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I guess I should not comment because I havent watched the show for probably more than 18 months, but the reason I stopped was because, in my opinion its aimed at the very young market, certainly under 25, I just couldnt relate to the content or format.

I dont read any local magazines, let alone buy them, far too light in the pants editorial wise for me and personally, I am not interested in the local racing scene. I subscribe to both Pro-Cycling and Cycle-Sport and enjoy reading both, they write interesting articles, are not afraid to say what they think and if it offends someone, well so be it. Local magazines (like our local tv hosts) are so scared to ask pertinant questions in case they offend anyone, so we usually get something like - "Now tell us how did you get involved in cycling" when the guy just got caught with 6kgs of EPO in his boot. Bicycling still tries to ride on its laurels of, what 3 years ago, when by some ,miracle they got nominated as the best mag somewhere, but since then have hardly even TRIED to improve anything. widget2008-09-19 02:15:02

I will PM you the details Latrinus. Thanks.

I had the same issue with 94.7 registration - it says my club is not known and I am not a CSA registered cyclist - forget the fact I have had a license for years. Sent a e-mail to the 94.7 - they told me I must enter manually via fax. Sent an e-mail to CSA, Jo-anne replied quite quickly I must say, noting she had forwarded it on to Mr C.Lemmer and Mr J. Marias - I assume for action, but I never heard further from either of them and my name still registers as "Not a CSA registered member" widget2008-09-17 01:22:50

I cannot speak for coolheat, but manufacturers are very aware that people who buy their products today are mobile, they move around between countries and continants and I have never heard of a manufacturer refusing a valid claim because of location. The issue is always 100% with the countries local importer and retail structures. Mostly its just been small minded and not seeing the bigger picture, I own the rights to an international brand (not cycling related) and my company has distributed it in Africa for 18 years, the manufacturer couldnt care less where the product came from and neither can I - I support the brand irrespective of the country of purchase, just today we have in our workshop product from a film crew of "fear factor" - they didnt buy the products locally, but they have a warranty issue, and asked me to help, which I am quite happy to do. Cycling is unfortunately a small sport run by a few importers who make decisions which are rather odd to say the least.

Its a bit difficult to judge on timed finishers because obviously, some folk dont bring a chip, some chips dont register, some folk loose their chip on route (yes its happened) or whatever, but it seems consistant with what we usually saw.

When I was on the organising commitee of the old "Hyper to Hyper" we expected around a 10% "no show" on the day of the race, much more if it rained. But these mind, were all cyclists who had collected their numbers - in general cyclists not collecting numbers was small, maybe 5%.We found most cyclists collected or arranged collection of their numbers, even if they knew they wouldnt ride for whatever reason. So from my experience, yes, you can expect a drop in starters numbers of roughly 15% from entries, depending on weather, 30% is realistic if it rains.

....saw Nick Bester overtaking a little kid like that in the highland gate MTB last year' date=' he was encouraging the little okie through a technical section even though the kid was holding us up and we were racing flat out. That to me is the sign of a champ.. [/quote'] Sorry small HI-JACK - Is this Nick Bester Senior we are talking about (he of Comrades fame?) I am just asking because I trained with both Nick and Bruce in my running years and know both of them well. I say "trained" because when it was time to race.................lets just say I was always just very average. Anyway, believe me, they are both absolute Gentleman, I have nothing but respect for them, Nick held down a full time job, trained for Comrades, looked after a young family and never once let himself get discouraged, I can remember meeting him at 4.30am outside Emmerentia dam for a two hour run and he had already done an hour canoe training around the lake - in the middle of winter.! I can tell you a lot about both the men, these are legends who played sport because they loved it, not for financial gain (lets not forget first prize in the Comrades was R10.000.00 (a miserable 10 grand) back then) who ran for the joy of it, who always had a good word for the not so talented (like me ) who took young disadvantaged athletes and taught them everything, long before it was a BEE thing - for them it was "just the right thing to do" and they did it with joy and love. These guys are not only legends and champions, they are humans as well. HI-JACK OVER.

Halleluja WB!!! I'm thrilled to say that in 2008 I have to date not heard the voices of mansfield' date=' scott, robbie, cryws-williams or cliff!! Joy!!! Since Tom London left 702 I have not switched it on. [/quote'] Lucky man.! ..........but what interests me then is their (94.7 & 702) listener demographics. Who would be their target base. Clearly its not grumpy old men like me, but who then? ...........In January this year after been a subscriber to the Sunday Times and the Citizen newspaper for, I dunno, 15 years odd, I cancelled both, and I havent read a newspaper since January. I got sick of the negative stories always bringing me down, I feel that if they cant find just a few articles a day of good news or upbeat trivia, I cant be bothered to read them - now I go around in blissfull ignorance - never felt better.! widget2008-07-26 02:31:31

Please dont get me started on that witch, I have never come across a more popous, arrogant, opinionated, holier than thou, self important, concieted, ignorant, egotistical,self centered and pretentious woman in all my life. The day I heard her launch a verbal attack of such ferocity on a woman who was trying to explain her religeon was the last straw, lucky for Mrs Crous Williams I couldnt get through, but have never switched the station on since.

Yes, sure gianni, I think you are right, but I was wondering if the labs had a sort of time limit before they announced a clean or non negative result. I should imagine there must be or else the race could be over for three weeks and the lab still may not have finished the tests. I was just trawling around the net and it seems that ASO as organisers demand the results back within 7 days, which makes sense, but I am not sure if its a standard or just with the grand tours / events run by them.

While we are all having a little dig, I thought I would join in - personally I agree with Sean, the breakfast show is so Jaded and old its frightning. Actually I havent listened to it for ages, I simply cant stand Jeremy and as for that idiot wackhead..............!! Come to think of it theres no Prime media station I like, ............and if you think 94.7 is pathetic, just dont get me started on 702!!!

...............dos anybody know how long the Labs have to complete all the doping tests once they have recieved the samples. If Ricco was tossed out on the 12 stage and tested positive on stage 4, there appears to be about a week delay to do the tests and verify a result, but is 7 days the max or can they take longer - just interested to know.

Its an interesting debate. Pros and cons on both sides. I was in Budapest in 2005 for the Hungarian grand prix, which coincided with the last week of the tour. There was a huge hula-baloo in all the European newspapers about the tour and if my memory serves I posted on of the articles either here or in the old S/C website chat room. The issue is that, "Yes", the tour is expensive and infrastructure is largely funded from the French Tax payer, now rightly or not (depending on how you see it) spending huge sums of tax payers money to resurface,rebuild or build small roads seldom used or Alpine roads that are only otherwise used for three months of the year, or spruce up towns and small infrastructure is a contentious issue, a lot of folk believe the money could be better spent elsewhere. Its a personal opinion. The other issue is hooliganism, many towns, villages and farmers on route suffer from the tour due to vandalism, drunkeness, hooliganism, squatting, illegal occupation and people just generally taking over and sleeping in the town square - a lot, a very lot, of tour spectators see the tour as an event where the sole aim is to get drunk and be seen on TV, Scantily clad, fat, drunk males vomiting in the flower pots dos little to endear the conservative town public to the tour. The other issue of people just going along to see what the fuss is about can be easily justified. I was in London for the tour last year, it was a joke, I would guess 99% of the people on the streets had no idea what a bike race was about, less than 1 in 5 could even name one rider and those that could only knew Bradley Wiggins. Most of them just came along to see the event, show support for london and some national pride - theres nothing wrong with that, but if 1% made the trip to Paris this year due to their exposure to the race in London I will be very surprised. Of course its not all like that, but that is the factual grim underbelly of the tour, sure there are a lot of people who go and watch because they enjoy it and put up with a lot of hardship along the way, but there is no doubt, LA had a great effect on the tour, people did want to see him and publicity wise the tour is worse off without him. That said I agree with Linnega, the tour is in no danger of dying out, it has issues like everything else, but the majority of the French Public will still support it simply due to National pride, however as we all know, France is now 40% Algerian, Moroccan, Indian, Muslim and Arabic, they have no interest in the tour and are a very voiceferous part of French public opinion.

Nothing really new or revolutionary expressed there, just a rehash of old news. Beltrans positive has gone largely unnoticed though I must say, one can only deduce, either the media and the public are no longer interested or the organisers have done an excellant PR job regarding this - or maybe a combination of both.

Hmm, I think the point Porky was making Rogz was that God has a plan, this is the basis of Christian belief, however, you have to give your life to God for that plan to unfold.This is the important point. In other words "you have free choice" you can choose to follow God and give your life to him, in which case his plan will unfold, or you can choose to go your own way and believe in the the "Sun" God and follow that teaching, in which case Gods plan will not unfold. Just because God knows what route you will take, dos not mean he will work to change it, which appears to be the nature of both your points. No, the door you take is up to you, he provides the teachings and the scriptures which enable you to make a choice, but only you can make the decision.

The good news is that according to "Le Monde" Ricco, is so far the most tested rider at the tour, four times out of the five days. Hmmmm, now Beltran, makes you wonder hey?!

Stop putting words into my mouth, you are fond of reading your own message into the words I posted "See below -Where did I say any of that" - its your "PERCEPTION" of what I am saying, and its wrong, stick to the words of the post and stop reading your own ideas into my posts.! .........and you did not pose a question to which we are referring, - you made a statement.! Furthermore - God is not all powerful or perfect ,???? - WHERE DID I SAY THAT????????? - Answer me that!!! If someone walks up to your wife, kids, family and offends them personally, they may not need your support, but will you not defend them?? Will you just stand around and say nothing??, and snigger under your coat?? I doubt it, - well theres your answer, I believe God is my Father and if you offend my father I will defend him, of course he may not need it, but I believe its asked of me and its my duty and I will obey.

I havent really followed the issue, but my understanding was that the product is still "Genuine Sony Play station" just purchased from a "grey importer" (ie) not Ster Kinekor who are the official importers. But from the copy it appears they were in fact counterfeit. I am surprised the court did not rule that NCH should now replace all counterfeit lines they sold with the genuine product, as it appears the customer has paid full retail for such. Has NCH not offered to replace the counterfeit products with genuine lines, or are the customers just left out there with the problem.?