Guest Agteros Posted December 7, 2008 Share The effect of a few km of driving over a shortish dirt road to the event: Saw this section of road early on and thought it kinda hectic... (If ONLY!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agteros Posted December 7, 2008 Share Things are getting steeper from here on: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerHed Posted December 7, 2008 Share Man that is awesome, I did Sani pass in winter in my old landy and it was hecticly exciting. Did you do the 42k route? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agteros Posted December 7, 2008 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agteros Posted December 7, 2008 Share And here the real pass (read PAIN) start: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerHed Posted December 7, 2008 Share Is it actually rideable at the top? Man that looks steep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epoh Posted December 7, 2008 Share It looks awesome, I reckon I am going to do this one next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerHed Posted December 7, 2008 Share I agree with you epoh, I drove that in my landy and I had to do Low range near the top it is seriously scary steep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agteros Posted December 7, 2008 Share Man that is awesome' date=' I did Sani pass in winter in my old landy and it was hecticly exciting. Did you do the 42k route? [/quote'] Yep, did the 42km, started at the Sani Pass hotel,went straight up through the SA border post, and we turned around right at the top just before the Lesotho border post. It took me 04:18 to do the 42km of which 3:08 was spent getting to the top. After a short rest, I took another 01:09 to get back to the bottom. I even overtook a minibus taxi on the way down! The Polar reckons my avg speed for the measured 42.5km was staggering 11.8km/h!!!Average speed to the top was 7.9km/h and back down 22.4km/h The first 2km going down had so much loose rock and ruts that I actually pushed my bike! The height stats (what this whole saga is all about):Min: 1403mMax: 2688 mAscent: 1420m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agteros Posted December 7, 2008 Share Is it actually rideable at the top? Man that looks steep. Some people rode that section down. Being a backmarker I did not see ANYBODY pedalling up the top section, although I was told that only 4 in a 100 cyclists pedal all the way to the top. For me the surface was way to loose at the top for that pedalling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerHed Posted December 7, 2008 Share Awesome stuff! Well done! Nice Pics! I drove that, as I said in my old landy and we went on the the top of Black mountain (the highest point in Southern Africa 3200m), not too much further from the top of Sani Pass. I would hate to ride that on a bike. My Landy was spluttering and coughing in that rarified air. I have pencilled this one in as a must do next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerHed Posted December 7, 2008 Share How big was the field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epoh Posted December 7, 2008 Share There was some speak of tarring Sani-pass, is that still going to happen ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammerHed Posted December 7, 2008 Share There was some speak of tarring Sani-pass' date=' is that still going to happen ?[/quote']"This year's event has had to be changed to accommodate the very slowprogress beng made with tarring the road to the Sani Pass Hotel. Workis still being done on the section from the Himeville Crossroads to theSani Pass Hotel and the road engineer in charge of this section hasrefused the event access to this part of last year's route." http://www.sanitransfrontier.co.za/ They talk about it here. I hope they don't as it is really a lost frontier, wilderness type road to nowhere. Although the Lesotho people that use that road everyday will disagree. I was amazed to see taxis and huge trucks going up and down that road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Agteros Posted December 7, 2008 Share Evidence of me struggling pushing my bicycle: Profile/speed against distanceProfile/speed against time: Edit: spelling lost en routeAgteros2008-12-07 15:57:01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epoh Posted December 7, 2008 Share There was some speak of tarring Sani-pass' date=' is that still going to happen ?[/quote']"This year's event has had to be changed to accommodate the very slowprogress beng made with tarring the road to the Sani Pass Hotel. Workis still being done on the section from the Himeville Crossroads to theSani Pass Hotel and the road engineer in charge of this section hasrefused the event access to this part of last year's route." http://www.sanitransfrontier.co.za/ They talk about it here. I hope they don't as it is really a lost frontier, wilderness type road to nowhere. Although the Lesotho people that use that road everyday will disagree. I was amazed to see taxis and huge trucks going up and down that road. Thanks, yeah let's hope its still on next year. Off to bed now, laters! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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