Brighter-Lights Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 TB ends somewehre else this year - some kraal something name, but we'll ride from Kabeljous in JBay to Heroncliff and back.Nice pic rock!
rock Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Nice pic rock! props to the hubber behind the lens - buckshot
Brighter-Lights Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 seen the same frame at chainreaction branded Viper... Viper is a Belgium based brand...
Dirty Twin Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Jo saam met wie ry jy never ender en wanneer? Kan ons jou join? Ek weet ek is stadig and won't be offended if you don't want slowpokes with you.Dirty Twin2008-07-25 05:43:23
Brighter-Lights Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 Anyone welcome! We'll leave from PE at around 7:00 and park the cars at Kabeljous resort and start riding from there at around 8:00 - those who don't want to do the whole distance can turn around whenever they want to, but the goal is to ride to Heroncliff and back... OR to Gert's house and back... same distance... Need a refilling station for my one water bottle HAHAHA My number is 084 517 1336 Jo
TitusTi Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 When do we get details of the finish location for TB?I really hope it's easy to find as I sometimes get lost going home in the evenings.
Dirty Twin Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 The Finish is at Mentorskraal Geust Lodge at the top entrance of J/Bay. Apparently we finish off with about 2 kay's of single track all flipping uphill.
Dirty Twin Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Anyone welcome! We'll leave from PE at around 7:00 and park the cars at Kabeljous resort and start riding from there at around 8:00 - those who don't want to do the whole distance can turn around whenever they want to' date=' but the goal is to ride to Heroncliff and back... OR to Gert's house and back... same distance... Need a refilling station for my one water bottle HAHAHA My number is 084 517 1336 Jo[/quote'] Wie ry almal saam en is dit Saterdag of Sondag.
xak1 Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 The finish is at Mentorskraal - it is on the road that links central Jeffreys to the N2, quite close to the N2. I am not sure how they will take the road to get there. They can either stay right at the Jeffreys/Humansdorp split (where a lot of people got lost last year) and stay all the way on this road to the Hankey/Humansdorp road. When you turn left on this road, you pick up a gate about 1.5km on the right side. This is a dirt road that goes under the N2 and ends close to Mentorskraal. If they keep it like in the past and continue left at the split, one will still end at Zuurbron for cp 6 - from there you will still pass cp 7 as in the past, but once on top of that small little bastard of a climb (although they have filled in this road), instead of going left, you can continue straight and link onto the same dirt road that goes under the N2 to Mentors (I think this is probably the most likely). The last option is to continue as in the past all the way down to the tar road, but instead of turning into Jeffreys stay on the old Humansdorp Jeffreys road (will be a bastard of a climb at the end of 230km), get to the new traffic circle, go right around it and end up at Mentors.
Brighter-Lights Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 Dis Sondag... Sover ek, Andrea, Annelize, Dawid, Hedwig, Gig, Bruce? So iets... Sien jou daar! Die idee is net om stadig te ry en op daai harde seat te sit... en om never ender in my kop te map...
_Daemon_ Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 No suspension?! Wow' date=' or rather why? Just to be light?[/quote'] Was wondering about that as well. I can appreciate the all out thing for weight but then why disc brakes???
Brighter-Lights Posted July 28, 2008 Author Posted July 28, 2008 Because v-brakes mess up nice wheels. I did 95km on the rigid yesterday and it was a breeze... no stiff wrists or anything today... my max speed was 70km/h on this downhill... The biggest fallback is less traction on fast bumpy corners
_Daemon_ Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Because v-brakes mess up nice wheels. I did 95km on the rigid yesterday and it was a breeze... no stiff wrists or anything today... my max speed was 70km/h on this downhill... The biggest fallback is less traction on fast bumpy corners They do?....ok if you say so.To bad then for all the roadies and their nice wheels...or cyclocross guys where mud and grime get's onto the braking surface etc. Nice bike thought.
Brighter-Lights Posted July 28, 2008 Author Posted July 28, 2008 Well... I'm not a roadie... AND... I'm here to see what all my previous V-brake rims look like... I used to say I will never change to disk brakes because my vbrakes stop me wherever I go... but I'm tired of spending money on expensive wheels just to have it look like crap a few months later... The Rigid is not really a weight thing... it only saves 560g over my sid... it's more of a maintenace thing...
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