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Ja i'll ride anything as long as its not a Scott or Spez. I'm not cool enough for that crowd

Exactly. Life's to short to spend it wasting time making a coffee that tastes marginally better if at all. Had some horrible tasting barista grade coffee way to many times (MY OPINION) Spez is soos Scott... Elke avg Joe het een en nie een van hulle groet jou op die pad nie. I'll ride a Makro special 24" as long as I get to ride. Does the 180k bike make you better than the 15k bike. Maybe in your own head to justify the spend but it Depends on your fitness, endurance and leg strength and no fancy or expensive bike gives you that for free. The bike is but a tool to get you from A to B and YES certain bikes are better suite to do specific things. It is. As per the tread title though its about Coffee machines and not who is the best barista though even though it can qualify as a sub class i presume and still relevant to the topic. MY OPINION is that I have had many coffees across vast parts of the country and have had horrible experiences as well as good ones. FOR ME my machine with my coffee bean of choice is consistently giving me the same enjoyment with minimal effort, time spent and cost efficiency very very VERY consistently. Can I get a coffee that tastes better. Sure. Can it taste great for some and not others. Sure. Am I open to sit down and pay R30 odd for a proper coffee. Sure

By reading the "thread" all I got was some opinions about some titanium bladed grinder with some expensive toaster to roast his own beans with single or double boilers to make the most exquisite aroma of coffee that tastes 99% the same as every other bean to cup machine on the market when properly setup that takes less than 1 min to make the same coffee. For 99.999999% of the population when putting a 1 hour effort barista coffee against a bean to cup machine of 1 min that has been setup correctly they wont be able to tell them apart. Price vs Value vs Time the bean to cup machine wins hands down every time ... Unless you are jobless and have all the time in the world

Fantastic. On what do you disagree or is that a secret?

DeLonghi Magnifica Pronto - Mine is officially going on 6 years old with a avg of 8 cups a day over the period. Best investment I ever made and the day it breaks I go buy a new one the next day as the value over the time just cannot be beat. If you want coffee then Bean to cup is the only way... There is no other considerations. I usually go for the Moca Java 1kg beans from Woolies for R189 per bag as its naturally sweet and I don't need to add sugar to it. I still add Milk though as I'm not a savage

Ok thanks. Will give Omnico a call as they are the official partner for Stages in SA

100% I just want my outside and inside to be semi comparable. This morning I had a 90w difference on a interval. Sent the fit files to Stages to let me know the best course of action. Where would one go to have it tested?

For the life of me I cant figure it out. My Stages Left Crank Arm power meter is quite a lot higher than my Wahoo CORE. I created a Zwift 125w 15 min Custom workout to just hold the resistance on 125w and while the trainer is on that I measure the Stages on my Garmin and there is around a 30-61w higher jumping between 160w and 186w Stages also dont have a smoothing there so its all over the place on that range As you can see this is the Zwift chart. The flat lines are when I use the CORE control the Resistance at 125w and measure the watts. The middle section I switch to the Stages measurement to control the CORE and then the last bit back to CORE measurement This is just the measures directly to my Garmin from the Stages directly with no other intervention Both have been calibrated many times with the results staying the same. So Wahoo keeps on suggesting you need to just connect your Kickr with the External Power meter yet on Android (Enable "Control with ANT+ Power Meter" option) is not available in the Wahoo app. Any Suggestions?

Titanium and Carbon composites will make it a lot lighter albeit push the price up a bit. This will also enhance the longevity of it by a lot. I like the idea of after a muddy ride out just take the pressure washer and be done with it without meticulously cleaning the derailleur and chain and having to lube up everything after drying etc. Yes this might also not be what the Pro's are riding but if F1 cars look nothing like the avg Joe's car why should bicycles be any different. Let the Pro's ride the F1 designed specifically for them, in 99% of the cases you wont be riding what they ride anyways so no need to ride the same F1

Sounds like a Strava feature

Hi All And thus 12 speed becomes obsolete I personally cant wait for this system to become easily available. Never have to fiddle with your gears again

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I go by the 1, 2, 4 rule (Some do 1,2,6) 1 Casette lasts 2 Chainrings and 4 chains. I swap the chains at 2000km marking them as 1,2,3,4 as they wear and on 4 go back to 1 to give it another 2000km life That way you get around 16000km out of the Casette and 4 chains as they wear uniformly as you keep on swapping the chians.

Your 1st post like this would have been very helpfull. I just checked 4 of my chains with 2000+ km on each between 0.75 and 1.0 stretch and not a single crack on them. Take it to your LBS but I doubt they will give you a new one under warranty due to the extensive cracking.

Those saying bad material just think about it quick. SRAM makes hundres of thousands of chains selling them to everyone as a consumable as they wear quick and gets replaced often If there were a defect of this magnitude there would be hundreds of claims of faulty chains as they dont switch material after every chain being made to a new batch of material.