geax ticks the bombproof box for sure, but ralphs feel lighter/faster to me. i prefer bombproof, thus geax (they may be hard to get off the rim, but in three years i have never had a geax puncturing so badly that the tire goo did not stop the leak and i could just continue)
I'll be on the KTM LC Comp 26er that I bought on the hub yesterday, it will be its first ride (or drift, judging by the picture of their little bridge washing away last night on facebook)!
I think I can make a carbon frame in my sleep now, but that does not bug me when buying second hand, its R800 to R1500 to fix a carbon frame so that its stronger than before it cracked (there's a guy in benoni and one in potch who actually hand-builds carbon microlight planes).
So is the Merida still for sale? I am meeting a "brand new hubber" at the airport today to lay down a fair amount of cash for a carbon hardtail...imagine if that thing has problems on it, where is he going to leave it, because he is on his way overseas? Or maybe he is just popping in to the airport from Boksburg to mo*r me and take my cash :/
How/where can I rent a MTB for Equestra and some other upcoming races while my own bike's carbon frame gets fixed after Down and Dirty killed it? Has anybody rented and raced before? I am in Gauteng.
+1 Within 3kms i had chipped rim, ruined brand new tyre and chracked frame...without falling...weirdEspecially bad since this is one of my favourite events every year
Its cos they were looking for granny gear up that hill Nah, it was just clear once again that casual duathletes dont understand cycling - like the parents who sent out a 10/11 year old kid on the 5km ride - on a baby bicycle!! After 1km, the organisers finally convinced her to turn around, she had guts! Personally, my mtb provided nice shelter from the wind for Miss Bermuda, I just needed a rear mirror
Go read TIm Fair's write-up on the race under the news section - they have aimed to make it easy as possible, so go for the 40, if not the 70. Its a lekker race, and pretty
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I ride for the smell of pine needles, for the feel-good hormones your body is filled with for as much as a whole day after doing a really tough race like Sabie, for the places you get to see and the luxury of going away almost every weekend, and finally because when you really suffer, you are reminded of how good you have it
Well I am lekker snotneus sick anyway, skipped Sondela to see if I can recover quicker, but bugger it, I dont care how cold and wet saturday is and how deathly sick I am, I am going to change from 80 to 40k and walk if I have to but I wont skip cullinan
60km in 2h07 (26km/h ave speed) at ATKV Eiland, I wish I was fit for that race, coulda finished better than 6th. But how's about fastest fall you have ever had? At Legend Gorge on the runway, I stood up to stay with the leader at about 55km/h and my chain came off... I think I stopped rolling bollemakiesie about 1km further
Well, Legend Gorge 80k has the southern hemisphere's steepest climb, and then sand that makes even a quad bike get stuck, but somehow this year's Sabie made me suffer more than any other route I have been on. I dont find Barberton tough, its just hard in a lekker way. Van Gaalen's, that can be as tough as anyone can handle, depending on which routes you link together and how big your nuts are.
By the way, that exact thing parked on the runway, still sporting the orange tail with springbok on it, made about 20 land-and-take-offs here at the military airbase in Centurion yesterday, love the sound of it, can't believe they kept one in its original colours
