DieselnDust

thats him

Not sure who the best swimmer is but I’d look to that skill basis the weather they had today

checkmate

shortened race due to adverse weather. Matt took it Pogi style e

Without adding any value

Yip , as I said can be built for under R60k off Temu😂

I bet he thought he lived that one down 😂

Those wolf tooth pedals are sweet

True

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are you looking at specific bikes in the classifieds or is this a general bike query? If specific bikes can you share the links for review. How 2nd hand bikes have been treat and modified weighs heavily on the output called advice

ah the Krakadouw! yes that was a superb event. I recall a long weekend adventure with Dial up Dick and Tannie Phillipa at the Krakadouw. Mitze puts on a proper event. Long may she continue

Yes granted these are all viable mechanisms for funding lifestyle. Only the wealthy in SA can afford these mechanisms. In other markets high bicycles are still funded out of 1-3 months disposable income by the middle class. innRSA we use bonds and investment accounts to fund our toys and lifestyles because the rate of return is good. Toy pricing is aware of these mechanisms and this is therefore factored in. i wouldn’t use opportunity cost on a rapidly depreciating liability like a bicycle but yet here we are which is unfortunate as this spiral has resulted in cycling becoming a sport for high LSM groups only. The more elite it becomes the more the more the joining costs will spiral upward. Planned obsolescence is another factor. A bicycle models lifecycle used to be 4years, it’s now down to 2 years before a major change is introduced. This makes depreciation greater , further reducing the sensibility of servicing the purchase with debt. Banks may make it look good but the risk is priced in elsewhere like bank changes to the poor. A nation living off credit only serves to weaken its economy further and further

Yip, all Shimano calipers work with (almost) all their hydraulic brake levers across road and mountain.

I've never had a pair of Oakley last longer than about 18months without the coating coming off. I don't the bonding of the coating to the lens is very good at all

There were a few bikes with coaster brakes. Most of the MTBers back then worked for bicycle distributors or were quite well heeled, you know from Constanshaar. Matthew Kimble was the oke to beat on his Cannondale SUper Vee. The XC course was an extended version of the DH course. Basically the clib back up the hill with a drop down the other side and climb back up again A set of brake blocks per event was the order of the day, and often a pair of shoes too because the brakes often had no effect so the foot brake came in handy

Those were the days

could not have said it better.... We need "love" reactions and "Sticky" posts, this would hit criteria for both

if it was electronic it would work but with mechanical GRX = Road pull ratio

I suspect the pull ratios are different between the Ultegra mechanical (Road) and XT Mechanical (MTB)

Better to comply than be countersued

So that’s how the poms are riding such fancy bikes these days. Pre2012 they scoffed at any thing better than Sora as a needless waste of money

correct it’s not good for the economy to glance such high risk debt but it happens because the option is available. It serves to inflate prices or rather keep them buoyant instead of correcting the market. in the US there is less of these financial instruments being utilised

unfortunately many of these "New" are financed from the housing bond or HP agreement

Bra I reckon i can put one together for R60K off TEMU