TALUS Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Definitely doing this next yearJay. A wheel to suck!!! :clap:
Dubber Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 looks like early details for the 2016 event are already available: http://www.tourdeboland.com/
EddieV Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Guys and Ladies that did this Tour: where would you put the cut off point ito ability to do this? Are you all sub 3 Argus (NOT 2015...) level? How does this compare to Panorama? I want to enter but don't really want to be alone on the road each day. I did the 99er (108) in 3:20 and the Bouckaert Soenen (126km) in 4:00 . So, not a speedster yet, hopefully within the next 2 years I will try for a sub 3 or 3:15 Argus You will find the Tour de Boland great. I was in the Open Seeded group, and they often broke off into various smaller groups. Had bad luck on the 2nd day about 30km in on the 111km route. I lost my back tire on some sharp concrete pavement. Had to wait for my support vehicle which was still at the B&B having breakfast. An hour and 15 minutes later I was back on the road, but by this time everyone had past, .... there must have been at least another 4 sizable groups that past me in that time plus some "couples" which took the tour really easy. Spent the next 71km alone on the road racing against the cut-off time. The wind before Micthell's pass was hectic, the heat up Mitchell's pass hectic, the ride through Ceres was incredibly testing. And the never-ending Gydo-pass, ... I made some promises to God as I rode up there .. ..... was passed up Gydo by the Elite's, but at the end made it to the top .... and then that last 24km that didn't seem to want to end. Spent 5 and a half hours on the road but managed to beat the cut-off .... But after that day - the rest of the tour was a breeze ..... Loved the TT, the 138km I stayed with the bunch, doing my bit upfront every now and again, and the last day ... only the Taal Monument tested a bit You will be fine TALUS .... We stayed in B&B's and it turned out really affordable. See you there next year ... I will definitely be back!
Wez-O Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Guys, what was the consensus regarding this years event? I heard several bad reviews regarding organisation and the manual timing system ect...
jcza Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Guys, what was the consensus regarding this years event? I heard several bad reviews regarding organisation and the manual timing system ect... Route - greatMarshalling - greatRoad surface - greatTime keeping - shamblesOrganisation - not so greatRegistration - chaos Plenty potential, lets hope they get it right next year.
Patchelicious Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Guys, what was the consensus regarding this years event? I heard several bad reviews regarding organisation and the manual timing system ect...It was a fantastic route, and has the making of being a great tour. Bad things:- No teams in VETS, had to put a team in Open Seeded, nerves were shot by day 2...- Timing, horrendous, still not corrected. Day 2 one of our riders went off the front on last climb with another guy, came in 18mins ahead of the rest of the group, timers assumed they started with VETS and gave them same start time as VETS... meaning they got a 20min penalty... makes a massive difference in GC and Teams GC.- Timers attitude, upon trying to ask about it on several occassions as intrcuted, we were told to basically p1$$ off. That typical parastatal attitude. Dudes, YOU made the mistakes so.- There were some complaints about water tables, but it was a super hot tour and people should have stopped and refueled, instead they chose to race on and ran out, I ended up sharing a few times as I had support.- Registration was a mess, needs a bigger venue.- Jackets, sizes were a mess and some people, including myself didn't end up getting.- I heard some guys had issues with logistics that picked the "all inclusive" packages, but I cannot say first hand. So all in all, it was actually a great tour, great route, marshaling was good, but that timing thing really has tainted it. The front few teams were very competitive, and its very difficult to know how to ride when you are not sure if you are ahead or behind etc... Heinrich of ASG has mailed me and confirmed that next year there WILL be electronic timing, and on that basis I will DEFINITELY do this tour again.
EddieV Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Guys, what was the consensus regarding this years event? I heard several bad reviews regarding organisation and the manual timing system ect... I think the organizers were caught off-guard as to the implications of having the extra participants on the tour, the large "Open seeded" etc groups. Most of the complaints was around timing .... which culminated into not being able to get the Team times (open seeded and overall times, etc) correctly. To any cyclist his/her time is probably the most important, thus, get that wrong and you have war. They promised to implement electronic timing (timing mats, etc) next year. So once that is sorted, the rest should fall in place. Personally, my times were captured correctly every day, .... I was part of the open seeded group.
Cheese Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 Also will be looking at this for next year.Will have to start saving then.
tourdeboland Posted March 15, 2015 Author Posted March 15, 2015 Hi all 2016: Interested riders may sign up, no payment needed as yet: www.tourdeboland.com Improvements will relate to exactly the topics you raised. Carinus
Aluman Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Hi all 2016: Interested riders may sign up, no payment needed as yet: www.tourdeboland.com Improvements will relate to exactly the topics you raised. Carinus One other niggle is starting at 08H00. Any way this can be made as early as possible to miss the traffic and it will help with the heat as well.
Patchelicious Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Hi all 2016: Interested riders may sign up, no payment needed as yet: www.tourdeboland.com Improvements will relate to exactly the topics you raised. CarinusLets first get this years results out of the way before we get ahead of ourselves?
Napalm Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Lets first get this years results out of the way before we get ahead of ourselves? Seems like the people responsible for disorganisation will not involved next year
tourdeboland Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Lets first get this years results out of the way before we get ahead of ourselves?Emasculated, and embarassed. We assume no news + no data = no results. So we have to move on, as much as we hate leaving something unresolved.
tourdeboland Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 Apparently school traffic is the issue. 0500 starts? One other niggle is starting at 08H00. Any way this can be made as early as possible to miss the traffic and it will help with the heat as well.
Patchelicious Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 Apparently school traffic is the issue. 0500 starts?8am start times are actually great. It allows those who are not staying at the start venues a bit of time to get there and therefore makes logistics a bit easier. eg: It allowed my whole team to stay at a single venue the entire duration in Paarl and we had 45mins - 50mins travel time each morning. The heat this year was an anomaly.
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