[Event] 99er Cycle Tour

[ChrisF]

21 minutes ago, NicholasH said:

Hi

In short the route change: we were forced to change the start from Durbanville Racecourse for many reasons. After literally 2 months of scouting grounds, driving the routes a few times and looking at every possible option (remember I am a keen cyclist myself and head of operations) this was the only route choice we had. Durbanville simply does not have the infrastructure to support a 4000+ strong cyclist event. What people also don't realise is that you cannot simply send 1000 cyclists out of Durbanville on any route. You have to look at timing of when the elites and A and B groups come back to the start vs the other slower and short routes leave. It is ridiculously complex and respectfully to everyone here, unless you have planned a race yourself, you have no idea...

Anyway, we try our best to still be unique, hence 3 road routes and a longer gravel route.

Vissershok HAD TO be removed because local municipality refused to maintain the road and thus we couldn't use it. Odendal and D'Urbanvale fell away because we now HAVE TO end on Koeberg. We are still the only event that uses the Old Malmesbury road which is fast and safe. Looking forward to meeting you all on raceday 

 

THANK YOU to you and every member of your team for all the hard work to put this event together.  

 

 

Sure you would have loved to keep the old Odendaal finish.

 

Let's not forget all the threads about events in other provinces, rather, the lack of events .... let's be greatful for what our authorities signs off on.

[NicholasH]

6 hours ago, Rudii said:

99er and Durbie Dash is pretty much becoming carbon copies of each other. Organisers will have to think outside of the box to differentiate from the other.

This year's race IS OUTSIDE THE BOX, believe it or not.... we started route planning in July already and after "finalising" the routes 3 times we came up with what we have now.... it's not as simple as it seems. We are also actually quite different from Durbie Dash. Very good friends with the organizers. I believe that the 2 events actually compliment each other