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  1. 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.
  2. Like I said i love the bike, steep geo notwithstanding 🙂
  3. I regularly pass people on 29ers on my 26er so there's your proof whose fastest.
  4. And Shaun would get whipped every day by this thing if it rolled full 26 because it has the power of "E".
  5. But there's thatguy racing Red Bull Hardline tasmania on a new Spesh Demo with 26 front and 24 rear wheels...
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Wow, that is terrible. I hope your sister makes a complete recovery, Byron.
  11. 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.
  12. I had no idea Kashima was so K@K . To be avoided at all costs by the sound of it.
  13. Chipped Kashima is a badge of honour, a bit like a chipped eBike 🙂
  14. 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.
  15. I am embarrassed to be even a temporary road cyclist . If the outfits aren't bad enough you get to be lumped with a bunch of riders who get into a group and start behaving as if they own the road. Sunday a group from CY - about 40 riders with a support bakkie following them took over Chappies for a while. They weren't the only ones. I cringe in my lycra when I see that. That said, the vehicles on the road were well behaved and just sat there until they could pass.
  16. Can I add pedestrians and runners to the list of moving danger areas? We had three incidents on one ride this weekend. Runner going away from us on the sidewalk drops into the road just ahead of me to overtake with no concern for what's coming up behind. Then a woman on her phone crossing a busy road near Glencairn with no attempt to keep an eye on approaching bikes (or cars). The third was similar to number 2 - guy on foot crossing road in front of my wife in Tokai. In comparison the cars were well behaved, but sadly some fairly idiotic riding too. Don't overtake slower riders in the face of a following car when the road widens ahead in 150m presenting a far safer place to pass... Eish.
  17. He, I've never tried it, but some extra lean cooked mince plus a bit of milk and Bovril sounds yummy 🙂
  18. To be fair though, a Camber is a very outdated bike geo wise, so there are a host of factors that make your Stumpy so much more fun to ride, not just the whippy rear wheel.
  19. Interested to know - what broke at the front of your bike?
  20. I recall a couple of events I did in the 40's several years ago - Boschendal Argus MTB springs to mind. I missed the heat cut off and did the whole 50km. Managed to climb into a small stream to cool off at one point. The worst was day two of S2C at 45deg in places, ridden with the inevitable runny gut...
  21. Its amazing to see how the SANP jeep tracks in Cecilia have gone to the dogs since that video was shot five years ago. Sections of it are nothing more than rock gardens now.
  22. The Constantia Greenbelt and Cecilia to Newlands Forest loop are exceptionally safe. I am there once a week. I am not aware of any reported muggings in the area for at least 5 years, but I may have missed the report The M3 single track from Peddlars to Tokai can be a bit deserted at certain times and as its close to the M3 and has some homeless people camping at one point does feel a little less safe. That said I ride it alone and haven't had any issues. Mugging/Bike Jackings have taken place on the Spaanschemat road from time to time - If I recall the last one was very early in the morning last winter.
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