 25 minutes before climbing the pass cleaning peanutbutter paste so thick the wheels wouldn't turn with drinking water and desert bush leaves. Watched a few riders having nervous breakdowns as they did the same. 2024 the descent was disappointingly smooth as the tarmac on Bainskloof. Also the degree and extent of corrugation on some of the other roads varies from year to year a bit. I do think a fast rolling 2.35 is the way for mamils, narrower if you're a lightweight speedster. Nothing can prepare a person for the freeze of a predawn descent of Rooiberg though. In 22 I got there as the sun rose and lit the mountain in a deep red iridescence, memory of a lifetime. I could have had gp5000 on the wheels and I would have been happy.

My fastest is 22 and change - I would love to do a 20 hr

Cracked Trek Domane rim brake frame that insurance never bothered to pick up - brakes removed, 105 chainset on kickr core I serendipitously acquired 5 days before the hard lockdown in March 2020.

Unless it's wet like it was a couple of years ago ...

Roberto Quintas is mayco member for urban mobility - here's his brief - bicycles are not important. Cllr Quintas’s focus is to improve mobility and movement across Cape Town. This can be achieved by creating an integrated public transport system where commuters can seamlessly transfer from one mode - be it rail, minibus-taxi, the MyCiTi bus service, e-hailing services or non-motorised transport - to another; to improve the reliability of our transport services; and, most importantly, to bring down the cost of transport for lower income households. Priorities for this term of office: Getting the N2 Express Service back on the road. This will be a major achievement as thousands of commuters from Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha rely on the service to get to the Cape Town CBD. Our passenger rail service must work - we will continue engaging with PRASA to improve the service, and will also be exploring alternatives. Passenger rail should be the backbone of public transport in Cape Town. Closer cooperation between the City and the minibus-taxi industry, as this service has a critical role to play in the future roll-out of MyCiTi services between the Metro South-East, Wynberg and Claremont. Phase 2A of the MyCiTi service: A total of R7,4 billion will be spent over the next five years to implement the service. The funds will be invested in the construction of new roads and stations from Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain to Wynberg and Claremont and the acquisition of new buses. The basic business of transport remain a focus: to make sure our roads are well maintained, potholes repaired and stormwater infrastructure and retention ponds attended to where there are problems. These issues have a direct impact on residents, regardless of where they live.

Ja. I get whatsapped booty calls from very unattractive men.

Late to the seeding party but I've been demoted to 1C from the dizzying apogee of last year's 1A. It's fair enough, I'm not as fit as this time last year - too much base and just riding along style riding over the last 6 months.

.... or, and all respect to the OP, and as the bike shop often says to me when I'm fussing over something on one of my bikes "the problem is somewhere between the saddle and the helmet".

The bike sounds like the right size. I wonder what the easiest gear is on your cadent? It might be that it is a little easier (smaller at the front and larger at the back). The titan probably is a little heavier bit what your getting for that weight is that the bike will be stronger to handle the rougher loads of mountain biking and a suspension fork to allow you to absorb bumps and rougher surfaces better. It probably is also a little slacker than your other bike in its geometry (basically longer from wheel to wheel) which brings more stability bit can feel a little sluggish and slow. Also, when I started 11 years ago uphills were a slow and horrible experience. There's a old forumite called Thor buttox who is now an expat elsewhere in the world who can tell you how he kindly rode next to me in his hardest hear while I fended of a heart attack. Basically I think all this means you need to ride up.more hills.

How tall are you and what size bike is it?

She's heard about that lascivious tongue that's why she's running away so fast

I would say then that starting as slowly as possible is the best thing to do - let them all rush off and overtake you - the first 200 meters are flat and they will all slow down and cause a traffic jam on the on ramp anyway. As others have noted there isn't much that you should change nutritionally. If you are not quick you are looking at 5 or 6 hours - in the normal course of a day you would have at least one meal in that time so you should consider doing the same - sandwich for eg in addition to some gels and chocolates etc. Cadence (rpm) makes a diffference - faster cadence transfers the load to your heart and lungs, slower and you feel the burn in the leg muscles - you can vary this to give different systems a break. At least that's how I reason for myself. Deliberately slow down at the bottom of all the hills - let the effort come to you rather than searching for it. The impulse when you are taking strain on a bike is often to push harder - bear this in mind if it starts getting hard and dial it back. And have a blast - it's a carnival

Quality of the bikes isn't bad either

One event I did recently gave us casquettes with race numbers printed on them --- how about the same idea for a bikehub casquette personalised with username? Would need to be a pre-order obviously but I'm in.

Shoving my pump into people who misbehave spokes.

The start official chirped Breyton Paulse on the start line that he was going to have to pull D batch the whole way. "Why not?" he said. As it was he didn't, a little group of riders that I think were seeded higher and had a late start came sprinting past us before we got to the first turn and he jumped on the back of them and disappeared. So much for neutral zone. Not that I blame them - if I had the watts I would have joined. D mooched along at a comfy pace. As usual we let ourselves down with careless riding - I think 2 riders went down. I dodged a bottle that the rider in front of me lost on the speedbumps. If I was Geraint I would have hit it and gone down in the neutral zone, if I was MvdPoel, I would have bumped it back into the guy's bottle cage with my front wheel. As it is I'm a Mamil so I just thanked my lucky stars, came out of the corner 50 meters behind the wheel and went anaerobic to catch up. Shook my head and bit my tongue as rider 400 (having sucked wheel for 103,4km) yelled "Go go go" and swung wide onto the right hand side of the road on the last little riser before the finish. Clearly the man needed to pick up 15 places. Predictably he had to pull back in because there were cars coming down the hill and needed to find room to do so amongst all the anoxic slightly-too-high-BMI dad bods that comprises the bulk of D. And predictably that sent a little mini-concertina back down the bunch. Curmudgeonly shaking of my head at my fellow man aside, I enjoyed the ride - expertly marshalled by the motorbikes who I think do a sterling job resisting what I can only imagine is a powerful urge to dish out a p@#klap to the the wannabes who feel the need to risk it all into oncoming traffic. I don't think the gentle pace of 33kmph did my seeding any good but hey ho. I do enjoy these fun rides despite the fact that I have not ridden in one where there hasn't been a crash somewhere around me in quite a while now.

Having started in 1A last year and not done a sub 3 i can say that you will probably have to hold the wheel close to the front of the group to get the goal.

It has to start at the back on Sunday at the dville racecourse with @ChrisF....

Also fed up with vitality. I think we need to remember though that most of is are not their target. We already train, probably eat ok etc and would do in so regardless their absurd and complicated rules. They are interested in the people who don't do those things.

What's your longest ride in the last 3 months been?

That is a bargain of note - and so smart of TGMTB to offer that through to March.