[Event] Masgcor Cederberg100Miler 1-day Race

[Rouxenator]

Just before getting onto the fast downhill to Wupertal, at about 40km. Manged to squeeze the last bit of life out of it up to Eselbank at 58km. 

 

Cleaned up the bike yesterday and scrubbed the tyre inside and out, sits fine today. Will see what it does on the way back home.

 

What did the rest of you that rode this think? I hope the route stays the same and maybe it is the other way round next year.

[Skubarra]

 

What did the rest of you that rode this think? I hope the route stays the same and maybe it is the other way round next year.

 

Didn't ride it but I heard a lot of people didn't finish (and a whole lot who did Day 1 didn't even pitch for Day 2) - would be interesting to see what happens next year. Always a risk for a smallish race if people think it is too difficult, think that is part of the reason Trans Karoo is no more.

 

Would love to do this race one day.

[Rouxenator]

That's my concern too. I enjoy these one day ultra endurance rides but it seems of the population of mountain bikers not many are interested in it, or they try it and find it too difficult. Pity. 

 

I wonder why Trans Bavians is so popular? Should they ever allow solo riders I would give it a try. But until then the Cederberg 100 miler is as good as it gets in terms of solo endurance rides.

 

Looking at this weekend's weather I'm glad I did not enter Amarider this year. 

['Dale]

Mine is short,

I started bleeding at 5km and it continued for the next 155. The end.

Race report of the month ????????

[Skubarra]

I wonder why Trans Bavians is so popular? 

 

Looking at this weekend's weather I'm glad I did not enter Amarider this year. 

 

Because for a 200+km ride it is relatively easy, practically the 1st 100km is downhill as well as the last 30km, (with a few big climbs in the middle to be fair) + scenery.

 

Amarider basically my long training ride routes - done it once and not anytime soon again

[Breezer]

Because for a 200+km ride it is relatively easy, practically the 1st 100km is downhill as well as the last 30km, (with a few big climbs in the middle to be fair) + scenery.

 

 

Amarider basically my long training ride routes - done it once and not anytime soon again

I also think this one was a little to hard for some people. You climb 2000m in the first 70km. After the nasty climb out of wupperthal the road surface is bad. And then to put a cherry on top, from dwarsrivier there was a bugger of a headwind.

This is one of the best value for money races and I really hope it will continue. It was just as hard for me as the Attakwas.

[geomark]

That's my concern too. I enjoy these one day ultra endurance rides but it seems of the population of mountain bikers not many are interested in it, or they try it and find it too difficult. Pity..... 

I think some of us just don't hate ourselves enough 

 

I'm actually planning on doing the fun elements of this as a weekend with mates next month, one day in the Koue Bokkeveld doing the nice bits of Tankwa Trek day 3, then base around Sanddrift.  Do a day on the trails there then down to Wupperthal, have a mate bring us back.  Next day down the road to Clanwillam for lunch and have mate pick us up.  Seems a much more civilised approach 

[DuncanCT]

I know this will be subjective but what would have been the idea bike for this? Gravel, HT or Full Sus?

[Skubarra]

I know this will be subjective but what would have been the idea bike for this? Gravel, HT or Full Sus?

 

Think many of the top riders were on full suspension bikes, not your typical gravel grinder route

[milky4130]

I know this will be subjective but what would have been the idea bike for this? Gravel, HT or Full Sus?

Dual Suspension, but there were guys that did it on a HT. I never saw anyone on a Gravel Bike & it also highly not recommended.

The first climb was on tar & it literally took an hour to summit, here the HT would probably have been advantageous but that is only 20kms covered, immediately followed by rocky descends & ascends & that was where I was so glad to have my DS. If you are a capable rider on a HT, i.e. your buttocks & hands are used to it & you can choose lines at speed then you probably would've gotten away with it. HT for the steep climbs that followed but then there is that corrugation that nothing can beat a DS at that time.

[Gravel Travel Events]

ja. oom Klaas from Heuningvlei would go visit tannie Miems in Kleinvlei every sonday on his peugeout from nineteen voetsek. It was stock original, with all parts unchanged since it rolled out the shopfloor. While this would normally get your garden variety hipster frothing wilder than a bokbaard dripping with moccachino, the years and miles in the koue bokkeveled showed. The saddle was on it's fourth or fifth life and only because offcuts from the velskoen factory were easy to source in this part of the world. The rest of the bike was, as even proud Klaas would admit, "moertoe".

 

The frontwheel got a klap one starless night in a ditch that came out of nowhere and went almost as skeef as the back one. He had to take the only brakes off it and instead used the tekkie stop maneuver to slow down.

 

This seemed to be acceptable until he visited his cousin Augustus in Wupperthal one friday.

It's a steep, steep road down the Kouberg pass into this valley, but he forgot exactly how steep. Once he got past 50km/h the bike developed a wobble that made it look like a magimix churning cake dough for the church fair.

 

He ended up doing what looked like a peter sagan aerotuck the whole way down, but only because he slipped off a pedal and couldn't get off the top tube, gripping the handlebars like the village brak with the last bone from sunday roast.

 

Needless to say, he flew straight past the gemeenskapsaal with an even mix of praying and vloeking and only came to a rest once he vaulted the bank into the Troe-Troe river. It seemed like the entire village came to inspect the damage, but once Klass remembered who he was and where he was it turned to celebration of a famous near miss and a faithful bike that was now so mangled that the only salvageable part was the bell.

 

 

seriously okes, where are the real stories? this one is so on my bucketlist.

 

Freaking awesome story!!!

[Gravel Travel Events]

Dual Suspension, but there were guys that did it on a HT. I never saw anyone on a Gravel Bike & it also highly not recommended.

The first climb was on tar & it literally took an hour to summit, here the HT would probably have been advantageous but that is only 20kms covered, immediately followed by rocky descends & ascends & that was where I was so glad to have my DS. If you are a capable rider on a HT, i.e. your buttocks & hands are used to it & you can choose lines at speed then you probably would've gotten away with it. HT for the steep climbs that followed but then there is that corrugation that nothing can beat a DS at that time.

 

This is the reason (or one of the reasons) why a gravel bike is NOT suitable - please just be realistic about this....

[Rouxenator]

I know this will be subjective but what would have been the idea bike for this? Gravel, HT or Full Sus?

Hard tail. You can ride anything on a hard tail. 

[Skubarra]

Hard tail. You can ride anything on a hard tail. 

 

I think what you "can" ride it on and what is "the best" to ride it on are 2 different topics 

[Gravel Travel Events]

If you want to get a feel of what the Race is about, look at these  :

 

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Cederberg100miler/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2049437122031796

[Gravel Travel Events]

If you want to get a feel of what the Race is about, have a look at these:

 

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Cederberg100miler/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2049437122031796