Archive for January, 2009

Sports Illustrated Article - February 2009

Friday, January 30th, 2009

A small coup for all involved - the Dream Givers, supporters, blog readers, training partners, and multisport peers. Many thanks to all, including Angus for the stellar article. Am so properly grateful for this, the most significant media to date. Please find a copy, on shelves from this weekend.

More than tire testing…

Friday, January 30th, 2009

More time in the ‘office’ up in Jonkershoek. Before showing Burry and James a Maties tradition.

(Vensters dress-up)

Stop starting in Jonkershoek

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Spent all day in Jonkershoek, taking various tires around a set course, figuring different attributes of each, and valuing that against a test tire. Will be back out and about tomorrow, learning that there is a lot more than meets the eye…
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In short: Christoph Sauser, Burry Stander, Lene Byberg, Conrad Stoltz and [...]

Specialized Tire Testing

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

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Some visuals from testing rolling resistance…

Race Report - Xterra Buffelspoort 2009

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Dripping viscous beads of persperation after a leisurely warm up stroll while making my way down to the swim start I noted, for the first time, the Xterra Lite transition space at capacity. Representing many who’d be dabbling in some adventurous racing for the first time. But when asked who’d be doing their first Xterra [...]