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Mamil

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  1. I beat you! This year, instead of the sub 3 I have yet to achieve despite elbowing my way past @mikkelzand other 1X mamils, I'm going to try get my position into triple digits instead of quadruple.
  2. I opted for the half this year as the Winelands is the next day and I would like to try get some sort of 1b ish seeding again if I can.
  3. Steepest pitches of Jonas are steeper than the swartberg steep bits I think. Also.jonas has parts that slackmoff whereas swartberg is sustained. The hard part of swartberg is that by the time you have got to the pass you've already been climbing for 20km.ans have 130 odd in the legs Prince Albert is lovely... A spa day for SO and nice restaurants.
  4. Gear ratios mean nothing on swartberg if you don't have an entry. A 1400 ZAR entry rider for anyone on a bike for 1000. I feel for event organisers. If it's this hard to give someone who wants to ride the event a 400 ZAR discount ..... That's for the swartberg granfondo BTW
  5. It's on the same day as the munga mini which I was going to do as prep for a full.minga in 2025 when a discount price and mad friends persuaded me to do the main event this year. Buy the voucher!!! Such a lekker event. Proper HC style climb followed by a 20 km switchback descent.
  6. Just say yes! It's a bargain - the voucher has about 5 letters so that's only 200rand a letter! Cheap
  7. I have a 1400 ZAR voucher for someone to enter this event. I've placed an ad in the classified but thought I'd let everyone know that I'll give it to the first hubber who gives me 1000 ZARS. The voucher is the swartberg's substitution process - was an early bird entry but unfortunately, I can't ride because of Munga Grit - help a mamil recoup some costs! One of my favourite races - and sorry not to be doing it.
  8. That's a pretty tough schedule I would say. As mentioned several times heat is going to be a huge factor on your trip. It's dry heat which is a good thing but it radiates up from the baking earth in what can feel like a solid wall. Every liter of water you can carry will be needed.
  9. Jislaaik this makes me lus to slap on the frame bag and disappear for a couple of weeks
  10. I'd be very interested in those roads too please @Stephan
  11. 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
  12. 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!!
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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+
  16. 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.
  17. 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!
  18. 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".
  19. What a movie - gonna watch it again this evening - cos I'm still on HOLIDAY!!!!!!!
  20. 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?
  21. 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
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