Faces Advendurance Posted January 16 Share Event Name: Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg RoadWhen: 17/11/2024Where: FNB Stadium, Johannesburg South, GautengCategory: RoadExperience the richness, contrasts, colours and sounds of the City of Joburg by being a part of the prestigious Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg. Be electrified and vitalised by soaking up the energy around you. Then let it translate to your legs to turn the pedals of your bicycle. Go fast or go slow. Ride for a Purpose greater than yourself. Or chase down a personal best. Join the Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg journey that will ultimately lead to fitness, friendship, health and happiness. It is, after all, impossible to be sad while riding a bicycle. Celebrate life, cycling and our favourite city – the City of Johannesburg.Go to Event Page. Kylie and Danger Dassie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mecheng89 Posted February 28 Share Elevate your Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg experience like never before with the launch of the Ride Joburg Portal next month. Gain access to all your past event results, unlock unique Badges based on your Ride Joburg achievements, check your entries for upcoming events, manage your 2024 batch and expected finish time, and much more! Stay tuned for this mobile-first web app, coming your way for testing at the end of March. Feedback from our valued 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg participants suggested that we could do better with our seeding, so we are making seeding one of our key improvement areas in 2024. We have taken significant steps to ensure a more accurate seeding for participants in 2024, such as an increased weighting of your 2022 and 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg results in seeding calculations, sourcing of more road cycling results to count towards seeding, and batch communication through the Ride Joburg Portal will be earlier and more comprehensive. We're committed to ensuring a fair and seamless seeding process, along with bigger batches and earlier start times - we hope you’ll be joining us in 2024! You spoke, and we listened! We're thrilled to announce exciting updates for cycling clubs and groups this year. Clubs and teams will now have exclusive access to book demarcated gazebo spots, offering prime views overlooking the finish line, accompanied by a variety of delicious food and refreshing drinks available for purchase. Additionally, we invite you to join our Cycling Club Captain's initiative launching in April, fostering camaraderie and support within the cycling community. Furthermore, we are elevating our Train Joburg initiative in collaboration with Virgin Active to provide safe training in their gyms, and outride options for all participants. We look forward to working more closely with cycling clubs and teams in 2024, to enhance the experience for all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ouzo Posted February 28 Share 35 minutes ago, mecheng89 said: Elevate your Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg experience like never before with the launch of the Ride Joburg Portal next month. Gain access to all your past event results, unlock unique Badges based on your Ride Joburg achievements, check your entries for upcoming events, manage your 2024 batch and expected finish time, and much more! Stay tuned for this mobile-first web app, coming your way for testing at the end of March. Feedback from our valued 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg participants suggested that we could do better with our seeding, so we are making seeding one of our key improvement areas in 2024. We have taken significant steps to ensure a more accurate seeding for participants in 2024, such as an increased weighting of your 2022 and 2023 Virgin Active 947 Ride Joburg results in seeding calculations, sourcing of more road cycling results to count towards seeding, and batch communication through the Ride Joburg Portal will be earlier and more comprehensive. We're committed to ensuring a fair and seamless seeding process, along with bigger batches and earlier start times - we hope you’ll be joining us in 2024! You spoke, and we listened! We're thrilled to announce exciting updates for cycling clubs and groups this year. Clubs and teams will now have exclusive access to book demarcated gazebo spots, offering prime views overlooking the finish line, accompanied by a variety of delicious food and refreshing drinks available for purchase. Additionally, we invite you to join our Cycling Club Captain's initiative launching in April, fostering camaraderie and support within the cycling community. Furthermore, we are elevating our Train Joburg initiative in collaboration with Virgin Active to provide safe training in their gyms, and outride options for all participants. We look forward to working more closely with cycling clubs and teams in 2024, to enhance the experience for all! also received it yesterday, 3 times. Great that they are at least working on things, lets see how well they are executed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ouzo Posted September 5 Share So 10 weeks to go, is it to soon to start talking about the goodie bags I see at least they are offering the photos for free this time thebob, Dexter-morgan and AfricaMike 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter-morgan Posted September 6 Share Going to do a cruise this year on my Gravel/hybrid bike - aiming to do a solid 6 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadvdw67 Posted September 6 Share 16 hours ago, The Ouzo said: So 10 weeks to go, is it to soon to start talking about the goodie bags I see at least they are offering the photos for free this time To early to start checking weather forecasts? Dexter-morgan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ouzo Posted September 6 Share 2 hours ago, Chadvdw67 said: To early to start checking weather forecasts? There will be weather that day for sure. Hopefully the weather gods smile on us again this year, I'm aiming to take 17 minutes off my previous time. thebob and Spinnekop 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ouzo Posted September 6 Share 3 hours ago, Dexter-morgan said: Going to do a cruise this year on my Gravel/hybrid bike - aiming to do a solid 6 hours. are you planning on walking it ? or stopping at every coffee shop along the way ? you've got a 3 hour 947 in those legs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexter-morgan Posted September 6 Share 1 minute ago, The Ouzo said: are you planning on walking it ? or stopping at every coffee shop along the way ? you've got a 3 hour 947 in those legs Going to do it on the MTB, help others and stop for every beer and tequila stop. Spinnekop, Sandro and WR 1.0 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted September 6 Share I will enter around the closing date for online entries. I will most likely ride with the same friends I ride with on weekends; maybe be their domestique. I definitely won't be racing, but we all know what happens when a race number is pinned on. I'm training as if I will be racing in the semi-serious bunches even though it's the "non-serious" year in the 4-year cycle. I will most likely change my mind within the next 10-weeks, as there is no firm goal other than to take part, finish upright and have fun. If the weather is wet = 29x2.3 tyres > 25mm, and if it's dry, the trusty steel steed, (with 700C-25 tyres) will be used again, like I have done every year since 2016. Underachiever 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotSoBigBen Posted September 6 Share My brother will be over from the land of the long white cloud. Him, myself and my son will be riding .... just stick together and have fun! The opportunities for riding together are dwindling so gotta make the most of it 😎 The Ouzo and mecheng89 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ispeed_V Posted September 6 Share Another fun day out for me (#15). Coffee stop in Bryanston with the old folks. Beer in Dunkeld and then vasbyt to the end thebob, Dexter-morgan and mecheng89 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ouzo Posted September 23 Share I'm looking for the start batch times for last year, does anyone have a link or have them handy ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bike Dewing Posted October 2 Share Registered to the portal today.. about a minute and a half before i broke it.. its staying broken as well.. 😳😳🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandro Posted October 3 Share 15 hours ago, Bike Dewing said: Registered to the portal today.. about a minute and a half before i broke it.. its staying broken as well.. 😳😳🤣🤣 The new portal is a complete dog show. Always trying to be fancy and stuff things up. Simpler is better. Bike Dewing and Dexter-morgan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bike Dewing Posted October 4 Share On 10/3/2024 at 8:31 AM, Sandro said: The new portal is a complete dog show. Always trying to be fancy and stuff things up. Simpler is better. Yeah theres all these things that were just not loading that arent that interesting anyway.🤷🏼♂️ should launch two or three solid features.. it could literally be one page with just my batch and start time, maybe a button to log a seeding query.. that would have been sick.. everything else is w@$kery Sandro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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