bikemonster

Like I said, everybody weighs up the risks and decides what they are happy to deal with. In my case the following things entered into the equation: 1 - I've been motor racing for a few years, so I figure I know what I'm doing. 2 - We went out in a group where the rules of engagement (no overtaking between brake point and corner exit) were such that I figured the major cause of danger was me, not hooligans out to prove how fast they were. As Bilbo Baggins said, "it's a dangerous business stepping outside your front door".

Normal parents love their children. Some parents evaluate risks differently to others. When I was casting around for a bike seat for son of bikemonster, when he was tiny, a post on the US Bicycling mag forums got responses telling me that putting him in a "kid catapult" was marginally less dangerous than letting him play on a dual carriageway. I did it anyway. Now he's bigger, one of his favourite things to do is drive with me in my '62 MG, which doesn't have seatbelts. One of his other favourite things is to ride shotgun with me when I do track days. I am well aware of the dangers of both of these activities, but I have decided that the joy to be had outweighs the dangers. And everybody, absolutely everybody, does things, and lets their kids do things, that somebody else thinks is unconscionably dangerous. So let's have a little less of the sanctimonious hand wringing, shall we?

In both cases it's called charging what the market will bear.

And I think that R30 for a bottle of chain lube is a acceptable. After all, the fully synthetic oil that I ran in my race car cost around R350 for 5 litres. Then again, I'm not in the chain lube business, so what do I know?

This utter chestnut of an argument gets rolled out every time frame materials are discussed. And it's total and utter BS. This answer only works if the alu and carbon bike have exactly the same frame geometry, you're using the same wheels, the same tyres inflated to the same pressure, same bars, same bar tape and so on. Simple, really! Frame material is just one of the factors that influences the way a bike rides, and the way that a frame is designed has a far bigger impact than what the frame happens to made of.

Offroad it's hard to maintain a constant cadence, so you can't really use cadence as a guide to how efficiently you are riding.

The difference will be exactly zero. On any bike, made of any frame material. For more comfort, let a little air out of the tyres.

Three weeks between the "offending" post and the offense? That's like 6 months in Internet years! And yet it's ok to label people as soured mammaries. Funny old place the Interwebz.

Come on, get the stereotypes right. English cars leak oil. Italian cars leak sparks.

How quaint! HTML!

Let's see... vague descriptions of how the "technology" "works"... endorsements and testimonials but no double blind tests or publication in peer reviewed journals. Their website describes them as "ionic" bracelets. I think ironic bracelets would be better. I'll have my popcorn with salt, please.

Ad here... https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/90965-mavic-ksyrium-sl-wheels-r3500/page__p__1250264__fromsearch__1#entry1250264 There is a pic partway down the thread. Apologies for minor thread hijack.

I have a pair of Ksyrium SL's if you're interested. New bearings - less than 300km on them, and averything straight, new and true. Other than that, don't buy the kit, buy the seller. If the seller has a good reputation, or at least fakes well, go right ahead. If a seller seems dodgy, walk away.

That's just a snare...and a pretty poor one at that!

Then you're prolly not as hardcore as you thought you were, and your balls are prolly somewhere in your wife's handbag anyway.

In so many ways!

Rochelle Gilmore. Until it wore out and fell off!

Same size as your feet. Seriously, nobody can really answer this because cycling shoes, like every other flavour of shoes on the planet, have sizing that varies from one manufacturer to another.

I love how the OP has found the prob and fixed it, but still the suggestions keep on coming...

Question: would all you enthusiasts be getting quite as frothy about something that looks like it was left in the sun too long if the stickers said, oh, I don't know "Raleigh", and it didn't cost eleventy-stupid Rand? Sorry folks, but as something to look at, this is foul!

Nobody on here is a monkey. As we do not have tails though, zoologically speaking we are all apes. (Lights blue touch paper and retires.)

Hmmmmm. All this "new science" makes me think that these are like Bio-Pace for people who do not balance well enough to ride bikes. (For clarity - that's a dig at the marketers, not any Hubbers who happen to have lost all sense of style bought a pair of these fine shoes.)

Yep. The odd/cool thing about elec-trickery motors is that the max torque is available from 0 rpm.

You take your $108k and buy a Porsche Boxster, plus something sensible and modest if you really need a 4 seater and likely still have change to buy a nice bicycle too.

Or....smooth!