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I was browsing around and saw that Rapide has somehow slashed the already good prices on their stems and bars so I bought some stems and bars. Trying 10mm shorter or longer has never been this cheap.

Well, the initial report didn't leave room for negotiations like vote for us and we will give you an extra tour game in 2020 etc because it was done independently. Or that was the idea.

I think it was more soccer world cup style lobbying and promises under the table rather than any silent statement against anything. The exact thing the independent assessment was supposed to stop. We should announce the Southern Kings team to play France on the weekend and wish them good luck in selling those tickets. Ok, maybe I'm a bit bitter.

I was away for a bachelors party without cellphone reception. Fortunate to have dodged the bullet it seems.

A few weeks into my first real job the company owner who was a venture capitalist calls me to say two gentlemen are coming to the office and he would like my feedback. So in walks two armed boere in khaki shorts, the Perendev brothers with there magnetic perpetual motion motor blueprints. At some point, I ask one what his area of qualification was and he told me it was genius extraordinaire. I explained to him that if science was in face wrong and he had a working machine as he claimed he would be speaking to General Electric or Volkswagen not to us for a meager R500k. How people succeed with those scams I have no idea.

You can save that penny. Your sentiment about use in races is discussed and basically undisputed in the preceding 30 pages.

Soos die boer wat die Lotto gewen het. Toe hulle vir hom vra wat hy met die geld gaan doen : "Seker maar boer tot dit op is".

It was a day when everything the All Blacks touched turned to gold. I am still happy to support the coach from what I'm seeing from this group and I have a feeling they will come good sooner than we think. A few tweaks and a few player changes needed but I'm not feeling the doom and gloom. The margins are small and if Cronje and Kriel were playing yesterday it would already have made a massive difference.

The lines are certainly blurred with it being both a joint business venture between the two and a sporting fight. When the money is that big it's not hard to imagine the fight coming second.

I really enjoyed that Mayweather performance. It was like watching Federer, Messi or AB de Villiers at their best. Just had to appreciate the talent on display.

I can't wait for them to abandon that Leapfrog tablet style display on all their models.

Vir my was dit 'n katarsis. Maar ek koester geen wraak nie. Tot my skaam of trots (nie seker watter een nie) ken ek hierdie klassieke rolprent feitlik uit my kop uit.

Wrintiewaar ek voel weer soos ń mens. Welgedaan mot.

I don't mind the fact that Poite used the TMO beyond the allowed protocol for a series deciding call. If the ball came back off an All Black touch or something it's better to check than to read about the wrong decision for the next 12 years. But after the replay then showed his initial decision was correct his decision making from then on was strange. Basically decided the decision was too big for one person to make so let's have a scrum.

That shoulder charge was a big moment. According to his directive, the ref didn't really have a choice. Will be interesting to see if the ABs believe they can do this. I hope the 14 men pull it off.

If Mad Max only has 1 point I can't take that table seriously.

The first 20min from the All Blacks has been very very impressive.

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.