Durbanville rides 6 and 7th of July - New Balance

[FanieFiets]

Everyone is welcome. if you like it you can join the club later on.

 

http://www.newbalanceclub.com/cycling

NBMC Cycling.

As I get to know the need of cyclist in NBMC I will adjust my program accordingly. As this might take some time I ask you to be patient and please give me feedback. We are trying to create an environment to cater for most of our cyclists.

Firstly - I would like to make Durbanville Mugg & Bean parking lot our central hub from where we start all our pack rides for the road and MTB farm road rides. Tygervalley area is just too dangerous when returning from our out rides.

Secondly - I would like to create one additional pickup point where cyclist not able to cycle to Mugg & Bean Durbanville can be picked up. I have identified Andrag (cnr Old Oak & Old Paarl) to be the spot. This will only apply to the pack rides going out towards Stellenbosch area. The plan is to be there 20 minutes after the planned Mugg & Bean start time.

Thirdly - I will start alternating between Saturdays and Sundays, due to religious requests and also people working on Saturdays.

For the slow/novice MTBer.

I have come to realise there is a big need for farm road riding more than technical riding amongst our novice riders. From now I will have a MTB 40km ride every weekend for the slow/novice riders. The idea is to increase this distance in August to 50km and in September to 60km.

I will also take the novice riders to Jonkershoek on 13 July to go and ride singles tracks. This is only for the novice riders and we will go and explore the easy yet beautiful singles tracks. Do not miss out.

For the advanced MTBer.

For the more advanced and fit riders I will have options that vary between 90km farm rides and then rides in Jonkershoek this month. These rides will be at a fairly fast pace, and if you are not fit you and cannot keep up you will need to turn around. Please have a look at the program below.

For the Roadies.

We will only have one group every weekend for the road cyclist in July. This will be aimed at the average rider and the route will mostly range from 70km – 100km. You have to be able to cycle at least 70km at an average speed of 25km per hour in a peloton to be part of this pack. I will try and get a safety vehicle for every weekend. If you are able to assist by driving a safety vehicle, please send me a mail with what date you can do based on the program.

NMBC Safety Vehicle.

I was very fortunate or shall I say unfortunate (would much rather have cycled) to try the Safety Vehicle concept one weekend in June and happy to report that things went exceptionally well. Speeding cars slowed down and not one car passed closer than the 1.5m gap. The feedback from all the cyclists was very positive and we did not have one vehicle hooting at us or that showed any form of road violence towards the cyclist or the safety vehicle.

At this stage I am trying to get my head around how I can implement this, as I am not going to drive the safety vehicle every weekend! I am looking for input from you the cyclists. I think as NBMC cycling members it should become a duty to drive the safety vehicle at least once. At this stage I am looking for volunteers until I have figured out a fair way of implementing the concept. Please let me know your name and the date that you can make it based on my program below. In July we are going to cycle on either Saturday or Sunday. Obviously as summer gets closer we will need 2 safety vehicles, one for the long and the short route.

Please note the following when you are the safety vehicle driver.

Safety Vehicle - Driver:

1) Drive with your headlights and hazard lights on, all the way.

2) Drive at least 10M behind the last rider in the bunch.

3) Drive with your personal nose (not the vehicle nose) over the yellow line, allowing oncoming traffic to overtake you, yet you force them to slow down and leave at least 1.5 m between the passing vehicle and the cyclists.

4) Pay 100% attention to what is going on in front of you, if there is a crash in the pack you must react very quick!

Apart from the regular no helmet no ride, no light no ride, take note of the following rules.

Cyclists:

1) Always stay inside the yellow line! Do not abuse the fact that there is a safety vehicle. If there is no yellow line, then ride single file, please!

2) Please do not fall back to the safety vehicle while moving, stop first!

3) Some cyclists are all over the show when cycling. You put yourself and other cyclist in danger.

4) Do not overlap wheels with the rider in front of you!

5) When you talk to somebody, keep facing the front, you ride where you look, so look where you should ride.

6) If you are nervous about riding in the pack, make it known to fellow riders. Start at the back and slowly make your way to the front. If you are new to cycling ride behind someone that knows how to ride. Look and Learn.

7) Please refrain from using cell phones while riding!

8) Make sure your back light has fresh batteries and is in good working order.

Double Century Feedback.

I already have 2 full teams for the DC. We want to enter three teams, but you need to inform me via e-mail request. Your name will go on a list and I will start communicating via separate mail to all the DC contenders. If your name is on the list, then it is not a given that you will make one of the teams. You need to earn your place, but by sending me the mail you are halfway there. You need to be fit to ride 90km by end of August. Official LSD (long slow distance) training starts 1 September although I suggest you get saddle fit in July and August. We still need sponsors, so do contact Jasper Coetzee or myself if you can help with sponsorship. This is going to be a DC to remember!

Program for July 2013

Date

Type

Route

6 July 2013 (Sat)

Road

70 – 90km Need a Safety Vehicle

7 July 2013 (Sun)

MTB

40 & 60 & 90km Farm Road (60 & 90 is going to be fast)

13 July 2013 (Sat)

MTB

Jonkershoek single tracks for novices only. Get to know the trick and trades.

14 July 2013 (Sun)

Road

70 – 90km Need a Safety Vehicle

14 July 2013(Sun)

MTB

40 & 60 & 90km Farm Road (60 & 90 is going to be fast)

20 July 2013 (Sat)

Road

70 – 90km Need a Safety Vehicle

20 July 2013 (Sat)

MTB

40km Farm Road for the slow riders

20 July 2013 (Sat)

MTB

Jonkershoek Ride for the fit experienced adrenaline junkies.

27 July 2013 (Sat)

MTB

40 & 60 & 90km Farm Road (60 & 90 is going to be fast)

28 July 2013 (Sun)

Road

70 – 90km Need a Safety Vehicle

[Carmichael]

What is fast for the mtb group? Is is fast like racepace? doing the 90km in like 4 hours?

[FanieFiets]

What is fast for the mtb group? Is is fast like racepace? doing the 90km in like 4 hours?

 

I have no idea. I just ride with the roadies. There are some pretty strong guys, but no supermen. Can give you Cornels nr. if you want to ask about those rides.

[Disylizzy]

What time are the groups meeting at Mugg n Bean?

[FanieFiets]

Its 07:30. Other missing info on the link as well. They just mail the link as a newsletter and the page as a whole contains all the info. I just post the middle bit.

[romanr03]

Do the MTB groups go past the Andrag pick up point tomorrow?