Pure Savage Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 my SCT wake up on wednesday and realise this is a Argus seeding racelate entries were a dream at newlands, somehow still have a seeding so start in 3Bthrow everything in the car, except helmetrealise this about 10mins from home, so turn around is fine but puts timing tightrock up to group about 30seconds before we actually start so join in the backstarts pissing with raingroup is laaank chilled, am in second place before we even leave the gumtrees up helshoogtenice and easy descent on helshoogte and some 3C riders catch up and a lekker big group forms by wemmershoekcontinues pissing with rainriding is fine and everyone is chilling in the bunch with not many doing workcontinues pissing with rainturn around at wellington and my legs aren't feeling as lekker as i started with 35km to gocontinues pissing with rainplay it nice and tactical by following tandems or teddy bears down each of the rollerscontinues pissing with raincollect a potjie sized pothole in klapmuts, it was under water so no way to see itjoin the group of okes fixing their puncturesI'm in the back here, the guy in the mabulance who wiped has already left.continues pissing with rainput sparetjoop incontinues pissing with rain being a total IDJUT i have brought a crappy pump and don't pump to enough pressureget riding again continues pissing with rain get snakebite flat on a cat eye 2km later near Wiesenhof continues pissing with rain got two flat tyres, but a puncture repair kit. now i'm not really worried about time and just want to finish on own steam continues pissing with rain ever tried getting a patch kit to stick in the pissing rain? continues pissing with rain put on jacket, as this is now going to be a saga. me vs the f@#$% puncture continues pissing with rain 2 attempts to get flat done end up in a slow leak 100m further down the road continues pissing with rain pull out a super duper macguyver move. take patch on tube. wrap empty energy bar wrapper around it three times. use multitool to get cable tie off race number without breaking it, use this to keep wrapper on the tube. IMG_20171203_211855.jpg get religious for a few seconds pump it back upcontinues pissing with rain ride to finishcontinues pissing with rain dodge puncture trick survives 15km, until the final left hand turn off at nietvoorbiyj. some oke cramps and just careens straight into two okes slowed down to take corner sort of stops raining swear a bit, and ride last 1km on super flat tyre get to finish, was on track for about a 3:20, end up with 4:15. ho hum, that's life! have a spur burger go back to car, can't find car key continues pissing with rain again forgot phone in car, so need to phone wife using a good samaritan for the sparecontinues pissing with rain know one of the race doctors so use his phone as a point of contact whilst i wait go back to race village in wet clothes go 'chill with a waterbottle' at medic stationstops raining! hero wifey arrives with spare key, get to car and leaves me with kids for the afternoon head back along route to points where i stopped find key exactly where i took off my jacket. celebrate with a Venison Pie and Deneys Full cream milkshake Found your key, kudos!
bleedToWin Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Yes that was me - 2 wonderful guys unclipped me and had to carry me to the car. Couldn't finish unfortunately Can't put any weight on my right leg due to something in my hip. Really hoping its just bruising and not tendon/cartilage damage but its too soon to tell. Hobbling in crutches with a follow up appointment Monday Eish. Reading of and listening to some horror stories really makes me even more glad for my safe ride.Heal up soon.
Shell Belle Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Eish. Reading of and listening to some horror stories really makes me even more glad for my safe ride.Heal up soon.Thanks so much. Was on track for a 2:45 so I am seriously bleak!
dee_biker Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 That is pretty impressive.... I recall we received our CTCT seeding end of Jan 2 weeks before the 99er - how did they know what time you were going to ride in the 99er? Just ask nicely
Mlayne Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 my SCT wake up on wednesday and realise this is a Argus seeding racelate entries were a dream at newlands, somehow still have a seeding so start in 3Bthrow everything in the car, except helmetrealise this about 10mins from home, so turn around is fine but puts timing tightrock up to group about 30seconds before we actually start so join in the backstarts pissing with raingroup is laaank chilled, am in second place before we even leave the gumtrees up helshoogtenice and easy descent on helshoogte and some 3C riders catch up and a lekker big group forms by wemmershoekcontinues pissing with rainriding is fine and everyone is chilling in the bunch with not many doing workcontinues pissing with rainturn around at wellington and my legs aren't feeling as lekker as i started with 35km to gocontinues pissing with rainplay it nice and tactical by following tandems or teddy bears down each of the rollerscontinues pissing with raincollect a potjie sized pothole in klapmuts, it was under water so no way to see itjoin the group of okes fixing their puncturesI'm in the back here, the guy in the mabulance who wiped has already left.continues pissing with rainput sparetjoop incontinues pissing with rainbeing a total IDJUT i have brought a crappy pump and don't pump to enough pressureget riding againcontinues pissing with rainget snakebite flat on a cat eye 2km later near Wiesenhofcontinues pissing with raingot two flat tyres, but a puncture repair kit. now i'm not really worried about time and just want to finish on own steamcontinues pissing with rainever tried getting a patch kit to stick in the pissing rain?continues pissing with rainput on jacket, as this is now going to be a saga. me vs the f@#$% puncturecontinues pissing with rain2 attempts to get flat done end up in a slow leak 100m further down the roadcontinues pissing with rainpull out a super duper macguyver move. take patch on tube. wrap empty energy bar wrapper around it three times. use multitool to get cable tie off race number without breaking it, use this to keep wrapper on the tube.IMG_20171203_211855.jpgget religious for a few secondspump it back upcontinues pissing with rainride to finishcontinues pissing with raindodge puncture trick survives 15km, until the final left hand turn off at nietvoorbiyj.some oke cramps and just careens straight into two okes slowed down to take cornersort of stops rainingswear a bit, and ride last 1km on super flat tyreget to finish, was on track for about a 3:20, end up with 4:15. ho hum, that's life!have a spur burgergo back to car, can't find car keycontinues pissing with rain againforgot phone in car, so need to phone wife using a good samaritan for the sparecontinues pissing with rainknow one of the race doctors so use his phone as a point of contact whilst i waitgo back to race village in wet clothes go 'chill with a waterbottle' at medic stationstops raining!hero wifey arrives with spare key, get to car and leaves me with kids for the afternoonhead back along route to points where i stoppedfind key exactly where i took off my jacket.celebrate with a Venison Pie and Deneys Full cream milkshake</p></p>Awesome tenacity and determination shown... Well done especially in less than comfortable conditions.
Skubarra Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Just ask nicely Good to know, if my form picks up in the new year I also might beg for a better seeding...
Rouxenator Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Apology accepted OK, now I want to see the carnage.
dev null Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 my SCT wake up on wednesday and realise this is a Argus seeding racelate entries were a dream at newlands, somehow still have a seeding so start in 3Bthrow everything in the car, except helmetrealise this about 10mins from home, so turn around is fine but puts timing tightrock up to group about 30seconds before we actually start so join in the backstarts pissing with raingroup is laaank chilled, am in second place before we even leave the gumtrees up helshoogtenice and easy descent on helshoogte and some 3C riders catch up and a lekker big group forms by wemmershoekcontinues pissing with rainriding is fine and everyone is chilling in the bunch with not many doing workcontinues pissing with rainturn around at wellington and my legs aren't feeling as lekker as i started with 35km to gocontinues pissing with rainplay it nice and tactical by following tandems or teddy bears down each of the rollerscontinues pissing with raincollect a potjie sized pothole in klapmuts, it was under water so no way to see itjoin the group of okes fixing their puncturesI'm in the back here, the guy in the mabulance who wiped has already left.continues pissing with rainput sparetjoop incontinues pissing with rain being a total IDJUT i have brought a crappy pump and don't pump to enough pressureget riding again continues pissing with rain get snakebite flat on a cat eye 2km later near Wiesenhof continues pissing with rain got two flat tyres, but a puncture repair kit. now i'm not really worried about time and just want to finish on own steam continues pissing with rain ever tried getting a patch kit to stick in the pissing rain? continues pissing with rain put on jacket, as this is now going to be a saga. me vs the f@#$% puncture continues pissing with rain 2 attempts to get flat done end up in a slow leak 100m further down the road continues pissing with rain pull out a super duper macguyver move. take patch on tube. wrap empty energy bar wrapper around it three times. use multitool to get cable tie off race number without breaking it, use this to keep wrapper on the tube. IMG_20171203_211855.jpg get religious for a few seconds pump it back upcontinues pissing with rain ride to finishcontinues pissing with rain dodge puncture trick survives 15km, until the final left hand turn off at nietvoorbiyj. some oke cramps and just careens straight into two okes slowed down to take corner sort of stops raining swear a bit, and ride last 1km on super flat tyre get to finish, was on track for about a 3:20, end up with 4:15. ho hum, that's life! have a spur burger go back to car, can't find car key continues pissing with rain again forgot phone in car, so need to phone wife using a good samaritan for the sparecontinues pissing with rain know one of the race doctors so use his phone as a point of contact whilst i wait go back to race village in wet clothes go 'chill with a waterbottle' at medic stationstops raining! hero wifey arrives with spare key, get to car and leaves me with kids for the afternoon head back along route to points where i stopped find key exactly where i took off my jacket. celebrate with a Venison Pie and Deneys Full cream milkshake I must have passed you at some time or other. You should have gone bos asking for a tube. Maybe I would have seen you. I still had a spare with me.
Halfdoesyn Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 I must have passed you at some time or other. You should have gone bos asking for a tube. Maybe I would have seen you. I still had a spare with me.Crazy number of flats suffered. Just thankful my ride was uneventful.
dev null Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Crazy number of flats suffered. Just thankful my ride was uneventful. After my bad experience with a new Conti tube, I went and replaced all my Conti tubes with Giant tubes. In both my and my son's bikes. We pumped to 8 bar in front and 8.5 bar on rear. None of us had any issues in the race. Luckily I am weary of potholes with water. I almost had an oops on the last day of W2W when I hit a water puddle on the ST close to the end and the hole was way deeper than it looked.
Ferro Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 The problem for me with the really bad section of potholes was that when the bunch was rolling through there was nowhere to go to avoid them really. Hit one pothole, disguised as a puddle in the area shown by rider#35's pic, so hard there was a loud cracking noise and i was certain my fork or my teeth had shattered and my hands were knocked off the bars. By pure luck i somehow got through. Hope everyone who wasn't so lucky heal up soon.
Karman de Lange Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Yep, no really a useful race for seeding if you are already in the front bunches. But every once in a while the computer throws out a nice beta for this one, who knows with the bad conditions they might? Although the winning time is 5 minutes faster than last year so I'm not getting my hopes up Seeding out, Beta 1.04 I actually went up a group .. 0.51 into the next group
Mlayne Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Seeding out, Beta 1.04 I actually went up a group .. 0.51 into the next group The beta confuses me. Durbie Dash had a beta of 1.19 but is fast flat and slightly shorter. SCT was harder with Helshoogte and Rain with similar overall ascent and Beta only 1.04. My time for both was identical 2:46 (funny that) and I found this ride harder. So would have thought it would have been a similar beta ateast not 15% difference Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
dev null Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 Seeding out, Beta 1.04 I actually went up a group .. 0.51 into the next group I went up 2 groups. From Q to O. My Index now 61.15.
Pure Savage Posted December 5, 2017 Posted December 5, 2017 The beta confuses me. Durbie Dash had a beta of 1.19 but is fast flat and slightly shorter. SCT was harder with Helshoogte and Rain with similar overall ascent and Beta only 1.04. My time for both was identical 2:46 (funny that) and I found this ride harder. So would have thought it would have been a similar beta ateast not 15% difference Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk I was third over the line at Debbie – – and finished in the second bunch on Sunday and got a better seeding for Sunday’s ride. Strange Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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