GROOT TRAP ACCIDENT

[Theunissa]

1 minute ago, Treven said:

The Monte Casino, Emperors Palace and Groot Trap rides are poorly organised in my opinion. My wife and I rode all 3 and it is extremely dangerous riding amongst traffic. I almost got taken out by cars on 3 occasions. Motorists and bikers do not care about a cyclist safety and some continuously get as close as possible to you intentionally. These events should have total road closure. In a total road closure event you can only be hit by another cyclist. In a an “open road event” you can be hit by a car, motorbike, trailer, truck and even be trapped underneath these vehicles ( and your chance of survival much less). We pay a lot of money to enter these events and these events are now becoming a death race. Soon it will become a norm that a few cyclist will die in every race. It may be you or your family member next. My wife and I are really considering to no longer support these events till there is full road closure. Safety first. I do hope that others also have this opinion and perhaps this thread can make a difference. No one deserves to be killed in a cycling event

Regards

The more I read about road races in general the more I'm inclined to not do them at all. I did one the  ride for sight. My first. And was ok. Road was mostly closed. Tmbut even there was some local who just igonerd the metros and just cut us off. 

[Theunissa]

There are enough mtb races and now gravel races for me. 

[The Ouzo]

17 minutes ago, Treven said:

The Monte Casino, Emperors Palace and Groot Trap rides are poorly organised in my opinion. My wife and I rode all 3 and it is extremely dangerous riding amongst traffic. I almost got taken out by cars on 3 occasions. Motorists and bikers do not care about a cyclist safety and some continuously get as close as possible to you intentionally. These events should have total road closure. In a total road closure event you can only be hit by another cyclist. In a an “open road event” you can be hit by a car, motorbike, trailer, truck and even be trapped underneath these vehicles ( and your chance of survival much less). We pay a lot of money to enter these events and these events are now becoming a death race. Soon it will become a norm that a few cyclist will die in every race. It may be you or your family member next. My wife and I are really considering to no longer support these events till there is full road closure. Safety first. I do hope that others also have this opinion and perhaps this thread can make a difference. No one deserves to be killed in a cycling event

Regards

Emperors is on my door step. I’ve done it in the past, but the last one I did a few years back was to dodgy with the trucks. So as much as I want to do it I won’t risk it until they can sort out the traffic issue. 

[Spinnekop]

14 hours ago, Theunissa said:

There are enough mtb races and now gravel races for me. 

MTB and gravel cannot be called "racing".

 

[FootballingCyclist]

52 minutes ago, Spinnekop said:

MTB and gravel cannot be called "racing".

 

How is it already Friday?? Damn that week went quick... 🤣

[Theunissa]

12 hours ago, Spinnekop said:

MTB and gravel cannot be called "racing".

 

Why?