I was incredibly lucky in the month of August to get my new frame which was a replacement for the one that broke on Sani 2 Sea stage race, earlier this year. Dragon Sports are really awesome and honoured the 5 year warranty on my Giant Anthem frame. After spraying my handlebars, crank and seat post, Paul at Procycles assembled the bike and it looked like a brand new bike. Awesomeness!!!!
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| 2017 Giant Anthem X Advanced :-) |
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| Taking my new bike for it's first ride (with a coffee and a sunrise) |
Last weekend I did the Transvaal Galvanisers MTB race. It was an incredible race - really awesome flat and fast route. This meant that it was flat out the whole time and you don't have much time to rest. Much better then last year which was an absolute mud fest. I did the 51km race in a time of 02:15 which I was pretty happy with as I am still in the winter coffee ride slumber.
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| Before the race with Sean, Brian and Becky (photo taker) |
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| They made a few ramps for the race :-) |
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| Near the end of the race riding with Darren |
So after last weekend's race I decided that it was a great route and to go and do our weekend ride there. As most of the Benoni Rough Rider crew are out of town, I thought it would be almost a solo ride but I was joined by Von, Ian, Jeff, Mark and Juan. This turned out to be an awesome ride - it is so great to do new tracks with some incredible people and do a bit of adventuring thrown in. We managed to do over 70km and stopped for the compulsory coffee on the way home. I think this will be one of our new routes.
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| Von, Ian and Jeff (Mark and Juan taking a leak in the background) |
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| Jeff fixing a puncture (yes people still ride with tubes) |
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| M&B at Carnival City Mall (first time for everything) |
