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DieselnDust

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  1. gravelbikes wil hold onto far less mud than MTB's will...
  2. ok cool so 3 week and good quality. Thanks for being the guinea pig on this
  3. Do you have these in stock or just posting the source? I think it’s the same crowd I found in Taiwan
  4. the modifications require removing the locating tabs under the hods which results in the hood rotating on the body which is not ideal. This is the only viable replacement i have found: https://www.taiwantrade.com/products/detail.html?productid=2729053 dfference between St-6800 and ST 9001 can be seen here:
  5. more and more and more crashes
  6. Your Pirelli Cinturato are probably a couple of years old? Pirelli has made several running changes to the tyre compounds and construction since they launched the Cinturato range and the production has moved from france to Taiwan and now finally in Italy. This has improved, puncture resistance, repairability, durability, grip, rolling resistance etc. In Short the Pirelli P-Zero and Cinturato range are the best with only Continental a real rival in terms of performance. The last changes with production to Italy plus compounds and change in local distributor has contributed to higher prices of the Pirelli range (and lets not forget the exchange rate volatility) I'm not sure sie of tyre and if you're looking for a purely road, all road or gravel tyre as the Cinturato range covers all three. Kenda Valkyrie could be a suitable drop in replacement but they do sometimes suffer from not running straight on the rim with side to side wobbles being an issue
  7. Tac Training App appears to be very sensitive to the bluetooth version your laptop or desktop is running as well as graphics and OS versions. Make sure you're upto date with drivers. this is especilly problematic with older machines now running Win11.
  8. look at racepace.pro https://www.racepace.pro/
  9. Hi These are discontinued as communicated to my LBS by Coolheat. SJS also does not have in stock anylonger
  10. St9001?
  11. You're right It has been on DSTV for a few years, just not always LIVE coverage. Some years they gave us a 2hr highlights in the evening, sometimes live and 30 min highlights.. RAI will always have it live.
  12. I don't know what they're doing this year but in previous years they'd not have the Giro live but later in the year they had TF and Vuelta live. The ladies tours are new feature so lets see how their overall broadcast schedule plays out. There is also FIFA World Cup in June into July which will have added to their costs so something else would have to give
  13. thanks for taking the time to pull together, Awesome!
  14. The Giro has not ever been consistently broadcast LIVE on DSTV There is a giro d'italia youtube channel that has been broadcasting some of the spring classics. It might be available on that stream via a VPN.
  15. Sorry can’t help, I solved the problem by ditching the Tacx app and going all in on Trainingpeaks with TPvirtual. #happinissis
  16. This is huge for France
  17. beautifully articulated, thank you. in RSA, increases in violent crime are more directly linked to unemployment. However, road accident stats are far less clear but with lack of knowledge or lack of necessary competence stemming from lack of training being more clear causals in RAF claims and payouts. Undocumented individuals pose a high risk to road safety from this perspective because they are unlikely to seek out the necessary training if they don't have the required residency documents. Its easier to obtain a fake docs and milk that for as long as necessary. Similar trends exist in other countries. Our trends are harder to determine because the data is poor. Societal corrective action has to start somewhere, typically pick a platform from which to start. In SA law enforcement in general will go a longway. Low hanging fruit is more roadblocks and taking unlicensed and or illegal drivers off the road, including unroadworthy vehicles. In South Africa a vulnerable road user is not just a cyclist or pedestrian, its also law abiding citizens who run the financial and healthy&safety gauntlett of sharing the road with illegal and incompetent drivers everyday. Once you demonstrate you have teeth and are willing to prosecute we may see positive outcomes. For now it will get much much worse before it gets better
  18. You're right, I have no experience of illegal immigration because I've always had to do it legally. Pity you decided to play the man but I expected you to project the mirror, thank you. I see you now. there's a place you can go to and go very quickly. We have a south africanism for this translation
  19. ah i see the use of strong language has been engaged e.g. "blatant generalized discrimination", "xenophobia"... Liberals never fail to rise to the occasion. Illegals are well,......illegal. I have no issues with residents. They're legal, just like a cyclist is a legal user of public roads. When laws are enforced on a holistic scale, society tends to be more law abiding. In the case of illegal immigration, enforcing immigration laws protects the rights of South Africans. Protects their infrastructure, revenue, it says "we care about our citizens", similarly enforcing road traffic laws, or property rights laws, immigration laws why bring up illegal immigrants? In the past few months I have had several near misses with e-hail drivers. I tend to catch up or deviate from my route to strike up a conversation with these. Seven of 10 are not from RSA, None had a drivers or any form of ID on them yet they are carting people about and driving badly. One, I am sure was making it up as he went along because the driving skill down to the gear change reeked of "I just taught myself to drive last night". In the past week my wife was involved in a MVA with a mini bus taxi driven by a "I don't have my drivers or ID with me" north of the border accent. Yes we're saddled with the inconvenience while this driver disappears. Oh and he was transporting school kids in his taxi while not having a drivers or ID and left the scene direction Claremont after providing a fake phone number. A colleague of mine runs a few e-hail vehicles as a side hustle. One of his vehicles disappeared along with the driver whose license and ID it turns out are fake....insurance covered him, although his premiums are now considerably higher. Speak with people who run legitimate taxi services and they can't compete with some e-hail operators because the drivers are willing to drive for less than a local. Now the locals are losing out and what does that mean? More aggression on the roads as they compete for fares against drivers willing to take less. That frustration boils over into the rest of society. Taxi's get away with murder (Literally) so why would Mrs Smith give a toss about running a red light, or cutting off a cyclist at the next left? Because she has to hold the moral high ground?? FT, she's going to do as she pleases because there's no enforcement and light consequences, even less if there's no witnesses So as we observe an influx of people not familiar with our laws or customs, yet immediately want to participate the informal economy with little upside to residents, then yes, its a problem that has to be tackled, especially if they're driving my kids or family around or if i have to share the road with them. But ya, I guess wanting law and order doesn't apply to illegal immigration in the mind of a liberal
  20. disagreement on their illegal status or what exactly ar ewe misaligned on. illegal is illegal. same as drunk driving
  21. That project held promise till the French government tender was found to be corrupt. It’s been quietly dropped globally. Governments don’t like to have their tax revenues disturbed or reduced. They talk a lot but do little if the right thing impacts that revenue.
  22. as always, it is the public sector that must lead and bare the brunt of the costs of unsafe roads through raised taxes and insurance costs. A system like Blue Dot is only effective if we have an effective DoT mandating compulsory tracker homologation and continued road worthy and emissions testing during the vehicles lifecycle. Removal of the tracker should be a criminal offence with loss of license to operate attached. this will also reduce adultery and the divorce rate
  23. well it affects good drivers as well. There's just so many k*k drivers out. we can start by sending all the illegals back where they came from. We won't miss them.
  24. no, that doesn't work anymore Its too premium. No one is that desperate to ride it anylonger
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