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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.

Read it again. I edited with more context

Have since the start of 12 speed put the GX12 Speed chain on my XO 11 speed system and never seen that after thousands of KM and multiple casettes and chains Would love to see you fit a chain tool in there showing that its not past the 1.0 mark as this might just be a chain far over the limit with little to no context as to how it was riden. My second theory here is that after a link breaks it makes a noise ... so you having 10 broken links never hearing anything points me in the direction you dont look after your stuff or do regular maintenance as you claim as a clean chain runs a lot better than one with 10 broken links and on any cleaning you would have picked up a crack imediately. Your assertion that all 10 cracked at the same time while you broke the chain at the same time is improbabaly and 1 in 1 billion considering you didnt hear anything or see anything during impecable cleaning after every ride as you claim A chain with a broken link will grind and click going though the deraleur and cassette and shifting performance would be horrible yet none of that happening is 50 red flags to me on your claim Going to my previous statement how do you expect things to last if you never maintain them. That unfortunately comes down to negligence and not a faulty chain my 2c Edit - Not saying the plates cant crack but in your situation with the extent of it and your claim I am leaning towards negligence

Are you paying 15% more for the item to move though customs? Be it duties, vat, tax or your 40k post count to just post anything you possibly can to have a say? ... Yes Duties in my mind is the complete process of item release. Sorry I didnt spell it out but the principle of the post was not to be exact with every possible regulation to calculate it to the cent but to give a overall feel for the price agains the current competition and pricepoint. To be fair my post and your reply is moot as we will need to see what the local market prices it at so for all intentional purposes you are just pushing your post count and I am just thinking out load on a forum with no relevance to anything other than that. So maybe lets just move on

I think I just need to rephrase. Import duties+Vat is 15% 15% is comprised in this regard as Vat and not duties. On single imports you can get away the value being a lot less than ATV but on containers you can't as the value needs to be disclosed hence the 15% Duties+Vat (In parts case just Vat) Long and short we the consumer are going to get screwed. The end

We'll see when it drops here... Also Importers dont buy single items like us with no duties listed as a spare part. They buy in bulk with distribution in mind. Customs works a little diffirent when you buy as Joe Soap some single chain vs Business buying containers full. Customs have 2 elements as well Duties and Vat. In a case where distribution is concerned the container cant say "Birthday gift" like the chain you buy from CRC and not pay either

Shimano Deore FC-M6100 crankset $94.99 Shimano Deore M6100 12-speed 10-51 cassette $91.99 Shimano Deore CN-M6100 12-speed chain $23.99 Shimano Deore RD-M6100-SGS rear derailleur $54.99 Shimano Deore FC-M6100 shifter $31.99 Full Setup = $297.95 - R5512 odd @ 18.5 exchange rate No Crank = $202.96 - R3755 odd @ 18.5 exchange rate Please note this is the distribution price and most likely NOT the price in store as there will still be import duties and markup from your local store So with a 15% import duty and a 20% markup (If you have a decent local store) Full Setup = +- R7606 Exc Vat --- R8747 Inc Vat No Crank = +- R5181 Exc Vat --- R5959 Inc Vat Chainring not included extra on Full Setup R700 odd Microspline not included at a extra R2000 Looking at a 8.7k - 12k to go 12 Speed Deore thats if you can do it all yourself and dont need a LBS to do it on your behalf as you would need to tention/feed the Jigwire, fit microspline, fit casette etc etc. SRAM GX Eagle with Crank and Chainring on RRP comes in at R9000 https://www.cwcycles.co.za/product/sram-gx-eagle-dub-groupset-1x12 We will have to wait and see the local pricing BUT I can already see it being more expensive than a full GX setup by a long shot

100%. In my mind I will never go Deore anyways as the XO1 on 11 speed I have is in another league. For a new person as a entry it might be great and world bending but when you comparing best in class on both brands the entry criteria for me just wont match up. I have had a LOT of issues on XTR 11 speed so personal experience for me was bad even on Shimano's best (Others might have experienced it diffirent) Replaced a chain needed new Deraleur wheels as it didnt hold onto the chain, Indexing going out at random and jigwire stretching needing readjustment is just to name a few. On my XO1 I have not had any of those or any other. I get on, i get pushing and it works with no fail. Oh Buffelsdrift once on the Rocks to crocks my Crankarm became loose but thats not a fail on their part. I just didnt tighten it to spec when I did the service the previous day. All in all to me when it comes to the high end components SRAM is solid. XTR just gave me endless issues. When looking at mid to lower end I would probably say go for Shimano but then again I dont buy in that range and remember GX was the 1st budget 12 speed and was praised for it and now that there are alternatives years later it magicly became bad. SX and NX should never have been made but neither should Tourney and Altus

Forgot to add. Microsprine is another R2000 on top of everything https://www.evobikes.co.za/dt-swiss-240-350-shimano-xtr-12-speed-micro-spline-rotor-kit.html

I see Shimano these days like the iPhone crowd. Their fanclub is always out in force about how fantastic it is but in actual facts its just like the rest with new marketing campaine and a fancy new box. At the end of the day its still Shimano and 2 years behind the rest. SRAM is more the allrounder as their top line XX1, XO1, XO sets dwarf what Shimano has on all fronts and then they open up the market for everyone with their plastic range on SX and XN... Like Android does. In comparison a 12 speed is just a 12 speed and if you cant get up that hill with the 11, 10, 9 or even 8 speed you have... Train harder, tell your legs to shut up and push though. I bet when its actually released to the public and they start riding with it there will be a host of complaints like with any other budget range. Isolated testing is very BIAS depending on how hard the sponsor pushes the "fancy" and currently only 10 ppl realisticly have tested it and gave their sponsored opinions EXACTLY the same that happened when the NX came out. Sponsor reviews cant be trusted.

From looking at the current price point the cassette would be ($ converted with NO import markup) around the 2k mark... For that price I will stick to my XO1 1x11 speed as the replacement parts cost the same. Its a lot cheaper to have 2x chainrings and swap them based on the race type you are doing than to go 12 speed and has been working well for me so will stick with 1x11 as there is nothing wrong with it