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my slicks are substantially thinner than the knobblies. big enough to use different inner tubes; so i can imagine that there will be a bit of a weight difference. biggest advantage is the much less rolling resistance. i like the sound of whirr-whirr when i ride on tar, but that's eating up the knobblies and energy.

thx andy! the MTB shoes won't clip in there, though - i'll find the others at least the MTB's clean now, so i'm halfway there

same than MTB except they're not flat. don't know what they're called - spd? edit: the pedals will be somewhere - i must just go find them & put them on! and preferably maybe ride the bike for a km or so just to see if the parts aren't rusted

me too, and very much looking forward to it. MTB's a mess from the preride, and roadie-bike don't have pedals after the argus, so i guess i need to get off the hub and go sort the bikes out

i still have to pump the roadie bike's tyres and put the pedals back. and remove the airline-stickers after it's trip to capetown earlier this year. i guess kayalami is as good a place as any to go test it & see if i can still balance it. it's open every weekday, incl thursday?

i don't think it's about right or wrong, what the law says and what not .... it's about mutual respect - from both sides.

aaaah you and Bwoman on the stoep of your little house by the sea, drinking tea and hubbing all day after the early-morning ride

a bit of compromise from the cyclists, too. put your MTB on your bike this saturday and drive to teak place at around 8-ish.

tumbleweed, most likely?

but the other cyclists might not be and the oke in the car who were aiting behind 4 bunches of inconsiderate cyclists who may have thrown signs at him, won't know that you're the considerate one when he passes you it's a dangerous place, i don't like driving that road when i want to go to teak place; it must be far worse cycling there

they might be pissed off enough by now.

service was excellent. value for money, you don't get much better. for R100 you get permits for the day, qualified paramedics in a 4x4 who feed you powerade, water, bananas and junglebars, the best of sabie's singletrack, people to show you the way, AND great company. you even get to ride in a bunch that suits your ability and speed. the routes were up on the website a long time before the preride. if you don't know what 2km of vertical ascent is like, go ride breedtsnek - it's about 4 times the climb from the shebeen back to the top. if you don't know what 80 kays feels like, go ride a 10-hour event and try to clock 80 kays in one day. the event pretty much conformed to the advertisement. except that the tracks was dry which made them much easier than the real ride would be. wow sabie's great when it's dry! the complaints were about the bunch being too slow. a few guys were ahead of the leader almost all the time. there were two groups; they chose to go with the slow bunch. option was there to join the fast guys, and drop back & wait for the slow guys if you saw they were too fast later in the day we caught the fast guys cos they were waiting for the backup van. again they didn't join the fast guys but chose to stay with us. i was wondering why they didn't join the fast guys - would it not have been more fun? and better training?

you did! pleased to meet you!

i always thought that mountain bikers were happy people .... whether it was the mountain biking that made them happy or happy people taking up mtb ... there may have been some hubbers in the slow group of the long ride on saturday - i heard some hub-talk when we waited in the pine-tree shade after one rider had a bad-ish fall. the climbs were too long, or too steep, or not steep enough; the singletrack was too technical, or too easy, or too rutted; the group were too slow, they stopped too often, they shouldn't have stopped for a swim. You were tired, you were cramping from all the waiting, you wanted a steak, it's hot, you're not used to being our all day; you just want this ride to end - i can't remember all the complaints - but if you're on the hub - between all the complaining i was wondering why you did not join the fast group? if you were that much faster then the slow group? you had 2 chances - in the morning when we split up, and later when we caught up with them cos they were waiting for the ambulance to fill up with water would it not have been easier to stay at home and just braai a steak?

leaving jozi around 1 ... but doubt we'll make it in time for the nightride. lights are packed anyway - you never know

you can go practice this weekend at the preride

there's a lot of guys on the wilddog forum that knows a lot - about touring, if not racing. you could go ask there? and while you there, check out this ride report - makes you want to buy a bike with an engine! http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/index.php?topic=58683.0

maybe you'll get those at the 24 hrs again?

oe oe hierdie rooie is MOOI!!!!

dear santa due to a few credit-card accidents on the CRC website, my wish-list is rather short .... but pleeeez could i get lots more leave for next year???? it's embarressing having to go into negative all the time

as jy kan, ry voor jy koop - die fiets sal jou kies

might be exercised induced asthma, if it is it's easily curable ... or the symptoms at least - and if it's not, you have to go rule out all other options - go see a doc

allow her. it's her choice, not yours.

jik is lots cheaper than milton, dilute small bit with water, leave in bottle/camelback for a day.

stop. i'll go if it's safe, but only after i've stopped, and if there's no cars coming from anywhere. if a car and a bike collide, no matter whose fault it was, the bike will come last.