I will enter before 11/6 myself and my wife. Then we will leave 2 hours earlier than normal on raceday and drive at 55km/h behind an overloaded Zim bakkie to save fuel. This way I can get the cost per person down to R1000. BARGAIN!!!
I use calve sleeves for recovery only. Put them on after a long race or training ride or run and take them off before I get into bed. But don't ever use them during a race - not only will you look ridiculous but you will also have your worst day ever!
Raynard tweeted 4 weeks ago just after the latest ranking was released. It is awesome but still long before Kona. That list for instance doesnt even have Chrissie Wellington in the top 5.
Did sani in december from himeville hotel and back. Took 4 hours up and 2 hours down. Coming down from lesotho post to sa post only took 13 minutes on my All Mountain. Had to replace rear pads as it was wet the whole day. Awesome day out and safe to do alone. Met a Dutch couple at the top who was touring RSA and lesotho on bicycles. They were sh1tting bricks for the decent! See pic of their touring bikes.
My experience with Spectrum timing has always been pleasant. Had a problem at the cratercruise. Emailed Gertjie and he responded promptly and rectify the situation same day.
I've got 172.5mm on my 56cm road bike, 175mm on my 54cm tt bike, 175mm on my 17,5" mtb and 180mm on my 24" bmx race bike. I can honestly don't tell the difference between the different length cranks!
When I rode Argus as a school kid there was a guy Wimpie van Niekerk (I think) who did argus in one of these and think he held the fastest time record. Faster than the pros of the day.
A word of warning. Once you learn to ride on one wheel you will never want to ride on two wheels again. I learned on my bmx, them started my AM mtb, then my cyclocross, then my roadbike and now even my tt bike. Cant get the tandem up! LOL
Yes you are right. The injustice was proven that both that local guy and strides copied from the same place. By digging up this incident I gave the person looking for a nice stand the oportunity to look at that local stand that was copied at the same place as the strides stand. I cant remember what the price was but I thought he might be interrested to know that he can get a similar stand than the Strides one that you suggested maybe for a better price. On the pics it looked like better quality than the Strides too. Isnt this the whole idea behind a public forum for likeminded people? Someone post for info and everyone reply their 2 cents worth. Maybe if its a rhetorical question you should go back to that post and state this new rhetorical evidence there as I do recall you had nothing good to say about the poor oke who just tried to sell his stands. Popcorn
Last year some guy advertised a stand for a good price. (Use search function) Turns out that he copied the same design that STRIDES copied and there was a huge outcry from JB as he sells the Stride stand. Go read it and remember the popcorn.
