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Chap/Sir/Boss/Dangle/Oom/Boet/Bru - take your pick - just a form of address - no disrespect intended. You can answer all of your own questions by explaining what you meant when you wrote this "there might just have ben some degree of sense in the method of madness with that segregation years ago,".

Easy chap - you really are quick to fly off the handle and become personal and sarcastic in your replies aren't you. When you say that going back to a segregated society, a segregation based on racial classification, might be the solution to savagery like this, then I'm afraid you're branding blacks as being the only people capable of such savagery i.e. exclude them from our society and the problem will go away. Sorry chap but that the blacks aren't going away and even if they did there are plenty of white savages out there who will perform some savage act and ruin your illusion of a civilised white society.

I agree that the murderers are savages and this story also leaves me feeling very emotional but it's unfortunate that your definition of savage seems to be race orientated. The savages responsible for the senseless torture, mutilation and murder of defenseless civilians during the Kosovo/Serbian war were white. The savages responsible for the Holocaust were white. The savages in the IRA were white. Let's leave the racial stereotyping out of the discussion and instead focus on the origins of a culture that gives rise to these senseless killings - whether they be here or anywhere in the world.

Because they have a limited budget to send athletes to the Olympics and the more athletes they send, the fewer VIP's, dignitaries, politicians, hangers on and other rabble will be able to go. Witness what they tried to do to keep the SA Men's Hockey team out of the Games. They set their own very onerous qualifying criteria even though the team had met the international qualifying standard. Well the hockey boys showed them and managed to qualify. Now I wonder if they'll increase the budget or cut some freeloaders?

Oh - last I heard him being interviewed I recall they were both going over for the race.

Today was the first stage. I see Sauser finished 1st with David George 3rd 1+ mins back and Max Knox 6th about 5 mins back. I can't see any results for Kevin Evans - anyone know what happened to him?

Santini or Pearl Izumi both good options at that price point.

in JHB try Morningside, Dunkeld or Linden - you should get stock from one of them?

I did some homework and it seems the problem is caused by corrupt .fit files. One of my course .fit files was corrupt (indicated by strange characters in the file name). I deleted that file (I had to do it on the device itself) and now the problem is solved.

I'm having the same problem - also running Firefox

I do quite a bit of training (mainly my shorter week day rides ) on my old 26" HT running 1x9 gearing, v brakes, dirt cheap tyres etc etc. Given the cost of replacing a worn XT drivetrain and the cost of fast wearing Schwalbe tyres I believe I save a fair bit of wear and tear and therefore money running this bike. Having said that as others have posted it's important to do some training time on my race bike as the body position and setup is quite different. The fact that my 1x9 is heavier than my racebike is also good from a training perspective.

Good taste in bikes and good taste in cameras - nice!

I did the 64.2km marathon in a little over 2h30. I was suffering with a hangover (not smart I know) and not much riding since Sani. I also felt I was getting beaten up riding a hardtail (I suspect my sore head made it feel worse than it was). But then I got passed by rigid single speeders and decided to STFU and HTFU. Great race though. No congestion despite the route convergence at the end (other race organisers please take note - it CAN be done). Well marked, well marshalled, no major traffic issues and a route that was quite varied considering the location. Well done to all concerned - I'll be back next year hopefully this time without the hangover

Turn the question around: How much slower would Kevin Evans be if you threw a 10kg backpack on his back and sent him out on a marathon race? I can assure you he will lose chunks of time but quantifying that is impossible.

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So that's what I've been doing wrong for the past 20 years

Good topic. Here's a typical example of an ad that is so incomplete as to make it useless to any possible buyer; https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/29383-rock-shock-sid/ 4 crucial bits of info missing from the ad: 26" or 29"? Straight or taper? QR or through axle? Steerer length No prospective buyer can even consider this fork without knowing all of the above. It's like saying: BMW 3 series for sale - R100 000. Huh!?

What's the best car? What's the best XC bike? What's the best suburb in CT? What's the best pair of jeans? What's the best whiskey? Each question needs a set of defining parameters before you can attempt to answer it and even then you're not going to reach any consensus. But I've been cycling for 25 years and looking at photo's of my cycling for a very long time and for me, on balance, ActionPhoto are the pick of the bunch and I think Sani made the correct choice. Like I've said in previous posts - they may be more expensive than others but for my money the premium is worth it in terms of the overall product and service offering. You of course have a different perspective and that's your choice - you don't want it, then don't buy it.

My point exactly - sorry DD I thought my sarcasm was self-evident.

Excellent so the photos are much cheaper. But now I must go through 1116 photos taken at Karkloof to find pics of me and my family at that race. Thanks but I'll pay a little more for photos I can identify in 5 mins, save myself 2 hours of mindless mouse clicking on quickpix website and my family can skip pizzas one night this month to pay for the extra cost of the Actionpics photos.

I think that's fair. I also think they're missing a trick by charging a flat R320 for all your photo's when some people has 5 Sani photos and others have more than 10. There should be a sliding scale discount based on the number of photos you purchase as a % of the number of photos taken.

Shocking!

Just point and shoot - really? So the following costs them nothing?: Camera, lens/es, data cards etc Photographer's time and travel costs Hardware and storage costs Bandwidth Website Backoffice staff Rent I could go on and on. In 20 years time trust me you're going to wish you'd spent the equivalent of a double cheese burger to be able to see a picture of your younger, fitter self taking part in something as fantastic as Argus.

I'll happily pay the price that Actionpics charge for their photos. They took one of me heading into the final single track on day 2 that is absolutely fantastic. The photographer caught the light perfectly and the sharpness of the focus is as perfect. That takes a fast expensive lens plus some skill and I'm happy to pay for both. Most importantly for me is the fact that I can enter my race number and find my photos. Compare that to my races before Sani (Parys Dirtmax, USN and Route 42) where they expect you to trawl through literaly thousands of photos to find one of yourself. So those are cheaper at R30 per digital download but for an extra R20 I'm happy to pay some Actionpics staff member to do the trawling for me.

2 years ago I watched some b*stard about 100m behind us doing a one handed wheelie the whole way up day 3's Heartbreak Hill B*astard because he was doing the same speed we were and he was casually chatting away with his partner who was straining as much as we were in our granny gears.