Where has your bike taken you today?

[Hendel Clase]

7 minutes ago, copperhead said:

In case you don't know, apparently it is very bad to pick up tortoises. It messes up their GPS. I have heard this more than once. I no longer do it. Just stand in the road till it is safe. Just my 2 cents for the day.

Never new this, thanks for the info. I do think though when they are in harms way, like on a major road etc, its better to have a scrambled GPS than a scrambled insides 🙂

Some info from the interwebs:

 

Edited December 9, 2021 by Hendel Clase

[DJR]

1 hour ago, Hendel Clase said:

Never new this, thanks for the info. I do think though when they are in harms way, like on a major road etc, its better to have a scrambled GPS than a scrambled insides 🙂

Some info from the interwebs:

 

Couldn't help smiling at" .......accidentally run back........."

[Jbr]

Also heard it hurts them to be picked up especially from the top, maybe less so if you lift it from underneath

[Sid the Sloth]

22 hours ago, Wayne pudding Mol said:

Will see what I can do Re weather - we seem to be stuck in a holding pattern of a few muggy overcast days followed by buckets of rain - next week more of the same 

How are the groad conditions along seven passes after all the rain? When I was there in September they were pretty lovely, does the rain do much damage?

[Robbie Stewart]

27 minutes ago, Sid the Sloth said:

How are the groad conditions along seven passes after all the rain? When I was there in September they were pretty lovely, does the rain do much damage?

This guy reckons don't do it . . .

 

https://www.georgeherald.com/News/Article/General/madiba-rylaan-steeds-gesluit-202112020930

[Prince Albert Cycles]

1 hour ago, Jbr said:

Also heard it hurts them to be picked up especially from the top, maybe less so if you lift it from underneath

They normally pee when picked up as a defense mechanism and that dehidrates them so let them be.

[Robbie Stewart]

2 minutes ago, Prince Albert Cycles said:

They normally pee when picked up as a defense mechanism and that dehidrates them so let them be.

I reckon I'd pee myself too if I got picked unwillingly up by what in reality equates to a giant.

[splat]

3 hours ago, Hendel Clase said:

Never new this, thanks for the info. I do think though when they are in harms way, like on a major road etc, its better to have a scrambled GPS than a scrambled insides 🙂

Some info from the interwebs:

 

Does the same apply to tortoises ?

[Wayne pudding Mol]

3 hours ago, Sid the Sloth said:

How are the groad conditions along seven passes after all the rain? When I was there in September they were pretty lovely, does the rain do much damage?

It’s all held up remarkably well because they’d just completed drainage upgrades - the only section damaged badly is the tarred section near the university where a large section washed away 

[ChrisF]

Nice pre-work ride 👍

 

 

Doubt I will ever ride Bottellary again without thinking of Cois 

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Ek kan n beskrywende woord voor hoog sit on dit beter te beskryf

 

[Eugene Oppelt]

Early worm, Stellenbosch 

[guidodg]

[Old and Slow]

Boschendal to Banhoek and back.

[Pikey]

3 hours ago, guidodg said:

 

Great photo,has an air of mystery to it .

[Rapunzel]

On 12/9/2021 at 3:39 PM, Wayne pudding Mol said:

It’s all held up remarkably well because they’d just completed drainage upgrades - the only section damaged badly is the tarred section near the university where a large section washed away 

Hi Wayne. Is there any way to get to Montagu pass from Wilderness at the moment?