44th Roof of Africa Extreme Enduro

[swazi_matt]

Originally Posted by chucky

Why do yousay that ?

the sarcasm was lost over the web!! ;-) will be seeing you in lesotho, leaving tomorrow AM

[Pepperami]

Jarvis all the way!!!

[swazi_matt]

Arrived in Maseru yesterday to find the Alfie Cox team (and foreign rentals) already established with a relaxed and fit chris birch walking around and a Happy Letti riding around on a crisp sounding husky

looks like the weather will be ok, 30% chance of showers.

will update it as i get a chance

[swazi_matt]

action starts in about 10 hours, but seems like GJ has arrived from Oz today, guess he will be a bit sleepy tomorrow

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[swazi_matt]

he eventually arived, and i saw him pull some impressive moves through the short enduro x section



round the houses, a tradition that normally determined your start of time trial, this time it is only the winner that gets a cash prize and then TT is started at your leisure, nice way to involve the city in the event






today was not too technical, more to split riders according to their ability, not to kill them (that happens on saturday!!)

unofficial results are:1. Marc Torlage 2. Jade Gudzeit 3. Kenneth Gilbert 4. Graham Jarvis 5. Chris Birch 6. Brian Capper 7. Wynand Badenhorst 8. Ben Hemmingway 9. Adrian Werner 10. Darryl Curtis

[swazi_matt]

official results TT:

http://www.roofofafrica.org.ls/ttres.htm

[swazi_matt]

wow wow wow!!! I will enter this next year for sure!!

for those who want to follow the action as it happens (New Zealanders are doing well):

http://www.e-dirt.co.za/site/forum_t...of-africa-2011

[swazi_matt]

Ok i have been slack here in doing a report on this race, just had too many other things to do and also do not know where to start, but here are some great videos of the race that will give an idea of the event:

Graham Jarvis showing us how useless we are on a bike, before the round the houses race (he continued showing everyone how useless they are on bikes for the rest of the weeekend!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKmL...ure=digest_sat

First part of the race (worth subscribing to this guys youtube vids, does some good work!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrjHZ...ure=digest_sat

some footage of chris birch and GJ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k2EC...&feature=g-all

and lastly some helmet cam footage from a back marker doing the bronze route:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nowKqMYm5k

[swazi_matt]

And some really nice photos of the event:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set...7071811&type=3

[jgas]

Great thread! Thanks. This is one of my dream events that I'll probably never get to do. I rode with Elmer Symons several times who won it more than once. He said it was one of the toughest events but was also one of the most fun.

Jeff.