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too young to remember those, but I do remember these

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121119_Photo-0020.jpg

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121142_Photo-0022.jpg

Not long after they started flogging D'Arc sunglasses to death
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sometime around 1987, Durbs, not canoeing, but swimming!!

 

Hardly fits over 1 leg now.

I did one of those the canoe leg was on the Blue Lagoon and the ride to Stanger was hell on the way back thanks to the wind!

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I cringe when I look at some of my old triathlon/duathlon photos ... those neon shorts/vests :blush: :blush: - even rode withthem when it was just a std tri .... :ph34r:

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I did one of those the canoe leg was on the Blue Lagoon and the ride to Stanger was hell on the way back thanks to the wind!

 

I remember the Fattis and Moni's Durban Ultra .....

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I remember the Fattis and Moni's Durban Ultra .....

 

Ohlsson was the sponsor when I did it and the first Iron Man, I think 1984, was sponsored by the Rand Daily Mail two brands no longer with us. Another interesting point was the Iron Man was effectively dealt a death blow when Chesney Thomas took over the organising and moved it to Sun City. The deal was that you would only be given your finishers medal at a breakfast event the morning after. They were trying to force the athletes to stay over at Sun City and two years later the event was gone from the calendar.

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I was hardly ever upright in the canoe. Pics would prove nothing but the Lochness monster

 

No shame in that, I remember helping the great Graeme Pope-Ellis back into his boat after he took a swim at the yacht club. Needless to say he still whipped my ass by a quarter of an hour on the paddle.

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Small Hijack. I remember the Pretoria Ohlssson"s Marathon - at 32km they had a "watertable" with beer. We were bulletproof at the time. Beer at 32km! Still finished sub 4 but lekker dronk. Eish those days.

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Small Hijack. I remember the Pretoria Ohlssson"s Marathon - at 32km they had a "watertable" with beer. We were bulletproof at the time. Beer at 32km! Still finished sub 4 but lekker dronk. Eish those days.

 

Yoh! I forgot about that race, we once did it after an allnighter and the beer table was a great regmaaker! But man did we cramp afterwards!

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did the '89 one - sponsor was Sunday Times

 

paddle around harties, ride to vortrekker hoogte and run to megawatt park

 

if I remember correctly it was won by Rockley Montgomery

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too young to remember those, but I do remember these

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121119_Photo-0020.jpg

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121142_Photo-0022.jpg

I remember my old man wearing on of those during his commuting days when I was a kiddo!
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too young to remember those, but I do remember these

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121119_Photo-0020.jpg

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121142_Photo-0022.jpg

I actually saw someone riding with one of those today

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too young to remember those, but I do remember these

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121119_Photo-0020.jpg

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121142_Photo-0022.jpg

Had one of those!

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Oh yes, the FlopSport helmet. I started cycling just after those appeared.

I had a lekker lumo green one...
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I had one of those

 

too young to remember those, but I do remember these

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121119_Photo-0020.jpg

 

http://images.bidorbuy.co.za/user_images/093/1413093/1413093_120303121142_Photo-0022.jpg

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