DJR

Yes, they seem to be relaxed about cycling through, but if you enter at a place where there is access control, like from Woolsack Drive, they will sometimes stop you. If you enter from one of the other directions where there are no guards or gates, there is nothing stopping you.

As with all of upper campus, the tracks are still closed. You are not allowed up there unless you have specific permission to be on campus, and very few have, mostly postgraduate researchers, admin and repair / maintenance staff. The Covid 3rd wave must subside first before campus will partly reopen. As for it going back to "before Covid" status, I think that is still very far off . There is no time frame yet for opening upper campus or the XC track, but I would not bet money on it opening by years end, perhaps even later? I have an idea UCT will have to cut a lot of the tall pines there to make it safe and reduce the fire risk, perhaps clear cut that whole slope, and that will take time. The logging will also destroy the tracks and they will then need serious rebuilding. (Thumbsuck / guess, I know.) The jumps below the M3 are open and rideable. Some of the local diggers / jumpers have started fixing them up again. However, many have gone home when UCT shut down and there was no longer a need for them to stay on or close to campus, so don't expect the usual winter digging and building to happen.

WTFUMean?????

I've done a better time than both that guy and Eddy in the Argus......just saying.????

Me too

My one son has been waiting since November last year for a competency certificate. Several enquiries - nada. Dead quiet. Nobody wants to even guess where in the process it is or how long it will take or even if it will ever work its' way through the shitty guts of a broken system.

As far as I know it is the sewerage works servicing the whole of the West Coast including all the new developments, that have not been upgraded and expanded to cope with the increased volume of new ****, so they cannot treat the raw sewerage sufficiently and release a massive volume of half treated sewerage back into the stream that enters into the vleis and the lagoon. DuNoon cannot help the situation, but it is not the only culprit. Rietvlei was recently closed because it was unsafe for watersports and the Milnerton Aquatic Club basically stopped functioning because of dangerously high levels of e-coli in the water. If you look at the water hyacinth overgrowth and the forests of it drifting out into the bay, then that system is SEVERELY polluted. (I was part of a plastics clean up there this very morning and I tell you, it is SHOCKING - a very shitty blot on the (mostly good) name of the Cape Town City Council. The Black river is probably as bad or worse (smells the same and as clogged with hyacinth and plastic). The exact same can be said for the streams and vleis in the Muizenberg area. Horribly polluted and abused. The Liesbeeck is a lot better, but mostly because of landowners and residents (not the council) keeping it clean. The numbers of homeless and vagrants overrunning the Liesbeeck lately, makes it difficult and sometimes dangerous though. ???? OK, that was my rant for the day!

The smell of sewerage also serves as a wake up call from 100 metres away. Disgusting.

On the couch like a bike????????

Sorry for laughing Dale, but I can really SEE the cold in that face ????

Love it to see someone making a good call and not get blinded by marketing bling. Rook Cycles are a good bunch who give good service, price their bikes reasonably and sell cool stuff. Enjoy and ride safely. B.t.w. no matter how much you pay for a helmet, just take one decent tumble and you will consider it a bargain! Been there and done that a good few times. Keep your invoice for the helmet, Giro normally has a replacement policy that means that if you crash and damage it, they will sell you a new one at a greatly reduced price, provided you can show where and when you bought it.

Just not down plum pudding Hill or they'll take up half of the hospital beds with their broken bones..........????

Someone who farms in the Stormberg mountains near Jamestown, let me know that he recorded -17C on Monday night on his farm and just wanted to tell me to stop boasting about the -14 we recorded there once.

Talk about privilege............... Disclaimer: I'm an unapologetic Lab guy

How do you know my cars and my bikes so well?!????

From your post I think you are already doing better than some experts.

I can tell you the names of dogs I worked with 20 years ago, while I forgot the names of the owners loooong ago. Some strange names among then, like Cargo and Cash. Cash got his name because he cost a pretty penny and the breeder insisted on payment in paper money. Cargo was imported from the USA and came in a crate with the word Cargo written in big letters on it. One Labrador was named Gertie but her owner never called her anything but Fat Bitch. Everyone else were kind enough to use her real name. Also lots of shooting related names (all gundogs) like Rigby and Nitro. One guy caled all his dogs girl names starting with an M, Muffin, Martha etc. Still waiting for a Muppet. My own dogs names all have a connection with their colours, Coco, Rufus etc. Strange how people decide on names, but memorable.

Only to be found on an Oakley I presume ????

http://www.durasole.co.za/durasole-contact-details.html Mr Parbo at Durasole in Wynberg is some way from Tableview, but it is an old family business who has done this kind of thing for generations, If anyone can do a proper job it will be them. It is a very difficult area to stitch neatly, but it can be done. I have taken all manners of shoes to them for quite complex repairs and they always did a good job.

Almost ended up with lamb stew????

The old steel frames vary a bit, but I have mostly found it possible to fit a 28 mm on the rear and a 32mm on the front. Don't settle for a 25mm until you have tried in a wheel with an inflated 28mm at least. It makes a BIG difference in comfort and handles rough road, potholes and stones much better than a 25mm. It also sticks better in the wet. I run Continental Gatorskins in the above sizes on 3 old classic bikes and a set of Thickslick urban tyres from Rook Cycles on a single speed. They may say 25 mm but definitely have more volume than that. Nothing beats the Contis for toughness though, and they last as well.

Damn, just like that you made me turn the colour of Ireland ????

I like the acronym - GADA But to be honest, for me, the closest I can get is 3 bikes to combinedly give me 1 GADA (1 really fantastic road bike, 1 really great old classic steel bike that also functions as a gravel bike, 1 lovely playful mtb trail bike)

Useless lot, as bad as the RAF

????Morph, that must be the ugliest post I've seen on Bikehub ever