thisismyotherbike Posted October 13, 2019 Share Local pricing is for residents, not citizens. If you're here you should pay local pricing. Eddy Gordo, Pure Savage and matthieup 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilubinsky Posted October 14, 2019 Share I have done 8 tours and hoping to get an entry, have to wait until the 21st. But with 9 + tours you were able to enter early.Now smart shoppers get preferential entry WTF. My flight is booked and hoping to get an entry on the 21st. I wait in anticipation. CatzSpace "frail" and daveno7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karooryder Posted October 14, 2019 Share I have done 8 tours and hoping to get an entry, have to wait until the 21st. But with 9 + tours you were able to enter early.Now smart shoppers get preferential entry WTF. My flight is booked and hoping to get an entry on the 21st. I wait in anticipation. Trust me you will get an entry. The days of ARGHUS entry cyber queuing and last-minute late-entry acquisition at double the price are long gone. And that's the way we like it! Rouxenator, Jase619, ilubinsky and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveno7 Posted October 14, 2019 Share But if you have an SA address you should be able to enter as a normal entrant. At least that is what I did for a decade before becoming a permanent resident and getting an SA ID.well today took the smart shopper route of entry...successful...of course the seeding will be interesting...but better value than other routes at the moment.... Long Wheel Base 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase619 Posted October 14, 2019 Share If its like the normal smart shopper discount, it will be R5 and you will stand in a really long que at the start and wait forever to get going.  You were wrong, it's actually R15 Pure Savage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselnDust Posted October 14, 2019 Share Did you enter the ebike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted October 14, 2019 Share Did you enter the ebike?I bet you a spare tube that nobody will admit to that here on the BikeHub DieselnDust, Long Wheel Base and Mamil 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted October 14, 2019 Share Did you enter the ebike?All but Waldo got dropped by an old ballie on a 750w un regulated ebike on Saturday up Chappies! He did say at that wattage he would only get 35km of range though.  As I popped I did have flashbacks of the hub thread  He had a Cycle Tour memorabilia shirt on. Edited October 14, 2019 by Pure Savage Mamil, Long Wheel Base, DJR and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamil Posted October 14, 2019 Share I wonder what Waldo's range at that wattage is? All but Waldo got dropped by an old ballie on a 750w un regulated ebike on Saturday up Chappies! He did say at that wattage he would only get 35km of range though.  As I popped I did have flashbacks of the hub thread  He had a Cycle Tour memorabilia shirt on. DJR, Long Wheel Base and aiyaaz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted October 14, 2019 Share I wonder what Waldo's range at that wattage is? Chapmans Peak? Mamil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselnDust Posted October 14, 2019 Share Chapmans Peak? Â That would be pharmstrong level of performance Long Wheel Base and Mamil 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted October 14, 2019 Share I wonder what Waldo's range at that wattage is? About 36One KM Mamil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mamil Posted October 14, 2019 Share Where in the world ....     About 36One KM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne pudding Mol Posted October 14, 2019 Share I bet you a spare tube that nobody will admit to that here on the BikeHub On a day like 2017 I'm good for a 330 but definitely no better. If some fancy brand want to lend me a nice e-bike roadie I will give it a real crack and we can see if it's faster. I will do a full "race" report. Instead of bottles I will ride with batteries. Long Wheel Base and DJR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Wheel Base Posted October 15, 2019 Share On a day like 2017 I'm good for a 330 but definitely no better. If some fancy brand want to lend me a nice e-bike roadie I will give it a real crack and we can see if it's faster. I will do a full "race" report. Instead of bottles I will ride with batteries.A few years ago at 947 I was racing VA, Now I know we(VA) do that race in a sub 2h30 no problem but you still need hydration. We in the start chute and I notice a dude has 1 small bottle that by the time we actually started was less than half full. I thought he was brave. We hit kayalami area and he chucked it. I was like WTF. Top of woodmead before the M1 he pulls over and some older guy(his Dad?) on the side of the road gives him another small bottle. Then again the same older dude was on the side of the road and gave him another bottle just before ceder road which is like less than 10km to go iicr. I then asked him whats up with these bottles changes and he sommer tunes me "marginal gains". Then on the run in up the climb in steyn city we both lost the front of the group sprinting for the win and crossed the line a few seconds apart like 2 min off the winner. I wanted to tell him he has marginal gains all wrong.Anyway, what I am trying to say is that if you plan it well and the batteries are easily removable(I have no idea as I have never even looked at an ebike) then get one at the end of the blue route, then get one before noordehoek as your battery handler can just hop over ou kaapse. That should be enough? MDJ, DJR and Wayne pudding Mol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted October 15, 2019 Share A few years ago at 947 I was racing VA, Now I know we(VA) do that race in a sub 2h30 no problem but you still need hydration. We in the start chute and I notice a dude has 1 small bottle that by the time we actually started was less than half full. I thought he was brave. We hit kayalami area and he chucked it. I was like WTF. Top of woodmead before the M1 he pulls over and some older guy(his Dad?) on the side of the road gives him another small bottle. Then again the same older dude was on the side of the road and gave him another bottle just before ceder road which is like less than 10km to go iicr. I then asked him whats up with these bottles changes and he sommer tunes me "marginal gains". Then on the run in up the climb in steyn city we both lost the front of the group sprinting for the win and crossed the line a few seconds apart like 2 min off the winner. I wanted to tell him he has marginal gains all wrong.Anyway, what I am trying to say is that if you plan it well and the batteries are easily removable(I have no idea as I have never even looked at an ebike) then get one at the end of the blue route, then get one before noordehoek as your battery handler can just hop over ou kaapse. That should be enough? If it's a race, you can cheat.Big cheat, small cheat. Cheat the prizemoney, cheat your competitors, cheat yourself. Nothing new, not going away anytime soon either. I don't think anyone cares about anything beyond 4th place, so I wouldn't devote too much energy to someone bending the rules to get 13542nd place at the argus funride, but that's just me Pure Savage, DJR, Long Wheel Base and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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