The Ouzo

thanks.

This i what concerns me. Should I be using my old bike rather ?

I dont think you need to run it all the time, even with an undersized filter. Around 6 hours a day should be fine. And if you have the bubble cover on most of the time then the pool is not getting dirty, so you are really just circulating the pool to pass the water through the filter. With the new pool I put a vinyl cover on, I run the pump alot less and the pool water stays perfect, I only increased the runtime a little now in summer so that the sola heating can do its thing. A word of warning when you do upgrade pump / filter, dont do pump first then filter, your will blow the filter. Do them both together or do filter first then pump. I learnt the hard way.

I have paid for the PC1110 that our fellow hubber has offered, I'm not in a hurry to collect, but since he stays not far from me we will make a time to hook up and I'll get it from him. Interestingly the KMC chain was super quiet last night on the commute home.

I dont watch that much TV (because I sell cars and dont get to spend much leisure time at home )

The Art of driving in the rain. Enough motorsport to not class it as a chick flic, but dont watch it in a dusty environment, i found dust in my eye a number of times through the movie. Holidate Chic flic with enough comedy to keep you watching.

missed it when it was originally shown, so the wife and I have started watching Californication

we used to do similar to our boat engines to protect them a little more from the salt water.

Not sure which dealerships you're dealing with, but no, car dealerships do not have access to the database. I wish we did. But yes, for the cops its should a 30 second call to HQ to get the details, they're just not interested/over worked

maybe it is possible, but I dont know, but surely it should be simple to build in a tool on the phone app for the GPS to enable you to find the thing should it fall off the bike.

I dont see sponge working as well as sand or glass

Check your battery levels on your lights, and make sure they are on. I've been a little lax with checking the battery levels on the lights now that its lighter when I ride and they are thus only on flashing mode. Also been lazy checking that the rear lights switches on when I turn the front light on. On the commute this morning I was noticing cars were a little closer than normal, at the next traffic light I checked and the rear light was off. Battery flat. Its currently on charge for the commute home.

Nope, Afrikaans guy

its on the road bike. Hardly ever do adverse conditions either, and when I do its cleaned and lubed before the next ride. Current chain has done 4500km under my steam and about 200-300km under the previous owners steam, so call it 5000km.

I'm trying to drop below the 80kg mark. Was close on saturdays weigh in with the scale ever so slightly hovering a ball hair under the 80kg mark, but not convincing enough to be called under 80kg just yet.

a fellow hubber has offered me a PC1110, before I buy it from him I jsut want to confirm my quick research. Apparently the Sram chains dont play nice with Shimano cassettes when you have 11 spd and more. How true is this ? apparenly you get gears skipping and all sorts of nonsense

Current chain on my bike appears to be a KMC chain, its quickly heading to needing replacement according to my chain check tool. I've read a few threads on the BB saying they are noisier than the equivalent Shimano chain, I've definitely noticed that its noisy but just put it down to the 11 spd drive train that I'm not used to.. I need to clean and lube every 200-300km otherwise it gets annoying. So do I replace with another KMC, or spend the extra and get a Shimano ? or, other alternative ?

Last ride I did was Saturday morning. Last 15km I passed a local riding group who then proceeded to catch me again when we turned directly into the wind. I decided to ride with them for a while to get some shelter and it reminded me again why I dont join these groups. Atlas road has a shoulder almost the width of a proper lane, but the guys were taking up this and most of the actual lane.

you've bumped up you mileage rather nicely last week. Looks like I'll be taking this week off if the weather report is to be believed.

were getting that rain from Sunday into next week. Today was technically month end, we usually work late on month end, so came in by car today.

sheesh I know you like you ew iPhone, but thats a bit much isnt it ?

Stay alert, think ahead, always expect the motorised vehicle to do something stupid. Heading along briskly at around 45-50km/h last night I'm approaching an intersection, light is green for me, the cars have just crossed over and there is a Hyundai H100 stopped, facing the opposite direct and indicating to turn across my path. I'm 100-150m away from the intersection, I'm looking straight at him. Surely he sees me with 1000 lumens strobing away upfront. My hands on the hoods, my fingers move over the brake levers, I'm still staring at him. 100m 80m 50m Then he moves, at almost exactly the same time my fingers curl around the levers and start squeezing. I'm expecting him to wake up, see me and hesitate. He doesnt. I keep squeezing, shifting my weight back on the bike. The 28mm wide Pirelli's squirming for grip, not yet skidding, but any little ripple in the tar making them leave a small skid mark. 30m 20m He is now broadside across my path. He looks at me, hoots, waves his apologies and accelerates away. My fingers release the levers, the right hand starts flipping the right lever to select and easier gear and I'm on my way again. I live to ride another day.

might explain why I get irritated by the smallest of sounds that nobody else is even bothered with

My media player keeps crashing when trying to play the last 3 episodes. Not bad light hearted entertainment once you get over the southern accents. It helps that it has decent looking ladies for you to look at and decent looking guys for the wife to look at. Would have been cool if Burt Reynolds appeared more often though

ABSA always reminds me of a government/municipal office when I walk in. Queues separated by rope, tellers behind glass windows. I have been with ABSA for as long as I can remember, so it was all I knew. Then many years back when we decided that the wife needs some sort of credit history incase something happens to me, we walked into a few of the other banks and I was totally amazed at the setups. They were nothing like the "stadsraad" kind of setup i was used to.