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Is it because he is black?

And Wooop there it is http://www.iol.co.za/sport/more-sport/comrades-doping-probe-is-racist-report-1.1324194

for R2500 you get yourself 2 magic two lights and one extended battery, (fits into a bottle cage) thats should keep you lit all the way, however if your willing to fork out some $$ then ayup is the way to go

the innocence of youth, tsk tsk.

I wanna see what this reba sl fork looks like.

Just more things to fail and complicates a very simple system. As if fox wasnt over priced enough.

I find that interesting as far as i am aware DTSwiss has a parterning agreement with Scott which most people say should have been ditched ages ago. Since my only gripe with the scott spark is that they need to stiffen the geometry up a bit, and get rid of the DT SwissCheese shock at the back.

Well where did you hear about this, if this was the case the interwebs would be plastered with story's about this, most major manufacturers would have to recall all the new bikes etc etc. If there was even a hint of truth in a delay it would have been public info 0.6 seconds after the news broke.

I can recommend newer riders watch dirtschool, and then theres one "fundamentals of mountainbiking" both will give some handy pointers on techniques. Granted they only cover a handfull of things but once you master those basic skills you become a lot more confident in your riding abilities. Just watch out we get lazy and our bad habbits return in time.

true that!

Got the mail today that Strava ammeded their terms and conditions now we know why lol.

I only read reviews from a couple of sites as there are very few that knows how to review a bike http://twentynineinches.com/2009/07/26/giant-xtc-1-29er-first-impressions/ There they will give you all the pro's and con's in this case the xtc1 29'er

If i had to buy a HT in that price class i would go with the Giant XTC.

that they are chick bikes ... well they are ... but even if the OP wants to be seen on a chick bike then well its his constitutional right isnt it? who am i to judge?

Book her in for a suprize visit in a SPA, then go buy one and hide the invoice, and tell her the miraculous story of how you were the bike shops 100 000th customer and they just gave you this bike.

Yup depends what you want from the bike and how long your going to ride it, amongst other things, I basically bought a fairly expensive bike becuase i liked the frame, at the price range most other bikes come with high end components, I knew when i bought the bike what i wanted to upgrade and i know it woudl turn out more expensive than just outright buying the top of line model. But i know what i like on my bikes and the stock parts were not what i wanted anyway, so all i am doing now is upgrading as i go along, already did the fork and brakes, so next in line is the wheelset and then the drivetrain, but the components i have are not too bad and i am riding their usefull life out of them and then upgrading as they break.

you know us XC guys are whitebelt.

Methalated spirits

You just did

you are still in a position to upgrade if you want too the frame is worth the investment in upgrading, but its your choice on how much money you want to spend. And not sure what the resale value of that one will be maybe check the classifieds to see if you can get a guiding price.

Upgrading is going to cost you a bundle it really is the lowest spec components they could find, so look at it this way xt groupo about 9k, decent shock 4.5k, decent wheelset 5-6k, Makes more sense to sell that one and use the upgrade money to buy a higher spec bike, as upgrading a bike is the expensive route, buying a decent spec'd bike is the cheaper route.

I havent heard or seen anything about a recall

Lol TNT i have zero faith in the system but i dont see why us the poor taxpayer has to pay for 2 corrupt systems that does exactly the same thing.

True to some respects but now figure it this way lets say you had an equal split between normal road cars and taxi's on the road, you would have a reckless endagement on every street corner on every highway in almost every suburb of every town, we all know SA drivers are reckless and aggressive by default and by no means angels, but taxi's are death traps that simply doesnt care. And the only reason they respect pedestrains, sometimes cyclists, are that the law takes hitting one of these way more serious than it does hitting another vehicle.