[Event] Swartberg100 Gran Fondo 2018

[eddy]

jeepers... that looks bad. hope things can be made 100% again.

 

Frame, bars, seat, seatpost, shifters, rear derailleur, rear wheel, one pedal, brake hoses etc are all write-offs.

 

Bottle cages look good though.....

[Shebeen]

I had a good ride!  For about 100km...  After that it was just pain and suffering.  Managed to get 10th overall coming down the Swartberg pass though, so I was happy.  Heard Jewbacca's name being called out at the prize giving as the winner of the bike, but he wasn't there.  I would have cried. 

 

The next day we rode into Die Hel - that was hard.  Much harder than I was expecting it to be.  So rough and unrelenting.  Rode to the end of the valley to look where the ladder is, but the enthusiasm for actually going up was non existent.  Rode out of Die Hel the next day, and it actually felt alright, and I scored third fastest overall down Swartberg Pass.    

Cycled to work this morning, dreaming of rough rocky roads in the middle of nowhere 

 

sjoe

 

nice bike that...

[Jewbacca]

I had a good ride!  For about 100km...  After that it was just pain and suffering.  Managed to get 10th overall coming down the Swartberg pass though, so I was happy.  Heard Jewbacca's name being called out at the prize giving as the winner of the bike, but he wasn't there.  I would have cried.  

 

The next day we rode into Die Hel - that was hard.  Much harder than I was expecting it to be.  So rough and unrelenting.  Rode to the end of the valley to look where the ladder is, but the enthusiasm for actually going up was non existent.  Rode out of Die Hel the next day, and it actually felt alright, and I scored third fastest overall down Swartberg Pass.    

Cycled to work this morning, dreaming of rough rocky roads in the middle of nowhere 

I was having such a good ride till 90km then hit something and destroyed my back wheel. Broken spokes pushed back and destroyed my tubeless in an unceremonious WHOOSH which led to the tire being unseated. I ran/rode gingerly back to WP2 to try to fix it, re tapw the rim with whatever I had and I thought I had succeeded but it kept flatting until I managed to bum a 24g bomb at about 120km which popped everything nicely back together... So THAT cost me a brand new bike as I would have made it to prize giving without the drama!

 

So bleak, that Ridley has gears, something I could have done with a few times on the race!

 

But all in all I had a ball. I will be back every year body and family permitting

[DJR]

I had a good ride!  For about 100km...  After that it was just pain and suffering.  Managed to get 10th overall coming down the Swartberg pass though, so I was happy.  Heard Jewbacca's name being called out at the prize giving as the winner of the bike, but he wasn't there.  I would have cried.  

 

The next day we rode into Die Hel - that was hard.  Much harder than I was expecting it to be.  So rough and unrelenting.  Rode to the end of the valley to look where the ladder is, but the enthusiasm for actually going up was non existent.  Rode out of Die Hel the next day, and it actually felt alright, and I scored third fastest overall down Swartberg Pass.    

Cycled to work this morning, dreaming of rough rocky roads in the middle of nowhere 

BIG respect

[Sepia]

BIG respect

Yes, respect man.

[jcza]

Thanks, but by the time we got to town, parked and walked to rhe start, time was too tight to have made the start.

Sorry to read this Eddy!

 

Great event but a proper sufferfest

 

[Nick]

Kylie's Bike Hub race report is up including fantastic photos by Jacques Marais here.

 

Thanks to Jacques, we didn't have to use my GoPro shots