haha, you're telling me! Only 1 of those is mine the others belong to my missus, my 2 boys and her 2 girls. Still required: 1 x road bike and 1 x DS extra bouncy bike for fun..... le sigh
I use those bike hooks from builders warehouse. R240 or so for 2 of them i think. I was playing with the idea of building a pulley raising system (3 pulleys and some rope with rubberized hooks), but not enough height in the garage and it was a little too complicated.
MTB Silverback vida 29er M frame with 3x10 XT groupset, SLX brakes, Reba RLT fork, AC race wheels with ralphs All components bought new, total cost R11.6k, 11.6kg. @ R1 / gram, it turns out that my bike is actually 300 - 500 times cheaper than coke. All those "cycling is as addictive as drugs, but more expensive" posts can now safely be considered null & void. Don't do drugs. Ride a bike.
i can manage a pavement on flats, not enough experience yet (flat pedal manifesto was right). However, I am yet to pull a 180 degree barrel role while staying on the bike with flats....
I wonder if you can use your bike to fill in the registration forms at events? they may have to cater for leaving a little tip at the back, and when sell it with a sharpener.
Here's the original image I saw on an FB post. The material itself isn't expensive to make, however I imagine there's patents pending (it was discovered in 2010) and lots of moola pumped into R&A, so initially gonna cost lots to repay investments and make a small number of people silly-rich. It's clear, conducts electricity and heat, and has loooots of applications. Here's a photo of it.
http://easycycling.com/graphene-is-this-the-new-carbon-fiber-for-bikes/ I saw something saying that it would take the equivalent force of an elephant balanced on a pen to break through a single sheet of graphene (1 atom thick).
+1. I started riding clipped in, cos "that's the way things are done". I'm still riding clipped in. A pair of 5-10's + flats is high up on my "to purchase" list, and keen to do a bit of unclipped riding. I quote that article when introducing new people to riding now: "Riding flat pedals makes you better. Riding clipped in makes you faster" or something to that effect.
