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Cycling from PTA to Mosselbay - Opinions Wanted


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Phen,

 

 

 

just sent you your email..

 

Forget about riding hard the first couple of days.. Ride hard after your first 5 day stint.. And yes take spare kit! Keep the backpacks as light as possible!

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Safe roads for cycling is still an isue. Just getting out of Gauteng on a bike would be diffecult..

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spare kit?less is more, but depends how rough you want to look, spare shorts probably a good idea.

 

but i've done 2 weeks straight with one pair and a hawaaiin shirt before.
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Phen

Doing it in October 2008. We depart from Krugersdorp via Bloem' date=' Colesburg, Graaf Reinet, etc Mosselbaai to Cape town. Did same route last year as well. It is a fantastic experience. For safety you have to be more than 2 or three people and I would suggest a back up vehicle for kit , etc.
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relevant hijack:

 

HS, just out of interest, why the same route- surely there's other things to see?!
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Getting out of Gauteng is not that difficult.. We went the Witbank, Secunda, Vrede route. A bit of a "long way round" I know but it was sort of on our route seeing we aimed for Bethlehem.

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loneranger, drop me a PM with your mail and I'll get you from Jhb to Heilbron/Parys

 

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Young Phen !!

 

Inspiration !! Clap

 

Wanted to do the Cape Epic to be able to say I rode from Kynsna to CT. Then they changed the route the silly buggers.

 

But, along comes this thread - maybe I should just do it on my own... not a bad thought at all ....... Lamp
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Phen please send me those!! pretty please!!

 

Will see what I can do. Last time I rode them was in 2005 as a junior, but I'll chat to the guys I rode with to get the specifics (can't remember the exact route). I think it was via Midrand and Carnival City all the way to Three Rivers in Vereeniging, and definitely not that dangerous.
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