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THIS IS UNDERGROUND 
You know when you watch those crit races from the States, like Red Hook and you see okes on track bikes flying around a closed street crit circuit and then ALL piling up behind a camera bike because everyone came round a blind corner at a HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR with NO BRAKES!? Well, this is NOT THAT BUT I’d imagine the exhilaration to feel just the same WITHOUT the pile ups of course.
Don’t let me mislead you - EVERYONE can do this and try this (next one Feb 9th) but you need a certain type of “ride/race craft” to navigate JHB/Suburban streets after 7pm, quickly and safely without dying! 
IT’S A THRILL!  What a vibe!
If you didn’t know, it started way back when Hunter Cycling had a shop in Braamfontein (near Juta street, where Critical Mass used to start). Back then it was more a Fixie/Single Speed type crowd. It then moved to Melville (4th Ave) I recall meeting Jean for the first time. Who knew years later we’d work together at Bikemarket.co.za for a short while? I did one of those Hustles from Melville and vowed that to be my first and last. 
Well, guess what? I LIED! 
Version THREE brought back by one the originals Lance Williams when he visited Grant Usher at Casquette Cycle Café in Rosebank and realised THIS would be the ideal setting for a Jozi Hustle Reboot!  Started in Nov of 2022, they held a 2nd one in Jan and the 3rd one last night (tonight) [writing this post the event]. 
A 22km loop from Rosebank, round the Zoo, round through Westcliff, UP some alleyways in Parktown, past JHB Gen, skirting Berea on Louis Botha, then down Munro Drive, through Houghton, up through Birdhaven, Wanderers, Illovo and back into Rosebank towards Casquette . THEN, the best part, UP a level parking lot which felt like 15 levels (probably only 7) to an end WALL where you collect your cupcake paper cup attacked to a spike with your position written on the inside – HOW FUCKING COOL! 
Yes, yes, mine has the number 2 on it. Thanks in part to Grant who showed us part of the route on the way back from our SOUTH Festive 500 excursion and thanks in the other part(s) for the youngsters giving it a GREAT tonk out on the JHB streets at night (James, Tom and Keenan) – Tom was on an e-MTB and was adamant the battery had gone flat. FLAT MY ARSE! Anyway, I made sure with sheer grit and determination and some bike skill on a smooth concrete surface he didn’t get 2nd. 
James on the other hand (Team Flying Flamingos, was it?), defending champ on a gravel bike did indeed beat me to the top by “just a little” – THANKS GENTS, loved that! You raced like gentlemen! We called out danger together all the way… and direction! It was HARD but fair!
Floating trophy is the Lascivious Legavaan (a fuck off wooden carved replica with a spikey dog collar and a badge that says “I’m THE King of the Jozi Fucking Hustle” YEAH BABY! 
COME GET YOURS!  
*I’d recommend road bikes with wide tires or light weight gravel bikes – its ALL tar. But JHB tar 



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