Robbie Stewart

I identify as an attack helicopter I ride S5 - MTB only I wear 10.5 / 11 I break the scale - although I've dropped two pant sizes since Jan when I started riding in the morning before work again. I'm going on 48 I drink beer and red wine, the odd gin a good single malt I eat red meat. Chicken and fish is salad Old school rock - Floyd, Bob, Simon, Stones - you get the idea Coffee - black, no sugar . . . what are we doing exactly?

Trying my hand on monochrome

I'm with the learn to do it yourself camp. You save a ton in the long run. Suspension is something you should probably only do yourself if you have the right tools and skill. It costs much more to repair / replace a fork or shock of you've done something wrong and damaged it. Also, not every service is a major service. Just don't NOT service your suspension. Ask me how I know...

Majik has such potential as a proper trail, especially the upper parts above Bloemendal, but it being Public Open Space and all I guess that remains a pipe dream. That canvas is just begging for some real artist to come paint on it with a digger loader.

Don't leave it there. You might pull in there to get a bill for storage, or it was sold to defray expenses. T&C;s and small print is a thing.

There are going to be tons of people there tomorrow, guaranteed. You won't be "alone" even if you go alone. Also, if you spot a Red Isuzu in the parking lot with a grey Stumpy hanging over the tailgate, that'd be me. You're welcome to join in. more the merrier.

Grabbed a Full entry while they are still hot out the oven. I guess tomorrow sees all of Cape Town up and down that hill

Entered. Thanks.

Nice. Lets Go! It's going to be such an epic day out. @Matt would you mind renaming the Thread to WC Enduro Round 2 please? Thanks.

I'm keen on riding one again. I missed Hoogies much to my dismay so I'm just amped to participate again. I'm also strongly considering Witfontein. It's a reason to go "home" again.

I dunno hey. I was very active in 20Covid and then started riding only trails on weekends. No more daily rides. My fitness and muscle tone tanked in direct proportion to the gain in girth of my waist. This lasted for three very though years where hike a bike became the new normal whenever the trail pointed upwards. Enter mid January 2024. I get invited to ride the Cape Town Cycle Tour. I have less than 50km in the legs for the year to date, but in a moment of madness I agree. Motivated to get fit enough to finish I started training again. To be fair, it was tough in the beginning, but I'm just about 2000 km in since, I've dropped TWO trouser sizes, and my muscle tone is rock hard. This morning I managed to haul in a roadie, and then pass him, and stay ahead of him for the trip up the cycle path to Melkbos. And no, he wasn't slacking. The chap was hauling ass and I had to dig super deep to achieve and maintain the pass. My fitness increased 5 fold in that time. So there is something to be said about dedicated training after a period of borderline inactivity. One ride of average 10km per week counts about a blip above zero in terms of training, and that is where It started from. I'm s different man today from who I was at the start of the year.

I'm curious and I can't hold it in any longer. With about two weeks to go for the as yet to be announced Enduro event of the WC Enduro calendar, there is nothing but radio silence. No entry portal, no movement on social media. Nothing. Nada. Niks. Bokkerol. Planning for an event takes some doing, sure. But if the requirement is for people to enter then surely marketing should have been firing on all cylinders by now? Sales should have been just about done and the excitement of training should have been in full swing. But instead, the search for Extra Terrestrial Life continues it seems. Am I the only one thinking Enduro is dead again?

that, and dropping Rob Warner as commentator extraordinaire

When you see a super old thread pop-up again, and then when you scroll back to see what happened back in the day and then you see this . . . Rest easy Tumbles. Rest easy.

Best outcome in the greater scheme of things. Glad you got some form of resolution. Hopefully he has also learned a valuable lesson and may be less inclined to do this again in future if he values what business he has.

I think the responsible thing to do here @nox1111 is to send the seller the link to this thread with the clear instruction that failure to provide a refund (within an acceptable timeframe) will result in his naming here. This provides him the opportunity to make it right without causing further harm to himself as well as you. My concern is that if he is not paying the refund due to being a small business, then I am worried that he no longer has the funds available and this makes him a risk to trade with anyway. If a "business" has cashflow issues, then the inevitable outcome is to take "the easy way out" regardless of damage to reputation.

that is what you get when you are constantly told that everyone is a winner and there are no losers and that you deserve the best that life has to offer. Or just if you managed to escape childhood without one or two life changing "bliksems" from a parent for your utter stupidity.

That puzzles me as well. I mean, do they walk into a supermarket and help themselves there as well? To me it's the same concept. You pay to play. The farm is treating access to their land as a business, and it must be respected. Non compliance is criminal at the root of the matter. To be clear. I have no qualms with having to prove that I paid to ride on the land. I take issue with people being a box about it when they ask, as if I am some criminal element that should be sent straight to Pollsmoor.

I'm going to start riding around and asking anyone who doesn't have a board for their day pass, despite not having a board myself. I'm sure that will go down a hoot.

Good luck finding the Hoogekraal coffee spot open. I haven't seen it trading for probably the last 8 or so weeks. Zapper / Snapscan is available, so just scan that in the event they're still closed. Side note, but that spot properly run should generate a decent sale turnover on a weekend. But you need a good product and a willingness to make it work. Just saying . . .

Asking nicely goes a long way. Barking at me as if I'm riding rogue only gets you so far.

I was riding up to the mast climb from Supertubes, and by the tree just before the big ascent starts a guy and his girlfriend were sitting on the trail fiddling with one of the bikes. Silly me rides up to them and asks them if they need help. At that stage the big guy stands up and asks me for my day pass. He never said anything else. For a split second I was starting to drool at the thought, and then decided he wasn't worth it, and duly presented my permit to be on the hallowed ground I was on.

I stand under correction, but is there not a board up that says this route is strictly members only?

Where can I buy tickets and popcorn to accompany my Black Rhino Stout while I watch this movie?

Some Rhino, Cobra, Hammer action sounds like a jol. I'm keen.