Where has your bike taken you today?

[Wayne pudding Mol]

Perfect morning for a 50km gravel grind around Wilderness. Farr aero bar really useful for this sort of ride

[Vetseun]

Had a lekker gravel grind.

[NotSoBigBen]

Started in some hectic mist... turned into a cracker day though at 'Suikers'

[CAAD4]

Had a lekker gravel grind.

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Lekker baaik Vettes.

[Vetseun]

Lekker baaik Vettes.

Fanks Pel

[DJR]

Bit underrated my much maligned trek

The right year, 1999 - quite a historically significant bike in that it was the first non European bike to finish the TDF first* and seriously nice to ride - it weighs 8kgs dead and that 10 speed veloce not the lightest groupset - another piece of useless info is that the frame at 912g was revolutionary and consumers got the same frame as the team

The fact that Lance later gave it a bad reputation should not detract from the fact that it was a fantastic bike. Pretty sure it can easily be built to below 7kg with pretty much stock standard bits from the time.

[RocknRolla]

Spr8 showing off this morning.

[deanbean]

We started off a lekker ride, riding the first 30km of GKT, beautiful ride to start off a "race", and my companions persuaded me to change the route.

Then once on the straight flat? gravel roads, I decided to take a pic of the Windvogelberg, a landmark of note, when I hit a patch of corrugations. Bike went one way(and it's okay if anyone is worried, but the Bigwig takes more than a flat road spill to damage it) and I went the other way.

The pic

My knee was a mess. Ended up in surgery to clean the knee joint.

[DJR]

Eina, hope it heals well and quickly. Never nice if a ride ends at the hospital.

[CAAD4]

Recover well Dean

[RocknRolla]

Bliksem. Hope you heal well dean!

Was it break lever damage? Or sharp object on the ground? Looks like you did a proper job there.

[gummibear]

Ouch....hope the healing goes well [emoji106]

[Vetseun]

We started off a lekker ride, riding the first 30km of GKT, beautiful ride to start off a "race", and my companions persuaded me to change the route.

Then once on the straight flat? gravel roads, I decided to take a pic of the Windvogelberg, a landmark of note, when I hit a patch of corrugations. Bike went one way(and it's okay if anyone is worried, but the Bigwig takes more than a flat road spill to damage it) and I went the other way.

The pic

My knee was a mess. Ended up in surgery to clean the knee joint.

Strongs DB. You eastern cape farmers are as tough as nails. I am sure you will heal up quick quick

[deanbean]

Bliksem. Hope you heal well dean!

Was it break lever damage? Or sharp object on the ground? Looks like you did a proper job there.

Haven't a clue, but when the doc saw me this morning he said that the cut was the tip of the iceberg. There's apparently extensive degloving up the leg, so will be out of action for a while.

[deanbean]

Strongs DB. You eastern cape farmers are as tough as nails. I am sure you will heal up quick quick

My wife gets the moerin with me because I insist that I can do it myself. I'm not an invalid and I have a very high pain threshold and don't like taking pills.[emoji23]

[Eddy Gordo]

Hectic, all the best with recovery.