947 Ride Joburg

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29 minutes ago, TheoG said:

Ag no man, who am I supposed to ride with now .... 

Sorry Theo, work first sadly. 

One Shoe will be with you in the same batch. Its to try keep him honest though, thats always the difficult part... 🤣

[sunchaser]

Hi All,

May have missed earlier posts about this topic, but anyone riding to FNB stadium, using Nasrec road, instead of getting stuck in traffic

Thanks

[ChrisF]

2 hours ago, Scary Rider said:

Hmm, very tempting...

 

Twee kaartjies ..... vir die tweeling .... 

 

LEKKER Argus oefen rondte ...

 

 

 

Hoog tyd dat daai nuwe Wit Wa van jou n slag n lekker lange doen

Edited October 25, 2023 by ChrisF

[The Ouzo]

2 hours ago, WR 1.0 said:

What to do next....... 

Following emails and WA's back and forth for the last week, the entry is now finally showing in my name. 

But they have clearly just replaced the 6 years old info with mine as the seeding was still in KK. 

I asked for a reseed and got the "request declined" message now. 

The whole issue is due to their system issues and not my fault. 

Do I know fork out extra cash and try to get into an earlier group via a charity batch? (any suggestions) 

you've spent the money on the entry, you're not going to get a great time from back there.

Change focus, go out and have fun. Pull others along, push people up the hills, forget about how long its taking you to finish.

[Dexter-morgan]

43 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:

you've spent the money on the entry, you're not going to get a great time from back there.

Change focus, go out and have fun. Pull others along, push people up the hills, forget about how long its taking you to finish.

That is the spirit. I did it on a Bomber one year, helped many other people with punctures and mechanicals, had the best 5:25 is a long time, IF, I do it again next year, this is what I am going to do again.

[Frosty]

4 hours ago, sunchaser said:

Hi All,

May have missed earlier posts about this topic, but anyone riding to FNB stadium, using Nasrec road, instead of getting stuck in traffic

Thanks

I come down from Rifle Range Road to Nasrec Road, and then left on Rand Show road to the first entrance to Nasrec. The cops/marshals at the corner of Nasrec and Rand Show road (Sasol) blocked us from riding along Nasrec (red line), to the finish, which is why we diverted left on Rand Show. We then take the bridge (4) over the railway line to the start batches.

[sunchaser]

3 hours ago, Frosty said:

I come down from Rifle Range Road to Nasrec Road, and then left on Rand Show road to the first entrance to Nasrec. The cops/marshals at the corner of Nasrec and Rand Show road (Sasol) blocked us from riding along Nasrec (red line), to the finish, which is why we diverted left on Rand Show. We then take the bridge (4) over the railway line to the start batches.
 

Ok, thanks for headsup, you coming from the exact opposite side of me.

I will be coming from Main Reef Road (wind my way from Randburg, approx 26km), then into Nasrec Road. 

[Frosty]

I’m sure there are some folk coming down through Crown Mines, but as it cross the route close to Langlaagte Traffic Dept and China Mall, I’m not sure it that intersection is totally blocked or partially blocked. 

I’ll look at Strava to see it the folk I know do it.

[Danger Dassie]

We'll be having our informal support station near the top of Jan Smuts again, gees and vibes!

[The Ouzo]

I might be re-assessing my goals for this years race too.

Training has not gone according to plan, to many factors keeping me off the bike. But it was kind of salvageable until this week, got smacked with some sort of Stomach bug/virus. I was hoping it would be a 24 hour thing and I'd bounce back by mid week. 

The bug hit me sunday night, today is the first day I sort of feel like I've got some energy.

The result being I've been off the bike since saturday, this should have been a big week.

 

Oh well, will go out and enjoy it. I'll take the day as it comes.

[Dexter-morgan]

23 minutes ago, Danger Dassie said:

We'll be having our informal support station near the top of Jan Smuts again, gees and vibes!

How will I know you guys - any Tequila shots involved?

[Dexter-morgan]

12 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:

I might be re-assessing my goals for this years race too.

Training has not gone according to plan, to many factors keeping me off the bike. But it was kind of salvageable until this week, got smacked with some sort of Stomach bug/virus. I was hoping it would be a 24 hour thing and I'd bounce back by mid week. 

The bug hit me sunday night, today is the first day I sort of feel like I've got some energy.

The result being I've been off the bike since saturday, this should have been a big week.

 

Oh well, will go out and enjoy it. I'll take the day as it comes.

Come on Rule #5 - Two full weeks of training left (you can do it) - We will be doing a nice JHB loop this Saturday.

[Danger Dassie]

10 minutes ago, Dexter-morgan said:

How will I know you guys - any Tequila shots involved?

The smell of beer, sweat and boerie rolls ...... 

[The Ouzo]

16 minutes ago, Dexter-morgan said:

Come on Rule #5 - Two full weeks of training left (you can do it) - We will be doing a nice JHB loop this Saturday.

how long do you estimate it will take you guys to do the loop ?

[Ispeed_V]

23 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:

how long do you estimate it will take you guys to do the loop ?

An hr to get to Kyalami and then the fun starts....

[The Ouzo]

1 minute ago, FondTF2 said:

An hr to get to Kyalami and then the fun starts....

I'm talking about Dexters training ride on saturday.

 

NASREC to Woodmead was HIGH speed last year, I was spinning my legs off in 50x11 in the bunch.