Montblanc Posted November 23, 2008 Posted November 23, 2008 I was really appauled at the amount of littering on the road, especially taking into consideration that the riders have the opportunity to get rid of their rubbish along the route when they stop for backup along the route. ? Also very shocked at the fact that only two riders from Neotell had the decency to pitch up at the prize giving ceremony. ? As for the Cyclelab jnr's, I can vouch for two incidents involving a motorcycle. - 1st the one youngster had a bit of motor pacing behind a motorcycle. - Then the other youngster rode up to the motorcycles and proceeded to grap a drink from of a bottle handed to him by the motorcycle. ? What made it even worse, was the fact that he did this in the middle of the road and caused our bunch to have to take evasive action not to ride into the back of him. ? Hey PICKLES, read this carefully.
turtlek Posted November 23, 2008 Posted November 23, 2008 cut cut ?Also very shocked at the fact that only two riders from Neotell had the decency to pitch up at the prize giving ceremony.?Cut cut that is just shocking!!!!
GoLefty!! Posted November 23, 2008 Posted November 23, 2008 Don't be...There is very little integrity left in Cycling. Takemy team. By wednesday we decided that we would be riidng for a finish team and would finish together. SO On Saturday I waited for one of our team mates who need to be paced back to the team. The sods didn;t bother easing up to let us catch back up. This was after Tradouws Pass. By Op de Tradouw my teamie was finish and by Montague he was well cooked. So there I was , pacing myself to the 150km where I bailed. Knee pain and Sabie X in a under a months time. I decided that riding for the scum ****s was not worth it. There are many issues with teams at the DC. 1) Why do the support vehicles not follow the rules? Well this is the one race where every d**s on a bicycle thinks he's in the Tour de France so why not have the same logistics... Read the rules!! 2) Why doesone team fill the entire left lane, forcing a faster team to ride over the white line? There was not full road closure?? I noticed a few teams taking pride in this behaviour. Really crap mentality. 3) Why, at feed zones do siad teams have to stand all overthe road preventing other teams from passing htrough quickly and safely. 4) WTF is with the littering??!!! Gu Sachets, water bottles etc all getting tossed into the bush where they think no one will see? In all honetsy I don't think PPA has the resources to manage this event effectively. rolling marshalls (on motorbikes) are needed to monitor riders for the entire 205km. Either the sponsors need to cough up a bit more or this event is doomed. A real pity that would be since it is very well organised and an event PPA can be proud of. Pity that we cyclist can't govern ourselves
FanieFiets Posted November 24, 2008 Author Posted November 24, 2008 Don't be...There is very little integrity left in Cycling. Takemy team. By wednesday we decided that we would be riidng for a finish team and would finish together. SO On Saturday I waited for one of our team mates who need to be paced back to the team. The sods didn;t bother easing up to let us catch back up. This was after Tradouws Pass. By Op de Tradouw my teamie was finish and by Montague he was well cooked. So there I was ' date=' pacing myself to the 150km where I bailed. Knee pain and Sabie X in a under a months time. I decided that riding for the scum ****s was not worth it. [/quote'] Same thing happened in my previous 2 DC's. This one we finished together and it was so much better.
Da2lip Posted November 24, 2008 Posted November 24, 2008 Stringbean - should have been in our team.. We have 2 backup vans..lol...
slowpoke Posted November 24, 2008 Posted November 24, 2008 rolling marshalls (on motorbikes) are needed to monitor riders for the entire 205km tell them to get in touch with Think Bike (www.thinkbike.co.za or ont he forum www.tbforum.co.za) - a couple of our guys were in CT earlier this year to train them so their are trained marshals there...
mdk555 Posted November 24, 2008 Posted November 24, 2008 Mark my words - DC 2009 will be one feeding zone at +-100km possibly manned by PPA or another body with no back up vehicles on the road. If this does not work there might never be another DC.
NC_lurker Posted November 25, 2008 Posted November 25, 2008 Stringbean - should have been in our team.. We have 2 backup vans..lol... Interesting, what team were you riding for?If you read the rules around support vehicles you would know that each team was only allow one vehicle..Nice going, good way to ruin the event for everyone else. SUPPORT / SECONDARY VEHICLES: ? Teams are allowed to have ONE support vehicle. The registration number of this vehicle must be given to the organisers by the team captain when collecting the event packs at registration. Teams will be disqualified should they have more than one, or any unofficial support vehicles.
TheLegend Posted November 25, 2008 Posted November 25, 2008 Stringbean - should have been in our team.. We have 2 backup vans..lol... Interesting' date=' what team were you riding for?If you read the rules around support vehicles you would know that each team was only allow one vehicle..Nice going, good way to ruin the event for everyone else. SUPPORT / SECONDARY VEHICLES: ? Teams are allowed to have ONE support vehicle. The registration number of this vehicle must be given to the organisers by the team captain when collecting the event packs at registration. Teams will be disqualified should they have more than one, or any unofficial support vehicles.[/quote']sit down, breathe slowly, massage your temples and try to relax. I think I am safe when claiming that the DC won't be terminated or ruined because this one team having 2 back up vehicles. There's much more stuff to worry about there. But watch your blood pressure.
Mudsimus Posted November 25, 2008 Posted November 25, 2008 Sheesh' date=' always so much moaning, bitching and "Did you see this?! Did you see that?!" after these big road races... [/quote'] Only in the cape. The wont survive without a good moan after every race...
FanieFiets Posted November 26, 2008 Author Posted November 26, 2008 Sheesh' date=' always so much moaning, bitching and "Did you see this?! Did you see that?!" after these big road races... [/quote'] Only in the cape. The wont survive without a good moan after every race... so you are condoning littering and cheating?
fandacious Posted November 26, 2008 Posted November 26, 2008 I condone naked chics. there werent nearly enough naked chics on the dc. bring more naked chics
Myra Posted November 26, 2008 Posted November 26, 2008 Sheesh' date=' always so much moaning, bitching and "Did you see this?! Did you see that?!" after these big road races... [/quote'] Only in the cape. The wont survive without a good moan after every race... And the rest of the country won't survive without moaning about those lucky enough to live in the Cape. Jealousy makes you nasty.
Tumbleweed Posted November 26, 2008 Posted November 26, 2008 Sheesh' date=' always so much moaning, bitching and "Did you see this?! Did you see that?!" after these big road races... [/quote'] Only in the cape. The wont survive without a good moan after every race... And the rest of the country won't survive without moaning about those lucky enough to live in the Cape. Jealousy makes you nasty. i moan about the amount of fruit in muesli.
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