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I've got a feeling its to do with the F-up at the down and dirty where MUCH slower riders were send around while slightly faster riders were caught for up to 30min with the broken bridge, I know my seeding took quite a bit of a dive because of that result. unless they null and voided those results?

nice loving the colour

Ok before some of the hubbers tell me to use the search function I have, and have been browsing the web for the last few days. I was wondering if people who have built wheels or do build wheels could maybe help make a nice thread explaining how to choose spoke length correctly, as I'm take a shot at building a wheel myself. I see John normally has all the answers, and if there is a thread with regards to what I'm asking please point me in the right direction and I will have this one deleted. Questions. 1. when building a wheel from scratch, one uses one of the many spoke calculators on the net and you get the lengths of the spokes you need. A. are there any factors one needs to compensate for with these values, in one of the previous threads I see JB said you must compensate for spokes lengthening/ stretching? I think it was DT swiss spokes that were being spoken about. B. what tolerances can one accept in terms of length, I see on some websites they say you can get away with spokes being 1-2mm shorter then required? 2. say you want to upgrade hubs on your wheels, but keep the rims, and yes I know different hubs brands etc have different dimensions thus need different spoke lengths, but bare with me A. If just changing the hubs and keeping everything else, what tolerance could one accept with regards to spoke length, say you've got 263mm spokes but need 264mm would that work? or if a spoke calculator spits out 263mm for the old wheel dimensions and 264mm for the new wheel can you get away with it? B. Is it a bad idea to re-use spokes? especially in older wheels where spokes have developed a slight notch where they cross over? will this affect the ability to true the new wheel as the spokes might not cross exactly at the same point on the new wheel?

I had something similar, pads kept getting contaminated and squealing like a stuck pig, turned out that the callipers themselves where leaking a little brake fluid causing the problem. but in your case you say changing rotors works, then it must be something to do with the rotors, because if it were contamination changing rotors wouldnt have an effect. i'm interested to hear the answer to your question

I agree with what your saying Johan having the brakes bled would not have caused the fork to leak, but surely the shop should have given the bike a nice look over and not JUST looked at the brakes. what I was trying to say is that from what I've noticed is there seem to be more cases of bikes leaving shops worse then they went in, and dont even let me get started with simple things that quite a few bike shops I've been to cant get right like indexing derailer's which is why I've been learning to do all my own work through youtube and manufacturers manuals etc. granted a botch up quite a bit along the way but then at least its my own fault and I'm not paying someone to make the same mistake a novice makes. Unless one just hear's more about thing that go wrong, because there are more people doing the sport now meaning more possibilities that someone will have something go wrong and rant and rave about it

From what I've seen on hub and seen in real life, sending ones bike into a bike shop for a service invariably ends with the bike being worse off then when it went in. Before people get on their high horses there are bike shops out there that do know what they are doing and do a good job, it just seems that they getting far and few between. I guess its a case of either learn to do it yourself or trial and error till you find a bike shop that consistently does a good job with no comebacks. and to answer your question no its not normal, give them a bit of stick because they should have checked the bike properly before giving it back to you,

try solomons pretoria north I saw they had folding bikes the other day when I was in there, dont know how much they cost or if the wheels were as small as the picture. so maybe give them a call or pop around sometime?

I guess it would then be a bad idea to point out the gear cable routing

I disagree with you to a certain extent, with the value of the animals and their yearly income from farming you'd be able to employ more rangers who's jobs it is to look after the rhino, and with farming you wouldn't have them in huge camps maybe 5km by 5 km camps? and certain buck and sable are very valuable, black impala rams can fetch up to 1-2 million each, and black back or something like that impala fetch up to a million each for the ewes. one thing that has been noticed about these back impala is their worm resistance is poor in comparison to the normal impala, so if natural selection were to take it natural coarse these animals would be slowly but surely on the decline (unfortunately no scientific articles have been published in this yet, so can't 100% confirm the above, but it is something that is being seen) , but because of the value of the animals their numbers are increasing due to farming. now I'm not saying that farming is the ideal solution, but would you not rather have animals that are being farmed to draw from as a population to replenish game reserves and private reserves? then not have them at all? at the end of the day it boils down to man's destructive nature, and poor understanding of the end user, that rhino horn has no medicinal value what so ever. The Big thing is we need to do something about the situation NOW, because like you said number are declining so fast there wont be males or females to breed and farm with.

not true at all, they can be farmed just like other wildlife. I'm not saying they'll be like dairy cows on a farm that you can milk everyday, and walk up to and touch etc. you'd have to have them in at least 100ha camps, and would only be able to harvest horn once or twice a year max, other then that they would just be wild animals in the veld, just like these guys that are now breeding sable, black impala etc. an interesting fact: the rhino gestation period is 16 months, which is also one of the problems with building up a populations of rhino because of the slow growth in terms of young per period time

the Big problem with farming Rhino horn is the greenies, quite ironic actually, because of the international ban on its trade as well as Ivory which is not a bad thing. Unfortunately the only way to combat this would be to farm the horn, it grows at about 500-600g a year, so it would be viable at the current market price for people to farm it. by having a controlled and constant supply, it would put a huge strain on the poaching rings, because buyers would of coarse prefer not to take the risk of buying poached horn, I'm not saying it will stop all the poaching but would reduce it to numbers that are hopefully controllable. with the legalization of farming horn, rhino's would also become a asset rather then a liability due to there increase value, at the moment game farms dont want to have rhino on their farms because of the risks they carry of armed poacher on their properties. But ja, I dont see our government doing anything soon unfortunately

to add insult to injury, I heard 8 Rhino were poached in the hluhluwe-umfolizi reserve on Heritage day. Have been to a number of these aftermaths now, and all I can say is that it makes me sick to the stomach. the thing that pees me off the most if the wast for something so worthless in terms of what it can ACTUALLY do, horn is just hair, you mind as well go to the barber shop and lick the hair off the floor, it would have the same medical outcome.

just stick something up on hellopeter. that seems to get them actually doing something by what I've seen

you needed to go post this in the "are expensive bikes making us soft thread" really wish I could be there today, but unfortunately have to be in the books this weekend because of exams

makes me think of one of these

Cant you see they wearing pro replica kit, ie: one on the left looks like team sky. so they wanna be pro's that own the road

that is really cool, must have some killer retro bikes in their shop. and I'm guessing they go through tones of Q20 or WD40 looking at how rusted some of those bikes are

been using them for a while now, I just use a pair of pliers to open them. just make sure you carry a spare when you ride just in case it does give up the ghost eventually.

Knife I carry in my pocket most of the time

Ok I've got a pair of unwashed really smelly socks that I'm willing to pay someone R10 to take away So please can you make me a ad, and when would you like my banking details so you can pay me my R1.5 commission?

looks similar the the blackburn computers. is there no slit on the back of the computer that you'd loosen with a coin to get at the battery?

ja I think so, I'm sure the model was air brushed, except for that little extra the rest is believable, because we all know unicorns exist

for me this line has to be the deal maker lol "It will make you feel like you are hitting the trails on the back of a steroid filled unicorn"

lol, and it looks like one of the gremlins/ villains followed him off he train

yip my caliper in question, luckily in my case its not affected by the braking forces, just the slitting force of the fastening bolt, have tried a few things to glue it but nothing really seems to hold. Have yet to try Q-bond powders, but with the cost of buying all the make a plan items it might just be better to cut my loses and buy a new caliper edit: caliper I'm talking about is a magura louise bat caliper