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Cross-posting this article here, since i think we can attack the ‘problem’ from 2 different angles…

“…It aims to reposition walking and cycling as primary, safe, and sustainable modes of transport, promoting equity, accessibility, and environmental sustainability. Through strategic planning, the City can address the current gaps in infrastructure, integrate active mobility into urban design, and enhance collaboration across government bodies to achieve long-term, sustainable transport solutions….” Whew, such higher-grade waffle… Am ALL for it, but…..before you do ONE THING, show us you can fix the EXISTING Milnerton/Paarden Eiland/Woodstock link, BEFORE you ‘redesign the urban enviroment, blahh blah…..do ONE thing, PROPERLY, T-H-E-N we can ‘talk’ - you spent millions ona brilliant idea/cycling link, then effectively abandoned it to muggers and other gangsters. No Unicorns, please; FIRST fix the Donkey… Chris

Updates on SWB, please…!

Yesterday, nice trip around Cape Point, and then amazed at the amount of roadside standing water, AND the profusion of flowering plants, with the bare, burnt mountain as a backdrop; got to LOVE this peninsula!

Eloquently put, and I agree 100% your comment in Italics - my feeling exactly. Chris

At your weight - respectfully - and as a complete newbie/novice, i think you could CONSIDER a pedal-assist eBike… 1 . would be easier to STICK with getting some mild pedal-assist, especially say in 1st 12 months… 2. You can minimise assist as fitness improves, or as weight reduces - IF that is a goal of yours… 3. less chance of ‘chucking in the towel’ with combo of pedal assist AND your own power… 4. easier on the joints, especially starting out… 5. you CAN get a modest eBike for this price; i own one, etc. just some lateral thinking for you. good luck Chris

Mine is also full-suss 26’er, but that other, ‘special’ brand… 😆

I feel you are confusing PASSING, with OVERTAKING. Single file cyclist, i simply pass them, giving generous/sufficient gap. When cyclists riding 2 abreast, I would need to overtake, meaning crossing centre line. Happy to meet with you in -situ, and demonstrate this. Your statement “…there is no room for you to overtake a single file safely”:is simply wrong, I and seemingly thousands of others, having been doing it, carefully and considerately, for the last 14-odd years. There is a reason there are single-file signs in many areas, and, it is the law. I stand by what i wrote, and will continue passing single-file cyclists with due consideration, a smile and a wave. After all, i, too, am a cyclist. Cheers.

An unpopular viewpoint, from a patient driver, and lifelong/avid cyclist… I just read this in a magazine article, lamenting the death of Jono (cyclist, Stellenbosch) though not directly related to his accident: A Facebook user, who wished to remain anonymous, shared their thoughts on the platform. The user shared ‘in the light of seeing the recent news of another fatal cycling accident in CT, its been on my mind to make a post about the impatience of CT drivers, especially on the Atlantic Seaboard where so many sports people train, children and families enjoy the area with their pets. The speed on the roads & impatience at traffic lights in particular is getting ridiculous!’ For context, I drive - daily - the Llandudno to Camps Bay to Green Point to Paarden Eiland route, in a largish van…. The reason i mention the van is partly its size makes it wider & longer, but in addition, motorists BEHIND me cannot see whats ‘holding me up..’, and it is NEVER a line of single-file cyclists, but rather 2 riders, side-by-side, in the NARROWEST of roads, basically saying ‘f*ck the traffic’…sad to say… Last week, after waiting a minute or 2 to pass cyclists i had to ‘toot’ a BRIEF ‘here I am’ toot, to side-by side riders, but they chose to continue - through CLIFTON, as well as big-bunch wheel overlappers, through Camps Bay…, these were not riders overtaking one another, but having a chat, side-by-side, and not acknowledging traffic - patient traffic-, and then blowing through the next 2 sets of traffic lights! The arrogance is astounding. Cyclists - SOME cyclists - are their own worst enemies. (2 years back, I confronted the owner of a well-known bicycle shop, after him giving me the finger, after a POLITE toot to alert him to my presence, since he and his girlfriend were riding -slowly - 2 abreast through Clifton. I had waited a couple of minutes for them to return to single file, but they never did….) I write this reluctantly, but some cyclists are giving others a bad name, and there are occasionally 2 sides to the motorist versus cyclist story. Chris.

eBike ride over 5 biggish hills, trying - and succeeding - in not using more than 20-odd percent of the battery; I can feel my legs PROPERLY!

17 happy years, mostly reading, but a few replies, too; WELL DONE, BIKE HUB! Chris

…there, fixed it for you…. 😉

Fauret, and Mongoose; give me a call in the morning: 021 510 6455 / Chris. Cheers, and tx for heads-up @ChrisF

I have read of people putting the seat post ITSELF in a vice (remove seat), then using the FRAME to carefully wiggle/jiggle the seat post out, since great variety of hand positions and/or better leverage (done carefully…)…

Hmmn…I rode 2005, (+2006, 2007) and then, 20 years later would be …….2025? 🤔 Am now…….62 yrs old…🤔 Let me LIE DOWN till the crazy thought passes! 🛏️ Free bump, and good luck!

Hi Robert, brilliant offer, but my Store could likely not handle more than a box, or two, due to storage constraints, but we can chat, cheers, Chris

Excellent, yes I (or my team) can accept donated goods for Kim, if that helps: Flying Brick: 8 Shropshire Street, Paarden Eiland (1 road BACK from Marine Drive Service Road)... Cheers! Chris

Hi Kim, just confirming I have the other bag of goods that another rider (Ian) dropped off, so all ready for you to collect, either immediately, else on/after the 20th...whatever suits. Cheers Chris

I had a very close shave last Thursday morning, with TWO taxi's, one unseen...: One taxi pulled a dangerous/stupid stunt at the Waterfront elevated freeway... Since Wifey not with me THAT day, and me in her car instead of my trusty van, I decided to rather 'DIE, STANDING' rather than 'LIVE ON MY KNEES' (I.O.W. bow down to dangerous taxi driving). Stupid, I know... I - in a moment of rage - used my car to teach him a proper lesson, not giving him an inch; like I said, the red mist was strong that morning... We had a REAL ding-dong battle for a few hundred meters, and I 'held my own' (crazy/stupid, I know...), and THEN a SECOND taxi came to his support - seemingly out of nowhere, and the 2 of them drove me off the road, at HIGH speed. I heard a loud noise, stopped the car on elevated freeway, hazards on, taxi's now gone, and fearing the worst (damage to Wife's car...) But instead, it was a light-weight, metal space heater that I carried into to work that morning on the back seat of her car; it had slammed into the back of the passenger seat with the extreme braking; the noise near-exactly like an impact / being 'clipped' by a taxi! My relief was huge that the car was undamaged. Lesson learned; no more 'duelling' with a taxi. I have done it (before) and 'won' it before (defending my space, as it were), but the risks are high.... (Backstory - on Wednesday evening, DRIVING DOWN Suikerbossie in heavy traffic, a taxi used the UPCOMING 'fast' lane, for I reckon 200 meters DOWNHILL, not overtaking one or 2 cars, but say 20+ vehicles, all backed up, so the red mist was high already within me the day before... Lesson learned - I will be letting them go on their merry way. Forever. If Possible.

Pleasure; I was 'paid it forward' by Prince Albert Cycles, and so the wheel turns! Pappawattrap bought one I think here in CT, of of FB Marketplace. (I was also gifted an item 12 months or so back, by ChrisL, so am looking for P.I F. opportunity. Cheers Chris

I wish to ‘pay something forward’; please let me know shipping cost of the half-wheeler , if you secure it, to Cape Town, tx, Chris 072 211 7725

Yes, a guy who put a LOT into the sport of cycling, and who helped me personally on a (cyclocross) project over a good few months - always available to take a call, and answer a question etc. You will be sorely missed, Rest in Peace. Chris

@Kimikaze i have another bag of used and unused parts, some bibs, some cleats etc, for the Kayelitsha crew from Monday onwards, at Flying Brick, if you can collect when next in the City/ Paarden Eiland? Cheers Chris 072 211 7725

Appreciated, thanks - I believe i have found a park Tool scale a t VERY fair value (thanks, Prince Albert Cycles - past customer of mine, too!), so am now going that route. thanks all, hopefully now sorted! Chris

Anyone know of a better-priced alternative to Park Tool ds-1 scale, but with DOUBLE hook? Around R1600 for the (very nice) Park Tool hanging scale; Marko and others have fairly accurate hanging scales for just R300-600, most with a SINGLE hook; i could fabricate a kind of double hook, but keen to hear collective wisdom if there is a more-affordable double-hooked scale. a bit of research on accuracy shows me very little difference between high-end and budget. thanks, Chris