Chadvdw67

My weekend was a bit of a mixed bag of emotions. Day 1 I had a fall at about the 13km which bent my shifter lever, so I couldnt change to easier gears, my pedal also attacked my shin so I have a nice little hole in my leg, tried to fix the shifter trailside, but couldn't, put all the parts in my pocket and started walking, thinking my weekend was done, after a bit of walking I brainstormed, and decided to be a bush mechanic, McGyvered the bike so I could run on the 2 big cogs on the back by shifting with the barrel adjuster, lets just say things got SKETCHY trying to change gears while riding with half a hand on the bar and the other 1 and half hands turning the barrel adjuster to shift 🤣🤣 anyways, rode the next 33ish km like that, with a whopping top speed of 9km/h on the bits that were flatter. But I finished, and then to add insult to injury, when I got back to the village, I went to the bike shop guys to see if they maybe had a shifter, when I got there I couldnt unclip properly and bliksemed off the bike infront of everyone 🫣 and the pedal klapped my shin again, making the cut even bigger. Anyway, after finding out the only shifter they had there was a XO1 for R2700, I limped home once again thinking my weekend was done, but my buddies, prompted by and including mr @thebob, offered to chip in to help me buy the shifter, thank you very much for the offer oom, jy is n yster, luckily I am stubborn old mule, and decided to youtube how to rebuild the shifter, and thankfully I didnt lose any parts, so after much frustration, I got my shifter sorted 🥳 Sunday morning I headed back to the bike shop because in the fall the matchmaker nut broke, they had one for me, so we fitted the shifter and a new inner cable and a sloppy indexing job because I was in a major rush to get to the start, and managed to get into my group with just 1 minute to spare. The first 40km on day 2 are extremely boring IMO, just bumpy district roads, and with all the mist there was not even any nice scenery to look at, but, after the 40km mark, that bastard climb no02 began, not going to lie, I walked probably 50% of it, it is a proper beast, then the fun single track started, that made it all worth it, even though I was spent, it was still a massive jol, then when that ended, they turned us right to go around the locations, at anout that moment I lost my sense of humor, it just felt like they added it in just to get more distance, and then even worse, people I passed on the singletrack finished before me, because I "missed" the time cut off, so they got diverted to a short cut through Clarens square, but any, at least I finished the entire route, very pleased with myself. Overall, it was a very lekker weekend of riding bikes, the "bad" parts just add to the adventure.

I though you never want to do it again 🤣🤣

Managed to fix my shifter, happy days.

Managed to fix my shifter, after much swearing, dropped springs and frustration

Hi guys, I have a bit of a desperate plea, took a little tumble today, managed to break my shifter, so just want to check if by any slight chance someone from the hub is also in Clarens this weekend and maybe has a Sram Eagle shifter that I might be able to buy from you, I know it is unlikely, but just giving it a shot.

Hi guys, I have a bit of a desperate plea, we are in Clarens for Amohela, and took a little tumble today, managed to break my shifter, so just want to check if by any slight chance someone from the hub is also in Clarens this weekend and maybe has a Sram Eagle shifter that I might be able to buy from you, I know it is unlikely, but just giving it a shot.

I did big mountain in 2021, so the longer climb, I walked a lot of it 🤣🤣 this year sounds a bit "better" being 4km shorter and on a concrete paved path....

I entered big mountain, changed to small mountain, and now I am having serious fomo thoughts because of the EPIC descent on day 2 🤔🤔🤔

This is from the link in the message they sent out this morning

As far as the Amohela Enduro thing, it sounds like a short 3km lap, that we will ride 3 times, I am assuming there will be a climb that will not timed, and a descent that will be timed, but I am not 100% sure how they are going to work this one

I would like to do the Enduro on Friday, but not sure if I am going to yet

Just a word of caution, the only lubrication the crank and rod bearings get is from the fuel that passes through the crankcase when the motor runs, running it till it runs dry means that there is no lubrication as the motor dies, it might sound trivial, but I have seen guys seize motors doing that

"Off course" or "of course" I am very confused by this

Funny enough, they dont have any decent tyres...

You just dont know which bikeshops to go to in Gauteng......

The Nukeproof Horizon Enduro pedals are amazing, and cost about the same as most composite pedals available locally, it actually cost me like R300 less to bring in a set of those from CRC than any composite pedals I could find locally, and they are by far the best flat pedals I have used. P.S. the exchange rate has gone up somewhat since I got mine, but still definitely worth a look

3ml? That's like half the fluid in the entire system 🤔 Also, when checking for any warpage on the discs, make sure you know what you doing with your hands, otherwise your finger/s will look like mine 🤣

And I work with my hands in a factory everyday, going to be a rough couple days up ahead

Dont put your hands near the spinny rotatey thingies absent mindedly while they are spinny spinning......

I am 183cm and when I had a Top Fuel I went for a Large, fit me like a glove

More robust than DT EX511?

Loving the new bits at Modderfontien, really has made it much more fun to ride As an aside, the birds are back at the creak, maybe the area should be closed for next while

Pricing for the Tig is on the Pyga website 🤔

Trek Top Fuel 7, upgrade the fork to Pike and upgrade the brakes, that is a really nice bike, I had one for a short while, and I miss it dearly I think the TREK website has the Top Fuel as frame only option as well

AMEN to that.....