DJR

PLEASE make sure that C40 goes to a home where it will get some riding. It is one of the milestones of bike design and certainly the bike that really set the benchmark for carbon frames for decades to come. For a bike that was first made 28 years ago, it is still able to keep up (and sometimes beat) the latest and greatest wonders. And if the Campagnolo is 10 speed Record, then it is also dressed in possibly the best most bombproof groupset ever made. (Just too great a bike to not use.) But hey, that's just me and I'm a C&C groupie!

Which made me think what the SA disaster of choice is........could only think of politicians........

Wanna be ready for the zombies as well as the aliens?

So glad Land Rover never made chainsaws or this thread would have been forever off into the wilderness.................🤣

In case I haven't mentioned it before, I always kee a box of disposable rubber gloves handy for whenever I have to do a messy, oily, greasy job. I don't like black fingernails and grazed knuckles.

You called? My Defender now has a couple of mods to make those impossible things easier. 1. A hole cut in the load bin to allow access to the diesel pump without removing the whole tank. It makes a day job into an hour job. 2. A trap door in the gearbox tunnel to make removing and replacing easier. It keeps mechanics from needing psychiatric help. 3. A special extention bolt on transfer box to allow easier access and save grazed knuckles.

You didn't use "the right words" while you were struggling .......... sorry, I cannot post those words here ........... I was brought up to use hem only in appropriate circumstances .......... but I think yours would have qualified. 😃

All jokes aside, like others have said, the first thing is to get the right size road bike. It is more critical than on a mtb, because you will be spending more time in the same position than on a mtb. Then, if you are young and athletic, you can cope easily with a very racy bike that will give you a flat bent forward and more aerodynamic position. Good, but if you are getting on the grey side of time, then a somewhat more upright, less racy geometry will be easier on the back, neck and arms. If you plan to keep your mtb, then go for the skinny and fast road machine. If you plan to sell your mtb, perhaps consider a gravel /all road bike for the versatility. But then you lose a bit on the high speed side. (I also first rode mtb and then added road, but that was so long ago, gravel bikes didn't even exist.......)

The whole point of a red bike is that nobody sees the blood from said eyeballs running down the frame.

Heard on the radio that his test bowling average is now the best for all times. Can't find it this morning in my newsfeed though. Radio commentator remarked how sad it was that SA plays so few tests lately because it limits his numbers much more than the other stars he just overtook.

Oh, I OFTEN do that Eddie, especially when I find a hens tooth.🤣

Never tire of this, possibly one of the greaterst musi videos ever from a time when they were at their apex!

I'm also not convinced that building something like that in the desert is at all possible to do sustainably and I think the claim that it will provide all its own energy and water needs, is a stretch. Provide all its own food? Surely not. Get rid of all its rubbish? I doubt it. Not on that scale, not in the desert. Not for that number of people. Not with what it will cost.

Yup, sadly the Cape streams are closed at the moment and will only open in September.........and then be too high and cold to fish until October, so, here are a couple of pictures from last season. (I also thought this thread was culled in the big cleanup). Both are from the Holsloot river in the Stetteyns Kloof near Rawsonville. I kind of re-discovered it after fishing elsewhere for a few years and was pleasantly reminded of what a fantastic place it is and how pretty its rainbows are! Mods, just so you know, this is all cycling related........see, I'm wearing my Cycle Tour ICE ID whenever I fish alone, so, if I do come short, those who find me will know where to drop me off for recycling!

.....and bent the little thingy..........don't ask how I found out🤪

Check if it is perhaps a dual one. There are even some pump heads that work on both at the same time. No need to change anything. Scrader, Presta, no difference, just stick it in and pump (I know how that sounds, sorry).

Most of the pump heads are reversable and will work for both Presta and Scrader. Sometimes you just have to turn the rubber inserts around.

I know a guy who, as a youngster, did 1 Argus only. His first and last..........at around 3 hours! We talked about the tour and of course times came up! He said his father bought a ticket at a charity auction to ride the tour as the stoker on a tandem.......with Jan Ulrich! He gave the entry to his son, then around 14 or so, but he never got into cycling. (Never been able to verify the story though, but I hope it is true because it is a good story.)

Got a head from Olympic Cycles in Claremont recently.........OK, it was just before the Covid lockdown..........so maybe not THAT recently. Any good old fashioned bike shop with lots of stock should have one..

We did a few trips likie this. Two double expedition kayaks on the roof and 6 bikes on the trailer (3 road and 3mtb). Paddle Keurbooms and Robberg at Plett and ride both the road and mtb Knysna challenge. Or paddle the Gariep and ride the Richtersveld. It was a bit crazy and we stopped trying to do too much all at the same time (I suppose sanity prevailed in the end.)

I have 2 roof top tents as well as 2 canvas bow (ground) tents. There is no ideal tent, they are all compromises. On some trips the rooftop tents can be considered near essential (Move every day, never stay long, big 5 country and wild camping with big cats.) Other times ground tents are more practical. (Stay for a few days or a week at a time. No predators, more amenities.) Generally, on cycling or paddling expeditions, we use the ground tents because we usually carry 4 bikes or 2 double kayaks and the only good way (rough dirt roads and tracks) is to stack them on the roofrack..........thus no place for rooftop tents. On the Landy I can fit 1 rooftop tent and bikes, but it is a squeese. On most other cars the rooftop tent take up too much space to allow for more than 1 bike.

Good to see you getting back on form and glad that your sense for composition was not damaged!😜

Not entirely impossible (theoretically, because I have not tried it myself) to just use a "pay as you go" car in some European cities. Works on the same basis as those rental bikes. Download app, insert card, drive, leave it wherever your trip ends. Take another one when you need it next.

The Pienaar clan won't be able to say a thing about a proper chainring tattoo........all you need is to try do a sudden stop with a brakeless fixi if you want one! 😁

Your tribal tattoo should definitely include a bike of some kind.