DJR

Ha ha, funny thing happend on the way to the comedy show............ I once spoke to a ranger in The Hell about the road that was closed because of flooding..........I switched to Afrikaans............and he said.........."ek is juis op pad soontoe, ek sien jy ry 'n Landy, volg my"🙂

https://www.sanparks.org/parks/tankwa-karoo/what-to-do/activities https://www.sanparks.org/parks/tankwa-karoo/what-to-do/activities/mountain-biking On their website, SANParks gives mountain biking as one of the activities for the Tanqua Karoo National Park, so, yes, cycling is allowed, but then they say also say this: ".......overnight visitors are allowed to make use of marked roads within the immediate vicinity of their booked facility. No walking or bicycling is allowed in the rest of the Park." Which means that only people staying over are allowed to cycle around their cottages. I still don't see how they can advertise "mountain biking" on their website and then say that. I also don't think they can prevent you from cycling in from one side and out the other, just like they cannot stop anyone using a public road using a car or a motorcycle. I suppose a phone call directly to the Tankwa admin offices is what you need to do. No use asking the SANParks headoffice, they won't know if the sun is shining outside their windows. Best to ask those IN Tankwa.

I have also cycled in the park. It now sounds strange, but it was so obviously "allowed" that we did not even ask. It is an open park with a public road crossing right through it, so, my take is that they cannot prevent you from riding at least on the main through-road. About the smaller routes in the park, I suppose I'll now have to ask next time.

A minute of my day well spent.😁

"Ha ha", says Jan Ulrich while turning......"I want a re-match for that title"

He just didn't like the idea of an ear piercing.....

Just to make sure I don't get shot through the ear by an angry Cavendish fan, I am in awe of what he did and I admire him tremendously. Oh, and I know it is impossible to compare him to Merckx. Even just the decades in between them makes it nonsensical.

I am an old Eddy Merckx fan (yes, I know he doped) and I suspect even he may be secretly amazed at what Cavendish did..........but then...........if you consider that Eddys' stage wins came from mountain stages, sprints and time trials (not just sprints) and that he won all the jerseys (green, polka and yellow), ........perhaps The Cannibal is still the greatest? Besides, having a nickname like "Sir" is just lame. 😉 Ps. Tongue in cheek warning

I have often bought offcuts from Rarewoods for very simple projects like a quick no-frills cutting board as a quick unique hand made present for someone. What makes it special is the wood and not necessarily the complexity of how you make the cutting board. A simple piece of wild olive, nicely sanded and oiled, will (to my taste) be as beautiful as the fanciest end grain pattern cutting board that takes incredible skill and much time to make. I think the same principle will apply to a key rack. Find a nice piece of unusual wood and you won't have to do anything fancy to make something very special. You will also see Rarewoods........and that is a bit like the "cathedral of wood" in Cape Town.......almost? a spiritual place to visit, even if just for the smells and to look at "unobtanium" (price wise) wood.

Rarewoods in Epping has an offcuts shop where you will be able to find something unusual and beautiful.

Poor Vincent, what did he ever do to deserve THAT? 😜

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Tokai Mtb works on the mountain every day and their efforts is the reason there was only ONE attack up there in about 3 or 4 years

"Science" is often flawed, no doubt. But at least it is open to examination, re-evaluation and correction, as history has proved many times over. But what else should we "follow" as an alternative when it comes to health matters? Folklore? Superstition? Anecdotal stories? Beliefs? Trump? These are not based on something that allows examination, re-evaluation and correction. All alternatives are even more fallible, methinks.

If I look at the road carnage I think there are many who don't even know they are supposed to drive on the left..........leave alone opening a door without looking first🤪

Agreed, a positive develeopment very long overdue. The City of Cape Town simply MUST clean up the grime and crime unless it wants to allow its inner city to die together with the goose that lays golden eggs for it, tourism. I am sorry for the homeless, and have many years of co-existing with them in my neck of the woods, but as it stands since Covid, it is totally out of control and needs to be addressed.

Double post

Funny that you say that just a few hours before mid winter...........tomorrow I expect you to post that summer is coming......always positive Dale👍 Glad to see you are up and rolling again, Dale

I'm happy to donate a couple of gin traps to be set up along the skelms escape routes.

Am I the only one who find it ironic that in ZA it is the honest law abiding people who have to use burner phones............elsewhere it seems to be the assassins, druglords and dodgy spies who use burner phones (I have to admit that my knowledge of this is all gained from the movies and Blacklist). Shall we call it a mugger phone rather?

Policing is not a function of the PPA. Advocating for cycling safety is. So, i.m.h.o. the question should be: Why don't the PPA arrange for a massive protest at the relevant police stations? Edit: I say, invite the downhillers also.........it will be rowdy enough to grab international attention! (Just kinda kidding all ye wild ones!)

This is a really ****** up world

I have given up on that stretch of road, sadly. ..........It is my personal little cyclists nightmare filled with reckless, homicidal, stupid, unqualified drivers, Ubers, muggers and pedestrians, all trying their level best to kill me while they try to find parking to go buy a mundane gluten free vegan muffin at the Old Biscuit Mill.........and if I survive them, I know I can look forward to the next death trap horror..........Salt River Circle..........the purest form of traffic chaos and ineptitude, situational blindness, trucks, taxis and idiocy on earth..........and then I hear the alarm clock scream and I am so grateful that it is 5.30am, dark, cold and wet outside, but that I am alive and can go to work rather than the morgue....... I signed anyway, who knows, perhaps some day the City will do the right thing and build a dedicated separate cycle lane through there. It is the only safe way and NOT rocket science! Edit: You noticed the hyperbole above, didn't you?

It sounds like you are talking about the Salt River death trap around the Old Biscuit Mill?

The next one: My C40