Race for Victory seeding

[jcza]

Suffered out there today after doing the 6hour solo at Avianto yesterday but needed the miles. Wind wasn't pleasant but it wasn't too bad. Think my tyres were too hard, my hands are sore!!

[scotty]

Legs were screaming for mercy dude

 

maybe a rest day tomorrow

I'm checking what's in your waterbottles.

[NotSoBigBen]

I'm checking what's in your waterbottles.

 

It's that 'white stuff' I showed you yesterday and the mistake you're making is drinking it

[Zatek]

Results are in

[jcza]

Anyone know if there was a problem with route for leaders? Saw a tweet from Nic White....Nic White‏@nicwhitedotcoza

Enjoyed that for a while. But not much luck last 2 south races with marshalls. #Race4Victory @SingleSpeedSA. Great company in @jules52

[Agteros]

Anyone know if there was a problem with route for leaders? Saw a tweet from Nic White....Nic White‏@nicwhitedotcoza

Enjoyed that for a while. But not much luck last 2 south races with marshalls. #Race4Victory @SingleSpeedSA. Great company in @jules52

Saw somewhere that the lead vehicle for tandems & VA took a wrong turn, leading a few astray

[Agteros]

Results are in

Not really.... just 11 which are duplicated a bit. Maybe give them a bit more time?

[Agteros]

Results are loaded. Indexed, the whole thing.

 

Eish, all the short cutters are still showing!

Edited September 16, 2012 by RoboCyclist

[Thug]

The lead guys were shown the wrong way and ended up racing 130k

[Peter Parker]

Yep. CL bike guy also went wrong in walkerville.

But what a cool race. The wind hurt, and the mud was ridiculous.

[Zatek]

Does anybody know what the winning time was and not according to racetec with a 1:29:10 for 110km from CL?

[Agteros]

Does anybody know what the winning time was and not according to racetec with a 1:29:10 for 110km from CL?

Jules won. 2:48-ish?

[W@nna-BE]

mud was shocking, now i know why i could not break the 3hour mark hehehe ( excuses excuses )

 

this happened at the start, luckily it was drying up on the way back

Edited September 17, 2012 by W@nna-BE

[Peter Parker]

CL 3:06 i reckon, there is a 3:03 but he wasnt in our group and those 1:23 was short cut.

[Prozac]

I managed a 3h16 . . . happy with the time. This would/could be a lekker route without wind and a mud bath . . .

[Scooterza]

At around the 60km mark I noticed my bike was making a chattering noise. I looked at my front brakes and saw nothing but the noise continued and got worse (I thought it was another bike but later when I was a little more isolated the noise continued so knew it was my bike). I had GOOD look and there stuck between my fork and the callipers was a decent sized pebble! It wasn't tight (hence the chattering) but I decided that it was time to stop before the thing jammed in there and I went flying! The mud must have carried it up and into my fork. I had to take out my wheel to get it out! Get out of jail for me though.

 

Just a question though for those that are more experienced! I was in a mostly CL group. The group leaders seemed intent on riding towards the right of the road, which meant those trying to slipstream out of that wind ended up RIGHT on and even over the middle of the road.

 

My question is, why did they do that? It just made the bunch ride further out and in harm's way. As far as I am concerned, if people want to slipstream me, be my guest (I didn't have the legs yesterday to lead for long.). I can only think they were trying to reduce the advantage that the bunch would get? But perhaps there is a more reasonable answer?