mrmed Posted January 5, 2008 Posted January 5, 2008 I'm wondering if anyone wants to join us next Saturday or Sunday for a LSD training ride? I was thinking of starting at the Sasol Garage at the bottom of Krugerdorp Hill and riding down Hekpoort to Breedtsnek, up and down the hill to the dam and then up and down, up Hekpoort and back to the Sasol garage. Should be around 120km and 2000m + of climbing.
Thug Posted January 5, 2008 Posted January 5, 2008 road or mtb? Would have to be Mtb, no road bike would make it up & over Breedts (unless its carried :-D).
amoryns Posted January 5, 2008 Posted January 5, 2008 sh*t sorry, het nie die deel gesien van breedtsnek....MTB dan all the way!
mrmed Posted January 5, 2008 Author Posted January 5, 2008 Ok, let's keep the thread active and choose a day and start time on Thursday.
mrmed Posted January 7, 2008 Author Posted January 7, 2008 We're going to do the ride on Sunday. Leaving at 6am and I think it will take around 7-8 hours depending on how long we stop for lunch.
Thug Posted January 8, 2008 Posted January 8, 2008 mrmed, I think you've somewhat underestimated the distance. By my reckoning, from the garage at the bottom of Krugersdorp Hill to the garage at Hekpoort is approx 32k's From the garage at Hekpoort, up & over Breedts, past Zuurbrak, onto the road towards Brits, around Buffelspoort, back over Breedts to the garage is 97k's according to my Polar. Total distance would then be in the order of 160 k's.
casspir Posted January 8, 2008 Posted January 8, 2008 If this image below is your route, the distance is 162 km.Regards,casspir
mrmed Posted January 8, 2008 Author Posted January 8, 2008 We're going to skip the Buffelspoort dam loop. This will make that loop 61km (on my Polar). So if it's 32km to the garage that will give us 125km. Anybody biting?
Thug Posted January 8, 2008 Posted January 8, 2008 The loop I included from the Shop on Breedtsnek is in Yellow, the distance is pretty similar.
Thug Posted January 8, 2008 Posted January 8, 2008 We're going to skip the Buffelspoort dam loop. This will make that loop 61km (on my Polar). So if it's 32km to the garage that will give us 125km. Anybody biting? Not at the moment but will decide later on in the week.
mrmed Posted January 14, 2008 Author Posted January 14, 2008 I FLY and I rode this route on Sunday. We met up at the Sasol and rode out to the Bird Store (32km) where we met up with some of his mates (and their very bling bikes). We rode up and down Breedtsnek to the store and had a coke (and some nice chocolate brownies). Then we tackled the 4.5km "hill" back to the top of Breedtsnek passing a lot of very unfit cyclists (purporting to be doing either Sani2C or Epic) on the way up. Stopped at the Excel garage, after an extremely fast (I FLY almost killed me) flat section at the bottom of the big "hill", for another coke (93km). We then rode to the top of Hekpoort and back to the Sasol garage for a total of 125km in 6h30 and a riding average of 21km/hr. Don't even ask what my average H/R was! Thanks I FLY for a great ride. mrmed2008-01-14 03:09:03
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