What is the PPA doing?

[Patchelicious]

No. Someone was tweeting but all that showed was their total lack of knowledge about road racing. Oh, and they included Savage in almost every tweet. No idea why.

 

Hendrik eventually told them off:

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In response to the letter sent out:

Maybe riders are gatvol of driving out to the same area to ride virtually the same route again and again and again?  With the total absence of rides in the southern suburbs this is the case for a huge chunk of funriders. Get up at 4am, drive 70+km, ride past the same pig farm, drive 70+km home. Turn a 3 hour ride into an 8 hour adventure.

I remember seeing that Tweet... Lemmer is funny (sometimes)

[Pure Savage]

No. Someone was tweeting but all that showed was their total lack of knowledge about road racing. Oh, and they included Savage in almost every tweet. No idea why.

 

Hendrik eventually told them off:

PS1057.jpg

 

In response to the letter sent out:

Maybe riders are gatvol of driving out to the same area to ride virtually the same route again and again and again?  With the total absence of rides in the southern suburbs this is the case for a huge chunk of funriders. Get up at 4am, drive 70+km, ride past the same pig farm, drive 70+km home. Turn a 3 hour ride into an 8 hour adventure.

They were adding Sven Thiele to every tweet, so we sarcastically asked to be included in every tweet and they did!!

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

They were adding Sven Thiele to every tweet, so we sarcastically to be included in every tweet and they did!!

 

[Headshot]

No. Someone was tweeting but all that showed was their total lack of knowledge about road racing. Oh, and they included Savage in almost every tweet. No idea why.

 

Hendrik eventually told them off:

PS1057.jpg

 

In response to the letter sent out:

Maybe riders are gatvol of driving out to the same area to ride virtually the same route again and again and again?  With the total absence of rides in the southern suburbs this is the case for a huge chunk of funriders. Get up at 4am, drive 70+km, ride past the same pig farm, drive 70+km home. Turn a 3 hour ride into an 8 hour adventure.

Agree on your last point. I am not much of a roadie but I have ridden countless funrides in the SS. In fact I still remember the start/finish in the Constantia Village parking lot for some of them. The problem is the City of CT which has refused permission for races anywhere in the area. Not sure of the reasons why but I think roadworks was one. 

 

I for one will not do the groot trek you refer to. That time and money is reserved for quality MTB trips not road slogging. 

[Skubarra]

 

In response to the letter sent out:

Maybe riders are gatvol of driving out to the same area to ride virtually the same route again and again and again?  With the total absence of rides in the southern suburbs this is the case for a huge chunk of funriders. Get up at 4am, drive 70+km, ride past the same pig farm, drive 70+km home. Turn a 3 hour ride into an 8 hour adventure.

 

You have a point about the same routes. However I also find it weird that people would drive all over the western cape to attend mtb races but have a deep aversion to driving further than their own suburbs for a road race

 

WP cycling hosted a few races away from the northern suburbs last year - Piketberg, Rawsonville & Hemel-Aarde - which shows that it can be done further out (but I also felt those events could have been better attended by the peeps moaning about the lack of events). imo organisers are going to have a challenge to get the numbers there. Will need some out of the box thinking.

[allez]

Maybe they should do a poll on what riders want from road races and try to accommodate.

[Wannabe]

I for one, is quite averse to pay a premium to race on the roads that I use as training routes.

But that's just me (the Scottish blood in me coming to the fore.  )

[Patchelicious]

Maybe they should do a poll on what riders want from road races and try to accommodate.

We could even do this and send them the results....

[Pure Savage]

You have a point about the same routes. However I also find it weird that people would drive all over the western cape to attend mtb races but have a deep aversion to driving further than their own suburbs for a road race

 

WP cycling hosted a few races away from the northern suburbs last year - Piketberg, Rawsonville & Hemel-Aarde - which shows that it can be done further out (but I also felt those events could have been better attended by the peeps moaning about the lack of events). imo organisers are going to have a challenge to get the numbers there. Will need some out of the box thinking.

Hey....

 

We did attend the ones when we were not baby sitting or did not make sense to attend.

 

Example: Sometimes Cat 2 only starts at 08:00, in Piketburg, 3 hours of racing, then a drive home. The wife laughed when I suggested it. So a ride starting at 05:00 ending at 09:00 was done and a happy wife and some bootleggers coffee. 

 

My opinion, the PPA should be lobbying harder to get some fun rides over chappies etc.. the runners do it.

[allez]

We could even do this and send them the results....

The problem is that will only be hubber biased. Not all the roadie cyclists are on the hub. A poll on here wont be bad, but they should do a poll via their newsletter then as well. Those that does not get the newsletter can maybe do polling at a race.

[Skubarra]

Hey....

 

We did attend the ones when we were not baby sitting or did not make sense to attend.

 

Example: Sometimes Cat 2 only starts at 08:00, in Piketburg, 3 hours of racing, then a drive home. The wife laughed when I suggested it. So a ride starting at 05:00 ending at 09:00 was done and a happy wife and some bootleggers coffee. 

 

My opinion, the PPA should be lobbying harder to get some fun rides over chappies etc.. the runners do it.

 

My point still stand - mtb'ers do this all the time, roadies have to drive further than 10km to an event they will give you a list of excuses.

 

If we opt for coffee rides over events for whatever good reasons we can't only point fingers at PPA.

['Dale]

You have a point about the same routes. However I also find it weird that people would drive all over the western cape to attend mtb races but have a deep aversion to driving further than their own suburbs for a road race

 

WP cycling hosted a few races away from the northern suburbs last year - Piketberg, Rawsonville & Hemel-Aarde - which shows that it can be done further out (but I also felt those events could have been better attended by the peeps moaning about the lack of events). imo organisers are going to have a challenge to get the numbers there. Will need some out of the box thinking.

There's not enough singletrack in the road races, Skubarra ????

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

My point still stand - mtb'ers do this all the time, roadies have to drive further than 10km to an event they will give you a list of excuses.

 

If we opt for coffee rides over events for whatever good reasons we can't only point fingers at PPA.

one of the reasons I don't do events.... Only done 3 enduros and then some other road events back in the day. 

[City Cycling Athletic Club]

i hear that WP Cycling will be applying for a road event in the Deep South as part of their Road Season - who's going to put money on that it will take place?

[Patchelicious]

i hear that WP Cycling will be applying for a road event in the Deep South as part of their Road Season - who's going to put money on that it will take place?

What the hell is WP Cycling doing in Alberton?

[DJR]

Hey....

 

We did attend the ones when we were not baby sitting or did not make sense to attend.

 

Example: Sometimes Cat 2 only starts at 08:00, in Piketburg, 3 hours of racing, then a drive home. The wife laughed when I suggested it. So a ride starting at 05:00 ending at 09:00 was done and a happy wife and some bootleggers coffee. 

 

My opinion, the PPA should be lobbying harder to get some fun rides over chappies etc.. the runners do it.

That could have been me posting, word for word (just further down the field, and 4 hours of "racing")