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Yesterday I was behind another rider about 100m ahead of me. All I could see was his rear light which was in a static mode, just there, telling me a fellow rider was just riding too fast for me to reel them in at the pace I was maintaining.
Then a car came from behind, passed me and then the fellow rider. It was at this point when that rear light started going full disco mode until the car was past, when it returned to giving me the stink eye for not catching them. I watched that dastardly light and it's owner disappear into the fog, never to be seen again.
I am calling it a ghost sighting, and I am sticking to my story.
30 minutes ago, RustyHWR said:And then you get the guys with the pulse/strobe on in pitch darkness????????
This is also super annoying. I generally don't use mine. I did today for the first time in years and only activated the strobe feature as I was crossing a busy arterial road in thick fog to warn the morons who take it upon themselves to turn right across my path despite the light being green for me.
49 minutes ago, MongooseMan said:It's a constant gripe of ours whenever we ride out on that path before sunrise. I've shouted at more than a few cyclists and runners, it's just plain stupid in my opinion.
I used to get wildly angry at any observed stupid that crosses my path. I even got into arguments once or twice and let my anger lead me to a place of equal stupid, if not even more so. These days I just shake my head and carry on without reacting. My blood pressure has also benefited from that decision.
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I'm being lazy in all honesty to look if this is the right thread, but here goes.
The last couple of mornings I have been out for my regular cycle along the West Coast cycle path to Melkbos. The first hour at least is in absolute darkness. That hour before the sun breaks through the black shroud of night. The last two mornings though was even darker thanks to the pea-soup fog that has been hanging around.
Imagine my utter bewilderment while I am riding on that path, with only my own light shining on the path and thinking I'm alone with not even a car to illuminate things, only to see a bicycle or a jogger emerge from the blackness at the absolute last moment in time. Much too late to even react let alone greet them.
How does someone decide to run / cycle in the pitch blackness of night with not even one light?
I am dumbfounded.
56 minutes ago, Mamil said:Yup. If you 40 have a full cardiac workup. At 50 a colonoscopy and gastroscopy. Annual PSA and digital prostate exams. Next on my list is the dermatologist.
I'm 47 - I haven't had any of this done before . . .
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
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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.
16 hours ago, OVERDRIVE said:Havent even been able to go get my bike from the LBS after a R200 repair.
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.
1 minute ago, Jako De Wet said:Yeah doing the full.
WIll it be easy enough to go and recce alone or should I take someone along that knows the route?
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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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.
19 minutes ago, Mook said:entitled individuals
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.
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2 hours ago, ChrisF said:WHY do people want to ride rogue ??
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.
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the logo alignment on those wheels is murdering my OCD . . . to the point that the missing dropper post and suspension fork and drop bars don't annoy me half as much as they normally would.
