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managed to stay in the k1 for 2 ks without falling out. had to judge a cook-off competition - which included 2 biltong potjies, lot of indian food, and the best steak i've tasted in a long time. a ride at teak place on singletrack. yeah, what a crappy weekend

please post a link to where we could find details of how to donate? vasbyt with that chemo, don't give up .... it's a really strong person who can help other people reach their dreams while fighting cancer themselves

to *work* ! that's just wrong - at least yo cycled there ... didn't cycle on saturday - but thie morning's was great! thx zoo cookie!!

i guess everyone's just making their plans carefully - don't want to submit something with typo's otherwise you're not gonna pick them! now if you'd pick *me* as your representative, i'd load my bike with panniers and start from capetown, let's say in august when that wind finally died down. would possibly make for pretty flowers as well.cycle up the west coast. meet up with hagar and let him show me all the pretty singletrack there. possibly detour to aurora cos i heard there's a pretty mountain. leave the panniers at the B&B and go play on the singletrack there. load panniers up again and cycle up past elandsbay, lamberts bay, doringbay, strandfontein up toe that river - papendorp? maybe there's a hubber in that area who want to cycle with for a day or 2, or show me all the best singeltracks. then head inland to vredendal, and up to calvinia. then down over botterkloof pass, wuppertal, cederberg. possibly leave the panniers at the campsite and go play a bit. possibly for more than 1 day. pick them up again, and continue to ceres. then back to capetown. or maybe - while i'm sponsored and would have no leave restrictions - continue to george. meeting up with hubbers along the way. pass robertson and montagu, possibly staying over in montagu and play on the rocks before continuing north. or any direction really. so, could i go tell my boss i won't be in the office for a year?

haha it does keep me up - and there's very few people on the hub at 1 in the morning there was no 'down' after joberg2c or even after 3 weeks of absolutely stunning (and sometimes hard) mountain biking in the himalayas - there probably also wasn't the 'balancing everything to get training in' that the article talked about (i should probably have trained more!) - it was maybe just too much in too short a time - swazi xtreme (pro lite) one weekend, and transbaviaans the very next weekend with no time inbetween to catch up on missing sleep - but ride2rhodes was harder - and more enjoyable - and didn't get it after that? LOL at never done it all - you've pretty much covered a good bit of what's out there?

anyone ever experienced post-race depression? and how long does it last?

groenkloof & fountains are 2 different places. one day groenkloof, one day van gaalens, one day teak place, one day northern ... oh no you're only here for 3 days ...

get lights? or go to work early and negotiate leaving earlier? or flex the programme to your needs - earlier this year when i trained for something i cycled a long detour to work, same detour back - tht way i was able to put in 60 kays of good mtb in a day - not every day, of course, but once or twice when needed

as long as you left him in your dust, he can call yu whatever he likes

i've never had a women's specific bike - get the one she's comfortable on.

don't listen to him! she's most welcome to ride with me (gauteng area, if your from here) i won't tell her what to do, have a few buddies who i invite to 'newbie'-rides cos they can quickly see what the noob's doing wrong, and for some of other reason they don't mind listening to him as for the bike - set a budget, then take her to a bikeshop and let her choose the bike she likes most - she's gonna end up riding it. silverback's good value for money - can't remember what model i looked at, though. don't force her to get cleats (unless she wants to) - but go for bike that's got disk brakes - that's the most expensive single part to upgrade (cos often you have to upgrade the wheels too) and get her tubeless, it's gonna be more enjoyable if she doens't have to deal with flats. let me know when she's got a bike and when she need riding buddies!

sure - but i might prefer to tour it rather - more time to emjoy the history? what do you ride it with - a roadie bike would be uncomforatble (for me anyway, but possibly cos i never ride it)

eish this is crazy! slobes y ou doing freedom challenge next, to train for the 2015 one?

i bought a hex after i broke the previous one my requirements include a way to fit a light - so that's why i went for the hex in the end - it fits beautifully - even though it looks a bit like those soldier ants from it's a bug's life if you buy from crc, see if you can fit the helmet somewhere in a local shop (i bought mine at epic cycles in centurion) - even if it's perfect for one head shape (or height of ears, or size of sunglasses) it might not work for the next person

haha slowbes i agree totally - the drivetrain is the only thing that's gonna break if i don't look after it - and after what i've paid for the last shock servive (stancheon replacement, effectively a new shock) i keep those clean as well. i'v never mr minned my bike - didn't even know it's possible - i'd rather ride my bike

how long does this take you, mecnic? and how often do you do it? i just clean the drivetrain and the shiny bits of the shocks (the parts that compresses) i do this after any dirty ride - which they all tend to.

on that note - i have one of those coloured clusters - but it's so dusty you can't see the colours - hoe do you get through the spokes to behind the cluster to get the dust of there???

this is not new - and i'm not talking about the fact that the blog was written a few months ago it's not original - there was a link posted on here to another blog where the guy referred to cyclists as facists ... riding their bikes in traffic and cutting his landrover off, and how fat they are in their lycra, and how they smell when they arrive in the office after a day's commuting - his tone and vocabulary was much the same than this one - can't find the link now, maybe the hub's super-searchers will find the link?

but some bikes are more fun

you right slavie - no such bike as a bad bike. hell i'd even ride on tar if there's really no more singletrack left anywhere. I loved every bike i've owned so far. i absolutely loved the trance when i test-rode it first. i wasn't in the market for a dual-sus - rode a friends, and it didn't feel any different from mine. rode the trance and wow, the bike chose me there & then. i've ridden some other to compare, but it was love at first sight with the trance. afterwards i realised it was possibly the geometry and the frontshock (and setup thereof) rather then the fact that it was ds that sold it. BUT i took the hardtail to the himalayas for different reasons - and fell in love with it all over again. any bike is a good bike

tumbles WHAT is that - it's SO PRETTY!!!!!!

much more difficult for a tandem to endo

what does she spend on shoes? or hair - do you have any idea what a colour & cut cost? and it's not once-off, it's a monthly expense. cycling is waaaaaay cheaper.

ooooh she's gonna LOVE it. when you taking her out - and where to?

haha that's wht i was thinking about the split paddle - i still have the thingy to tighten the 2 parts or get them loose if they're too tight - and the bag