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Kief!!!! Bos, most of the wannabee trails will be fine. I haven't ridden near the waterworks in years, so I can't comment on that. I just stay away from there. I can however advise you to go and ride Eden with your son. Park here and ride up as high as your son can, and bomb down on one of the many trails there. Flip, if he is fit enough, advise the rest of your family to meet you the two of you for breakfast at Mont Marie. Adding adventure and breakfast to a family outing is winning. My son realized yesterday that he can ride the "grown up features" at Southeys, so we'll be heading to Eden soon as well.

That’s a 12year old Reba with 32mm stanchions. It’s normal. The SID of that era and before was even worse

Bootleggers? Really great product? Are you talking about the coffee shop chain? If so, I'm which case I'm glad that taste differs.

You’ve just described all my riding for the last couple of years. A couple of mates, lekker trails on the mountain, a good day or weekend out. I can’t remember the last time I actually raced my MTB. Actually, wait, I did a couple of enduros a few years back. That counts as racing, even if we were basically racing ourselves and our mates.

Hopefully it won’t repost my reply to you as well. Would be awkward if I have to report myself to miss another time.

Luister vir Lance. Lance weet. You can take Lance’s advice as very valuable. He has been around the block, and is a Mtb coach on very high level.

Luister vir Lance. Lance weet. You can take Lance’s advice as very valuable. He has been around the block, and is a Mtb coach on very high level.

Luister vir Lance. Lance weet. You can take Lance’s advice as very valuable. He has been around the block, and is a Mtb coach on very high level.

Luister vir Lance. Lance weet. You can take Lance’s advice as very valuable. He has been around the block, and is a Mtb coach on very high level.

And where is that difference? Where would you draw the line?

“Just not out of my wallet!” MTB Karen. Probably. I am in the service industry, and a recent storm has caused a massive influx of work. I’ve doubled capacity and we still can’t get to everyone. Similarly, a lot of the shouty and obnoxious phone calls, are from people that are not clients, or have suspended accounts. There is always that one person, and most streets have them.

My youngest (5) bought the first Lego for himself this weekend. Using his saved up Tandemuis money. He chose the beautiful Speed Champions Lotus. Building took a while, as he built it himself. I dusted off some of my old Technics sets that managed to avoid ending up at in the stash at my parent's house. We had so much fun together building some of the alternates of my sets and then playing with it afterwards. I look forward to our next visit at my parents. There is a Lego train that needs to run again. I hope the weather is terrible.

Aero uber ALLES

No such thing as bed weather. Only bad clothing. Of so iets. I always run in shorts, when it gets cold a long sleeve shirt, and when it gets really cold a top or windbreaker over that. And a buff when it is Vrystaat Koud.

Nee sak Sarel. There is one mall now, and I won't call it a big one.

I see that Malmesbury has spawned a woolies food. Nearest trails are in Darling though.

Those are constructed differently, and handle impacts differently, are heavier and don’t breathe. At all: I’d much rather have a breathable crumple zone around my neural macaroni than a hard shell with some foam padding.

Doesn’t happen often, but has a potentially paralyzing effect on getting in and out of town without driving a massive detour. The riding is getting better every year, but so are the other issues you mentioned. I love it here, so my advice about S-west is rose colored. For a town to have a Woolies food, it will need to have buying power, and people, and will be crowded and city-like. Hermanus, S-West, Stellies and Paarl all have a WW, but all have traffic issues, occasional striking issues, expensive housing, and you’ll be between everyone else who made a similar move recently. I reckon longer term rental in each of your options is the key. Live in these towns for 3-6 months, see wether you like the climate, people etc before you invest. Or learn what compromises you can live with ie planning/buying food in advance. You have the flexibility, use it to your advantage, such a lovely conundrum to have. There is trails built by the locals. A nice weekends worth of riding. Nowhere near the big Boland trail centers though. now if it wasn’t for Woolies food, OP could have moved into Tulbagh. That is definitely where I’ll be buying a second house if that uncle with the 12m Euros finally replies to my email.

Pffft, @V18 takes fancy photos of broken bones and random objects in places that they are not supposed be. I’ve wondered about the flexibility of the scalp, and hair slip factor. But my receding hairline means that I need to start investing in fancy acronyms like MIPS. Elke bietjie help. Skaters and bmxers have been riding hard shell lids for years, but they don’t seem like the smartest test population. Hard plastic slides well on steel skate ramps. Not so much on tarmac.

MIPS (or turbine360) fit ventilation colour.

I rinse my helmets in the shower after every ride. Haven’t replaced pads in 4 years. No soap, nothing. Just rinsing out the sweat.

Only Firehut 2&1. I went through there a week ago, the bridge over the stream on the top Firehut is gone. This is a beautiful final day. All the lekker, but not to hard trails around Stellies.

Is it holding air? Ride it. Unless it’s too wobbly and can’t be straightened with spoke tension. but I’d give those another chance .

Yep. WY less politics on the trail side of things. Just high entry fees compared to road races. Some of it might even be worth it. I am way more willing to run far and in wild places knowing that help is already on standby with people around than ons any given Sunday on my ace.

The doyen of solo 24hrs. 👌🏻 The young trolls here still have much to learn. And if only half of the new MTB bros in the western cape can take a leaf out of your book of lekkerness…. Maar helaas. Back to Stoke: I once had the misfortune of seeing drop huck the last drop in Red Phoenix and then absolutely slicing the last berms to tag him out on an enduro. Fearing for my life as pulled in , manhandling a Banshee the length of a schoolbus. I still suffer from PTSD, but fortunately my fork and shock is buttery smooth. It is very therapeutic.