LeTurbo

I find people asking, "When are you doing the Tour de France?"

All theoretical. I've had the Le Turbo since 1985, cross-changed to my heart's content, and still have my original chainring, cluster, and chain. Treat your derailleurs politely and everything should last till the nurse at the old-age home says you shouldn't ride anymore.

Karma, how do you get your quote reply post to come up before Gummibear's original post? Can karma be that powerful that it sees so far ahead?

Hang on ... he hit the left of the tree (from what I can see) then bounced all the way around it to go into the left of your car? Impressive. But those skid marks seem to indicate a lekker bolamakisie.

I've never had a problem with crossing the chain ... I go up and down like a yo-yo (both me and my gears). Ease up as you pedal and a Campy clicks across like magic.

Just look on Youtube and go what they do. Sounds to me like it's just your high and low screws. Simple. But tuning your bike on the road gets a different result to tuning it on the stand.

There's a guy in Obs who restores old Meccano sets and sells 'em overseas for a fortune. There's even an engineer's version all packaged neatly in a felt-lined mahogany case with drawers. Beautiful. Of course, as a kid, I bent everything to fit ...

I did a MTB race once. Improved my skills immeasurably because I let idiots like the OP through. Therefore I was actually riding the technical stuff on the left, and he was riding the easy, simple track. He's evidently a boob ... er, noob..

My blinding white skin. I'm so pale, headlights shine through me and drivers think they've been caught up in a Johnny Cash Ghostriders video.

Let's start at the very beginning A very good place to start When you read you begin with A-B-C When you sing you begin with do-re-mi Do-re-mi, do-re-mi The first three notes just happen to be Do-re-mi, do-re-mi

What colour were the stripes? And why specifically oldies?

Yowzah. That booger must have had good velocity. A roadie with a good, healthy pair of lungs.

I can think of nothing more uncomfortable ... unless it's the Shaolin monks training for nut kicks, which is apparently to attach 20kg weights for extended periods. Wouldn't a box give you kinda saddle sore where it really hurts?

Come now TNT! I expect better than "breaks" from you.

To tell the truth, I haven't been on yet. I think it's through Greenpoint, up Long Street ... from there, I'm not sure. I'm guessing maybe back down Loop and through the Waterfront onto Beach Road.

Flymango: the eternal optimist.

"The brain child of Daniel Graham (@Cpt.Grimmy) the #moonlightmass is a casual night bicycle ride starting at the Green Point Circle on a full moon once a month. Started as a social experiment on twitter the ride has been gaining popularity and on our last ride we had about 140 riders raising awareness for cycling safety." It's on tonight, 5 April, at Greenpoint circle, at 21:00 - 21:15. Lycra unnecessary. Some pics at http://www.moonlightmass.co.za/moonlightmass/Gallery.html

Gosh, you MTB okes are anal. Ride road bike. Hang up. Use tomorrow. Wash every 6 months or so (then get OCD and use earbuds to get everywhere). Oil chain every few months. Service about once a year by tightening bolts. Regrease in about 5 years. Keep bike virtually original for 25 years. It pays to ride old-school steel. Be a Retro-grouch.

I also presume you're talking about bicycles, and not other lubes.

I'm an oily character myself. That Q10 stuff (the old 3-in-1 in disguise) though I used to use motor oil. Yeah, it's messy and it gets everything black, but I've never bust a chain or had mechanicals in some 40 (very) odd years of riding. You also don't need to re-apply every 100kms or whatever. But to clarify, I'm talking road bikes. I think I'd still use it on an MTB. I can't think that it attracts any more dust than a sticky, waxy lubricant (which I tried at one stage but hated. Now I only use it to lube nuts and bolts).

"Keep it relevant. We know that some conversations can be wide-ranging, but if you post something which is unrelated to the original topic ("off-topic") then it may be removed, in order to keep the thread on track." "I take solace in the fact that I can call Tumbleweed a dog and not be moderated for it." "Moderation in moderation." Three of my 17 personaliies wrote those. But I'm not sure which one is writing this.

I just looked on Youtube under "Comedy". The finish is there for some reason.

The Argus is long enough for me thanks. 7 days on an MTB having my arse banged about is a litle too S&M. That said, value wise. surely the Tour d'Afrique is more worthwhile? I think it's about R90k, but it's probably more testing, the cut-off rules maybe aren't as unfair, and the EFI is more a personal goal than a requirement. That's as I understand things anyway. (This being the Hub, I'll probably be blown out of the water.)

MTB Time Trials?

An increasingly regular phenomenon on Albert Road, Woodstock & Salt River? Idiots (both kids and adults), usually on BMX or (stolen?) MTBS, salmoning against the traffic. I think I've had 3 in this short week.