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The Delmas road was eerily quiet on my outing this morning. Turns out a massive trench across the entire road was the cause of my bliss!

 

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I remember a news article about that a while back, something about a massive sinkhole. Have wanted to go check it out.

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Passed the 500k elevation gain mark today (since Strava began recording my rides). Given how flat the roads are, in the S and E of Jozi, and many, many miles on the IDT (during the week), this has taken quite a lot longer than it should.

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Been making the best of the sunny winter days, and have had a couple of outings on our local trails over the last few weeks.  Mostly shorter trips with Maritz.

 

On Saturday I had a solo ride, nice and early in the morning .... made good use of my arm and leg warmers ...  :whistling:   :ph34r:

 

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Even the animals were enjoying the brisk early morning air ...

 

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Near Ntida was a good reminder of the good winter rains ....

 

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What a stunning morning to enjoy the Bloemendal trails  :clap:

 

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And then the trails got busy ....

 

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The D'Aria forest is always a visual feast ...

 

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Another reminder of the good winter rain ...

 

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Home via Protea Corridor ... now the trails were getting BUSY with lots of two way traffic ....

 

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After all these fun days on the trails .... Thought I would wash the bikes, and top up the tubeless Sludge ..... Once the wheel was in the "rig" - I find it much easier topping up the sludge with the wheel out of the frame - I checked the axle-bearings, cleaned the drive train, and somehow the morning flew by very quickly.  :whistling:   :thumbup:

 

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With a drops of rain on Monday and Tuesday I should be able to get fresh mud on the bikes shortly ...  :devil:

 

 

 

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Three Mungrels + dirt roads = a lekker day out.

Was lekker to ride with these okes again.

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That's the unfortunate thing about the Freestate. Need to cycle 130km to gain 800m elevation. When my parents lived there I always took my MTB with and cycled out of town on the dirt roads to the farms. Think the most elevation I got on a +-50km ride was 200m [emoji3061][emoji23] Edited by BSG
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That Kona looks pretty solid though. 

It is - I managed to finished CTCT on it in just under 4 hours. 

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The Delmas road was eerily quiet on my outing this morning. Turns out a massive trench across the entire road was the cause of my bliss!

 

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Was months ago.  We have been riding that stretch almost every weekend because it's now lekke quiet.

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The Delmas road was eerily quiet on my outing this morning. Turns out a massive trench across the entire road was the cause of my bliss!

 

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If this was Cape Town, somebody would have been out there building jumps. :ph34r:  :whistling:

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With the rapid rise of recent bike jackings, wanting to start riding at 04:30 to be done by 10:00 and not having a partner to tackle a ride like this with I did my first endurance ride on Zwift.

 

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I decided to swap headwinds and rough roads for the single-positioned monotony of an IDT for constant Z2, mental toughness training. zPower was being very generous (I can most certainly not hold 226W for 5h30m, probably closer to 160-170W in Z2 where I was riding), so the distance and elevation gain is overestimated.

 

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Still, great way to give the bums and legs a cement cocktail, and I got to explore what was a very interesting and varied landscape. Weirdly I wasn't bored at any stage of this ride. 

 

I think being a veteran gamer (the PS1 was my first love) helped me get immersed in the world and not go crazy.

 

Having my own soigneur (i.e. my wife) was awesome as I got fed, caffeinated (with rusks!) and rehydrated without needing to leave the bike. She even joined me with a treadmill run which was fun.

 

I've also been struggling with the fit on my bike (specifically saddle tilt, fore-aft position and height), so I used this opportunity to get it dialed in. Left the saddle clamp bolts loose-ish and played around with the position while riding, and finally got it to a comfortable position.

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