The Ouzo

sent you a PM

agreed, but with anything in life, its only as good as the human on the other side.

should have contacted me mate

do staff work for free ? do buildings cost nothing to run ? is R&D free? quoting material costs is being disingenuous, there are many other costs involved. Are the companies making a tidy profit ? I'm pretty sure they are, but I dont think its as big a profit as everyone thinks.

do you know how common Robert's scenario is ? It happens in many industries. In the motor trade you often get people wanted to "test drive" a car over an evening or weekend, only to find out they just needed it for an event, or to move house etc. Back in my childhood we had family friends that would buy clothing from a shop, leave the label on, atttend a wedding/part and then return the item.

a blury line defined by more blury lines

a bottle of wine @ R200 is deemed rubbish, sell that same bottle for R2000 rand and all of a sudden its a brilliant wine and desirability increases.

got notification from buffalo to pay duties on my order. Doesnt tell me which item has attracted the duties though. R65 duties on a R300 order.

have you had any tests done at all yet ? I'm just going on what my doc told me when I had my check up last year, Testosterone levels were low. Google told me many of your symptoms were the same for low testosterone. I've been having injections once a month as per docs recomendations, I wont say there was a drastic change, but certainly am aware of an improvement.

exactly the kind of silly little things I I dont mind buying from them, that I was referring to in a previous post.

Some advise please. With electricity prices going up and the frequency of outages in my area I'm strongly considering solar and gas geyser to be as much off grid as possible. The thing is, I'll need to do one of the rent to own options as the bank wont approve finance for me. What I want to know is, will it be cheaper month to month renting solar vs paying eskom. Currently using around 25 kwh per day Geyser is around 12 of those, so gas will right away drop that. Our showering/bathing times means either running geyser from batteries or going gas, so I'm leaning to gas even though it will be more costly in the long run than solar. Big power items like pool and dishwasher are easy to schedule to run once batteries are full, so no problem there. I do have a bunch of lights on the outside wall that run all night, but all are LED so power draw wont be to bad. A quick google tells me I can get a rent to own option that will power everything but the geyser for around 50% of my monthly eskom bill. Obviously cloudy/rainy days or weeks will change the balance, that will need to be factored in. Before I go down this route I just want to hear from those with experience on what pitfalls to look out for, anything I'm over looking etc.

I dont mind using this type of online store (same as wish etc.) for stupid little things where I'm not concerned about quality or brand, but the moment I want a branded or semi decent quality item I will source locally where I'd hope I'd have some recourse if its a fake item or the quality is not what it should be. Eidt. I dont know why all of a sudden there is a big hoo haa over Temu when the likes of Wish and aliExpress have been around for ages, and by the looks of things they sell the same stuff. Although Temu made it way to easy to part with my money and the Buffalo shipping for free left me feeling at least somewhat comforted that I will get my goods.

I'm convinced Tetris helps in day to day life like packing dishwashers and cupboards. If I look how my wife and kids who've never played tetris stack things it makes sense to me.

Based on this thread I’ve ordered some stuff off Temu. I actually can’t remember all the stuff I ordered (will have to check my account), but they had a minimum R300 order, so I started off with some screw in bar ends, I know of threw in a box of nitril gloves, some little thingies to hold shifter cables and I’m not sure what else. garuanteed delivery in 10 days or you get some little peace offering. let’s wait and see.

My youngest, now 8 going on 18 has been expressing interest in doing races with me, yesterday my facebook feed popped up with a fun ride at Midstream Estates. A nice short 8km, a distance she has done before. Asked her last night if she wanted to do it and she's very excited. So I entered us in.

and if you dont want to stick this on your bike, dischem (and I'm sure many sports stores) sell a reflective band in packs of 2 that you can put on ankles or wrists or both, when I bought from dischem about 2 years ago they were R10, so should not break the bank.

The pulse strobe at the rear is fine, I think is more visible/recognisable in pitch darkness, strobe in front is a no no.

the other gripe is rear lights that are hardly noticeable (im sure it was mentioned in this thread, its been a while since I read through it). The converse on group rides is rear lights that blind you.

oooh I like that.

I wonder if any of the other stuff he sells is stolen the way he goes into detail on the bike makes it look pretty legit

I think the same thing can be said for Leroy and I guess many other stores/brands. My parent often shop at Leroy in Greece, whilst most of the prodcuts are the same, the shopping experience is worlds apart. Boils down to what I often say, your company/brand is only as good as the person your customer is interacting with.

but they havent shaken buildesr up in jhb. There was an initial shake because they were new, but they've turned into just a green branded BW. I often see the same cars going between the 2 stores. I think the problem DC will have in SA with cycling goods (and possibly other sports too) is that the perception of them being a makro or Mr Price Sports style store, i.e. mass consumer type of product and not good enough for the golfer turned cyclist type who think they need the best.

x1000 on the urinal. such a simple solution that will resolve alot of the queueing issues

If its a road event, or an event that will impact the publics coming and going, make sure the areas that are impacted are communicated to. Well in advance, and through different channels.

measure the length against the chain you took off. I'll wait for the experts to chime in, but based purely on the first pic, I'd say the chain is to long. B.T.W. I'm sitting at just over 11 000km on my KMC 11spd chain and its still not showing signs of wear according to my chain checker tool.