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Sorry for the long post but here goes: As a show piece or a working knife? Damascus tends to stain easier than most other metals and is quite a bit softer, so doesn't keep an edge that well. But have a look at Dama-steal, it's stainless damascus. A bit of a harder metal and also stain resistant. But in the end also more expensive, on and average damascus hand made knife you're looking at around R3k, where a damasteal would put you back for the same knife and workmanship around R4500. Personally I love my custom knives, my collection is probably worth around R20k by now (I inherited a most of this knives). But I bought myself a Titanium handle with a stainless blade folding knife about 2years back from the knife maker "Carel". She put me back R4k but money well spent!! Holds an edge like no other knife I own. But whatever you do, before paying over R2k for any handmade knife, make sure they are registered with the "Knife makers guild". In theory this is the best gaurentee of quality you'll get. If you're looking at something cheaper, keep in mind 3 things. Build quality, steal quality and feel. I also own a CRKT folding knife (smooth blade, it's a knife not a damn saw! I hate serated knifes!!), they retail for around R700 for a decent size, these knifes have a long lifetime, after every few washes just put some silicone spray on the hinge, it pivots on a teflon (of some sort) O-ring. The bigger knives also have a double locking mechanism to keep the blade open! This is my knife of choice when working on the farm, its tough as nails and gets the job done. Then there's Opinel, which is a French knife, if I remember the story correctly it was designed for the harvesting of grapes (cutting the soft vines). These knives are a simple yet effective design. The blade is pretty soft, so gets sharp as hell but also blunts quickly (similar to butchers knives). Then of course you get Gerber, Gerber feels heavy in your hand. I don'l like that so I own one for my collection but it has never worked so I cannot comment on the sharpness or quality of the blade

I had a similar problem on my SS roadbike (the frame doesn't have cable lugs at all), so I did a bit of research and drilled the frame. Now granted it is a roadbike, so a lot less stress on the frame but I do ride like a hooligan, jump curbs, stairs etc, and the frame hasn't broken yet... I have done around 200km since doing it Here's a link to the post https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/140426-diy-internal-cable-routing/

I bought mine from Solomons on Lynnwood, paid R150 for it. I know Epic sports in Centurion had a few in stock a while ago. And if you're willing to spend some cash go to Hatfield cycles, they stock Surly sprockets, but at R420 its a bit above the average SS riders budget/idea of a budget

SS is a bike with only one gear, but you can still freewheel (free down the road), a fixie is fixed gear, if the wheel turns the pedals turn, so you can't free, you always pedal. With a SS you can use any wheelset and just use a spacer kit, where with a fixie you use a fixed hub with a sprocket. The SimpleSam has a flipflop hub, so if you put the wheel in you choose whether you want it fixed or free and you can always change it when the need comes

In what area are you located? My advice is to build one yourself. Do you want fixed gear or a SS? Check out SimpleSam.co.za, I ride a customized Sam and absolutely love it!!!

A fixie/SS roadbike's purpose is what you make of it. Personally I use mine as a commuter, fun bike, and just all round chill bike. I love riding my bike, it's simple, you don't focus on anything else except for your mind yelling at your legs telling them to HTFU and keep on going!! The best advice I can give you is to stop doubting the reason behind a SS, just get one, pedal and enjoy. No reason needed

These guys (specifically Ervin) went out of their way to help me! I posted on TheHub this morning that I'm looking for a bleeding nipple for my Magura. He commented on my ad, and out of his own contacted the supplier and organised me a nipple!! Absolutely brilliant service! Big ups to these guys! They will see a lot of me in future!!

In my opinion it will depend on what you're trying to achieve and who you're trying to convince that it's an event or not. I would look at a few things: 1) Amount of people 2) Whether it says "official" anywhere. 3) If it has fixed organizers 4) What is the motivation of the organizers: 5) Are they trying to organize an event or a social ride

The man said he doesn't want Shimano dammit. So I shall do the reasonable thing here and help him out with the best advice in the world: BUY HOPE's!!!!!!!

Today was my first Freedom ride. It was loads of fun, and not as congested as I expected the roads to be. Big thanx to the JMPD and the Think Bike marshals! The only negative thing I can say is that I felt like there should have been rubbish bins for about a km every 100m or so after each water point. I ended up carrying 4 empty water bag thingys in my pocked but many people opted for just throwing it on the ground

A bit less on the furry side but here's my baby "Max". He's around 5 months old now

@Slabs I did not watch the video (currently on my ipad with extremely slow internet on campus). But they use normal security gate remotes to override a car remote, just hold in the sec gate remote while car remote is being pressed and it "blocks" the car remote signal. They tried it on me a while ago, luckily my car has a noisy locking mech so when I noticed my doors not locking, I walked back to my car and re-locked them and double checked by pulling on the handle. Whilst doing this I was looking around and noticed bravo 1&2 getting up and walking away pretty quick...

Hey guys. I currently have an Ali singlespeed roadbike. Is it possible to drill two elongated holes in the toptube to run the cable through? On the interwebs there is various theories on wether it weakens the frame or not. Many say it will end in castration by bike, others say it'll do nothing to the integrity of the frame. Has anyone here done it?

You can see there's a few tyre tracks on the sign where he taps, but holy sheeeeet!!! No matter how many times he had to re try, it's an insane move! It's basically doing an endo, mid air, aiming to fall on your face but screwing it up and landing on your wheels

Hey guys. This might be me just over reacting, but on my way through Irene (just outside Irene about 200m from the golf club) this afternoon I spotted a bike that looked very much like a Ritchey mtb, the red, white and blue, ridden by someone that I doubt can fork out that kinda money (dirty overall etc). Unfortunately I was in the car and already at speed when I spotted this bloke, so it wasn't possible for me to stop mid traffic. This all happened at 15.10. Hopefully this points someone in the right direction

Speak to Shamus at Biceletta, they also have a "spa" setup, where you hand in the pedals and they sort it out for you

Siriaaas? Jokes aside, I have never had a bad experience there! Personally I always deal with Alone, (the rest are pretty useless in my opinion, but they do try and I am a difficult customer), but they are all friendly and doesn't act like they're doing you a favor.

Ok let me be the first to be in the doghouse here. I commute almost on a daily basis on my bicycle, she is a 7.8kg singlespeed. As a general rule I un-cleat at every stop street/red traffic light but if it's safe I will roll over a stop sign. I will always stop at a red traffic light but if it's safe I will pull away again and ride over it. My main reason for this riding style is not to be faster than the traffic, be a prick or believe myself above the law. But with the amount of bicycle as well as car hi-jacks/smash and grabs etc I feel safer being on the move. And in this situation I feel that braking the law to protect myself is worth it. One thing I always consider before I do something on the road, whether it's in the car, on my motor bike or on my bicycle, is what would the impact on those around me be. If it would put someone else in a difficult situation I do not do it. If something goes wrong, I would rather have people "think" i'm a considerate cyclist and stop and help than say I'm some jack@ss that got what was coming to him

I run 39*17, works well for Pta with the amount of hills.

You would expect him to learn by now... My 2 cents: Jumping is more scary than hard. The best place to learn is at a skatepark where the jumps are small, smooth and solid. And then riding the Bagjump helps a lot with growing the b@lls you need for the bigger jumps. And WHEN the sheit hits the fan, follow the best rule ever, (taken out of the movie R.I.P.D), RELAX BODY!!!!

Another one converted . Join ThrowUpThursday when she's done!!

When you're good at something don't do it for free! Peach also supplies the bike, so you won't be braking yours. If you are in the pretoria area, you're welcome to contact me to join me on a trials ride. Im willing to give you tips, this will NOT be a lesson and i WILL NOT supply a bike, but you are welcome to join and try pick up on a few things

Hey guys, i just spoke to Peach. He asked that you PM him directly please

Peach is one of the top trials riders in SA. Will pm you his number

Hey. Please get in contact with Mapaseka Vryman, she helps run a road cycling club for underprivileged kids. Will inbox you her number in the morning