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Haha, sold, to the magician on the bike!

If you can make the actual business results reflect a nice steep line sloping upward to the right, in 3D or otherwise, you may be absolutely perfect for a gazillion different companies!

Tankman's got it - that will get you to the finish!

Sometimes it feels like little more than stakeholder and shareholder expectations management! Always looking for competent and dynamic financial services expertise

But that's the point of cycling together with your wife on the tandem - for the stronger to pull the weaker. Whenever I ride the tandem(s), I realise I'm going to work my backside off because my wife is at an entirely different fitness level. I ALWAYS go out with the attitude that the tandem rides are good for togetherness, and that it WILL be tough, and that it will be perfect strength training!

Maybe we should hook-up sometime - I'm always looking for people to do LSDs with. We're about to start LSD for this year's 320Km (looks like from next weekend on - don't want to stuff up the legs for the Dome2Dome this weekend, although there's not enough hills in the legs so I predict it's going to be bit of a stuff up), but its on road. We could possibly do it on MTBs occasionally for a bit of a change though, as I think we all have MTBs too. At the moment, it's myself and three mates, and one-or-two hangers on that come along for the ride but don't want to do the 320. In my mind, the more the merrier. We also do an occasional 416Km weekend. If you're interested, let's give it a shot?

Great - I've done my part by ensuring that all my direct reports get a bike, and I make sure we get out as a team riding together at least once a week. My CIO now rides, as does my COO, and they're both women newbies. The other four team members are men, so that's normal. Then there's my new PA that joined Friday - she rides a Cannondale(!!), so she's instantly been welcomed and adopted into the team. Now there's 3 women and 4 men in the team, and we spur each other on not only on the bikes, but at work too! Productivity up, fitness up, more girls on bikes, win win win!

Enough inspirational to get to Kyalami, simply to get fitter of course!

Fantastic story!

Hey velo, was it one of those Dayglo Petinis? I looked at one before deciding on the Peugeot! Fleming, I have a soft spot for my first MTB too - A 1992 Bridgestone MB1 with steel forks, toe clips, Suntour XC Pro, Ritchey just about everywhere else - which I got during the formative years of the JMBC when I served on the committee. It was a great bike, but I don't miss it half as much as I miss the Peugeot! As for the Invader ... never had one of those, so can't comment on whether that would have good memories

Interesting point ...

Spot on!

Dude, next time you win national champs, please don't bother wearing the stripes, ever!

Oh no! I for one am going to keep the myth alive though - I bought my both my wife and daughter WSDs and they won me huuuuuge points compared to buying them "boys'" bikes lol!

My Classique cost about R1300. The really aspirational Peugeot was the Galaxie though, which was something like a Vitus 979 as far as the frame was concerned, but cost about R2500 if I remember correctly, which was just simply stupid money! I still promise to visit CWC one day...

Where has everyone put all those great old bikes - they're not in Junkmail or anywhere on the roads - I would love to get hold of a few and remove another car from its garage at home!!

Oh yes, I remember those too - Tange 1 tubing, and it was Biopace! Pretty good stuff, also aspirational!

Peugeot Sting and Peugeot Champion - Geez how I wanted one of those, any of them in the 70s, while I rode my Chopper! How could I forget about Le Turbo - with Mavic MA2 rims?

Wow, didn't know the Sancini came with such a great tubeset - was it an Italian bike?

Geez, what's with all those crashes! Nasty! Yep, the Alpinas, Zinis, DHCs, Hansoms etc... I wonder what happened to Gotty Hansen, esteemed frame-builder... The Cosmos bikes seemed to have only been around for a year or so in the late 80s

Buy the wife a custom bike to get her onside ... she eventually gets addicted too! My wife's got three bikes now!And get a tandem - it's more work, and it demands patience and strength, but it works if you work on it, or you'll simply get divorced and problem over. Then when the 1st kid pops up, get a bike seat and eventually get a trailer bike so you can still cycle everywhere. Then when the 2nd kid pops up, put the 1st kid on its own bike, and tell it to start cycling, while the second sits on the trailer bike. Or put the first kid on the tandem, with the trailer bike behind the tandem - I've done 40Km rides with the two kids in tow! Ja, this won't suit the race snakes, but you gotta do what you gotta do to be able to ride!

haha, the old schoolers and their preferences for huge body-builder legs. Indeed, if I recall correctly Alan van Heerden liked his 55t!

I'm still mourning the loss of my bikejacked, pristine 1988 Bianchi Columbus SL. To take my mind off it, I have been cruising eBay looking for a suitable replacement vintage Bianchi, for those great days when you just want to ride - nowhere in particular, where speed's not what it's all about, a classic entirely suited to all day riding, like for the 400Km weekends my mates and I get up to about twice a year. I recall my first new bike, a 1987 Peugeot Classique. Tange 2 tubing with 7-spd Suntour Superbe Pro and Rigida rims. Toeclips and all. It had a beautiful blue and white paintjob. Yep, I loved that bike. That's the bike I replaced with my new Bianchi in 1988. Funny thing though, as I started looking for 80s vintage Bianchi's to replace my pride and joy, I stumbled across some good old Peugeot PX10 and PY10 models (the latter being the hen's teeth works models), and thought back to my beloved Classique. As I result, I find myself now looking up Peugeot's instead of Bianchi's! So the question is, are you just as attached to your first real bike as I seem to be, and what was it?

My Vitus hardtail downtube, stock standard! Whenever you get tired, you just look down for added inspiration!