[Event] Cape Town Cycle Tour 2023

[Naidy]

 

The nerves has just hit knowing under 19's will be racing in @ again   

 

Edited March 7, 2023 by Naidy

[Tim Brink]

20 minutes ago, Long Wheel Base said:

Where is @Tim Brink ?

He is the history fella, not the complicated SACF (see what I did there) rules fella.

[Skubarra]

38 minutes ago, Naidy said:

 

The nerves as just hit knowing under 19's will be racing in @ again   

 

Was like that last year as well? Think those young eager beavers who still have to learn the benefits of wheelsucking do most of the work up front in the first half which makes us faster than & bunch - happy for them to be there...

[WaldoZ]

29 minutes ago, Skubarra said:

Was like that last year as well? Think those young eager beavers who still have to learn the benefits of wheelsucking do most of the work up front in the first half which makes us faster than & bunch - happy for them to be there...

Well there goes the plan for trying to break away in the first half...

[The itch]

1 hour ago, Naidy said:

 

The nerves as just hit knowing under 19's will be racing in @ again   

 

HKGK - 'the top riders aged 17 - 29 who do not qualify for the elite race'. what is the criteria to qualify? or what description do they use for those that fulfill the criteria? 250 in a bunch , hope every one is CSA licensed or have their own medical aid.

Edited March 7, 2023 by The itch

[throttles]

Did we get a Epic ride weather report today?

I don't see it.. 

[The Ouzo]

3 minutes ago, throttles said:

Did we get a Epic ride weather report today?

I don't see it.. 

busy day at the office. 
 

[Naidy]

1 hour ago, Skubarra said:

Was like that last year as well? Think those young eager beavers who still have to learn the benefits of wheelsucking do most of the work up front in the first half which makes us faster than & bunch - happy for them to be there...

It was like that last year as well. Going up Eastern BLVD they start attacking each other and were swerving from left to right. On the flats they don't do much and burn out but its sudden movements they make in the bunch that makes me uneasy. 

[Naidy]

41 minutes ago, The itch said:

HKGK - 'the top riders aged 17 - 29 who do not qualify for the elite race'. what is the criteria to qualify? or what description do they use for those that fulfill the criteria? 250 in a bunch , hope every one is CSA licensed or have their own medical aid.

Im really not sure how one qualifies. Im 45 and will race in my age group 45-49. If it helps i do have a CSA license. 

[The itch]

3 hours ago, Naidy said:

Im really not sure how one qualifies. Im 45 and will race in my age group 45-49. If it helps i do have a CSA license. 

from what i understand , the csa license gives you a certain amount of medical cover if you don't have your own. 

[Jbr]

It's the seeding, same for 30+, those who have a good enough seeding are in $ the rest in & (not sure why not in @ though... cause we skip a whole group to end up with 50+)

 

In my opinion age groups should be age groups and those who don't qualify (meaning not top 100 or 200 whatever) in their age group fall back to the alphabet salad.

Edited March 8, 2023 by Jbr

[TIB]

21 hours ago, Skubarra said:

ok - but then you must still be hoping for an "average day" for the splits to work? A few years back I  compared my splits with the computer and most of the times I was nowhere near the predicted splits until after Suikerbossie.

I guess it's helpful to the the extent where you in control of your average speed over the route, but most of the riders in the front half of the field are not going to drop their starting groups (or drop from their groups) to keep pace with their time splits....

My times (4h-4h30 type of rider) for the 2020 and 2022 were identical(1 minute difference). I entered my splits for both and compared it with the prediction.

2020 - Fair weather, it was surprisingly accurate, at most 3minutes off on certain splits.

2022 - 10 minutes behind up to Smitswinkel where the rain stopped. Going slow the first half left lots of matches for the second half

My judgment call is that it is a pretty good tool for Joe Average, most certainly better than the weather predictions 😎😎😎

 

[Long Wheel Base]

My bike should be on it's way down, was picked up from my LBS last night and I believe they left early this morning.

The butterflies have been waking up in the last week or so but now they fluttering like mad.

My bright orange tandem really sticks out from the crowd.

[The Ouzo]

Hey Cape Town, is eskom load shedding your sun?

clouds were very low this morning landing here. 

anyway, todays prediction for Sunday. 

[Long Wheel Base]

5 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:

Hey Cape Town, is eskom load shedding your sun?

clouds were very low this morning landing here. 

anyway, todays prediction for Sunday. 

Down there nice and early, lekker man.
You not staying in fish hoek anymore iicr? 

[The Ouzo]

22 minutes ago, Long Wheel Base said:

Down there nice and early, lekker man.
You not staying in fish hoek anymore iicr? 

Down here early due to special on flight ticket, was crazy cheap, did not make sense to come later. 

not at fish hoek, no. In muizenberg again.