{"id":17425,"date":"2013-01-19T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T22:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/slanghoogte-driven-not-ridden-video\/"},"modified":"2013-01-19T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T22:16:08","slug":"slanghoogte-driven-not-ridden-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/slanghoogte-driven-not-ridden-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Slanghoogte driven, not ridden \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers of The Herald VW Cycle Tour have made a <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/detour-for-herald-tour\/\">minor adjustment<\/a> to the 106km Classic route, following a request from the Cape Town Cycle Tour Trust, which runs the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s second oldest national classic, which takes place in Port Elizabeth on February 3, is an official premier seeding event of the Cycle Tour.<\/p>\n<p>As such, race director Tony Cooney said they would bypass the short but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KP2H56W3zO0\" target=\"_blank\">challenging 1km Slanghoogte climb<\/a> to bring the course in line with similar seeding events across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Cooney said although the climb was regularly ridden by social cyclists in training, one corner had a gradient of 17.1 per cent, which was higher than the benchmark of 14 per cent set by the notorious Suikerbossie climb in the Western Cape event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KP2H56W3zO0\" target=\"_blank\">Watch video!<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers of The Herald VW Cycle Tour have made a minor adjustment to the 106km Classic route, following a request from the Cape Town Cycle Tour Trust, which runs the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour. South Africa\u2019s second oldest national classic, which takes place in Port Elizabeth on February 3, is an official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}