Cape Town Cycle Tour 2017 cancelled

Awesome quote....converse applies to.

 

I will gladly be part of the organisation for the next CTCT.

No thanks. You would have put a bunch of people I care about on the road today if your tone is anything to go by. You are prepared to take risks I wouldn't want an organiser to take for the sake of a ride around with an official time. Best you leave this to the people that have been doing it for 40 years and have the necessary experience. 

Enjoy your day too!

At least next year it will be worth the trip from Jhb, to see Emily Batty In action in Stellenbosch the day before... Still can't believe there's no DH race.

As I said.

Actually, you said nothing.

"Have better plans"

Thank you captain obvious.

Don you care to tell us what a better plan would be?

That is like saying we need to "have less poverty" without giving an example of how you would alleviate poverty.

And saying it is inexperience?

I don't know you at all, but I am willing to hazard a guess that David Bellairs and his crew have been organizing races for longer than you have been riding.

The CTCT is one of the best run events of its size in the country.

Diverting the route via Glencairn to nip the protest action in the bud was a good decision, Diverting away from Hout Bay would have meant a diversion through Ou Kaapse Weg, Not a bad option but the wind would still have been pumping. No getting away from the wind today, and taking a massive bunch down there in this wind would have sucked.

I'll be honest, I wouldn't have ridden today. Argus sucks when it blows like this.

But I am pretty confident that getting the "Argus" cancelled and wrecking things, maybe burning more stuff isn't going to result in an improvement, well maybe you'll score some free stuff but it will only be temporary. Patches et al may see it differently.

 

I was just saying that we should have some compassion for those who have lost more than an Argus entry this weekend.

I absolutely do not think it is the solution at all, but to expect people who don't know where they will be sleeping tonight to think about the tourism and economic impacts of their protests is a tad optimistic.

 

I was just saying that we should have some compassion for those who have lost more than an Argus entry this weekend.

Yip yip

Basic needs - shelter, food

And their were lives lost as well yesterday

For matters such as this to change or at least addressed in a short-term way, it cannot be 'business as usual' ????

Feel the pinch of today's cancellation.

It's a figment of the pain experienced by those families in desperate need.

Just for the record - I rode 2009 - strongest wind recorded was 60km/hr - this morning the stongest recorded was 100km/hr - good decision to cancel the race - it would have been carnage out there

Source please? That's 10 on the Beaufort Scale! 

Source please? That's 10 on the Beaufort Scale! 

dont you have to study ?

Source please? That's 10 on the Beaufort Scale!

The amount of concrete bits in my shoes and hair was a clear indication that today was worse than 2009

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It's obviously an awesome event but for me it's over. I last rode it in 2009 and it wasn't just the wind the ended it for me. It was stuff like having to go,to the expo. The cost of flights and the hassle of getting the bike up and down. Hours in the start pen. Just too much for a short bike ride.

Now with two years ago a half race and this year no race and having to enter a lottery to get in it's even less attractive. I suppose we will see entries diminish and perhaps that is for the best. It will always be an amazing race

I like to visit the Cape and catch up with friends and so on but never on Argus weekend.

Sorry for all that went down and couldn't ride. I have literally dozens and dozens of disappointed friends. I'm sure the organizers did their best. They didn't cancel because they want to be difficult.

Yes Patch, but in this country we will always have the haves and the have nots. It is the very nature of this world, and especially the 3rd world.

 

Does this mean that we are then not allowed to have a mass participation cycling event where most of the money gets plowed back into charities and the community? If this is so, I spell a bleak future for this event, and the country as a whole.

 

It is time the WC government get off their backsides that they have been patting so much lately for doing a good job, and get their fingers on the pulse of the poorer communities.

To me, what happend today, and what the real reason was for cancelling the event, is a true reflection of the trouble SA is in.

If an event, which pumps about R500M into the community of CPT is cancelled or is reduced to "just an event", I am pretty sure that the poor will remain poor.

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dont you have to study ?

In fact, yes I do.... Thanks Terry!!!! Back to the books for me....

In fact, yes I do.... Thanks Terry!!!! Back to the books for me....

should I suspend your account for 24 hrs, 72 hrs or a week ?

should I suspend your account for 24 hrs, 72 hrs or a week ?

Do the right thing Slowbee

168 hours

Apologies if repost

https://www.facebook.com/1416836988389825?story_fbid=1416836988389825&id=303181639755371

Needless to say that coming from JHB on Friday was a mess to. Also because of protest action, albeit legitimate or not.

 

To me, what happend today, and what the real reason was for cancelling the event, is a true reflection of the trouble SA is in.

 

If an event, which pumps about R500M into the community of CPT is cancelled or is reduced to "just an event", I am pretty sure that the poor will remain poor.

 

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What was the real reason? Please share your inside knowledge

That looks like the approach to Du Toit's kloof Tunnel on the N1 after Paarl

If you believe YouTube that is outside Hugenote tunnel, video posted in 2012

short vid......does nothing to show the strength of the wind in some places....it was dangerous...fact.....

short vid......does nothing to show the strength of the wind in some places....it was dangerous...fact.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8xRdJo-KCE&feature=youtu.be

Heading up to one of the diving spots ????????????????‍♀️

Lekka video

The amount of concrete bits in my shoes and hair was a clear indication that today was worse than 2009

 

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I'll agree with this. In 2009 I was able to stay on my bike and ride through the venturi that is the civic centre. Granted, I was the only person in my group able to do that, but the point is I was able to. 

From what I saw, even the racing tandems weren't able to stay upright. And they've got a LOT more weight and momentum than I would have had. I don't know if I would have been able to keep going. And I've ridden home in the middle of the S'wester on Main Road. When I had to change into granny, and even then could only just move forwards. Felt like I was riding through treacle. This, was worse. 

2009 was bad, but this was badder. In '09 it was also rustig through the M3. And then you hit the wind going over Boyes. And again in Simonstown. And Smits was a good climb (my best time up there IIRC) but chappies was a clusterfeck. 

The correct and responsible decision was made today. 

I feel for the people that travelled far and spend much money to attend this race. I think the wind excuse is BS, and that the real reason lies elsewhere. I believe the wind was worse in 2009, yet many people finished that race.

Not fair.

I feel for the people that travelled far and spend much money to attend this race. I think the wind excuse is BS, and that the real reason lies elsewhere. I believe the wind was worse in 2009, yet many people finished that race.

I wonder if you think that the wind on chappies would be seen as bull**** weather conditions as well. I'm sure that several people would've been blown over that cliffs if they alone couldn't handled the foreshore winds. I think it was a good call.

So what are the odds that City of Cape Town will arrange the same road closures for us on one of the upcoming Sundays?

No support, no refreshment stations, no timing, no organising and no responsibility apart from the road closures.

That way we can all have a lekker cruise around the route and the event still takes place but in a slightly different form.

Longer footage, Erik Kleinhans at 1:06:25 and Sauser at 1:05:50

http://www.702.co.za/articles/247936/watch-live-2017-cape-town-cycle-tour-cancelled-due-to-high-winds

I wonder if you think that the wind on chappies would be seen as bull**** weather conditions as well. I'm sure that several people would've been blown over that cliffs if they alone couldn't handled the foreshore winds. I think it was a good call.

"Look at these selfish event organizers that let people ride in dangerous conditions, it was very irresponsible of them to allow those poor people who got injured to ride in the first place!!"