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Just my experience from Dragon, I bought a bike recently and upon collection I noticed that there was a massive scratch of the top tube. I bought the bike in Durban, and was leaving for Cape Town th next day, they did not have another frame or the time to sort it out. So they let me keep & ride the scratched frame and arranged for me to take it to Dragon HQ in Cape Town, swapped the frame out for an unscratched frame and did not charge me anything for the rebuild. This for me is great service, all within a couple weeks I am siding with the OP on this one. Poor service from Omnico on this occasion. Why should you have to accept a replacement frame that was chipped, and then to be offered a completely different coloured frame is not on, but to charge the guy cause they couldn't supply the right frame is a poor showing and below the belt. They owe it to this customer to sort out the mess and rectify it in the correct manner

Was an awesome event, loved every minute of it, well organised and a superb trail. I did have light failure at 3.00am and had to ride back pretty much in the dark with a fading mag light in my hand, not an easy task to say the least.

Any further news, have you managed to get back on a bike yet?

All I can say is that the system is a total shambles and a complete mess, compiled by incompetence. They refuse to acknowledge that their system is flawed and as a result the public must just accept what they say and stump up the money. Any great cock-up the powers that be have created. There is no way that you can check anything unless you register, and I refuse to register and give my personal details to these scumbags.

Pure incompetence from SANRAL and their employees. So apparently because I'm not registered, you pay 3 times the normal rate to go through a gantry, WTF They keep trying to force me to register and give them my email address & telephone number, when I refuse then they say sorry they will just end the call. I guess they can whistle Dixie for my money.

So two months later I receive a bill for my trip to Jozi in December(19-21), I was there for 3 days and my E-Toll bill is R314.25. I have only been charged for two days of driving in Jozi, and each time I was getting hit with an avg charge of R15/gantry, I can imagine because I had a bike rack on? I only received an invoice yesterday, almost two months after I was in Jozi, meaning I missed the deadline for reduced payments (R125), which I was supposed to have done by the 10 Feb 2014. Not sure how as? I only received the statement yesterday This is where the fun starts with my 45min phonecall to E-Toll HQ, when I'm told that it is not there problem that the mail has taken two months too reach me, and that the reduced rate has now increased to R215. The staff are unskilled, and have idea how to properly deal with the public and questions asked of them. So my question now is, I am not registered(and do not intend to) and I live in Cape,do I ignore or pay?

So, after a crazy week here on the Hub SA, what with all the suspensions, warnings and all round madness, I have to ask myself what the heck is going on? Intolerance, fighting, trolling, baiting seems to have become the norm. I will be the first to stand up and be counted and apologise for any wrong doing and bad behaviour. We, as a so called "community",have made the Hub SA not a nice place to hang out as of late. I have made both friends and foes, yet recently I have become somewhat disillusioned by what has been taking place. Matt(Admin)has given us a fantastic platform to discuss, argue, SHOUT about all things cycling and other more trivial topics, for that, thank you. But, we need to get things back on track,as I'm sure all would agree? So how do we do go about doing this and make the Hub SA a more pleasant place to be?

Note to self, carry a cigarette, just in case.

Could have been Jason

Most details will be found in this thread, Bike Setup - Ergofit vs BG Fit vs Bike Shop. I recommend Irma Delport who works in Durbanville - Going for my third setup with her soon(new bike) Good Luck

I see that the Air Cooled Culture have also made an appeal on Facebook.

You can also contact Daytrippers Ask for Steven.

Go for a BG Fit

Good idea if you ask me, I will do it if need be

**** klap would have sorted him out, cheeky bugger, you should have told him to go back into Africa where he came from, the Hottentots want there land back.

Thanks very much for that, details forwarded.

Was sent this this morning, excuse the translation as it was all in Portugese and had too Google translate Cyclists Curitiba decided to take a "forcinha" to the City and make bike lane that cost to be implemented! Were prosecuted for vandalism, but won the action! The urban intervention promoted by members of Bicicletada Curitiba aimed to draw the attention of government. According to cicloativistas who participated in the action, the act did just what the City itself should have done on their own initiative to enforce the Brazilian Traffic Code.

http://vimeo.com/83187924

There is a clip I posted in the "I have an idea for a new thread" Thread of a surfing at Pipeline in Hawaii filmed with a Gopro and drone.

Plan ahead, freeze about half a litre of water in the bladder of your hydration pack, voila, cold water on tap the whole ride :-) I must agree that they do look pants though

I was saying the R50 price tag for a plastic bag that probably cost less then a rand to manufacture. I would rather use two zip lock bags.

You kidding me?