Mamil

I'd be very interested in those roads too please @Stephan

Ja - Feb heat will in all likelihood be very severe - and definitely a plus one on prince albert and the swartberg pass - an essential treat with a strong cycling presence

That all looks very safe to my eyes - but as noted by @Skubarrafor minimal extra distance you could make what looks a like a tough route a lot more hospitable by including the small towns that your route bypasses to the the north on your outbound leg and to the south on your return leg. Although taxi to Franschoek is a good idea there a relatively safe route to get to Stellies / Frasnschoek as per this one 've ridden a few times to visit my offspring who is a student there. https://www.strava.com/routes/2803286519588860134 Enjoy and do post a ride report please!!

I don't have technical expertise, It has been suggested to me that the 105 is better than the SRAM. And as someone else said, the Ribble is gorgeous looking. The green monster is leering over my shoulder!!! Post update please and tell us how it rides.

Ha! With my genetics and I think also my age, if I don't train properly I wont finish the event. And also, any excuse to be far from the madding crowd.

Christmas gift from S.O. because i will be doer en gone without cell reception, unsupervised with project munga training. A relatively low annual fee, a month by month contract that can be turned on and off. Send tracking info, send and receive text messages and send SOS info including location to a manned response team and contacts when out of cell tower range. https://www.garmin.com/en-ZA/p/765374 Operable from head unit and watch via ant+

Incredible that the bike got recovered. I stopped at the garage at bottom of chappies for a water bottle refill and there were some super young looking women and men constables in new looking uniforms getting something to eat there. I felt for them because they honestly looked like school kids. I thought about the scheming hard eyes that I see in some of the rough looking characters around there and the contrast with the nervous and uncertain demeanour of those youngsters.

Interesting to rewatch it - once I made it past the cringe banter of the opening scene we thoroughly enjoyed it. Great scenery and the plot and dialogue seemed curiously naive from a 30 year distance. Also, I don't remember 90's baddies being quite so stupid!

Exactly that!! I'm very good at letting wheels go, usually I don't have a choice though.... I think that's a great perspective - the reflexive response to the comparison anxiety is to fall into the other great myth which is the self-contained individualist who doesn't care what other people think - norming one's behaviour and ability against peers is essential for a whole host of very good reasons - "No man is an island entire unto himself".

What a movie - gonna watch it again this evening - cos I'm still on HOLIDAY!!!!!!!

It's weird - says it's a self-supported ride and we are required to take out their insurance to cover medical and rescue emergencies but no further details. There are plenty of superlatives in the blurb but as you say, skimpy on the details. Not at all clear what sets this apart from the long gravel ride I'm doing with my mates on Saturday. In principle I'm keen on a series like this - I think there might be a market for something like the 36one closer to Cape Town for example - but this advertising seems almost deliberately vague. Maybe they want to keep the event small?

I like the Strava route creation tools which I find better than the Garmin connect equivalent. I think I'm also a target for cat fishing on Strava because fairly often a young woman with "I'll be your mid life crisis" looks and Lycra that hugs her curves tighter than mine does my man boobs "slides into" my followers list. Also, on of my favourite things is sifting through my ride on Strava with my "anti cramp all the micronutrients, used by all the best pros" at my elbow and seeing how many times I've ridden over chappies and where today's fell in relation to that one time when there was that stinking tailwind in July 2019 .... Also, I do like the kudos and if you want to make me happy, make a nice comment on my ride .... And if I'm really struggling on the bike I might spend the last 20km thinking up titles to give my ride. I'm not sure if any of that is healthy but @Jewbacca I think we might need to footnote your observation that many people have an unhealthy relationship with exercise with a nod to the fact that you will be lining up at munga on a BMX. #justsaying

And only added fresh after cooking ....

avocado is nice unless it's the colour of your bibs.

Makes it look easy!!! Only the chap standing next to it shows the scale! (Mamils don't gap)

Nice picture though

With or without pay? Anybody know?

I didn't know that. He skedaddled from the scene. I have zero sympathy for this oke and believe he should be made an example of.

That seems too little by a factor of 20

It really doesn't feel good, the whole landscape feels quite hostile and difficult

That's a great idea

Approx 4 percent of the American population meets the criteria for anti social.personality disorder. Possibly more in our country for those complex reasons you mention. Only about 1 in 4 are women so that means that if you grab 100 random males off the street maybe 6 of them will meet the criteria. Here are the criteria for antisocial personality. You need 3 to qualify. repeatedly breaking the law repeatedly being deceitful being impulsive or incapable of planning ahead being irritable and aggressive having a reckless disregard for their safety or the safety of others being consistently irresponsible lack of remorse Put that behind the wheel of a hummer and ...... Worth remembering though that 6 out if every 100 okes you bump will have at least 3 of those in their personality profile.

Waiting for that test case but not optimistic. The law may be on the cyclist's side but I cannot see any prosecutor or private individual with the endurance and stamina to see such a process through the courts.

How often would you say you have an experience of being close passed where you get a fright or feel endangered?

You can cycle the route on any given Sunday for sure but there is value in the closed roads and riding flat out in a bunch without hassling about cars and robots. And it presents Cape town as a cycling city (although this is questionable given the state of the roads and traffic lawlessness).