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  1. Same argument... Dopers are not going away so the lets just incorporate them . The solution is simply give them their own class behind the " clean " riders and in that class they have two batches, Stock UCI regulated PEDS and "OPEN" class where you can inject what you like into your body. For the record, I've always thought there should be 2 racing classes, natural and "enhanced"! 🤪😉🤣 Edit: Silly face emoticons to show tone...
  2. Surprised that Italjet still has a front mudguard, ours didn't last very long. I think I was about 4 years old, couldn't ride a bicycle without training wheels when my uncle pitched up on a Saturday afternoon and hauled a brand new red Italjet out of the boot of his car. That little bike took a lot of abuse and caused our mom a lot of grey hair. There are a couple of them in the bike museum in Knysna (2 little 50's and a JC50, which is the slightly bigger, more powerful version).
  3. Took the retailer a while to acknowledge that it was a fake, as you say though, they are merely facilitating transactions on behalf of 3rd parties. Their trading policy is very clear when it comes to counterfeit's, fakes, etc. Below pics are off Reddit, but the one we received was the same. See the settings menu...
  4. Just be careful of the imitations. A while ago I was looking for an Ultra for our MD, but there was no stock available anywhere in SA except on takealot.com. Ordered the watch (at full retail price) with an aftermarket strap and a few days later the order arrived. MD wasn't at work that day so he asked me to send it home with the driver. Next morning he brings it to me to set up as he can't get it to link to his phone (apparently an easy task, open the Watch app on the phone and take a pic of the watch). I try, also, no luck. Go into settings on the phone which is where things start looking suspicious. The menu items and fonts are not of the normal Apple standard. Google "fake Apple Watch Ultra" and find that what takealot had supplied was a fake. Returned it to takealot, explaining the issue, they sent it back to me saying they could not accept the return unless I remove it from the Apple ID. They could not understand that it was not linked to the Apple ID as I could not pair it as it was not an Apple product. Escalated the issue at takealot and after much fighting, referring them to their policy about counterfeits and alerting Core (the SA agent), they eventually took it back and processed a refund.
  5. To be honest, I don't know. It had a 140mm fork on it, that raked it out quite far, was nice and long and stable, but also meant that you needed to put in effort to lift the front up to get over obstacles. I write in past tense, as the bike was stolen, just put the photo up to try and get the thread back on track.... 🤪
  6. Interested to know, do you keep your SA Citizenship? I’ve seen all sorts of posts on the book of faces about people wanting to renew ZA passports as they need to visit ZA and apparently need to enter on the green book.
  7. https://www.rapide.co.za/product/rapide-tr29-25-sl-29er-rim-32h/ 25mm internal, 30mm external width, 32 hole. https://www.rapide.co.za/product/rapide-tr29-30-sl-29er-rim-32h/ 30mm internal, 34.6mm external, 32 hole. Stock available of both.
  8. No personal experience with it, but this looks like a good option to avoid the tensioner: https://www.rapide.co.za/product/rapide-eccentrick-bb/ As far as the gearing goes, if it is a screw on cluster on your vintage hub, then the spacer kits and gears are not going to work. You may find that a BMX screw on gear will work, I'm not sure about spacing though, the critical thing with SS conversions is getting the chain line and tension right.
  9. I thought cycling was an expensive hobby, until my son decided to tap into the genes from my wife's family (my father in law plays an array of instruments, cannot read music and performed in the state theatre many moons ago). Matt is now playing drums (was awarded a few golds and a diploma in the last Eisteddfod), he's learning guitar and last week told me he wants to learn Piano. The music shops love me, last month it was a new set of cymbals (his old ones were pretty much entry level pot lids), Saturday I spent a pile of cash on cables, headphone mixer, etc. as he like playing with in ear monitors but the sound equipment at school (he plays in the band) was lacking. Double bass pedal is on his wish list and a digital guitar amp. He prefers the heavier stuff (e.g. System of a Down), and plays really hard, luckily our neighbors don't mind, but ja, soundproofing may be next up on the DIY list.
  10. I'm not sure how hard the seedheads are, but I'd imagine that they are fairly soft. With that bench sander, you're likely to also loose fingerprints and cause much frustration as the it runs fairly fast and the workpieces look fairly delicate. I'd go the manual route, stick some sheets in varying grits to a flat piece of board and manually sand.
  11. Nice tool to have in the workshop:
  12. One of the true gentlemen of our sport, RIP Tony!
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