Tagged With: long distance cycling
Small town celebs!
Tweet We became small town celebrities – oh the glory:
Categories: Media Coverage
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, Inspire, long distance cycling, One Gear, 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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Stage 10 – Pick of pics
Tweet A selection of pictures from stage 10 taken by Trigger Monkey Photography:
Categories: Partners, Photo's, Trigger Monkey
Tags: BMX, charity, CHOC, Inspire, long distance cycling, 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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Ghosts and a relentless easterly
Tweet Yesterday consisted of a 6 degrees Celsius start, 93 km’s of dirt, 7 springbok, a family of Dassies, 437 windmills, a total of 5 cars, 2 tortoises, a relentless Easterly wind and 2 rusty old wrecks in a ditch. The road was in pretty good condition and there were only a few sections that … Continue reading
Categories: Photo's, Stages
Tags: CHOC, long distance cycling, One Gear, single speed
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Bain’s Kloof Pass
Tweet Peoples reactions to what we are doing are varied bust mostly something along the lines of ”Jy’s Fo*#*# mal”. Yesterday we passed 2 cyclists and we were shooting the breeze while riding alongside them for a while; it was fun when asked where we were riding to be able to answer “Joburg!” When we … Continue reading
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