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  1. Shebeen
    time to go back to pagers. https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/HEZBOLLAH-PAGERS/mopawkkwjpa/
  2. Shebeen
    Adventures loading. First time I've been piloting a tandem. The important thing so far has been moving the top speed needle above 50km/h. Plenty of runway still there, but some hasty training to happen in a hurry with Argus#27 and Argus#1 round the corner
  3. Shebeen
    this looks FKN epic https://bikepacking.com/routes/caucasus-crossing/
  4. Shebeen
    Have done a few bikepacking trips with mates around the western cape - unsupported. Our mantra has been if something goes wrong, we fix it. If it is fubar issue then the group will make a plan to get you sorted, then "abandon" you to hitchhike/whatever with our original plan. This makes it an incredibly cheap holiday, but that's not really the point it is more the simplicity we like. I think you need to decide what you want from this. Do you want to start a profitable side hustle, or just open the experience to other saffas? If it's the former then you should really be looking at the european market too. There's nothing stopping my crew from flying across the world to do what you're offering, but you doing the local knowledge/school fees first would make it a worthwhile service to pay for. People are different. the different options here will apply differently to those interested. Personally I'd want to do a point to point/circular "journey". Coming back to family each day after a tough but rewarding day in the saddle is not my fun. BUT, first thing you really need to do is go explore yourself. work out some options.
  5. Shebeen
    careful on the device waterproofing if you've opened it on your kitchen table - AFAIK they replace all seals everytime they open a device, but this could just be a way to force you to use their overpriced service service. Blows my mind how so many people fanboi on and on about how awesome garmin products and backup are, but then have a personal story about a failure on one or both of the above.
  6. Shebeen
    Takes 24 months from the tip off to busting the factory? Is that careful police work or just a low priority investigation?
  7. Shebeen
    Looks like I'm too late to be needed! My 27th, but first on a long bike. Mildly frothing at the experience
  8. Shebeen
    This does happen far too often though. I know "budgets are allocated" etcetc, but wonder why stranded riders don't get snapped up for a bargain? The cost to go from 2 to 3 riders for instance is not an extra 50%.
  9. Shebeen
    on the one hand I'm not really sympathetic to the whims of followers of any mass religions, but it would have been a really great initiative to have the date moved for this (and next?) year. It's not like they didn't have enough time to plan around it. Maybe the numbers of muslim riders are just not that significant (very open to being wrong there - guessing ~500). Maybe the timing is a bit more fixed than we think and it fits into Cape epic pre warmup calendar.
  10. Shebeen
    I dunno if multi day gravel racing is what people. No one does. If it is a great idea, then he has first mover advantage but it is really easy to replicate. While Kev was explicit in not playing in the Epic turf, he has gone and secured a title sponsor rival. Gloves off in the Sandton boardrooms! I thought WeWork was kaput, but it seems they are on some life support. https://www.treadmtb.co.za/nedbank-commits-to-five-year-title-sponsorship-of-gravel-burn/
  11. Shebeen
    dunno. maybe not excusively https://www.instagram.com/benkyrides/
  12. Shebeen
    I know we're not Colombia level, but they clearly had coverage. on the PCS rankings as a country we're 25th, in between Canada and Kazakhstan. a 2min youtube search does not have the recent Looney champs and pretty sure the Kazakh one is not aired if Vino jr doesn;t win.
  13. Shebeen
    love this line of reasoning. The okes who buy the new SWerks every year keep the 2nd hand market topped up of quality bikes. You can buy excellent rim brake road bikes and non boost mtbs because the masses got sold a concept that seemed like a huge technology leap (but the actual gain is debatable). Perfectly good bikes became "obsolete", and therefore cheap cheap for those who know where to look.
  14. Shebeen
    I like many others used to SH@%^$ on Raleighs as hyperama bikes while malcolm and the microsoft boys were cleaning up on the road and KevEv doing likewise on the dirt. A few years later and a frame failure meant I was looking for something new. A mint RM X.0 carbon hardtail frame came up here cheep cheep, I swallowed my pride and built everything over. A few weeks later, and some skollie jumped my wall and swiped it in broad daylight after I'd just washed it. Luckily I was properly insured, and the payout got me something lekker that i still ride today. I figured karma was telling me something. I do wonder if those thousands of Raleigh's out there will ever be considered classics, but there are surely just too many in the wild (and they are still crap bikes - just had to say that!)
  15. Shebeen
    nothing against this bike at alll, but if you're looking at the Curve and having issues this week then it might be because mr Benky who is the local Curve guy is doing the Atlas mountain race kicking off tomorrow. he's a top guy,
  16. Shebeen
    pulling this thread out of the archives! this is one of the ORIGINAL mtb races, internets tell me it was held at least in 2019. did it die a covid death? https://www.bicycling.co.za/event/lighthouse-2-lighthouse-2-day-mtb/
  17. Shebeen
    correct. wifey did it last year, has the same BLACK MAMBA hill about 5km near the end
  18. Shebeen
    I'm not sure if we could or should put any of the blame on MTNQ, so by association Doug Ryder. He pushed the team as the window of opportunity for the vast unearthed talent pool of an entire continent to make it to the cycling's top table. He needed to find individuals to peddle this story, and put them on a pedastal*. When it didn't work out, and he was really fighting for his own survival he seemed to just drop these riders. I'm not sure if there was any professional development done, but it's quite a change both in and then out. Granted Nic was the only rider kept on the roster going forward, so maybe I'm being unfair. *somehow i didn;t put the word "pedal" in that sentence
  19. Shebeen
    Sort of off topic and a few months old now. but the delivery scooter guys are taking some heat off us cyclists as per usual, would be interesting to see what actually happened to cause this.
  20. Shebeen
    yup. did it in 2007 and again in 2024. am entered for this year too. i like point 2 point races, just don't think it's all flat going past a lagoon. the road is clearly built on deceptive rolling sand dunes. it's a cool event. just a bloody early start with the busride!
  21. Shebeen
    I don't want to sound negative here, so instead it is nice to see that Songezo Jim is still involved with an inspiring academy. Maybe the guys at Olympic Cycles are well placed to make this work too. Nic has a good story to tell. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100048740816192#
  22. Shebeen
    random thought. Would AH ever considering doing a CX race? probably closer to the XCO he normally does than this road malarkey he is trying now? I know it's in our summer when he's training at home so would be when helluva ask. behind the WvA and MVDP there's always a race to see who is the third best out there
  23. Shebeen
    I think there's rough and smooth here. He was an incredible story, but (like most of the MTNQ unearthed talents) never kicked on after making it into the pro ranks. He has come from very little, and worked bloody hard to get where he is. What he does post pro cycling is up to him. He did after all, make it to the Olympics. Which is more than most, and I guess a good tag line for this role. Whether he deserved to be there on race merit is a debate that will never be settled.
  24. Shebeen
    Awesome. from what I remember it has been a long time since the Lainsgburg flood and the karoo bossies took back the route quite aggressively. @knippie will be able to tell you all that and more. if you get it off the ground, I'd be keen to come do it.
  25. Shebeen
    #1. you go speak to Nils. #2. you go speak to Nils.
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