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This afternoons effort for my 14 yr old daughter. Her old XCO frame, bunch of spare parts laying around at home. New shifters and FD, and two hours later. 9.1kg as in the photo. Lekker for messing around and some gravel road rides while on holiday saving that 1x12 drivetrain on her new xco bike.

Most of this thread has commented on the fact that this is a safe route. Myself included. This happened earlier today (17/01) between Strand and GB. Not the first in this area. https://www.facebook.com/wimpie.vandermerwe.52/posts/842029846245815?comment_id=842083892907077&notif_id=1579235017875303&notif_t=feed_comment

Really? You only find emergency lanes on freeways? If you have a drivers licence, then no wonder the rate of compliance is so low in SA. And please, lets not start the whole N road / freeway discussion again. By the way, our local R road is dual carriage way with an emergency lane, and that is no freeway either, just like 99% of the N1 and N2.

He traveled down to VW in the ambulance. It's the trackers not updating together. Stopped at 498km. Hoping that he is ok.

He traveled down to VW in the ambulance. It's the trackers not updating together. Stopped at 498km. Hoping that he is ok.

Sounds great. If we lived closer I am sure that my daughter would want to be there. Is there a skills aspect? Endurance/distance is easy. Global thinking is that at a young age the focus should on skills. It could maybe be argued that is why we do not perform outstandingly well internationaly (no disrespect to those SA riders that do) compared to, in particular, European countries that emphasise skills at an early age. Not intending to detract on this event in any way. It sounds, well, epic, and hope that it is a success.

What about the Cederberg 100 miler. That is also 100% gravel roads.

ACSA security staff are not linked to any specific airline.. After having issues with CO2 cartridges in checked in luggage and being advised by security staff that one is allowed a max of 2 in hand luggage, I have never had any further problems, ORTIA, Cpt and Bloemfontein. Re the cell phone in the plane. Besides the does it interfere or does it not interfere argument, there is another reason that it's preferred that it is off. One of being attentive. Most people now a days are so focused on little screens and have very little sa (situational awareness). Imagine an evacuate command stressing evacuate left hand side only, and some box that has had his face stuck in his little screen opens the right hand door allowing fire ingress?

JF, excellent points you make and have raised, and hopefully the organisers are taking note. The one point though, about the race being the wrong time of year is a difficult one to want to agree with. 2 out of 40 badly wind affected races in a windy city is not bad. As many others have said, the days leading up to the 12th were great. Its the luck of the weather draw, and would be true for any month of the year. I used to sail and surfski as my main sports, both wind affected, so became a bit of a wind watcher, learning which areas of the Cape were least affected in which wind. The months with the least wind affected week ends were February, March and April. September, October, November and January the most risky.

I agree FCH. Standing in the wind and rain driven by a cold frontal system, cold and dark for another hr and half seems less apealing than this mornings chaos. Lets be honest. Once or twice over 40 years? Is that really so bad? The protest action is of more concern as this could escalate year on year.

If the link below works you should see a nice visual representation of the wind. Make sure the day is set to the 12th, and the time bar to where you want it. Local winds are influenced by the mountains, which the model may not be taking account of. https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-34.105;18.721;9&l=wind&t=20170312/06

SE usually blows from early, may die down later but not always and is mostly a hot wind. Also stonger than SW. SW usually comes up later (towards midday) and is cooler.

You sure? I live in the Strand, where the South Easter is born, and just come from a beach run. There is a stiff South Wester blowing in off the sea. Great for the kite surfers. No South Easter. My worry is that by the week end it's turned South East.

Most basic rule of the road in South Africa would in my opinion apply. Keep left.

This was part of some training I did years ago, something maybe useful when having to provide a description of someone and trying to remember features. A Age B Build C Colour (Fine if only used in the context of providing a description and not a profile) D Dress E Eyes F Facial features G Gait (Spelling?) Is there anything distinguishing about how the person walks, eg limp H Hair The brain cells are not so good anymore, so cannot remember the rest. Sure S for Sex should be there as well.