milky4130 Posted November 19, 2013 Share After A thorough wash, I could see No obvious Damage on my unbranded Chinese import however I took bike in to LBS only for a BB re-grease as we Rode through deep waters & brake pad precautionary check. Which was surprisingly still Fine, two Of my mates had no rear brakes by the time they hit the top of swartberg pass on Day2, had to descend with only front brakes alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vetseun Posted November 19, 2013 Share Cant imagine eating a Spur Burger during the ride. I will probably throw up after about 500 meters down the road if I had to eat a burger and chips. Would have been nice as a lunch in the Hell at the end of stage 1 though....Im with you on that one. I cant even chow the Spur burger after finishing the Baviaans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanievb Posted November 19, 2013 Share chain is fine, brake pads are done for. still have to check bb and wheel bearings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cacher Posted November 20, 2013 Share On Day 2 the medics were telling me they found a guy who had no brakes at all anymore and was braking by means of "foot to the tyre"... Desperate times call for deperate measures... On the event website, I see there is a link to the event photos. When I go the the site, I can not find anything. Any suggestions, or am I just too eager to see how I suffered during the race? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanievb Posted November 20, 2013 Share On Day 2 the medics were telling me they found a guy who had no brakes at all anymore and was braking by means of "foot to the tyre"... Desperate times call for deperate measures... On the event website, I see there is a link to the event photos. When I go the the site, I can not find anything. Any suggestions, or am I just too eager to see how I suffered during the race? :-) go to www.actionphoto.net enter the event name and your race number and search, usually takes 2-3 weeks for all the photos to be uploaded and identified p.s. be patient the website is slower than me going up heartbreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanievb Posted November 20, 2013 Share for the vitality point junkies, the event is uploaded for claiming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky4130 Posted November 20, 2013 Share On Day 2 the medics were telling me they found a guy who had no brakes at all anymore and was braking by means of "foot to the tyre"... Desperate times call for deperate measures... On the event website, I see there is a link to the event photos. When I go the the site, I can not find anything. Any suggestions, or am I just too eager to see how I suffered during the race? :-)I've about 4 photos loaded thus far. Re. Brakes, i was thinking the same thing should they fail me I would also do an Ala 80's BMX style shoe on the tire to stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skubarra Posted November 20, 2013 Share On Day 2 the medics were telling me they found a guy who had no brakes at all anymore and was braking by means of "foot to the tyre"... Desperate times call for deperate measures... Well the fact that the medics "found" the guy tells me how well that idea turned out.... The idea of doing this race without brakes, pretty scary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky4130 Posted November 20, 2013 Share problem is the route was wet this year not muddy just wet causing sand & grime to lodge into pads & onto disks & lots of river crossings, so brakes was bound to fail if you started on 50% or less pads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariusvdw Posted November 20, 2013 Share I went down Swartbergpass on about half of front brake pads. Pretty scary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pax_ Posted November 10, 2014 Share Doing my first one this year. Under-prepared, but looking forward to it. Looks like Oudtshoorn is going to get some rain this week and over the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenReaper Posted November 10, 2014 Share Doing my first one this year. Under-prepared, but looking forward to it. Looks like Oudtshoorn is going to get some rain this week and over the weekend.Hope you enjoy it,this race was on my to-do list for this year,but unfortunately a few things happened this year that prevented this from happening.Atleast I have another year to practice.Keep us updated on how it went.[emoji106] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fanievb Posted November 10, 2014 Share Doing my first one this year. Under-prepared, but looking forward to it. Looks like Oudtshoorn is going to get some rain this week and over the weekend. if its raining take extra brake pads, that sand is worse than grinding paste and it goes into everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky4130 Posted November 10, 2014 Share The last thing you don't want is no brakes going down the swartberg pass, should you go over the edge you will fall far, very far & long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIB Posted November 12, 2014 Share In the late 90's I had to rely on the awesome stopping power of v-brakes. If you braked really hard you would eventually slow down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterF Posted November 12, 2014 Share In the late 90's I had to rely on the awesome stopping power of v-brakes. If you braked really hard you would eventually slow down! In the early 90's we relied on cantilever brakes. They made V brakes feel like disc brakes in comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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