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As an Oscar owner I reckon I'll take a Silvia with a PID over the Oscar. The Silvia is prettier, has a smaller footprint and with a PID takes most of the temp surfing guesswork out. The Oscar is not pretty, but has a bigger boiler, so I bang out shot after shot while steaming milk on the side, this is lekker when I have a bunch of people over. But taking my machine to Montague Gardens for a service while I can have a Silvia serviced at my local in Somerset West is also a las.

At the end of the day your satisfaction is what matters to you. You've obviously reached the point where your machine and and coffee is dialed in. And that is a beautiful place to be in life. A pro who is used to using the manual machine and the nuances thereof can pull amazing shots, and probably has the pallet to distinguish the differences. But tbh a lot of coffee shop baristas slaughter coffee or the milk, so much so that I take an aeropress and gas stove with me rather than stop at some coffee shops in some towns. So it goes.

I think it must by like having a rooikop skelmpie. Sounds awesome in theory, but life will most likely blow up in spectacular fashion when (not if) things go wrong.

@meezo and anyone else with an Oscar. The frame on mine has rusted through at the bottom. As in vrot. Mine was second hand and I had to replace the control unit shortly after getting it due to water damage, so I don't know it's history, but I found a couple of mentions of it on oversea forums. My local roaster says it happens on Silvia machines as well. I'll have a new frame made up our of stainless steel some time and rebuild it, and maybe drill a few holes in the casing at the bottom. I've asked my wife to remind me that my Italian coffee machine is held together with duct tape whenever I mention Alfa Romeo again.

Well, no one expects a battleship to yield. Except land. The land does not care how much travel you have if you are heading straight toward it.

Don't be surprised if they sleep next to that cot when babyface is sleeping. Baloo is very protective off the kids (Bouviers are known for it,) and it seems that he has adopted Josh. Baloo will play rough with me, and as soon as Josh steps in, Baloo lets him take the tug toy we were playing with and then walk meekly behind Josh as he plays with it. Last night Josh walked into our room, waking us up. Baloo sleeps next to my bed, as soon as I jumped up, Baloo jumped in between me and Josh preventing me from picking him up until I told Baloo to stand down. Baloo promptly went back to sleep, and Josh kept us awake for the next two hours.

Baloo has all the fur, but still always finds a warm spot.

Please don't. She was dealt the cancer card, and the cbd probably enhanced her quality of life, and maybe slowed it down, but she would have died sooner or later. At 9 she had a good run. While saying that, I'm already dreading the day that I have to greet Baloo.

Is that why you downgraded from a stumpy to the school bus?

Happy days!

Mense met toddlers. Wat op Vrydae net halfdag werk maar nêrens het om te gaan nie. Dag dronk is niemand se vriend nie. Die Ford auto boks is ook baie onopwindend. Ek sal dit (oupa boks) net in toekoms vat omdat ek swaar sleep en dit doen nogal goed is daarmee. Verder is dit maar net 'n bakkie. Hard geveer, swaar op sous en ongemaklik om te parkeer. Defs nie 'n GTI of 911 as dit kom by opwinding nie. Mate of mine did the same, wanted two bikes to fit without taking off the wheels. Ended up buying a Caddy.

Agreed, and as a fan of big diesel engines in high torque applications a well timed double clutch makes me happy. The Auto in my Isuzu trucks is totally uninspiring, but the right choice when someone else drives your trucks. Nee Greasy, jy is net lui.

Will this satisfy you? Oh BTW, seeing as your wife does all the driving in your household, did you really have a say when you bought a car for the family?

Imagine crossing the line together thinking you are going to sing Kumbaya and then the organiseer flips a coin to find the winner.

I've done a similar thing as well. Spent a long day in one of my auto trucks, came back dead tired. Got into my bakkie, drove off, and for most of the farm we drive in 2nd and keep it there. But then I got to the T-Junction, slowed down on the brake and stalled the bakkie. I love working through the gears, but my fleet is slowly changing over to auto, and my bakkie will follow suit.

Ja but only up to a point. But that is like comparing a modern Hilux with a 1986 Hilux, while the slade is s Land Kroozer. The new Hilux is nice, but for it's purpose won't hold a candle up to the Kroozer. Don't but a slade if you want to ride funrides, XCO races and do marathon rides. Buy the slade if you plan to get rowdy, ride rock gardens, do jumps and do things that your wife will classify as stupid.

The Slade is a hardcore hardtail. A trail Bike rather than a traditional marathon bike. So if you want to ride trails fast and jump stuff, the Slade is your bike. If you want to klap a lot of gravel roads and cover kms quickly then the slade is not your bike. The geometry and spec is very good for its intended use.

Shimano already has a gearbox, it's mostly a touring/commuting groupset. The market isn't willing to accept the weight and drag. The drag is getting less, but gearboxes are still pretty heavy. Oh and the fact that it does not fit on almost all frames.

Hy is 'n interessante perd. Ive ridden with him once, not my cup of tea. He'll bitch and moan about cycling safety and how the police won't help and all that, and then he uses lockdown regulations to wipe his arse with.

Ja, what is wrong with 104bcd?

Having just serviced all my shimano pedals yesterday I'm an unashamed fan of cup and cone bearings. Even the Deore pedals are easy to service if you have the pedal tool. My wife is still running shimano hubs that I rode on in 2006 on one of her bikes. Original bearings that have been maintained.

I reckon electronic and integration of different systems is where they'll focus next instead of adding another click. And definite refinements of it to follow. Di2 might trickle down to SLX eventually, and AXS will also trickle down. Shimano might clean Di2 up a bit to catch up to the wireless AXS. Maybe bundle their PRO branded seatpost and bars into Di2 somehow? Maybe route all the Di2 cables through the bar ala Magura so that it looks like a singlespeed.

I'm going to assume that you are an android fan? Having used SRAM and shimano, and Apple and Android, I reckon the only part of your analogy that holds true is that people are a fan of the one and then prefer that ecosystem. They have different feels due to the different actuation ratios, and people either prefer the solid direct shifting of sram, or the smooth quiet no fuss shifting of shimano. If you like baking then you'll pick sram, if you want a solid workhorse then it's shimano. I've run top end of shimano and the top end of sram, and the bottom end of both. At the top end there isn't much between them but personal preference, but I'll never pick SX or NX over deore. Or at all actually. At the bottom end I've had too many issues with sram build quality and the finickyness of their 11speed when setting the indexing. Gone are the easy setup of SRAMs 10spd systems. Even XO1 has had me vloeking next a workstand. Nee dankie.

Oooooh yeah! 4pot brakes, 11clicks and at deore price points without being SRAM. Yes please. I'll change a freebody for this.

You could probably just replace the air spring of the fox32 to a longer one to get more travel. But that new 120mm SID........ yes please!