DJuice Posted April 13 Posted April 13 1 hour ago, Patchelicious said: Great route today, nice and fast. You are in great shape! Well done on your ride. Patchelicious 1
the_roadie Posted April 13 Author Posted April 13 1 hour ago, Patchelicious said: Great route today, nice and fast. 100%. So far it's definitely been #propergravel. Headshot 1
sboschnoob Posted April 13 Posted April 13 Not sure if there is any other media coverage but here are some post race interviews from today: Pure Savage, MongooseMan, Michael S and 2 others 5
BuffsVintageBikes Posted April 14 Posted April 14 Tell you one thing, Lisa Bone is a serious emerging talent... Top 15 overall today... WOW 👏🙌 NotSoBigBen, Pure Savage, Sidekick Racer and 5 others 8
JohanDiv Posted April 14 Posted April 14 42 minutes ago, BuffsVintageBikes said: Tell you one thing, Lisa Bone is a serious emerging talent... Top 15 overall today... WOW 👏🙌 I guess it helps if one of your training partners is Mr. Brian Brummer. He knows a thing or two about grinding gravel BuffsVintageBikes 1
Titleist Posted April 14 Posted April 14 1 hour ago, BuffsVintageBikes said: Tell you one thing, Lisa Bone is a serious emerging talent... Top 15 overall today... WOW 👏🙌 The amateur men normally between the pro men and the pro women are all at work... BuffsVintageBikes and JohanDiv 2
sboschnoob Posted April 14 Posted April 14 Another cool recap of the day: Is Active Hobo on here? Keep up the recaps, very cool to get some insight on the event. INDABUSCHE, JohanDiv, SwissVan and 1 other 4
MongooseMan Posted April 14 Posted April 14 15 minutes ago, sboschnoob said: Another cool recap of the day: Is Active Hobo on here? Keep up the recaps, very cool to get some insight on the event. Depends if @David Jenkins can find his login or not 😂 Pure Savage and Sid the Sloth 1 1
Patchelicious Posted April 14 Posted April 14 On 4/13/2026 at 6:13 PM, Patchelicious said: Great route today, nice and fast. Today was NOT a good route. Rooiberg up and down is a proper MTB route. First 60km was great, but the second 60km was *** BuffsVintageBikes 1
MongooseMan Posted April 15 Posted April 15 10 hours ago, Patchelicious said: Today was NOT a good route. Rooiberg up and down is a proper MTB route. First 60km was great, but the second 60km was *** Is that you at 18mins in the video? He was also complaining about rooiberg 😂 Patchelicious and Pure Savage 2
DJuice Posted April 15 Posted April 15 (edited) 3 hours ago, MongooseMan said: Is that you at 18mins in the video? He was also complaining about rooiberg 😂 No, not @Patchelicious. Like my spanish friends will say, Gaupo. @Patchelicious is a great sport and came through on a lost bet. Will never forget his kindness. Great that you are back in SA. Edited April 15 by DJuice JohanDiv and Patchelicious 1 1
SwissVan Posted April 15 Posted April 15 12 hours ago, sboschnoob said: Another cool recap of the day: Is Active Hobo on here? Keep up the recaps, very cool to get some insight on the event. Nice video, thanks for posting. I don’t have a gravel bike…….yet, but watching these videos I think gravel could be fun. JohanDiv 1
BuffsVintageBikes Posted April 15 Posted April 15 13 hours ago, Patchelicious said: Today was NOT a good route. Rooiberg up and down is a proper MTB route. First 60km was great, but the second 60km was *** It's not a pleasant gravel route but it's still a gravel road. I've done it on my gravel bike and on my hardtail and it's certainly a lot more pleasant charging down there with a front fork. The 20km's thereafter to Oudtshoorn is a lot better on a gravel bike. Listening to some of the feedback on social media is rather entertaining. Some are calling it champagne gravel and others, like Vera, are in tears after a stage because of the sinkplaat. When you're covering 100km's offroad in South Africa, you're seldom going to find all the gravel roads to be perfect. Hell, they can barely even get that right with the tar roads in most of the Provinces 😄 Patchelicious, Headshot, Daniel de V and 1 other 1 3
Headshot Posted April 15 Posted April 15 1 hour ago, BuffsVintageBikes said: It's not a pleasant gravel route but it's still a gravel road. I've done it on my gravel bike and on my hardtail and it's certainly a lot more pleasant charging down there with a front fork. The 20km's thereafter to Oudtshoorn is a lot better on a gravel bike. Listening to some of the feedback on social media is rather entertaining. Some are calling it champagne gravel and others, like Vera, are in tears after a stage because of the sinkplaat. When you're covering 100km's offroad in South Africa, you're seldom going to find all the gravel roads to be perfect. Hell, they can barely even get that right with the tar roads in most of the Provinces 😄 Your last point is well made. I suspect that the gravel racing scene is still in its infancy and riders are still getting their heads around what will be expected of them. If you're just riding for fun you can choose your gravel route - on a race its chosen for you. I think gravel means a gravel road, any gravel road the condition whereof will be highly variable. Zebra, Daniel de V and BuffsVintageBikes 3
Eugene Oppelt Posted April 15 Posted April 15 14 hours ago, Patchelicious said: Today was NOT a good route. Rooiberg up and down is a proper MTB route. First 60km was great, but the second 60km was *** That was the prentjie that I sent you last week. I was on dual suspension at the time and it was intense, specifically the descent.
BuffsVintageBikes Posted April 15 Posted April 15 The conditions up Swartberg Pass today look bleak... rain, cold and wind. Sh!t just got real 😄
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