Author: The Main Mamil

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Munga grit training and Eroica

Training for an ultra-endurance mountain bike event takes a lot of time. Here’s two video montages from a recent training ride with a friend and from the Eroica Nova gravel bike event in lovely Montagu in the Western Cape. And here’s the one from the Eroica Nova

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Race report : Tour du Cap 2024

The Tour du Cap is a 5-stage road race held in the week before the Cape Town Cycle Tour. 2024 is my third year riding this event. Here’s a blow-by-blow account of the 2024 ride. Stage 1 Monday 4 March YR.no had predicted biblical levels of rain suggesting a canoe...

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New bike day for the Munga

I have been riding a 2022 Trek Top Fuel 7 trail bike and I love it. I’ve ridden most of the western cape MTB trails on it as well as quite a few 100-mile gravel grinds, a Trans Baviaans and a couple of 36one rides. The bike is stable and...

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MAMIL’s MUNGA for TEARS

The plan for 2024 is to make it the biggest riding year yet. I have entered the MUNGA grit and the MUNGA and, inspired by others who have used these enormous physical challenges to raise funds for good causes, I would like to use my efforts as an opportunity to...

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Crash at Around the Pot 2022

Every cyclist has had the experience – most of us more than once. I’m talking about the over the bars, crunch, the grit in the mouth, numb body, can’t breathe yet, “How bad is it?” experience of a bicycle crash. That’s what happened to me 60km into the Around the...

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Race Report and Vlog : Velddrif 222 (2022)

Fueled with one of the best Risottos I’ve ever had the pleasure of eating courtesy of soigneur Trevor, I mooched along with Group 2 until the hills before Piketberg where for once, courtesy a slightly slower group than I’m usually seeded in, and the kind of hill (stays below 7%...