HaydenWilson

apparently in one of the storms we had last summer one of the 737's at lanseria jumped its chocks and went for a walk in the hanger. Scary!

I found that just fiddling helped the best for me. and what type of milk you are using also makes a huge difference! I use either low fat from checkers or that boskruin full cream from spar. Sometimes if your milk is a little old it will not foam, regardless of what you do. when you are foaming, listen to your foamer. it should hiss gently when a decent vortex is getting created. ensuring that the steam and milk are mixing. if it bubbles, either reduce pressure or change the depth that thte foamer is in the milk. I tend to foam with one hand holding a cup and another on the valve constantly adjusting the pressure of the steam depending on the vortex.

Lets do Norwood! give me a PM if it happens i am super keen to assist! Also PM me if there is a cleanup or meet at the scout hall line. Slight thread Hijack. Has anyone ridden the old 4X track at fountains in Pretoria? I accidentaly found it on saturday and it looks like it was super amazing at one point in time. very eroded now tho.

I had a super good experience with them and the tubeless tyres on my old bike. they re-did the tubeless conversion for me and then when i had an issue maintaining pressure, they redid it again with no quarrell or extra charge! Go linden!

have you checked the training regimes used by other triathletes? this is quite cool. http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/Ron/training%20for%20your%20first.htm here the training regime fits into a neat two week cycle. Should you be worried about muscle loss? I rock climb and run and cycle and what i have found is that my body adapts pretty quickly to the different strains i put on it. Muscles i dont use seem to disappear and muscles i do use get stronger and fitter quickly! if you are losing muscle mass then maybe you just dont need that much muscle? or have you changed your diet dramaticaly? I am pretty sure if you substituted the swimming on their training regime with weights you would acheive your goal.

Ummmm..... surely you dont want to get hurt until the end of your trip? I broke my arm on my first day of holidays in canada. Sooo much for bike riding. (still did. not as hard as i wanted to tho)

Oi! I posted that one already!

Doesn't it have the same start as the daggapad route at van gaalens? my word what a hill! loose rocks and very steep!

Now thats a good idea! (just make sure it includes the awesome tabletop!) I guess the real problem is that everyone is way too serious. I have bailed cos of braking for erratic dogs (life) I have bailed cos of trees (also life) and i have bailed cos of my own stupidity and i have bailed cos of erratic noobs on the single track at van gaalens! Seriously. Just enjoy yourself and have fun. Stuff happens when you are mountain biking, its a fact of life, no one owns a space cos they use it! its your ability to cope with a situation and keep your sense of humour that i feel makes you a decent person. So your track took 3 seconds longer cos of a crazy dog chewing you, big whoop. you will still know if you were quicker today than you were yesterday and it will not affect your training regime noticibly. I own a bicycle chasing dog. He only seems to go for bikes with lots of carbon and XT componentry. really dont know why.......

And how did he know that the bikes were stolen? where was he buying stolen bikes from?

I swore an oath of secrecy and might get murdered if i reveal their location......

Holy Crap! another hayden..... I dont remember injuring myself

Hey All. I was quietly cruising around a grove of trees one block from my house in emmarentia and I stumbled on some enormous dirt jumps! Who of you have been building these titans in my back yard. when are you going to finish them? i would love to come and assist! Let me know! Hayden

Surely the act of cooking your meat at least partially denatures the amine part of the molecule? I am not sure about farmers using it in SA as it seems to be primarily used to keep meat lean. something that makes little or no sense to me in terms of farming in south africa where plump healthy animals are more capable of surviving changes in weather etc. I also see that it has a 88 to 98% absorption when consumed orally.... and that most reported cases of people having received clenbuterol from food has happened as a result of eating contaminated pig meat and organs. where because they are practically battery farmed it makes sense to treat them in order to keep meat lean. So stay away from chinese pork and eat good souf efrican beef!

I got the freeriders from mountainmailorder.co.za. super amazing! dont like the wet much tho, but that may just be because of the crappy pedals.....

So i have seen! rather nice! now all i need to do is shout at wits until they pay me....

I think an orangeish red would be amazing. kinda gulf racing style...

@ Bushgoblin. I would be extremely leery of stripping a carbon frame! firstly often the stuff that you think is paint is often actually the epoxy resin which binds all the carbon strands together which has had pigment added to it to make it a particular colour. From my work with Carbon, i would also be terrified of taking it to somewhere for chemical stripping as you have no idea what that stuff will do to the polymerisation of the epoxy resin (might decide to go liquid again) So if you do it. be super sure that the guys that do it actually know what they are doing. maybe try and find out from the guys that race motorcycles with carbon fairings etc where they take them for painting?

whaaaa! why is it in capetown!

Thanks muchly dude! I have had a look at the pics of your plastic bike. stoopid. i might just fall on you out of a tree and move toanother country with your bike. Some of you have talked about body weight. i currently weigh 86kg. is that too much for a 120mm?

i just wish that i could manual like that..... oh yeah and jump like that. and had a bike like that. ........ damnit. Advertising wiring my brain!

If a nuclear apocalypse happens I plan on hiding under my giant boulder...... its quite old so i think that may have a bit to do with it!

thanks for the advice everyone! I think i will sell the boulder and try to get something with 140mm of rear travel which should not really affect my XC riding much because as far as i recall my boulder is no featherweight, 15.5kg and i would like to ride something that is designed for medium drops. i will keep the DJ bike.

Hey all. I am toying with the idea of getting an all mountain bike. basically i mostly ride XC which i do on a Giant boulder ( no good for drops) and i also do a fair bit of dirt-jumping on my mongoose fireball. which is great, but tends to need nice sculpted jumps and is really no good for pedalling around to get to the jumps you are keen to ride. thus, i am looking for a bike that inspires a bit of confidence when doing things that are out of the boring XC range of obsticles (drops, rough jumps etc) but can still be peddled. and some possibly do some very light downhill. Does an all mountain bike sound good? i know that their travel seems to vary but most are above 140mm which seems like quite a lot for a bike that is being peddled. that being said, i do not want a 120mm bike that makes me feel nervous and twitchy when doing a rapid descent... I was thinking something like a mongoose teocali or a giant reign but have heard many mixed comments on both. or should i just say bugrit and leave the XC for XC and get a downhill for downhill and leave the jump-bike for jumps?

sweet run dude! very quick and smooth until you hit the tree! not a cool break tho. i have had that one before. very uncomfortable.