Stages
Can you say target reached!
Tweet We would never have expected to reach our target so quickly but thanks to Amazing Anonymous we have, in one proverbial fowl swoop, raised R10 000 for CHOC! We don’t want to stop here though – we want to blow this target out of the water and raise as much as possible for kids suffering … Continue reading
Categories: Donations, Stage Sponsors, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, Inspire, long distance cycling, One Gear, single speed, south africa, The Cows
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Amazing Anonymous
Tweet We have just secured an anonymous sponsor …who will be taking both stages! They are so many kinds of extremely generous, altruistic and unbelievably philanthropicous (its a real word…look it up) – we wish we could make an absolute fuss about them but the nature of their business is such that they need to … Continue reading
Categories: Donations, Stage Sponsors, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, long distance cycling, long distance riding, One Gear, single speed, south africa, The Cows
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Just when you thought I had hung up the BMX
Tweet You thought that I would have got a big boy bike by now! Well I just can’t seem to let go of the single speed dream that is a simple bike with no hangups. The BMX from BMX direct that I was sponsored gave me just one puncture in the entire journey from Cape … Continue reading
Categories: Donations, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, long distance cycling, One Gear, single speed, south africa, The Cows
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94.7 Pick of pics
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Categories: Photo's, Stages, Trigger Monkey
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, Inspire, long distance cycling, One Gear, single speed, south africa, The Cows
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Where is the boundary!
Tweet When we set out we aimed to average 70 km per day and I trained to the extent that I had got my head and my pins (tiny legs) around an 80 km ride on a BMX. During the initial stages of the ride from Cape Town every niggle and small pain that developed … Continue reading
Categories: Stage Sponsors, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, Inspire, long distance cycling, single speed, south africa, The Cows
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Stage 12 – Pick of pics
Tweet A selection of pictures from our final stage taken by Trigger Monkey Photography: This stage was very kindly sponsored by Storsure:
Categories: Photo's, Stage Sponsors, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, Inspire, long distance cycling, long distance riding, One Gear, single speed, south africa, The Cows
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Making hay
Tweet As mentioned in my previous post; we are trying to make up time so that I can see my old man before he goes in for his op and also finish the One Gear Challenge within the allocated time. In an effort to give ourselves a buffer I rode right through two of our … Continue reading
Categories: Stages
Tags: BMX, CHOC, Inspire, long distance cycling, One Gear, single speed, The Cows
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Why I have been a bit quiet
Tweet So you may have noticed that the One Gear Blog has been a little quiet over the last few days; that it hasn’t continued with the same verbose ferocity that it started with? There were a few unknowns until very recently and so as not create alarm by feeding you guys the wrong information … Continue reading
Stage 09 – Pick of pics
Tweet A selection of pictures from stage 09 taken by Trigger Monkey Photography:
Categories: Photo's, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, long distance cycling, One Gear, single speed, south africa
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Flat and Fast
Tweet We have had a couple of stand out rides on this adventure of ours; Baines Kloof Pass and riding the dirt roads through the succulent Karoo really stand out but this last ride to Strydenburg was incredible because of the average speed we achieved. The conditions were perfect – we had a wind behind … Continue reading
Categories: GPS Tracks, Stages
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, long distance cycling, One Gear, The Cows
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