DJR Posted March 11, 2017 Share This day! Yes, that was the whole race, not just the first starting group. Lesson that - to just DO IT! Mamil, Long Wheel Base, Warren_G and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 11, 2017 Share Now it looks like this, and what you see is just a small part, there are thousands waiting out of sight. So, JUST DO IT! You never know how much your small first step may grow and where it may lead! Long Wheel Base 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted March 11, 2017 Share Last night I had a long frustrating call to the Hotel where I am supposed to stay. I booked SNIPDale: I thought there can be only one - Assos.All the best, Talus!Hope you get sorted as the Cape is full of people's,I tell you YeahI'll rock a white Assos jersey To match jy white Italian ballerina shoes ???? Mamil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbon29er Posted March 11, 2017 Share Heard on radio if you take your race number to Newlands cricket you get a free entry to watch Cobra's game tomorrow.What is second prize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbon29er Posted March 11, 2017 Share This day! Yes, that was the whole race, not just the first starting group. Lesson that - to just DO IT! 1980 at the Castle, gun went and we rolled after about 10 minutes. Finished in Camps Bay. No helmet, just a cap. And tekkies. DJR, Bat and Long Wheel Base 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbon29er Posted March 11, 2017 Share Last night I had a long frustrating call to the Hotel where I am supposed to stay. I booked and paid 4months ago. I have the reference numbers. Still they don't know of me and my Dad coming! The guy said to me I must come there today and see if they can sort it out.... The little joys of being on a tight schedule and 1500km away. Hoping not to do a Frank Gallagher impersonation on the streets tonight. The Old Man is already as tense as a string about the whole thing. We will be starting just before 0800 and hoping to go around 4h45. Dale: I thought there can be only one - Assos. Shout if you don't come good. I'm sure we can find you a bed. Edge540, Long Wheel Base and TALUS 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted March 11, 2017 Share 1980 at the Castle, gun went and we rolled after about 10 minutes. Finished in Camps Bay. No helmet, just a cap. And tekkies.You simply HAVE to tell us more about that day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamil Posted March 11, 2017 Share White lycra bottoms too? All the best, Talus!Hope you get sorted as the Cape is full of people's,I tell youYeahI'll rock a white Assos jerseyTo match jy white Italian ballerina shoes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted March 11, 2017 Share White lycra bottoms too?No.But there'll new few out there tomorrow in my bunch.Lots of peacocks around.???? Edited March 11, 2017 by 'Dale BigTom, Mamil and KingZA 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTom Posted March 11, 2017 Share White lycra bottoms too?Dare I say Rule #14? Long Wheel Base 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbon29er Posted March 11, 2017 Share You simply HAVE to tell us more about that day! Apart from the fact it was the day after my 18th birthday. Mid April those days. I think I got to bed at about 3am, got woken at 5am and got dropped at the Castle in time for 7am start. Still drunk I'm sure. Only seeding was the pros on the front line, the rest of us just bunched where we could. 1119 finishers but it seemed more when at the back of the start chute. That was where I started with my lifelong achievement of missing subs by seconds. I did 4:00:45. Which if I look back at Froome's 1st few Argee, is that the correct plural for multiple?, I could have gone on and won the TDF by now as he was way higher than that. I beat my neighbour the late Sir Charles Mordaunt Milner who named the team medal at the DC some years later. So I won that bet. Goodness he was SO old when I was 17. Biggest memory was how backward in development the whole area south of Muizenberg was. Suikerbossie was lined with huge gum trees, no shoulder, the pavements were dirt and it hurt even in those days. There was no wind, the stretch from Cape Point to Ocean View was the 1st time I had ridden there and boy, was it great. Energy drink? Game was it, mixed you own and hoped for the best. One bottle and not many water stops. Suikerbossie had about 100 people watching. My grandmother bought me a big furry sheepskin saddle cover, I used it. Rugby shorts, no chamois and a t-shirt. We've become such poseurs since then. Worst part? 1980 is not on my palmares. But 1985 and 1986 have not been credited to me either so I am officially on number 9 and 10 tomorrow. Although I have ridden 2 without a chip/time and 2004 when I took a genuine 7:30 I was so unfit. TALUS, Long Wheel Base, BigTom and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted March 11, 2017 Share Great anecdote there, carbon29er ???????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted March 11, 2017 Share What a beautiful morning for a bike ride. Testing the machine. Reviving the engine. Mamil, Long Wheel Base and BigTom 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbon29er Posted March 11, 2017 Share White lycra bottoms too? No.But there'll new few out there tomorrow in my bunch.Lots of peacocks around. Dare I say Rule #14?Always good to have a long stare at a white bib boy until he gets uncomfortable and asks what you are looking at. Best retort? Just seeing how huge you are to see if it is true that you have to be REALLY big to wear those bibs. Long Wheel Base 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamil Posted March 11, 2017 Share As Mr Bean says - 1 Day to go - Exciiiitiiiingggggg ... Long Wheel Base and DJR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanAW Posted March 11, 2017 Share Apparently there are fires near kirstenbosch. Anyone got some details? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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