justinafrika

It looks like the kind of exciting test battle that, in more prosperous (and also less pandemicy) times, I’d travel for at the drop of a hat. Am scheduling my rides around the coverage. Go Proteas!

Prof Reisa Pretorius, HoD of Physiological Sciences at Stellies, in a recent continuing professional development event said that early indications are that 25 to 30% of those diagnosed and studied develop long covid. Individual variables of effects and recovery are exceptionally varied and impossible to predict and clearly some simply haven’t, yet... Fortunate to have a 12 lead ECG and a load of diagnostic and observation devices, even so I’ve been exceptionally cautious in getting back into rides and in increasing distance and intensity.

Like Coldplay? With tea and biscuits. Like Don Henley? Heaps of coke and Jim Beam and one of the two teen girls dead (that happened). Like Shaun Ryder? Neck 6 E’s and lose three days. Like Keith Richards? Toss the tv off the hospitality suite balcony. Live footie, wish I was there.

First day that I’m comfortable on a bike after moderate symptoms and a diagnosis 15 days ago. Did limited chilled rides on Friday and Sunday and cut the rides short as soon as i felt that I was not fully well. Just back from a chilled 26.1km beachside ride, lekkeeeerrrr...

I’ve spent hundreds of hours solo traversing all sorts of combinations of Baakens Valley trails and have only twice seen dodgy looking peeps, in the lower reaches towards Bridge Street. Having for decades run various weekday businesses and club nights and also socialising in Central and having defended male and female friends (and myself and GF once from home invaders) I do have defence-minded observation. I think BV is pretty safe while applying one's usual everyday caution. I’ve had more threats riding the high gradient out of the valley past the golf estate in 9th Ave from the Larry David look-alike NMU academic and his huskies who have twice put their gnashers around my thighs and calves as I benignly stopped. “Ag, vey yas like to scare peepol” he once said. Compared to cycling in the valley, I’ve mostdef seen FAR more dodgy characters while working at multinational corporate clients. 🙈😁

Good on Spurs, I haven’t seen them with this kind of competitive swagger for what seems like an age. Last seen when Poch was in charge.

Agreed. Then again, before turning my home perimeter into a fortress, I’d been quite successful at chasing people out of my garden and once overcame violent home invaders. Still have the knife wound scar on my hand from when Sizwezakhe Vumazonke tried to stab me when he saw me waking up on my couch. He regretted that. GF and stepdaughter were unharmed. If the name sounds familiar it’s the same guy who years later was the triggerman hired to kill Jayde Panayioutou. Afrika’s not for sissies, yes I mean me… As far as my bikes are concerned I think they’re pretty enough to sleep in the entrance hall.

A bit weird to hear in the pre-match discussion that Arsenal are number 1 in the league in terms of home match points, doesn’t “seem” like it.

It’s so bad in Amsterdam that anyone who lives there or regularly visits, including three acquaintances and countless online accounts, expects that their bikes will be stolen. With time, to replace stolen bikes, they’ve learned to steal bikes. Locals say that it’s become a norm.

Nah it’s all sorts of peeps.

Truth! A corporate training business offering various courses and an industrial theatre company and a tertiary education institution on a group site; and separately club nights and a vintage goods store and a bespoke clothing design store and we’d have cretins calling with a “How much?" “Not too much!" Edit: At a large and obvious club (that had once been a brothel) with pumping techno or drum ’n bass music, also external light effects and doormen we’d sometimes have eedjuts asking bouncers “How much for a blowjob?” or “How much for a pomp?"

Got back on his bike and rode himself to his GP before being transferred to trauma unit. It was a cheap knife and by some freak fortune the blade bent, ending up under the scalp and over the temporal bone.

https://racingnews365.com/horner-latifi-will-be-getting-a-lifetimes-supply-of-red-bull

Congrats bruh! Rapid recovery of note, must have been a MASSIVE pleasure.

Two of my graduates I’ve been told, i'M sO pRoUd Of tHeM (bumps fist to heart while pretending to wipe tear from eye) ...

Vintage Moanrinho, in just four successive days, he’s blamed a referee, injuries, the media, his own players, and even fate. Next he’ll be blaming spectators… ah, nevermind.

Can hardly wait.

A light brush of lanolin once or twice a year reportedly prevents metal oxidisation or sweat-raw aluminium discolouration while also avoiding the abrasion of metal polishes. STINKS for a few days I’m told. Even so, I’ll try that before anything else.

Great job and really kewl, love it bruh. Did you clearcoat that frame or how do you plan to maintain it? Planning a similar raw alu look for a HT and the success that some North American cycle makers have had with “sheep juice” (lanolin), at maintaining finish and preventing oxidisation, looks promising. Again, impressive build.

Will take photos of the new components on the bike tomorrow and WhatsApp them to you. Where are you? It’s available for viewing in Walmer, PE or if you choose it I’ll get my local bike shop down the road to box it before couriering to you (couriers at your expense, Courier Guy is quick and was about R965 earlier this year). Will get those pics to you.

I’m agreed with Theo on the choices, bear in mind that these cassettes and chains on the Merida and Scott bikes will need replacing. I haven’t, until seeing your thread, considered selling this beloved 2012 large Cannondale Trail SL2 29er that in September this year was fitted with new chainrings, new bottom bracket, newer less worn cranks, new chain, new cassette, new brake pads front and rear (and bled front and rear). Worn original saddle was replaced with a black 2020 Bontrager saddle. Rockshox Recon 100mm air fork serviced by RBC. Oh, and a new Deore XT rear derailleur in January 2021 to replace the finicky SRAM one (edit: and both shifters). All that’s a lot! Tires will need replacing in a month or two. The Shimano brakes on those two bikes are better quality than the Avid brakes on the Cannondale. The Avid brakes have had no issues and as previously stated front and rear brakes were both bled when new pads were fitted in September. All that in preparation for my son’s December visit but that’s not happening any longer. A few pics from before all those new components were fitted (will take pics of new components when I get my phone back): It’s ready to roll and is great on the type of trails that you mentioned. R10 200 fits between the pricing for those other two similar vintage bikes with worn components, if you’re interested.

A couple of these in different colours have been great in hard rotation in a six day cycling week for 18 months now. Excellent for keeping thighs cool on long, hot days out. They’ve stood up really well, colour still deep black as well. Paid about half that takealot price though.

He’s a bit like me old mate Hamish van der Merwe, also more lyrically known as Scotch on the Rocks. Sterkte, Vetseun.