The Ouzo

thats why its called a cuntry

not perceived, law enforcement is mostly lacking, and when the guys are caught most times they get away with it with a little cooldrink money. Safety wise, well we know south africans, they are never to drunk to drive, plus accidents only happen to other people.

our LBS has a few for their coffee shop. 2 of them are welded up units, but they are light enough for the barista to get in and out of the shop by himself. But they also have 2 more that they bring out for busy days, these are assembled once they've been brought out. LBS coffee shop sacrifices 2 parking bays for this, thats enough to get 4 of these stands setup (2 per bay). Racked roughly with a mix of MTB and road bikes, I would estimate 32 bikes across the 4 stands.

2 things 1) high speed chase and what looks like a Toyota corolla do not go together. Drunk lighty must have been driving really crap to have been caught by a cop in a corolla 2) we have a very serious problem with alcohol abuse in this country. And its openly bragged about and displayed in most social circles. Not sure what the solution is, but whatever it is we're not doing it.

based on a fellow hubbers feedback I placed an order for 2 ykyw bibs, will provide feedback once they arrive and I use them a few times

this thread has become to long to sift through it, so I'm asking the question again. Which bibs are decent quality for road ? Much to my horror, I was informed by the wife when I got home this morning that my Ciovita bibs have become transparent. Hopefully I did not emotionally scar to many people with it.

we know why you're watching it 🤫

because some people have trained their rear ends off to be able to just finish the 97km, let alone do it in a great time, and then someone come along and pulls their bike out a week before the event to charge the battery and does it with out a sweat. are we going to see electronis exo skeletons in marathon races next ? like I said, I see both sides, but I'm still more anti e-bike

those are the official e-bikes, what about the unofficial ones that started other groups ? I can see both sides of the argument. There was a gent with 1 leg racing in A batch on a normal bike, and doing very well, if he doesnt need an e-bike then why do others ? and If it gets more people riding and keeps the event going for longer then great, let people ride them.

look, with the dwindling entries into the event its probably not a bad thing to let them enter, keeps the numbers up.

part of my cycling group is a guy who rides an e-bike for medical reasons, he did not start with us as there was apparently an e-bike start batch, even he was saying how he did not like the fact that these unrestricted e-bikes with spare batteries were passing him with ease whilst he put the work in.

I blame the organisers for this, CTCT does a better job with holding areas for waiting cyclists (not perfect though). But its always going to be like this with this many riders not wanting to miss their batch as well as trying to start at the front of their batch so they want to be first in.

I hear you, but you can generally tell if a rider is conscious of being in the way and just can’t move over, vs those that don’t care/dont know any better. I try not to shout at anyone to keep left, it’s usually just quicker to simply just pass, I did ask one youngster who was pushing his bike to move to the side, but hopefully how and what I said came out politely as my intention was to guide rather than scold.

we needed a license to ride 50cc motor bikes as scholars, so I would imagine this is treading on some grey area where its classified as a bicycle just because it has pedals attached to a crank.

yeah, how about making it safer, both from cars and crime , first. Aint no way people are going to want to ride in JHB currently unless its closed roads. B.T.W. speaking of crime, did anyone gets harassed like previous years in the car parks ? Seemed to me that things were kept under control this year w.r.t. unwanted guests.