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Apparently it's my paying attention that is actually letting me down Thanks a lot

My google-fu is letting me down A little while ago, someone posted a link to the page on the discovery site that showed how many points you had earned for each category and now I can't find it (neither the link nor the page). Can someone please point me in the right direction?

I had to pay in extra Thankfully only like R150 but still, sucks after the already massive amount that I have contributed

I did it on chrome. Just need to force enable flash.

Bleak I missed this one. Only got home from the party at 3am and was still a bit drunk when my alarm went off so I decided to give it a skip.

Cool, thanks for all the replies. If I manage to wake up in time I'll be there

How technical is the 45km? Got a birthday party on the Saturday night so I'll probably be eye-wateringly hungover so I'm not keen to do it if its very technical.

I'm using 29" 2.35 Forekasters front and rear. Only done about 200km on them. Was running Ikons (think they were 2.35 as well) front and rear on my old bike. Impressions so far: Forekasters have just tons more grip on everything other than hardpack where they seem relatively similarIn mud and thick sand the Ikons are terrible, no grip and the tread just doesn't clear the mud. Forekasters are much better in these conditions.In general the Forekasters have more rolling resistanceIn summary, I would take the Ikons for gravel grinding and the Forekasters for everything else. Can't really compare them to anything else because I only took up cycling in August so I've only ridden these two tyres.

They should rename the race "Do you like rock gardens?" Ended up bailing on the 66km and just doing the 33 because I ate something dodgy on Friday and spent most of the night getting rid of it. Was feeling better by the morning but I was scared to eat anything and riding that route with no food in me seemed like a terrible idea. Managed to do a fairly spectacular OTB on the major rocky downhill but thankfully no serious injuries (my left side is more bruise than not though). Will have to be back next year to do the full length.

My SMS had a number and a start time.

Thanks, cool videos

So it depends on how we interpret the bit where you say you can still compress the suspension. If you mean you can compress it a mm or two then that's fine, if you can compress either (front or back) more than a few mm then its a problem.

As far as i know, no suspension has 100% lockout. It just gets much harder to compress.

Linky to said video?

My first one too and I'm getting a bit nervous if I'm honest.

I found the dropper post very useful in the low tunnels. Some of them were still too low to ride though (XL bike). As much fun as the route was, I probably won't do it again. Too many people so I spent a lot of time standing around. And the low tunnels got a bit annoying after the first one or two.

Got the correction message with the right name this time. But it seems like the batching is done by random number generator. My mate who is also riding has a seeding index 8 worse than mine yet he's starting in the batch before me... I don't understand.

I am now going by the name Jaco (apparently) and have been seeded in Batch I...

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If someone could point me in the direction of the rest of the video I would be very grateful

Its a work in progress, only my 3rd road race since I got back into cycling in August (I do more MTB than road) and my fastest time on an approx. 100km race. Just bleak that I was so close and missed it.

Started in JL and super bummed I missed sub 3 According to the Racetec site my time was 3:00:02... Bulls**t

New bike Scott Spark 910. And obligatory couch photo:

I like the socks. Factual and to the point. Not convinced by the bottle and the shorts though.

As far as I know they charge VAT on the duties as well so the calc would be: ((bike value * 1.15 ) * 1.14 ) + 1000