[Event] Fountains Cycle Race

[Ostifer]

Event Name: Fountains Cycle Race
When: 24 September 2012
Where: Reformed Church, Benoni, Gauteng
Category: Road

The event promises to be better than ever. It will comprise 2 new distances of 60 km & 116km as well as a brand new route. The event has moved from its traditional date of June 16 to 24th September 2012 (Heritage Day). Being a public holiday it gives a great opportunity to get some extra spring riding in. Please visit the website for more information. Entries can be made by clicking here

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[The Pirate]

Will be there for 4th year in a row. Very nice race, best pannekoek on the East Rand.

[scotty]

Missed it last year as i was recovering from flu, will be back this year.

[Underachiever]

Me too - final prep for the CPT!!

[Eldron]

Damn! I'm gonna miss Benoni World Champs!

 

Pancake flat and best pancakes ;-)

[Kallie.]

I'm also going to miss it!! I was looking forward to it this year. Just up the road from me but unfortunately cant make it...

[Underachiever]

Eish, the new route, much more challenging than previously. Same goes for the traffic!!

[Richard the Lion Heart]

So I dusted off my road bike and did this race yesterday for the first time (as a point of clarity, I prefer to MTB but this event is close to home and I thought it would be a nice training ride).

The race started late and the Open AL batch I was in for the 105km, only got away at 08:20 (15 min late). What I can't understand is why they can't shorten the start gaps between the groups in road races (if not combine the smaller groups)? I understand in mountain bike races you want to eliminate bottlenecks at single track etc but why in road races? Surely it does not make too much difference if the groups are dispatched closer (and or bigger in the smaller road races).....just asking

 

P.S. It was sooo windy yesterday I think I just wanted more people to hide behind.

[Nettie R]

Either the metro cops were late, but orgs only hooked up their PA system by about 7h45.

Nice to see acknowledgement for hand cyclists at prize giving.

[stan the man]

The wind was a killer. But it was a very nice race...