Have seen a whatsApp report of a two eBike robbery above Rhodes Memorial this weekend. Two attackers, one with large knife and the other using a rock as a weapon. Victims were not harmed thankfully but their bikes were stolen. No doubt all the relevant authorities have been notified and the crims are long gone...
I wonder if an alloy rim would have survived Matt Beers better? Apart from the spelling a good article. Let's hope Luke finds a team. Maybe he and Candice should privateer together?
Spoken like a true South African MTB rider. Tight DH clothing and lycra bibs have nothing in common really. DH riders don't ride with any kind of ass padding and plenty of body and knee/hip/shin protection .
Your question should rather be "I wonder why South Africans insist on riding in super thin lycra which does nothing to protect them in the event of a fall when the rest of the world ride in trail or DH shorts over lycra or even long pants at times".
No it's a fashion death sentence and makes no sense if you're actually looking for more protection i.e the knee pads. Your hips are uber vulnerable in a fall and lycra is totally useless as skin protection. The trail shorts you should be waring with knee pads need not be super baggie or thick but a decent pair not only adds protection but saves you from a style faux pas par excellence.
MTB as a competitive sport is actually booming in the gravity zone. Red Bull are adding more Hardline races and urban DH events and there are continental series being started to get newer riders into the DHWC which is now more limited in team numbers but will be highly competitive. I certainly don't support the "Big Media" take over, but its not all doom and gloom.
I used to cast from my phone but found lots of buffering and video and dialogue out of sync asa result - not a problem until you notice a woman talking like a man or vice versa.
In this case, I had no time to react at all, so if it was a bus, I'd have slammed into the side at 30km/h. I was just lucky, but it does illustrate that sometimes doing nothing can be the safest way out of trouble.
I've never been doored but I have had a car pull out right in front of me from a side street. I didn't even have time to brake and I did a full summersault over the car. I landed safely with negligible injuries. Had I managed to swerve who knows what might have happened.
All I meant with my suggestion that you need to consciously train yourself not to swerve in certain situations such as - narrow road with parked cars and following traffic, roads with a high likelihood of pedestrians crossing the road and so on. I didn't say this was the solution but rather that its part of defensive riding, which includes checking what's coming from behind as often as possible.
Some of you wallies just want to argue about nothing and deliberately infer your own nonsense interpretations onto what is said for effect.
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