DJR

I'm sorry, but I have to confess to suffering from a very serious bout of jealousy........

My No. 1 favourite pass in the whole wild world!

Arabian Oryx - pretty special.

Yes, but we braai on charcoal and in a Weber 🤪

Sadly, I think it is up to us as cyclists and citizens to look after ourselves. Most of us already do that at home and through our neighbourhood watches. We pay willingly (extra tax) for armed response, alarm monitoring, cameras, beams, electric fences etc.. Perhaps we should widen our approach? Get private security firms involved, fund them to do what the SAPS are not doing. Patrol, sting, investigate, catch and prosecute the criminals! Perhaps organisations like the PPA should also add the criminal aspect of cycling safety to their list of things to do? Not just helping to prosecute hit and run drivers. At least the PPA have been there for 40 + years. But I won't hold my own breath for their help either. I don't think involving the politicians will help. They will promise the earth and do nothing. They have no long term vision or commitment and only think as far as their next election. People, neigbourhoods, towns, districts, will have to look after ourselves and put our money where our mouths are.

A few years back we had a problem with drug dealing in our street. We tried to lay a complaint and were told to write down car registration numbers and times of the dealings and supply it to the police. The neigbours compiled a list. I delivered it by hand to the local station commander. The VERY next day the suspicious dealings disappeared. NO police patrols, NO sting operation. The ONLY logic is that the info somehow made it to the drug dealers and they moved somewhere else. I suppose I am saying not to put your trust or your hopes on the SAPS. Even though they DID solve our drug dealing problem. They are not going to solve the bikejacking problem.

Jungle justice is a very deep, very dark hole for criminal, vigilante and innocent bystander alike and near impossible to get out of once you are in it.

Watch a movie called "All In Time" that is / was on Netflix. Starts out slow and made me wonder where it was going ......... and then the surprizes started coming! To cut a long story short, it makes / made me think of where / when I would go / went if / when time travel is / was / will be invented. I'm putting Pomei on the list right next to The Wall in Berlin. My list is / was rather long and will / did / is keeping me busy for quite a while.🙃

Is the dog on his shirt designed to look like the yin/yang sign? Cool if it is, cool if it isn't!

@ Hairy, if you enjoyed Piet Botha, dig up a little Koos Du Plessis also. Lyrics absolutely world class. Afrikaans Bob Dylan, ek se! Poetry and music rolled into one.

I liked him for being his own man and choosing his own path, very much different from what the times, his culture and his family would have expected of him. Truly a unique personality to be admired.

Weltervrede road?

I thought I knew the backroads of the Cape and I cannot believe I have not come across the Mikpunt Station before. Cool name too.

Yes! Except that in my own case I grew up with a Scottish granny and great-granny who believed that Whiskey could fix ANYTHING! Runny tummy? Teaspoon of scotch! Constipated? Teaspoon of Scotch! Stutters? ......... Headache? ............. you get the picture?! They were TOUGH women!

Quite an impressive stencil artpiece that

😁 No, all those stories about 5G causing it, Bill Gates implanting micro robots that will control the world through vaccinations, all of it totally true! The only part they got wrong, was that it was Elon Musk and Starlink behind it, not BG. And I have proof! Just look at the newest version of government in the USA and tell me that it didn't work, half the people on half a continent, all behaving like Grade threes. I tell you, World War Z is happening right now, call Bradd Pitt or we are doomed! Ps You did notice my tongue very deep in my cheeck didn't you? (Before the CIA come-a-knockin! Or a Tesla from space falls on my head!)

Just a headsup.........them saying something like that is usually followed by a request for money.........or worse, to be allowed to go to some crazy party........or a piercing .......... just kidding.

https://vintageaviationnews.com/vintage-aviation/dh60-100-year-anniversary-event-to-gather-tiger-moths-in-south-africa.html I did a few spins in a Moth as a highschool kid (imagine flying the Karoo vlaktes, Out Of Africa style) and again in my 30s (Cape Peninsula on a perfect winters day). It was always one of those once in a lifetime events even if I was lucky enough to do a good few. The original Moth owner, our neighbour, passed away recently. My friend who took me for a spin in my 30s, since sold his one. So, I thought I saw the last of the Moths.........and out of the blue someone offered me a flip again.........now to make it happen. For old times sake. Did anyone go to the Jhb gathering last weekend.......or were you all cycling?

Great to see the view from your office every so often, Spokey.

Sadly, one Lt Col does not an effective police force make............ But I like the guy 👍

It doesn't look so bad ......... until you multiply by 23 .......... 😶

Ha ha, you helped to start my Friday with a chuckle!

International Power Products (IPP) in Montague Gardens / Milnerton 021 551 4141 Phone them first to check. I have done other stuff with them, but not a bike.........mine are still human powered. They know their stuff repacking all kinds of batteries, but they don't like doing laptops..

What a list of bands! It almost sounds too good to be true.........hope it isn't.........and that all of them stay alive and in one piece until the big day!

It seems some of our esteemed Mayco members are currently too busy getting their offices raided by the police (themselves a very dodgy lot) looking for evidence of corrupt dealings, to do much about the safety of Woodstock and a few vulnerably cyclists. (Ok, I know that I'm now just being a tad bitchy........bite me!)