Ride to Dullstroom. Going beyond 300.

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Sweating like a weight watcher in a cake shop

nothing to see move along, you guys are killing this thread, sorry OP

 

TELL US MORE SERIOUSLY

[V12man]

hey hey hey what happened to patient dr confidentiality,,,,i told you about that in confidence :eek:

Patients actually PAY for that piece of the service.... and I checked, you don't have a file....

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Patients actually PAY for that piece of the service.... and I checked, you don't have a file....

ahhh please, my wife worked for 20 years for the same dr, those ladies will "back date" a file for a hand cream sample, when i find a lawyer willing to assist me in my case of breach, i will be one of your top 10 patients

[Trackz]

Did something like this earlier in the year too: http://www.velotales...ig-day-out.html . Thinking of doing it again next year .....

 

Nice one! Some good reading there.

I have added a link to your blog on the Makingtrackz home page. Hope you don't mind.

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F.R.A.I.L. is looking at this thread thinking,,,"i do 300km to warm up the legs" lol

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i some times think to my self on a "long" ride,,,imagine you were riding with F.R.A.I.L and you say jeeez im done,,,,the look on his face priceless

[Velouria]

We felt like Harries Pancakes ... so we left after work on Fri, 8 Aug for Dullstroom and arrived in Dullstroom on Sat 3pm. 22 hours later, 310km. Ride report on Making Trackz link below. http://makingtrackz.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/ride-to-dullstroom-going-beyond-300/

Brilliant! Sounds like a decent enough reason to go for a bike ride with a couple of mates. 310kms and just 4 Strava achievements? I think you're going to have to do it again!

 

Did something like this earlier in the year too: http://www.velotales.com/2014/03/2014-big-day-out.html . Thinking of doing it again next year .....

Naah - I'm not doing 336km again. Next year we HAVE to beat our record of 361kms. Perhaps not on the hottest day of the year though.

 

Nice one! Some good reading there.

I have added a link to your blog on the Makingtrackz home page. Hope you don't mind.

Not at all. Although it's not CrashTestDummy's blog, he does feature a lot. Pretty much the guest star.

[Trackz]

Brilliant! Sounds like a decent enough reason to go for a bike ride with a couple of mates. 310kms and just 4 Strava achievements? I think you're going to have to do it again!

 

 

Naah - I'm not doing 336km again. Next year we HAVE to beat our record of 361kms. Perhaps not on the hottest day of the year though.

 

 

Not at all. Although it's not CrashTestDummy's blog, he does feature a lot. Pretty much the guest star.

 

Do it again ... nope. Box ticked. Next one has to be 400+ and then it's so close to 500, why stop at 400? Maybe a non-stop Joberg2c?

[jcza]

Do it again ... nope. Box ticked. Next one has to be 400+ and then it's so close to 500, why stop at 400? Maybe a non-stop Joberg2c?

Paris Brest Paris - you know you want to http://www.paris-brest-paris.org/index2.php?lang=en&cat=accueil&page=edito

[zniper]

does someone have the ride on strava ? would love to see the route and compare as we have been from benoni to loskop dam a few times and took a different approach.

 

http://2share.co.za/Files/de299a29-7f90-4f5c-9e95-f832d136a5f8Capture.JPG

Edited August 14, 2014 by zniper

[zniper]

and another 102km from loskop to Dullstroom

 

http://2share.co.za/Files/ecd4eb24-69e9-4bf3-8eb4-4b0bb411d87cCapture.JPG

[Trackz]

does someone have the ride on strava ? would love to see the route and compare as we have been from benoni to loskop dam a few times and took a different approach.

 

http://2share.co.za/Files/de299a29-7f90-4f5c-9e95-f832d136a5f8Capture.JPG

 

https://www.strava.com/activities/177698904

There are options. Our considerations were as follows:

- Start Pretoria East, end at Dullstroom, go past 300

- Gravel as far as possible and as easy as possible :-)

- We headed South towards Bapsfontein to make up some distance early on, obviously not the most direct route

- R25 N of Bronkhorstspruit quiet at night & safer, given no shoulder, in day time that's a problem section

- We chose the R33 near Stoffberg from Loskop. It's tar and was a bit too busy on a Sat morning. Alternative was a gravel detour to the SE of Loskop but that went over a mountain :-). I would recommend the latter actually

 

Now if you have a route from Benoni to the KZN coast, mostly on gravel ... that may earn you a long beer!

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https://www.strava.c...ities/177698904

There are options. Our considerations were as follows:

- Start Pretoria East, end at Dullstroom, go past 300

- Gravel as far as possible and as easy as possible :-)

- We headed South towards Bapsfontein to make up some distance early on, obviously not the most direct route

- R25 N of Bronkhorstspruit quiet at night & safer, given no shoulder, in day time that's a problem section

- We chose the R33 near Stoffberg from Loskop. It's tar and was a bit too busy on a Sat morning. Alternative was a gravel detour to the SE of Loskop but that went over a mountain :-). I would recommend the latter actually

 

Now if you have a route from Benoni to the KZN coast, mostly on gravel ... that may earn you a long beer!

just look for a strava section on joberg2c FROM THERE YOU SHOULD EASILY BE ABLE TO WORK AROUND the gated/closed private farms