Karoo to Coast

[JohanDiv]

Definitely looks better than last week, but still too early to be accurate. 

Ride forecast for September 25, 2022 at 07:30:

Temperature: 10.8°C to 17.6°C, feels like 10.8°C to 17.6°C
Wind: 4 to 12.8 km/h, with gusts up to 19.6 km/h
Probability of precipitation: 0%

 

Can't ask for better conditions than that!🤞

Edited September 20, 2022 by JohanDiv

[Michael S]

10 hours ago, JohanDiv said:

Definitely looks better than last week, but still too early to be accurate. 

Ride forecast for September 25, 2022 at 07:30:

Temperature: 10.8°C to 17.6°C, feels like 10.8°C to 17.6°C
Wind: 4 to 12.8 km/h, with gusts up to 19.6 km/h
Probability of precipitation: 0%

 

Can't ask for better conditions than that!🤞

What website did you use for this, looks very usefull?

[JohanDiv]

9 minutes ago, Michael S said:

What website did you use for this, looks very usefull?

The app is called Epic Ride Weather 

[Ispeed_V]

My philosophy:

Wake up on the morning,

If it is raining - will be (get) wet

If it is windy - Hope for a tail wind or HTFU

Suns Out -  Guns out and loads of sun screen

 

[JohanDiv]

This is by far my favorite downhill race - I'm 10kg heavier than in 2019, so technically gravity is on my side this year and I should be able to better my 2019 time!

[Mailman7412]

Love that.......Downhill Race. Ons almal het dit gedink

[MORNE]

20 minutes ago, JohanDiv said:

This is by far my favorite downhill race - I'm 10kg heavier than in 2019, so technically gravity is on my side this year and I should be able to better my 2019 time!

the extra 10kg will also help with the cold😅.

I went into 2019 with a tshirt and luckily didnt leave in a space blanket

[Guest]

Hi peeps How can I get my car down to knysna?

[DieselnDust]

1 hour ago, duncanhalloyd said:

Hi peeps How can I get my car down to knysna?

apparently you can just leave the handbrake off......

[El Duderino]

On 9/21/2022 at 10:23 AM, JohanDiv said:

This is by far my favorite downhill race - I'm 10kg heavier than in 2019, so technically gravity is on my side this year and I should be able to better my 2019 time!

Downhill Race? It's my first time. Do I need a full face helmet and knee protectors?

[splat]

3 hours ago, El Duderino said:

Downhill Race? It's my first time. Do I need a full face helmet and knee protectors?

Yes, that's why they don't allow gravel bikes

[Bernard Horn]

See you on the wa pad.Very under prepared.The sweeper truck might be an option

[Robbie Stewart]

I dunno if I would prefer all the uphills on this downhill race on Sunday, or all the uphills on the downhill race on Sunday in Jonkershoek which I entered for. For sure, the downhills at Jonkers are more fun, but this is maybe a to-do-again race for next year. . . that is unless Jonkers is up again on the same weekend, in which case . . .

Enjoy the ride on Sunday for the K2C folks.

[MORNE]

It’s only really that Irish climb at jonkers imo and then only because a long travel bike has the turning radius of a interlink truck on those switchbacks lol.
I think that mid part at k2c where it feels like you have been climbing for 30km already, just to go around a turn and see more uphill - is mildly annoying 😅

my advice for the first timers at k2c would be: TRY and be in the clear before you get to it so you dont have to walk, but dont burn all your matches on that first climb….

people talk it up because its steep and rocky on the right where you have to pass all the walkers but its not that long or hard imo.
That mid part where it just keeps winding up and up and up can be soul crushing if you are already pulling amps when you get there. And then when all the juice is gone, you are confronted with that last climb up to simola haha.

enjoy

[JohanDiv]

19 minutes ago, MORNE said:

And then when all the juice is gone, you are confronted with that last climb up to simola haha.

 

Simola is mos downhill according to their website route profile haha

 

[Robbie Stewart]

2 minutes ago, JohanDiv said:

Simola is mos downhill according to their website route profile haha

 

Don't spoil the fun for the noobs now . . .