The Ouzo

Only ever saw his name in print and on this forum. Seemed like a solid man with a wealth of experience and knowledge, he had my respect. A sad loss to Cycling in SA.

oh no. RIP Tim.

are they going to ask the french people to stop pooping for a few days ?

I can never get mine to seat with my floor pump, always have to go to the garage. Pretty sure its the wheel tyre combination. The other problem I have is that as soon as I let all the air out (like when I need to topup with sealant) the bead pulls away from the rim, so even topping up sealant requires a trip to the garage.

I would love to challenge you with my rim/tyre combination

yeah, winter on the highveld, everything is bone dry at the moment and veld fires are abundant. With the wind yesterday, I would not be surprised if it was a controlled fire that got out of hand, or even a fire from adjacent property that blew over into the reserve.

I received a pic and a video clip of what is claimed to be a fire at SBR yesterday afternoon, does anyone know anything about it ?

I used Shoe Glue which I bought from Leroy Merlin. It seems to be working rather well so far.

I’m also using a luggage scale. You could easily fabricate a 2 hook system

Interesting. Only ever seen them lined up, but the concept sounds like it should work.

is it just the pic or is something weird happening with those rear cranks ? plus front and rear cranks dont seem to be aligned.

buy a new car, clearly this one is faulty

This is what is more impressive for me, in sport its often thought that after 30 you're to old to be at the top, let alone still break records

I'm going to have to catch a highlight or replay of the last 15 minutes of yesterday. The streaming service I was using decided to give up right when things were getting exciting. Landed up watching the time gaps on the app on my phone.

I have no dog in this fight, heck I dont even recognise most of the names being thrown about, but as a general comment. Would you, as a DH rider that has made the sacrifices and jumped through the hoops to qualify, be happy that someone that did not do any of that, gets a "free pass" just because there are slots available ? Surely the mere fact that that could happen, will then make the next batch of riders next time around decide to no be bothered with qualifying, because they can gather the funds to fund themselves and grab a free slot.

everything is blocked here, might have to hijack the boss' private wifi

And DSTV decides to not show todays stage on SS Maximo which is the channel I've been watching on at work as we dont have the variety channel. going to need to make a plan

True The problem is no1 (to little or to much) can have serious repercussions on 2,3 and 4

maybe because you are in KZN, they didnt have an issue with 1 battery for me (although maybe they changed couriers or something else changed)

yes thats the one i used too.

I thought you had jinxed it, as the days after this post saw the unit having zero battery life when turning it on in the morning. At first I thought I forgot to charge it. Tried again. Second ride, zero battery. Then I thought it was not charging properly, tried again, made sure it was 100% charged, turned it on this morning, zero battery. When this happens I tape a powerbank to the bars and ride with the unit plugged in. This morning whilst riding it decided to restart itself, but because it was dark out I did not notice. So only have half a ride recorded. But I monitored the unit after taking it off the bike this morning and found the problem, Auto Power Off is disabled. I dont know if it was a Garmin update that did this (wont be the first time the screw up a setting after an update), or if it was me. I know I was thinking about changing it, but remember deciding not to for this exact reason.

road looks a bit narrow, and watch out for the furniture

apparently naked running is running without a phone/watch or HR monitor....... I wish someone told me this an hour ago. ^^^^^ This is a joke, I dont run, if you see me running I'm either being chased or running away from something, either way please help me as I wont make it more than 100m

forgot to mention, the previous set was changed because of a cut that would not seal. I gave them to a guy at work that commutes around 60km a day (round trip), he put them on his bike around January or February , with a set of tubes and is over the moon with these tyres.

previous sets got in excess of 10 000km, last set was 12 000, if I recall the set before that was around 11 000