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Thanks for the replies, guys. Call me oldfashioned, but I thought the prices in the back would be a keeper. Ah well. But it would be cool if they could emulate CAR Magazine and list new prices on all the different makes of bicycles I get that it could be annoying for the guys that posted their rides in the magazines getting phone calls about their bike that was sold two months back lol Come guys, post some more cool and unrealistically cheap road bikes in the classifieds and tempt me to finally upgrade from my bro's 14.5kg hybrid to a proper road bike

Hey fellow hubbers Can someone please tell me why our cycling mags no longer have any classifieds in them? Is it some sort of special arrangement with the LBSs? I've been looking to upgrade from my brother's 2000 Giant Cypress for a while now and decided that now is as good a time as ever, seeing as the 94.7 is coming up soon. In the beginning of the year a good friend's sister gave me some cycling mags to look at and sure enough I saw some really good deals (most posts included helmet, shoes, bottle cages, the works). I didn't bite though. Since then I've bought two cycling magazines (Bicycling April 2010 and Ride August 2010) and neither has any classifieds in the back. What gives?

You guys are legends! And I don't mean that in a bad way Thanks for saving me lots of swearing. Amazing to think it's so easy to milk us cyclists of our money R170 bucks for a little Chamois Butter when the toddler shelf has the equivalent for less than R40 o.O Happy cycling everyone! And yeah, I agree, cycling kit was made for cycling in, not for looking extreme while drinking mocha capuccino latte's out of small cups lmao

"internal tissue rotting"? "icschemic sores"? You almost managed to put me off cycling forever, doc. Good thing you can't shake the bug once it's gotten a hold of you lol So it's just *@#! expensive snake oil? Looks like I'll have to "tuffen" up Happy cycling

What's the deal with "Chamois Butter"? Does it make a difference? Saw a tube for R170 at Sportsman's Warehouse, which is a substantial amount of dosh for me. Been riding for >2h at a stretch since I joined Velo 3 weeks back which is great, except for my undercarriage and was wondering if the chamois butter would help me feel less like a prison inmate(until my backside is harder, that is).

Thanks for all the replies! The hub really could have some Lance Pharmstrong's if you spent all the time you're on the hub on the saddle instead lol I always thought carbon frames were crazy strong and didn't understand why they'd lose any of that strength. But I've heard that when they do fail they fail catastrophically. And the guys at Bruce Reyneke's (might be biased) claimed that climbing on a Raleigh carbon bike was the equivalent of doing kamikazi. ?! Sylvester, I'm probably a size 54, seeing as I'm 1.79m. But I've been riding my bro's 10-year-old 21" Giant Cypress for the past 2 years to varsity and back and for training the past 2 1/2 months, maybe I stretched my legs and will never fit on a normal sized bicycle again lol. I got an awesome contact at Silverton Cycles, and he helped to replace the crap that was on there with a configuration that needs a diesel-motor to push through the gears and introduced me to cleats lol But I want something more purposefully built that sounds clean when the chain runs over the gears and might prevent those guys on their R100k bicycles from overtaking me on George Storrar on the downhill when I'm pedalling and they're not lol. Please send me a link to that Cannondale. I might've seen it already, as I've been following the classifieds like Putin watches over "his great, free people" And yeah, I don't see how some sellers believe they're justified in asking almost new prices for used bicycles(some 2006/7 even). Now that I've hijacked all this bicycle gear brainpower on the technical side of the forum, I'm going to take a chance and ask all of your collective bicycle brainpower to point me towards a sweet bike (sub 10-15k) and a serious cycling group in Pretoria-East I've only ever competed in one bicycle race and that was when my cuz got me to do the 94.7 with him in 2008 - which rocked if it hadn't been 3h50min in the midday freaking sun! But cycling through Jhb CBD and over the Mandela Bridge was quite something I was going ape-sh*t on my bro's bicycle for 2 months averaging about 2 hours in the mornings and 1 hour at night before I caught H1N1's big bad brother two weeks ago and which had a vice grip on me til today - doc said yesterday: "no cycling til monday"

I've been a recreational cyclist commutist for a few years and am only recently training harder in the hope of participating in a few races. So, I've been looking for a nice road bike to replace my bro's Giant Cypress and obviously asked around for opinions. One guy who seems knowledgeable enough - he had a coach drive behind him in a car shouting at him to go faster when he was training LOL - mentioned that carbon frames lose a lot of stiffness after you crank up lots of km. He said it was only minimal, like a 0.001% performance drop due to added flex. Any truth to this? Btw: What's the value proposition of building a new bike instead of buying a 2nd hand bike on the hub? Been looking around and it doesn't seem as though sellers are keen to accept that they probably bought their bicycles at inflated prices and that they can't expect to only take a max 30% hit on their purchase price when *new* bicycle prices are coming down by that rate to come in line with the size of the consumer's pockets after the recent economic carnage(April edition of Bicycling). I just saw last night that I could organise an Ultegra 6700 groupset from cwc for R6999 excl. postage. Does anyone know of any decent carbon frames that are selling? New or second hand. I need to keep the build under R15k, unless I'm to become a weightweenie not by choice but by virtue of not having any spare change for groceries. All explanations and advice very much appreciated.