Where has your bike taken you today?

[Eugene Oppelt]

4 hours ago, Robbie Stewart said:

But what if your chronic exhaustion is precisely because you've been riding your bike? Asking for a friend...

Stop trolling, man. 

[Eugene Oppelt]

Memory lane, French Alps 2018, Col du Laularet 🇫🇷

[Rouxenator]

[capediver]

Through the desert....

[NotSoBigBen]

Some thoughts on today's ride... It is not possible to ride uphill both ways, despite what you might have been told by anyone, it is however possible to ride into a headwind both ways 

Today was fortunately not that day 😎

[DJR]

2 hours ago, capediver said:

Through the desert....

Arabian Oryx - pretty special.

[guidodg]

[capediver]

1 hour ago, DJR said:

Arabian Oryx - pretty special.

Yip, there were 2, one on either side of the road....I stopped to take some pics and they were dead still just staring at one another across the track, then the one took off, just made it across in front of that gang....joined its mate and they both trotted off in to the desert...

 

 

Edited May 17 by capediver
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[patham]

16 hours ago, capediver said:

Through the desert....

Is that the horse with no name as per the song?

[capediver]

1 hour ago, patham said:

Is that the horse with no name as per the song?

Horse didn't have a name cause he was disguised as a bokkie and couldn't imitate the necessary falsetto so remained shtum...

[Eugene Oppelt]

Gordon’s Bay ⛵ 

And new-bike-day for a bruuu

Edited May 18 by Eugene Oppelt

[guidodg]

[Mongoose!]

Some early Bloemfontein gravel riding earlier this morning 👌

Edited May 18 by Mongoose!

[Rouxenator]

[RobynE 🚵‍♀️]

Yesterday, the first 80km of Race To The Sun, our first outing on the tandem. Our plan had been for us to do the first section on the tandem from Harties to Beestekraal, and my cousin would do the “actual” 50 miler from there to Sun City, so we’d have finished 100 miles as a team. But then my cousin broke her arm so it was kiddo and I solo and ending at Beestekraal. 

It didn’t go too badly - but for the first 52km it wouldn’t shift to the small chainring, and I was not loving my 53 ring to 25t AT ALL on the hills 😂 😭

I eventually managed to somehow shove it onto the small ring at the WP at 52km and we did the rest of the 80km on the 39 ring using all the cogs (11-34), which was infinitely better. 

The first part of Race To doesn’t have a lot of elevation but two people on a steelie tandem - you need all the gears you can get! 

[Me rida my bicycle]

Lekker morning out, some trail side repairs and laughs, even the ripped tyre on the last smooth descend could not spoil the day. (mostly because I have been looking for a reason to remove this 💩)