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the wheels of justice turn slowly. Here's an update from this case last week, well done to Wider of the Rider for following up. https://www.facebook.com/cyclistsstayalive/posts/pfbid02EZhraq8a3hTQ2W9L1JoWCwUFtddhqpouoFRodkCpaoEL56oy3UZj6KWYxbs8ZGtdl?__cft__[0]=AZXM77X12G-7F2hLNVtJe5kMPycM3ihqRuYHnXJWBgk3fYhSN245micKDSCRyE4V4z0Rla7ofr5p6H0PcB3Y8wXF8ksUhdXFMK0c48q8Ft1GpEpuGzb_Z4KWPdAHQiso09HASlONoagWG4PUk5ti_qsLV77IML-aEM4bMeaiN2PiMQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R If you believe that then the Easter Bunny must still be a hoot. I saw the video, it would appear no blood tests were taken.

potayto potarto, the fact that there's a term for being "Doored" means it happens. There's a huge number of cyclists on the road everyday, passing close to parked cars all the time - most of the time without incident. So yes, you can name a few anecdotal incidents but it remains quite rare in the grand scheme of things.

People don't realise how rare getting doored is. We're only talking about this one because it ended in a fatality. In this case, the cyclists didn't even avoid the door in the end either. You can definitely have your spidey sense around looking into cars when you're in a confined road and always knowing if there are any vehicles behind you incase you need to swerve out. Experience and good techniques will help prevent these things a little bit. but not as much as drivers not opening their doors into oncoming traffic

I followed up and asked the original poster of this video. This was his reply: We started taking a video due to them not riding in single file as seen in the above post and the one guy saw this and decided to get aggressive he got mad due to us recording. A bit of an overreaction unfortunately Can't really add much more to that, I find it hard to believe that was all that happened. Personally I've never flipped the bird at any motorists while cycling, nor have I had a cyclist pull one at me.

Is it just me or is the annual anti cyclists brigade more vocal than ever? it's not even feb yet and it seems to have ramped up already to 1st weekend of march "THEY MUST PAY ROADTAX" levels.

agreed. pretty sure majority of Car v Bike issues it's from behind. I got a whole heap of these for the family. https://www.rookiesports.co.za/product/fluir-rechargeable-bicycle-taillight-rear-light-ultra-bright-red/ keep them charged up at the door, easy peasy to swap between the bike fleet. great bang for buck

driver probably thinks he owns all the roads, not just this one. jokes aside. Don't be a pO#%, be lekker.

2nd hand? where do you find them at this price, see they are on garmin @ R4k and takealot @R3.5k

https://www.thesouthafrican.com/western-cape/cyclist-dies-after-tragic-incident-near-st-james-beach-breaking-trending-viral-cape-town/ getting a bit of airtime on the wireless too. And obviously it's peak argust training season so lots of the annual motorist vs cyclist vibes flying around.

Or the afrikaans equivalent, a boet whose name is a mengelmoes of surnames

No Beers? would have been an interesting tussle between the two

So you want to do ~Cape Epic, ~Around the Pot and ~Jonkers fun sessions on the same bike? What's the budget? What do you have in the garage currently, because this seems like an N+1

@Dexter-morgan in my (totally unsolicited) opinion, don't put training wheels on a bike for kids to learn properly. You don't learnt to walk with crutches, you just go for it and fall down a bit along the way.

didn't realise the bikes were available overseas, interesting mix of dealer locations! https://titanracingbikes.com/dealers

https://efprocycling.com/our-team/stefan-de-bod/ this gives a 404 error now. bummer. classy goodbye post https://www.instagram.com/p/DEPhws_sjus/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

the original Ceder used to be a ~240km race in october start finish at Cederberg oasis. Wasn't there a "renegade" tour/race in may using the same route but none of the race support/frills/costs? so the obvious thing is to do this in october now on the original route?

https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/stefan-de-bod/start geez, he's off to a malaysian team. that's a big step down. he is ranked out of the top 1000 uci riders, no great results with EF (but doesn;t mean he wasn't a team player)

I know, I've done over half of them. The disappointing thing is that the Argeeees was started to get better bike infrastructure in the city. Despite growing into the monster event it is(was?) unfortunately I don't think it has achieved much on that front.

As the random person behind his keyboard you will n o doubt be disappointed to hear that I am incredibly overjoyed to see how well this went. I'm sorry you thought I have the wrong type of attitude and was being negative on the subject and my opinion was not welcome here. If nothing else it kept the topic active and top of mind. I dropped in the little easter egg of critical mass rides 15+ years ago, you missed it.

No, you have that very very wrong not trying to be negative at all. An effective awareness ride needs effective awareness before it starts. Sounds like there is going to be representation from press and local gov so that is a great outcome for all.

ok, maybe I am from the dark ages but that name did not ring a bell. My apologies, I don't want to sound negative here - the more awareness the better. I tried searching the hashtag, and only this thread came up, Now that you have given me the name I searched and found this post https://www.instagram.com/p/DEkis6rK3Lb/ 15 likes, we had more people at the weekly critical mass rides at 7am on a friday 20 years ago. I'm very happy to be wrong, but it seems this circle needs to be made bigger if you're expecting meaningful numbers. (and before you ask, no I'm not personally going, already had a weekend planned in the overberg with the family)

have you tried info@cycletour.co.za?

Sorry to sound so obtuse in flogging this very dead horse. If someone is adding their name to an event to add awareness to it, wouldn't it be more effective if their actual name was known?

is this an actual 3D Xray scan of your body? is this what they do now, or just an example of what happened

um, ok, to narrow it down further. Phil Ligget has a house in Gordon's bay Gerald de kock has been around the block. Jonny Koen can talk the skin off a pampoen Max Cluer is probably at some doef doef red bull snow party event Neil Gardiner has been on the epic media team before Kevin Vermaak even went to Costa Rica