Frosty

I went the other way… back to a 2x11 setup; call it highveld and coastal gearing. For a roadie, or rather my type of riding, I prefer smaller jumps between gears. The “compact” cassette better allows for that. LBS helped with a second hand shifter and derailleur, and then new cassette, chain, two chainrings, cables housing and labour. Was around the R4k mark, I think. Was difficult to be exact as I initially when there to buy a new wheelset (incl. tyres, slime and labour) which the cost was known (min of meer).

Poggie’s weather conditions

I use my 2007 Schwinn (full carbon, DA-10s gruppo); STIs were replaced with Ultegra by Grumpy, when he was still operating out of Rietvlei. He serviced it last year to ensure that I can take it outside whenever needed, as it suffered some IDT abuse for the last 8 years. New bar tape, new shift cables and cable housing, bearings in the front wheel, a new cassette (for outdoor use, as I had already had a new one on the Kickr), and a service on the pedals. Brake hoods were done early last year. So the bike is back in “mint condition”, or “almost new”. He even threw in a “clean & wax” for my chain, which has lasted quite a few rides, as promised.

Website, so yes… Chrome

The website shows this, so I would say, “yes”.

HBD @mecheng89

Change message to massage.

I’ll take a photo this afternoon of my bike with the same cable-to-hydraulic setup. It has a Garmin mount, and an attachment for a light. There are Garmin mounts with the GoPro mount, but I bought eh bike as is, so not sure what’s available locally. Here are some pics showing the setup. edit: the additional pics as promised.

Perhaps edit your original post and thread title, to get the correct message across that you require a massage, otherwise it will rub off on others incorrectly.

Happy New Year to all my tjaainahs (and tjommies). Enjoy the flied wice and muiji (rice wine)

Phew! I have three first names; does that make me safe in your view? 😬😂

No Tamboekiesfontein today, we stayed on the straight and narrow path. A fantastic day out in favourable conditions for almost any activity, except sailing and windsurfing.

This is about 500-800m from the start. I’d be concerned about potholes on the opposite side of the road, in places along the route. Cars approaching from the front will need to swerve into the middle of the road to avoid some of these larger ones. And then there is the speed of some road users on some of the roads.

Good weather conditions for riding, and a few not so good road conditions (the FastOne is using some of these roads). We also had some involuntary experimentation of carbon monoxide inhalation (non-medical grade) on a section of the route today… 🚗💨