Scalpel

This topic is on the fact that USN delivered good service and not on their popularity on other forums. Well done USN. I agree with Dangle!!

DCM is riding Cannondale Super Six bikes on the road. Some of their bikes are Hi-Mod frames and others are standard carbon frames. The South African importer and distributor is Omnico. Gauteng dealers are more or less the same as they have been Amoryns when you last had a Cannondale.

What age categories ladies? Elite ladies only tomorrow as far as I know?

Jaco Ferreira was 2009 SA champ 30+

Are you referring to tha Categories?

Swissvan ou maat how are things on youre side of the world? Cold? I agree with you. CSA cant be blamed for everything. The local or provincial cycling body does all the arrangements with local government and municipalities. CSA does not do that as far as I know. The SA's in PTA you mention was organised by Gauteng North cycling.

Speensalf snuif moeilik, maar dit smeer so lekker!

Homer oh Homer where art thou....

Andrew still said after Klerksdorp last year that SA's will stay in Klerksdorp for a year or two and then all of a sudden it is in PE. Klerksdorp was great last year! They even had a pre run on a weekend to smooth out any unforseen problems.

I have the Scalpel Ultimate! It is a truely amasing bike!

Everyone selling a Scalpel wants to upgrade to the 2011 models. Quite a few radical changes from the old Scalpels to the 2011 models.

Francois do you mean Super Six or System six?

But Ou Kop you just love shopping at the Lab!!!!!

Jip its R20k. Depending on your LBS you might get discount.

PDI= Previously Disadvantaged Individual as far as I know, but I might be wrong!

Spinnekop now you are making sense where there is little sense doing the rounds. I am one of the individual week end warriors. I dont have a team and it is highly unlikely that I will find a team. Why? Because I prefer to race by myself. No pressure from anyone and nobody tells me where and when I have to race. I do believe that the current system is flawed, so some of these suggestions make sense. Bring in categories, but keep the 30+ cats seperate from the other rules. Cat Elite can abide by these rules as they are supposed to be the future 2020 vision. We as vets just want to race. It takes me back to the SuperVet series of two years ago where the top 100 30+ vets raced each other. Now that was fun!! CSA place is in cats according to our seeding and not age. Dont apply all the rules of teams, some of of us and to some extent I think it might be the majority prefer to ride as individuals. If the teams are enforced over the board I for one will be riding in the open cats if at all. I think a lot of sponsors will quit the sport of cycling as it is known in SA. It is just getting to expensive. Look at the other threads regarding the cost of licence fees. Now one has to be licenced, you have to be part of a club and you have to pay for your 4-6 man team as well. Now the team has to enter races. These races arent cheap anymore. So every race enrty will cost a team plus minus R1000-00( Iam talking big races). Whereas an individual can decide where and when he races. These are just my thoughts and I really hope someone at CSA reads all of our Hub rantings. I wanna race. I wanna race in categories according to ability and not age, but I dont want to be forced into a team!!!!

This will be the official death of road racing as we know it! Spinnekop you might like it, but your current team is made up of old people like yourself. So to bring doen the average you will have to get some young BEE partners!!

Use Bayticol Aerosol. Sold at Dischem.

The rumour mill says all licensed riders will bet categorised for next year. So in other words no more age groups.In the categories only teams will be allowed to race. Teams must consist of 4 riders. If more than 4 riders number five must be under 26 years of age. If more than five riders in a team number six must be BEE. Each team must have a manager, director sportif and mechanic. Thats what the rumour mill says!

Hi River Rat. As part of the XCO Champs organising comittee I feel it is my civil obligation to comment on your statement regarding our polluting of Fountains as you so apply mention above. We never used red and white tape. As part of the MTN series we were obligated to use the MTN yellow tape. We did remove all the tape we used by the Monday after the event. However since the champs was held there has been other events as well that use the trails that we also use. So the GN MTB guys are not to blame.

What a first post Ico! I hope you get a partner that meets your expectations!

Los nou die ouens uit en kyk na die fietse! Izzzit At least Cadel is Top 10!!

I am but a mere funrider! You would know!

Los nou die ouens uit en kyk na die fietse!

This is where the problem lies Swissvan! Then everyman and his dog wont make money out of the fun riders. Funrides has become an easy way to make money and raise funds.