Shebeen

I thought Beers was tall.

I suppose cyclists (sport and/or commuter) choose to not use lights for a combination of reasons: * they are not there/charged when they go riding early morning and don't feel like fiddling * they can see just fine, and don't care about being seen * they just don't own them. As a cyclist you can get irritated by these ghosts in the dark either because they are a hazard to you, or you are concerned for their safety (or both). The official stats from road accident deaths are sobering. ~43% of deaths are pedestrians. 2022 - 12436 deaths, of which 5347 where pedestrians. about 15 per day. Many of these will be drunk pedestrians, walking into the road - we're not changing that habit in a hurry. but some will just be walking in the darkness and are impossible to see. If only black label gave away free beanies with reflective strips for every case sold these numbers might come down. The simplest upgrade for cyclists which has no battery requirements is 3m reflective tape. I use the white one, put it on chain stays, seatpost and even small bits on pedal as that moves.

wait. so there's a potential problem with Assos and/or Power saddles? doesn't the hub go 404 offline for a day if anyone complains about either?

so they got sold out. That's a case to order more and a wider range.

exactly. for comparison

@CaptainKipper yes. this bike doesn't exist without photos. @cvdup maybe not what you're looking for, but decathlon classify this as a "touring bike". i don't see why, no visible mounting attachments for one and a suspension fork. https://www.decathlon.co.za/mountain-bikes/329414-54169-29quote-touring-mountain-bike-explore-540-blue-black.html

Van Rysel RCR is winning UCI races and sold out immediately https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-gear/so-fast-it-out-paced-the-order-book-decathlons-van-rysel-super-bike-sells-out-in-hours/ Dubau is not going to badly with the rockrider XC bike either https://bikerumor.com/pro-bike-check-joshua-dubau-rockrider-xc-bike/ They've got some decent bikes available, and i guess if they sell enough they might send out more in the range. Anyone biting? https://www.decathlon.co.za/3414-bicycle?order=product.price.desc&q=0

depending on where you're starting from, Marremsboerie is going to add on some extra distance. atlantis=>darling=>hopefield is your alternative but it's not a great ride either. the tar section has f0k0l shoulder and is windy in places. the dirt from darling is full of sinkplaat during summer too.

If you are actually selecting a bike on its carbon footprint, I really hope you have picked all the other low hanging fruit in your life first. A kilogram of carbon fibre is not going to shift the needle on the planet dying or living, but have fun recycling your steel frame when you do it. If you're going bespoke money no object UK frame build, support a Saffa (assuming you can wait long enough) https://www.saffronframeworks.com/ordering/

get one of these for every 6 enclosed loos. will really free up the queue. assuming it's a mtb race, make sure the route is marked with both lime arrows on the ground and direction boards. only release the gpx of route once you have confirmed it. If you don't have 99% confidence of the route then get that sorted first if possible. Nothing worse than someone loading version 1.2 of the route on wednesday to their garmin when you have version 1.4 on race day. people will think their electronics will never lie.

Did you or @milky4130 take any pictures? They claim a plastic free race and had a lot of cleaners busy during the event. I think they might send another crew if prompted, weather is good for it now too. I'm considering a light jog this afternoon, pilates yesterday was not that bad

Had exactly this at Two Oceans on Saturday at 4:30am before the start. Luckily a lady leant me two of her wet wipes (don't think she wanted them back). Not a hard thing to get right, it was at least there by the time I was done(and the queue was already down the street).

The way everyone drops them I assumed it will be picked up. I used the bins, there are plenty of them. On the subject of litter, having a plastic free race is a pain. I know the reasons for it are great, but paper cups are crap compared to a simple sachet of water that you can take on the run That's a great result, thanks for sharing. The guy driving the 5:30 bus was going to require some impressive driving at the end to make his stop in time. Apparently came in with not many passengers (I got off gracefully coming down chappies)

Not sure it's the smartest thing to throw these accusations on the internet. You might be hiding behind an anonymous pseudonym but lawyers are clearly involved and you could get this thread and bike hub implicated (again). Suggest you edit your post.

there is supposed to be a renegade Cedar 6 months before/after the official one. but i'm not on the right whatsapp group because that would mean it was last weekend!

spitballing, but surely a bike in for service does not belong to the lbs. You'd just need to prove it with a service booking to the sheriff which might not be so quick.

link doesn't work for me (Asking for my brother, who works on an oil rig in west africa and is looking to get into cycling).

bliksem, that is rapid....aim for sub5 and get sub4? I came I ran I finished! Was hoping for 5:45, but happy to finish without niggles ahead of comrades. Tried to be very conservative going out, but was under the splits for 5:45 pacing. at halfway I thought it was going to be a struggle to finish, but held on up constantia nek without walking and then just got home from there on willpower*. 5:42 in the end, still a bit stiff today but happy that I did it. Will probably write a better longer form report, it's an incredible event. * gel/nutritution feedback. Surprised at how meagre the stations are at running races, you have to take your own food (or run on coke/powerade!), there was one with bananas and another with potatoes. Which means the clubs all set up their own stand somewhere along the way for their members. After being sick, I was actually nervous of having coke (which i normally love in races) so happy that i went with Gu/32gi, felt full after constantia nek. Will definitely try maurten on a long hard run sometime to see how it goes. They had a "2oceans race hamper" @ R900 that i probably should have gone for.

"crash" course? I assume this is for your own bikes? I did one years back at a bikeshop, but reckon YT has everything you need to know now. plus put your queries up here on the Tech Q&A section

We have a house at yzers, so have done some riding to/from there before. assuming you are leaving from milnerton/blouberg area. R27 is not bad with a nice shoulder, it's a bit bumpy as a road surface. It has become quite busy, but average speed trap camera seems to have helped the crazy speeding mostly. You will get a lot of yellow lane driving so I would have very bright clothing and bright red flashers. incidentally it can be great angle in a south easter. some madman set an unofficial world hour record in a busting gale not that long ago on it.

Still saved in my browser history, so can read it. I won't upload it back here but people might still be able to find it there. From what is publicly available knowledge, I do find the sequence of events quite insane. jan-mar 2023 - Epic training mar 2023 - Epic, insane race, including the ducttape incident and holding and losing the orange leaders jersey. 2nd place on GC. apr 15 2023 - athlete comes 2nd at SA XCO champs, urine test taken may 2023 - goes to europe to do 2 XCM world cup with a belgian stage race in between may 20 2023 - bike stolen from race village in belgium! may 25 2023 - new bike from sponsors may 26 2023 - athlete informed of positive test from XCO champs, with provisional suspension june 6 2023 - athlete comes 8th at xcm world cup in italy june 21 2023 - athlete announces a break from cycling..... I'm not adding any of my own comment on the above events.

Sjoe. That is not a story I expected to see. Through a totally non cycling related conversation someone told me that she had been convinced by a therapist that pro cycling is pretty crazy. On the balance of things it is insane. The decision had been made to step back and move on with the rest of her life. Seemed reasonable in my mind. This was all hearsay, so I didn't comment on any of the speculation on why she hadn't been racing/returning to Epic. So I am surprised to see what actually happened, and all of this going on behind the scenes. I guess there are reasons for it, but almost a year for the decision to be made is surely too long. I'm not sure if the stolen bike in europe incident happened with all of this going around at the same time.

look guys. the 2nd hand car market was very inefficient, and ripe for disruption. if WBC didn;t do it, then someone else with a less dumb name would. but can we get back on topic with the name and shame please? friday is TOMORROW and we need to build up some steam.

awesome!!! we're doing two oceans so that won the clash. always loved coming to the 'gu to play bikes for a weekend

is that a double negative?