want some cheese with that whine?

[Danger Dassie]

eish man... road riding is just as fkn hard...

 

You want a fat lip? ....

 

Since this is developing into food tastes, I've just had 280g worth of Tiramisu .....

[evolve]

Gotta luurrvve these threads on Van Gaalens, all moan and groan. Yes it was tough but i was not aware that we ride on paved, smooth, singletrack that is loaded with water points every km and we are served with ladies or gents that are in perfect condition that stand in airconditioned little rooms waiting to serve us the coldest bestets drinks of all time......... blah blah blah.

 

Pump your wheels and move on

[cat-i]

 

The notion that people are just whiners is also wrong, when you pay for something based on an advert or a write up and have no experience of the item or event, you are expecting the event to conform to the ad. If it do's not, then complain, its your money and your time, both are important to you and by shutting up (because you dont want to be seen as a whiner) you are condoning poor service and behaviour, which is also NOT acceptable.

 

 

service was excellent.

 

value for money, you don't get much better. for R100 you get permits for the day, qualified paramedics in a 4x4 who feed you powerade, water, bananas and junglebars, the best of sabie's singletrack, people to show you the way, AND great company. you even get to ride in a bunch that suits your ability and speed. the routes were up on the website a long time before the preride. if you don't know what 2km of vertical ascent is like, go ride breedtsnek - it's about 4 times the climb from the shebeen back to the top. if you don't know what 80 kays feels like, go ride a 10-hour event and try to clock 80 kays in one day. the event pretty much conformed to the advertisement. except that the tracks was dry which made them much easier than the real ride would be. wow sabie's great when it's dry!

 

the complaints were about the bunch being too slow. a few guys were ahead of the leader almost all the time. there were two groups; they chose to go with the slow bunch. option was there to join the fast guys, and drop back & wait for the slow guys if you saw they were too fast later in the day we caught the fast guys cos they were waiting for the backup van. again they didn't join the fast guys but chose to stay with us.

 

i was wondering why they didn't join the fast guys - would it not have been more fun? and better training?

Edited November 15, 2010 by cat-i

[Daniel XTR]

Was really brilliant value for Money, and it has me sold on the lite-solo.

 

Anyone else doing the lite? as a team, or solo?