Surely if we blamed him for 15 players on the field who looked like they didn't want to be there in 2016 we must credit him for turning it around. If that meant getting the right coaches to ensure the players have confidence in the plan he still got that coaching team together. We don't need a one man celebrity coach like Eddy Jones or Jose Mourinho as long as collectively the coaching team ensure that we are not outcoached by the opposition very often.
It's nice to think players can join the Boks again and return to their super rugby squads better players. And then by the look of the team spirit look forward to joining the Boks again. I wasn't optimistic to see more of Allister but give the man his due, it is looking much better.
I pondered this so I replaced my new Fast Trak tyres with a Ground Control and a Purgatory combo. From my testing with any loose sand, rocky climbs or wet terrain the XC tyres are compromised at my skill level while the trail tyres don't feel slow to me and work much better in the above-mentioned scenarios. If I could choose again I would maybe go Ground Control front and back but other than that it was a good change. And I'm not a hard-core trail rider at all, I would barely pass for a real mountain biker.
Agreed. Hence the question. You ride both gravel roads and trails and have one mountain bike. Is the extra rolling resistance of a trail tyre significant enough to rather run an XC tyre or is the grip advantage on trails of the trail tyre (I'm not talking downhill tyre) significant enough to outweigh the extra rolling resistance?
Tyres for me are one of those things where we follow convention without numbers to back it up. We are supposed to have a fast rolling tyre on the back. But how much faster rolling at the cost of how much grip? From what I've been able to scratch the difference in rolling resistance between a racing ralph and a rocket ron / ground control is something like 5W. Compared to the extra traction and grip on any terrain that is not pure hardpack plus the safety net of working in wet conditions as well I think it's well worth it to have the more aggressive tyre.
I would just put a ground control (or similar from any manufacturer) front and back. A tyre like a fast trak / icon on the back is all good and well for less rolling resistance but - if it gets even a bit muddy they clog up and you have no grip and no traction - if you hit a sandy section of trail you have much less traction
If we crunch the numbers a bit: 40km at 21mph = 4285 seconds 12.6s saving = 0.29% 21mph would be achieved at ~200W 200W x 0.29% = 0.59W saving A quick google says shoe covers save ~3.5W so 0.59W seems solid. You can get 15W savings from the best clincher tyres ...
It's the language of aero. You only have to say 50% better. Whether it's 50% better than having a sail on the bike or 50% better than the same part with dirty paint is not for us to ask. Ok I see against leading competitors. But yes I'm also rubbing my chin.
I must agree. It is economics and it is service I will be willing to pay for. If somebody makes a business from taking over the responsibility of selling my bike and holding it as stock I will gladly give him a 25% margin just like any other business. He will win some and loose some. Sellers who don't want to part with the margin can wait patiently for the right buyer. Now the seller simply has options.
I just bought a Purgatory control to use on the front of my Epic. Just woke up one day and cared more about my teeth than having a faster tyre. Also looks like it won't clog up easily with a bit of mud.
I see in 27.5 form it has almost become the trance of a few years back. But the Anthem X 29er which is their SA marathon bike still has the 71.5. I fully agree with you that the bread and butter bike should be the 120mm trail bike for most riders but the claims on this site about Epics etc being like walking on eggs are greatly exaggerated.
The Anthem X which is widely considered a good all round bike around here has a head angle of 71.5 degrees and 462mm chain stays. 70 degrees on a 100m 29er is hardly a spitting cobra.
The question is not whether Allister had the best resources in the world to work with as apart from the Lions all our teams hardly ever looked like scoring a try. This is not 2007 where we had 2 teams in the final and nobody was expecting him to magically become better than NZ. But even amongst the limited resources and skills he had to work with he was still the weakest link. We were outcoached almost every game. His insecurity about his ability and the resulting public berating of players and snubbing of all things Lions as a show of force meant he didn't come close to realising the potential of the group.
Don't look at brakes in isolation and make blanket statements like ..... brakes are crap or amazing. A set of poorly bled Shimano brakes with contaminated pads will be horrible but bleed them and pop in a set of new resin pads with new rotors and it's a different story. Yes some brakes are inherently better but the best set with contaminated pads will be worse than most other sets.
And a philosopher: "I'm actually done. I retired when I left Toulon four or five weeks ago. I had an option to maybe go for one more year," the towering 35-year-old veteran of 85 Tests said. "As a human being you must say to yourself, what is enough? Because if enough is not enough, then what is enough? How long is the rope?
It bothers me as well, a coach so insecure about his ability that he has to blame the players. He has been making Jantjies the media scapegoat since he took over. How does he expect to get the best out of the players like that?
Agreed it would be great if there were 8-10 teams who could win on any given day. I would like for Japan to tour here and we have proper cliff hanger test matches against them. Then we can stop milking the few actual contests that currently exist. Off course this should be happen by Japan almost reaching All Black level, not by South Africa becoming the 16th ranked team on the planet.
