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@Robbie StewartThat weather on Saturday was crazy - added about 22 minutes to our time for the same route the previous weekend. Has anyone got an update on the recovery of the cyclist hit by the motorbike and the investigation?

That was a deserved win by Maddie. She klapped them in the final TT. Seems as if they liked her temperament too.

No I haven't. I have ridden a fastish 2s bike on the road though and I shudder to think what brake failure would be like. Which is why I referred to "MTB" brakes of which I have extensive experience over the last 30 years. They are not the same.

I think you're overthinking it on the MTB side. I use some french hydraulic mineral oil in my Shimano's with no noticeable side effects - just good braking and no fade. I do abuse my back brake a bit. You can click on takealot and order some of the automotive quality mineral oil at under R200 p/l and it will be with you in 3 days. Sorry its now R202.00 https://www.takealot.com/total-lhm-plus-hydraulic-mineral-liquid-1l/PLID72926639?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoeGuBhCBARIsAGfKY7zwsNx_Klka_opoQabXyCtkgqNzBF1zwPXdxCZc4jHLmt5o9ap9mswaAonhEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Agreed, but only if the levers are properly made and my Guides were awful with sticky levers because of poor quality pistons (yes I know they've fixed the problem since) but the other k@k thing was how the fluid started stripping the finish off the paint on the levers despite being very careful about washing them off. Poor quality like this put me off SRAM brakes for good.

I am hoping that at least some of the XCO and DH is live on Youtube. Last year none of the elite XCO was and only some of the DH.

I prefer real world testing like when i crashed and the hot rotor lay against my leg and left a lekker Shimano burn mark.

That's still 0.01% of the SA MTB community

About .01% of the SA mtb market will be interested in these brakes 😄

I'm 188cm and ride a 26er steel HT regularly. The weight of the thing doesn't make it something you'd ride an XCM event on but it could be done and it really shines on the descents. I'd happily do an easier stage race on it. It feels exceptionally nippy and corners beautifully That said, the right tyres and spare rims are harder to find...

Awesome - I enjoyed the first show and was wondering if it had been canned in the big GCN WBD mess. Some inspiration for the fun ride world champs in three weeks time.

Like I said i love the bike, steep geo notwithstanding 🙂

I regularly pass people on 29ers on my 26er so there's your proof whose fastest.

And Shaun would get whipped every day by this thing if it rolled full 26 because it has the power of "E".

But there's thatguy racing Red Bull Hardline tasmania on a new Spesh Demo with 26 front and 24 rear wheels...

Thats a great looking bike but as they've missed a trick in not making it a bit slacker up front. The HTA will steepen to 68 or more when the fork compresses anyway. My 65 deg HTA HT would be better if it was 63 steepending to 65 under sag.

GPS data wont assist you with position of the bike due to inaccuracy and even if it shows he was speeding doesn't imply fault. If the eyewitness reports are accurate then it seems the moto guy was in the wrong lane over a solid line. As others have said, CP is a stupid road to ride fast on a motorbike. As a somewhat reformed sports car driver, I can confirm that twisty roads with dual lanes are the most fun to drive and ride. Rhodes Drive, CP and no doubt FP are not such roads and were never much fun to drive because of the traffic. Trying to have a fun speedy ride or drive around CP when its full on cycling season is just plain stupid.

I've seen cyclists over cooking corners on that descent and enting up on the opposite side of the road - luckily no oncoming cars at the time. Sometimes wide bakkies hurtle up that side and overtake cyclists heading up, leaving very little space for riders descending. As others have said, one of your responsibilities when driving a 2 ton vehicle is to avoid causing injury and death to others. I'm glad we weren't on Chappies this weekend. The road from Simonstown to Scarbs is wonderfully traffic free on a Saturday morning. What a pleasure. Just one chop of a bakkie driver who passed me twice well under 1.5 on an empty open road.

A good few years back I was involved on behalf of an importer of plastic sheeting liner material which SARS decided was not exactly what it said on the box (biaxially oriented) and a higher duty was due. After a win in the High Court and being thrown out on appeal, SARS gave up. Back then judges were perhaps a bit better than now, but it does all turn on semantics and in some cases like this one, a bit of science, so a good expert is essential. When it comes to bikes, I suspect most Judges think they know what one is but its hard to see how a wheelless frame is a bike, unless it was also seen as a contrived attempt to escape duty, which it probably was.

Wow, that is terrible. I hope your sister makes a complete recovery, Byron.

Exactly and this is in fact how the moto world operates. You can have bling but at an extra cost otherwise its no name brand in house parts.

I had no idea Kashima was so K@K . To be avoided at all costs by the sound of it.

Chipped Kashima is a badge of honour, a bit like a chipped eBike 🙂

@Jewbacca Precisely.

Actually I think you're dead wrong on one thing. The bigger the group of cyclists the more likely the car has to take note and slow down to pass. Most fatalities and incidents, like Savages recent one and the poor bloke who was struck by the drunken Navy guy near where your pics are taken were not in large groups or riding abreast. In fact i think very few incidents between cars and cyclists involve large bunches but I'm happy to be corrected.