Velouria Posted January 25, 2016 Share Eish!!! Those trails are way to manicured, if you rode that around here you wouldn’t have any teeth left.It's about not the equipment you have, it's how you use it From Jacques Marais: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoke101 Posted January 25, 2016 Share It's about not the equipment you have, it's how you use it From Jacques Marais: CZgqOtkWEAASGWB.jpgCZb938eWQAAn25T.jpg Too true, we would be riding down the rocks on the right of the first pic though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratty Posted January 25, 2016 Share Eish!!! Those trails are way to manicured, if you rode that around here you wouldn’t have any teeth left. In an event like this where you constantly have fast people coming around passing slower people I don't think they can make it too technical. That said, its still fun as you just ride fast through the trees by the river, its quite narrow in places. There were a few nasty crashes, think some people were pushing their boundaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev null Posted January 25, 2016 Share That fence bridge at the end of the singletrack by the stream usually catches a few people on their first lap. The loose berms at the top also had a few victims. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor-22 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Many people came akropper there in W2W. Those how did they do that accidents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 25, 2016 Share What a great event! (and I'm not just saying that because we were involved)We put together a strictly fun, social team with the aim of doing a few laps, chilling out and having a few beers in between.However... after a few laps when Trail Tag had us "winning" the fun category our competitive itches just had to be scratched. Game on.We still had loads of fun and some beers, though many more steri stumpies were downed.Great atmosphere on and off the course. Well done to Dane on the solid win.A huge thanks to Meurant and the Dirtopia team. As if the 24 hours alone wasn't enough he'd be fighting fires in Simonsberg for just about all of last week with little sleep in between. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackheart Posted January 25, 2016 Share Great event.Huge thanks to the whole team involved, just next time - turn the oven down a bit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted January 25, 2016 Share What a great event! (and I'm not just saying that because we were involved) We put together a strictly fun, social team with the aim of doing a few laps, chilling out and having a few beers in between. However... after a few laps when Trail Tag had us "winning" the fun category our competitive itches just had to be scratched. Game on. We still had loads of fun and some beers, though many more steri stumpies were downed. Great atmosphere on and off the course. Well done to Dane on the solid win. A huge thanks to Meurant and the Dirtopia team. As if the 24 hours alone wasn't enough he'd be fighting fires in Simonsberg for just about all of last week with little sleep in between. Meurant and Arina are the best thing that could have happened to MTB'ing in the Western Cape......both such great people and passionate about what they do and life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDK Posted January 25, 2016 Share Waiting patiently for Velouria's blog post... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velouria Posted January 25, 2016 Share Waiting patiently for Velouria's blog post... 24hr race reports are so difficult to write. It's usually a rather lonely affair, and if everything goes according to plan, it should be a boring ride of lap after lap after lap. I think the most action I had was trying to avoid those damn frogs at night! I almost connected a tree a few times making amphibian avoidance maneuvers! But don't worry - I'll come up with something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilipV Posted January 25, 2016 Share I've retired already, although no one believes me https://twitter.com/velotales/status/691452389631643649 https://twitter.com/Scrat29/status/691485088148766720"retired" the only thing that changed is the age of the child on your hip on the podium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted January 25, 2016 Share 24hr race reports are so difficult to write. It's usually a rather lonely affair, and if everything goes according to plan, it should be a boring ride of lap after lap after lap. I think the most action I had was trying to avoid those damn frogs at night! I almost connected a tree a few times making amphibian avoidance maneuvers! But don't worry - I'll come up with something Well, its kinda dangerous Oh, you crashed?Wtf happened***Well, uh, er, uhm, I lost my front wheel when I slid on a parra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fandacious Posted January 25, 2016 Share Well, its kinda dangerous Oh, you crashed?Wtf happened***Well, uh, er, uhm, I lost my front wheel when I slid on a parra whose parra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor-22 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Mum's parra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted January 25, 2016 Share Did anyone claim the rat? The next lap it was gone, so most people wouldn't know what I'm talking about. Philip erasmus breaking his hand during the night, putting it in a splint and then walking his bike around the course one handed 8 hours later to register an official finish after noon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted January 25, 2016 Share Philip erasmus breaking his hand during the night, putting it in a splint and then walking his bike around the course one handed 8 hours later to register an official finish after noon. I met Philip in the camp site after the race. Super impressed by his attitude He's got a big charity ride coming up in April. Hoping he heals up in time for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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