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First ride after getting my new bike https://www.instagram.com/p/B7w_CVtFT8d

Interesting results indeed! In the 103 members who voted, only 1 (less than 1%) rides an XS bike! Large bikes seem to be the most used, and in that spirit I'll just get myself a Large 29" for my next bike and spare myself the selling blues in the future I''ll probably be able to move the Trance for 18K as well. Not the end of the world. Like I said, I don't really have a choice. It needs to be gone asap or it will end up in storage for the foreseeable future

Personally, I actually prefer some nice fat 650B's over 29s. The 29s just feel dog slow in the corners. The 650B is nice and nippy like my old 26" used to feel. But let's not start THAT debate again :D As for the size, I guess it sucks being on either side of the size spectrum, with short people only benefiting from the fact that hardly anything can ever be too small for them, whereas that's an issue us tall manne face every day, especially with the likes of bicycles, bikes and cars. I love superbikes but look like a circus bear on all of them

You and I are in the same boat then. I'm 196cm so I was afraid to go for a Large, but considering the present predicament, one thing is for sure: I won't buy a new bike again. It's all classifieds from here

I had considered that price might be a factor, but it's currently listed for R19k and retails for R32k, so I thought that's a pretty decent price? I would certainly have jumped at the opportunity if such a deal came a long back when I was looking for a bike last year. I've seen 2015 Trances sell for more. That being said, the XL market is pretty niche and the likelihood is that I'll have to push that price to the point where it's almost too good not to take. I have to be out of country in the next two weeks, so things are going to get interesting

Hi! I've had my XL 2018 Trance in the classifieds (in and out of BikeHub) for a good couple of months already with very few nibbles and zero bites, which has made me wonder: Am I the only one riding an XL bike? I can't have a poll on height as well as bike size, but I'd be interested to get an idea of what size bike people ride for their height? Are tall people opting for Large bikes instead of Extra Large ones for the sake of future sell-ability? Let me know!

Headsup, we have another player in the game. My ad was picked up by someone asking me to mail them back at carlosjanet016@gmail.com. A quick Google confirms that this person never actually collects the item, but "pays" you the full amount and then asks that you pay the shipping company. Their transaction is reversed and you basically give them whatever money was paid to the false shipping company. "i will like to inform you that am buying the item for my Family in Thornton Heath,so i will be the one responsible for the pickup and delivery stuff.kindly get back to me with your full name and address so that i can forward it to the pick up agent to calculate the pick up fees for I have forwarded the address to the shipping company so they can calculate the pickup and delivery cost for me to make the payment. Im sure they will contact you soon. I would like you to know that the payment will be made via PayPal because is fast and secured to send and receive money online,All you have to send me is your PayPal email address so I can make the payment immediately. Hope to hear back from you asap."

Just got a response to my Gumtree ad from none other than our favourite Barry Smith. Truecalled also identified him as "Scam Oil Rig Money". I told him a few of my favourite Capetonian words before reporting and blocking him on WhatsApp. What a chop!

I don't think they meant THAT type of hard?

+1 for Aliexpress I have ordered a whole bunch of carbon bicycle parts from them, quality was lekker, no problems at all. I've been ordering from Aliexpress for yeeeeeaaaaars now. Yes sometimes a package goes missing, but I'd say one tiny item is lost for every 100 that arrives. Pretty good odds for the price you pay imo, and their after sales service is usually pretty good if you take the time to complain. The refund you on a whim. Customer satisfaction is a pretty big deal for them. That being said, don't be dof and expect a real RaceFace bar to arrive. Expect LaceFace. 80% of the quality, 20% of the price, but you won't look as cool in front of your buds when you rock up with it.

...and that gap is growing exponentially despite what is (or is not) being done in order to remedy the issue, most often not because of people's inability to work for something, but because of their unwillingness to do so. The average person living in poverty in SA wants a handout, not a job. I feel that a lot of the anger we observe every day is not the result of not having access to things, but rather not having access to free things. So the result is that if people don't give their valuables away, they are relieved of it by force, often at the cost of their safety, sometimes at the cost of their lives.

Have a look at the correction I made to the post I replied to, suggesting that it's a country problem and not world problem. I agree that in this country, there's no getting away from it. It's everywhere, perhaps not always in the same concentration but it's a mentality that breeds in an environment without consequence such as the one we call home.

It's not like this everywhere, believe me. There are places where the police are effective and crime is minimal, petty stuff. Stolen handbag or phone, minimal violence, non-life threatening.

I bought a secondhand roof- and bike rack and Thule still offered to fit it for me. As far as I understand moving the plug should be a pretty straightforward job, but if you are not the spanner wielding kind and would feel better if the agents did it properly, I don't see a problem with that. EDIT: It's worth noting that those bolts are tightened by Nordic blacksmiths whose names are all consonants. So unless you have a socket set with a lekker long bar, they probably won't lefty-loosey.

Heyooo, braai at Slowbee's place!