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bergleeu! i'll be starting in L and will never catch you. doing it on a borrowed chro-moly bike, if you'd like to fall back a few groups? where's mrs lion seeded?

which one? the argus?

where you starting gerda? and is r also riding? where?

a borrowed 1992 giant rigid. it's my first mountainbike's twin if there's time saturday night, then spds and slicks, otherwise as is with flat pedals and knobblies and hopefully all the gears.

anyone any idea as to why the tyre came off?

i'm a big fan of helmets after woke up in ICU one day ... but if i had to choose between cycling responsibly and a helmet .... i'd think cycling responsibly, basic good manners, showing respect is more important. its not only about yourself & your bike - it's about making it safe for all the other cyclists out there.

haha something like that, dirty. you just keep off the tar and you're ok .... but for people swerving all over the road up chappies holding traffic up ... dont you think it would at least be some form of deterrent? the problem is not that they can't think for themselves, but that the irrate drivers take it out on the next (responsible) cyclist they see. we need to tame the ander and the arrogance ... how else do we do it - what would you suggest?

also doing my 21st

20 3/4. if all goes well, 21 this year times range everything from 3:21 (including a mechanical on suikerbossie, and a singlespeed with no freewheel from there) and 5:44 on a mountainbike with knobblies and a harry-potter broom that year that they stopped it 'cos it was too hot.

if you knew you would loose vitality points, would you still swerve all over the chappies road? or if you might be disqualified from the argus even before the race started, would you still ride like a tjop? this year, it was a real pain to enter for the argus - after the entry was done, i had to buy a licence, and then there were numerous 'value-added' adverts which annoyed me more than entice me to buy anything.... what if those adverts could be replaces with something that could add real value? like a pledge to ride responsibly whenever you're training on the road ... like the terms and conditions (that i always tick without reading them) .... but visible - this is what you sign up for. and you can't enter if you haven't read them. and a way to enforce it ... e.g. part of the licence fee that we pay cycling south africa goes towards a small number board that you put on your bike ... one for EACH bike. cant be enforced, but at least if you enter argus or 94.7 or the big ones, then you'l have paid for the licence - and it has to come on your bike for the race ... and for every race that you do (to encourage people to ride with them all the time). the board has your medical aid details, contact details for significant other, so id adds real value ... and you're identifiable. or when you sign up for your discovery vitality, you must know that if cought riding irresponsibly, you might loose points. this would be very difficult to enforce, the process would need to be 'auditable'. you could get some extra points if you sing up for a cycling license (and get the identity board that cycling south africa would give you) ... and then you can be identified in case of tjoppy behaviour. enforcing it would be really difficult. metro police could help by pulling off cyclicts when they ride horribly irresponsible. even if they can't fine them, just the annoyance of getting pulled over, and the time you've wasted, might entice you to ride more responsible next time. also, if one cyclist ask you to ride responsible, he's a tjop and you swear at him. if 10 cyclists do it, they might be right and you're the tjop ... and you might start riding more responsibly just to stop the annoying other people from always giving unsolicited advice. it might be a bit extreme - and no idea how to enforce it. some ideas?

raw oats (oatbran, i think, the box looks different) with double-cream greek yogurt and a sliced banana or a handful of dried cranberries or any othger fruit. you could probably replace the greek yogurt with something with less fat or half outbran & half futurelife. havent tasted the futurelife chocolate, will have to go hunt for a box.

by the estimated speed for the distance, i assume it's tar and not dirt?

i noticed the tongue in cheeck ... and agree about the common sense. it's not about who's right or wrong, but about respect to each other - from all sides.

i cycled with some friends this morning in the dirt-road-and-singletrack area behind midrand / centurion (no idea where, but i rememebr a sign pointing to gerhardsville at some stage). we were on a narrow jeeptrack. red bakkie came from the front, so we pulled over into singlefile and the bakkie pulled over to the side while we passed. i was in the front and waved thankyou, and i heard every one behind me shout thankyou, and a wave & smile from the bakkie driver. it is possible. we must just get respect back

thule sells these cables, they look almost like the toe-straps, just with a little pieace of facrib behind the clip so that the metal wont scratch. there's a thule-shop in woodmead at the value mart (between the woolworths complex and the makro)

get there early so that you can start at the front-ish of your bunch, enjoy & good luck!

i found some re-usable cableties at an outdoorshop - could have been outdoor warehoushe, not sure. they come in all sizes, i bought a few and they're excellent from holding the light in position over rough singletrack, to holding the bike on the rack, the map board on the handlebars, the battery on my helmet and once to hold the cat-i's sensor in place. wont scratch the frame. they from a soft plastic, and it works the same as some bike-racks have to fasten the bikes, just a lot smaller. i have a set of velcro ties as well (from a DIY shop) but they mud sticks to them. i guess it sticks to the reusable cable ties too, but they're easier to clean ... or ... i actaully dont knwo why they are cleaner than the velcro.

buy your precious child some ice-cream when he gets home. RIP brett

you friends with snip? know her from somewhere?

it is the problem ... and i supect when these riders get in their cars they're equally arrogant. hoe do we fix it?

from both sides. we can't expect motorists to show respect and tolerance if we don't do the same. there's a few kms of tar on my daily commute. traffic is dangerous enough as it is, i don't need irrate motorists taking there frustraion about other cyclists, out on me consensus? i would love that mutual respect? in an ideal world; not even THAT ideal, i've seen it in ireland when i cycled on very narrow roads, that's all there were; cars waited patiently till it was safe. .... but read the remarks in this article (link that BigH posted in another thread last week) http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Onbeskofte-Sandton-motoriste-steek-stok-in-fietsren-se-wiel-20110220 the remarks were void of human-ness ... barbaric, almost .... and seriosly made me reconsider my commute route why are we so angry?

totally agree ... and welcome to the MTB side

w - o - w i'm not worthy!

groenkloof last weekend