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Oh no! I do hope that you get the bike back and that there is a reasonable explanation for this (not that I can think of any pleasant reasonable explanations). Everyone else, c'mon, let's help try get the bike back. Linden and Jonene do so much for the sport of cycling and they are always there for cyclists, not just their regular customers. Let's keep our eyes open at Northern Farm and the spruit and everywhere else.

Mr SingleTrack, shall we petition the powers-that-be to view a HubSA comment in the same light as a paper serviette contract? Sometime, regardless the outcome of my above comment, count yourself as recruited to the herd for next year!

Nah, I used to commute when I worked in Braamfontein. Am now working in mid town and just not willing to risk it as a lady riding alone :-( instead I use 650cc of engine power to get to work and back (at least it's 2 wheels)

Nope, don't think either him or Nellie come here anymore. I just wish I was going to have the time to head up the coast to visit Hagar while done in CT next week :'( I saw Nellie just over a month ago when I was in Bloem, she's doing well :-)

That is te route I used to use. It depends on what time you are riding. You could try cutting up to silver pine if the traffic is bad, but I doubt it'll be much better. Alternately, you could also try Maria St.

I'm definitely not going to suggest he logs on then... I'm off to CT next week and really don't want bad weather ;-)

As a member of The Herd I have goosebumps. Well done Lauren!

There are a couple of us hubbers riding for various causes... I'm riding with The Cows (for CHOC) and I know of others riding for other causes

I am definitely packing my action camera when I head down to CT later this month. Even though I'm only really going to be driving around 1 day (Constantia to Tygervalley to Rondebosch to Constantia) the resultant footage will most likely prove the menace that GA buses are. I know they are a menace as I have lived in CT previously (for 2 years) and I go down frequently.

Oddly enough my seeding is not raaaaight at the back... CC despite not having done any recent seeding events with my chip that I can think of offhand! Not that it matters considering I'm riding with The Cows! I'll be the short little Cow on a white TCR with a basket on the front :-P (yeah yeah, I know, defacing my TCR for a day!)

I have never bothered to sort out a spare bike to leave in CT at my folks' place because the roads there are so dangerous. Even in a car I am always wary of the GA buses. Glad to see that management there seems to be serious - the replies posted here are certainly not "spoeg en plak" type platitudes.

I can only hope that a car crashes into him and every single person who is supporting him, and that they all suffer miserably and painfully for a long time. Hopefully he has lost his job and hopefully all those supporting him lose theirs. Any person who sprouts "human rights" to support any of these oxygen thieves deserve no better either. The world is overpopulated and the sooner a karmic cull happens the better.

This is why I have booked and paid to do the yellow saddle course later this year. In future I will be able to sort my bicycle out and/or check the workmanship from a shop. I can service my own car and motorbike (not that I do these days, but I do have the know how) so I should darned well learn to sort my own bicycles out as well.

RThe only bike I rode today would've left little 4x4 in the dust... On a PROPER offload track :-D most definitely would've left him miles behind in the traffic I had to negotiate. I wonder if this guy is related to the silly little Audi driver who thought she could outgun me on an uphill pull off...

WTF is a "traffic lane" ... Kindly go read RTA. There is no such thing as a "traffic lane". Ignorant fool! By law cyclists are not supposed to be riding on the shoulder of the road. They are supposed to ride in the road, in A lane if the road has lanes. One cyclist may pass another cyclist or a motorbike another motorbike, or a cyclist a bike or a bike a cyclist in the same lane. ALL 3 or 4 or more wheeled vehicles MUST CHANGE LANES when passing ANY OTHER road user. Ignorant fool! Ignorance of the law is no excuse, especially as you have clearly visited this thread and as such you should now be aware of the law. If you persist in your ignorant fool behavior now you will have a tough time proving lack of deliberate intent. Ignorant fool.

I was with Trojan. They had a key to my property. I was burgled, electric fence clearly damaged and window clearly tampered with and they conveniently didn't bother to even call me to say the alarm had been triggered. I got home to find my house had been burgled. In the ensuing insurance claim it transpired that the alarm did go off but that the fence only activated after the house alarm, indicating that it only got triggered on the burglars way out. Trojan were pathetic through the whole thing and the boss (who lives/d up the road to me) was a total jerk about it, trying to convince my insurers' "loss adjustor" that I must've time-travelled (without passing through any of the access doors) from the 7th floor of the office in Braamfontein to home in Randburg to let the burglars in to my property, in the 5 minute break in a meeting I was involved in at the time of the alarm being triggered! I will NEVER deal with Trojan again. They had to cheek to try charge me a cancellation fee on my contract even though I gave 1 month notice.

We first have to hope that the judge is not corrupt or incompetent so that this piece of excrement is found guilty. We then have to hope that no "human rights" (ie criminal rights) lawyers or viewpoints get his sentence reduced the way they claim criminals aree entitled to.

I got the name from post #4 above

The sooner people get correctly prosecuted for this type of thing the better. Personally I am a supporter of the death penalty with this being a prime example of when it should be applied. Screw all the "human rights" supporters... Clem had a right to life and someone knowingly and deliberately deprived him of it. RIP Clem

Nope, if the stupid driver had rather continued hooting and then taken photos it would not have been directly endangering the bunch by pulling off illegally onto the gravel at the side of the road (and thus losing a large amount of traction) and then forcing her way back onto the road in the middle of the cyclists. HUGE difference. YES the cyclists were in the wrong to be riding two abreast. They were not in the wrong for cycling on the road. A "victimless" crime (eg taking a photo from a safe distance at a slow speed) is vastly different to a crime where there is a high likelihood of immediate physical harm (eg driving a vehicle deliberately close at speed in a dangerous manner to another road user). Anine, I am known for my strict stance against jumping lights or stop streets and I get irate with fellow cyclists who do not drop to single file at the slightest sound of a vehicle approaching. But there is a line that needs to be drawn and for once I am forced to agree with spaaidy... Just because some tjop is going to delay you by 30seconds does not give you the right to kill them. Call them a tjop and pass safely. Driving recklessly and possibly maiming or killing a person makes you far far worse.

Entoesias and anine, you both need to go read the WHOLE rta, including the parts about how to overtake and following distance etc. yes, the cyclists riding 2 abreast when NOT overtaking each other are in the wrong, but your attitudes indicate that you both act in ways that knowingly endanger the lives of other LEGITIMATE road users. Entoesias, your comment goes further to indicate that you know the difference between flesh and bone of a cyclist and your car and as such it can safely be assumed that you know that when you deliberately hit a cyclist they will very likely be seriously injured or die. As such you have made it clear that you will be acting with deliberate intent to cause grievous bodily harm or death. As to both of your "cyclists must ride on the shoulder and not u roads without a shoulder" attitude. Sorry but when exactly did you buy the road??? Please publish your vehicle registration numbers... Next time either of you get in the way of faster vehicles those vehicles need to know to treat you with the contempt that you believe slower vehicles deserve.

The lightning was not close... A good count of 3-4 seconds between the lightning and the sound of it. I. Think that is why it went ahead. The short distance was udderly awesome and I can't wait for next year. Hopefully next year will also be muddy. The friend I was riding with and I had such fun aiming for puddles. Thanks to everyone involved in the stunning day... riders who came out to support despite the weather, marshals standing out in the rain to make sure no one took a wrong turn, the folk manning thewater table (with shooters), the bike wash guys who must have washed a record number of bikes, etc. Well done Charlie and Marc for an moovelously awesome event :-D

To OP and other peeps who have clearly read the law stating it is illegal to ride next to each other and thus clearly feel that the least that should be done is to move to single file when you hear a car approaching from behind, especially on a single lane road: We need to realise that it is, according to these other cyclists, absolutely fine for cyclists to decide when they want to ride legally and courteously. At the same time these same people will bitch and moan about cars deciding it is safe to pull out in front of them, taxis to stop when and where they feel like, etc. just remember animal farm... Our govt supports them in this. All are equal, some just more equal than others.

RIP

Nothing beats the war cry "muuuuuuuud!". Oh wait, hearing the "splat" as said mud splashes the rider behind you is quite fun too ;-p I won't start riding in bad weather and if it's really bad then I'll find a safe spot to sit it out, but light drizzle has never stopped me leaving home. As for actual mud, the golden rule on mtb rides is for other riders to remember that I'm not only hippo-like in terms of being fat, but also in terms of making a bee-line for the puddles...