The Ouzo

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.

Had endless headaches back when I was in IT and and bandwidth was measured in Kb not Mb or Gb. Office lacky inserts hi res images into power point or word, resizes them only by dragging the image box in the app. Document lands up at 10mb, email system rejects it. Calls IT. Now you have to try and sit and explain to the office lacky that dragging the image box only changes the size it is viewed at, not the file size. Eish!

did you do an outright purchase or take a contract ?

This claim with ABSA was the last of a list of claims to them that have been unsuccessful, added to the list from the rest of the family made me decide to change HOC insurance. Got a quote from the same company that my home and household contents is insured with, worked out to around R100 per month cheaper for the same cover. So I started the process to cancel with ABSA, since ABSA takes 1 year premium upfront I wanted to use the refund to buy the new motor. Nope, we refund back to your bond account as that is where we debited from. Doesnt matter that I've got cheque and credit cards etc. with them. When asked how to get the funds out of bond the reply was I need to contact the bond department. Zero help.

correct, before they offer you anything for an item they need to know its market value, if they dont know the market value themselves they will have a contact that will give them the market value. They dont just thumbsuck a price for an item

One of my customer apparently did/does own one as part of his collection, last I dealt with him he was selling his collection to retire down at the coast. Very un-assuming guy, walks in here in shorts and slops all the time, really nice guy to deal with too.

There is a point of diminishing returns when it comes to tyre width on the road. The biggest reasons we are seeing wider tyres on road bikes now boils down to comfort and not handling. Wider bars on MTB are there for stability over rough terrain, they help you nothing over the smooth terrain. In the scenario in the video being on a MTB was probably more of a risk as the wider bar offer a greater chance of getting knocked by the car

what will happen to them at the cop shop though, my guess is that they will disappear.

No problem. On the road the width of the tyres is not going to do much for stability. I think it boils down to what you have experience on, for me my Road bike is way more stable on the road than my MTB.

I'm not fighting with you dude, just stating how your posts have come across. On the MTB thing, of course my road bike wont do so well offroad, thats not what it is designed for , big difference between riding hard tar vs sand/rock etc., that why you need the wider higher volume tyres.

its roughly the same per month price if I renew with SmartDNS, but in order to get the NordDNS discount price I have to outlay for 24 months which currently is a little steep for my pocket.

Firstly let me state that I'm glad OP persisted and I hope the perps get charged. But I have some questions, OP comes across as having a personal vendetta against these perps, makes me wonder. Then the statement about being more stable on a MTB than a road bike, I personally dont see how that is true. Not looking to fight, just questions in my head.

Eish, will keep an eye out for BF deals, price seems a bit out of my budget right now.

Recommend a DNS / VPN service please. I've been using SmartDNS for a while now, i dont know if its good or bad, cant really say. But got an email earlier that my subscription has now expired, so instead of just hitting the subscribe button I though I'd check if there was anything better / cheaper / ??? out there.

I know where there is a black Shelby GT 500e for sale in jhb. Looked pretty darn neat when I was drooling over it.

my first recollection on needing assistance, back in the 90's, dad and I did our first 70km ride, I was on my Alpina feeling all pro like. About 10km from home picked up a rear puncture. i had a tube, I had a pump, but I did not have spoons with me to take the tyre off (yes I did not know about tyre levers back then). Dad had to ride home and fetch a car to come get me.

Dracula Bed, only ever used during the day, mint condition.