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No I am aware that you can't change the laws of physics! I am concerned about having to over tighten the seatpost clamp if a shim is in place.

Mini hijack: Is it okay to use a shim to go from a 30.9 to 31.6 dropper post in a carbon frame?

http://i.imgur.com/4g6LfWS.jpg Apparently this happened in a previous TDF. I would have thought photoshop but the spectators on the left seem to be looking up.

These Guys Built a 104-Tooth Chain Ring Bike to See How Fast It Could Go: http://twistedsifter...ments-in-speed/

This thread makes me very happy: My 140 mm travel 27.5 trail bike and fork are being couriered today! I can't wait to leave my 29er hardtail at home and ride Tokai like I used to in the old days of dual sus 26er's!

My mom got front and back wheel snake bites after hitting that section of road works. Apparently its quite difficult to see before its too late.

I am 1,58m the only 29er that I could find to fit me was the spez fate hardtail. Been very happy with it. spez now also has the rumour a dual susp womans specific 29er.

When riding at Jonkershoek is it okay to ride clockwise around the lower circular route around the dam? I like to ride up to the waterfall area on the left hand side, then come down heartbreak hill. But to get more distance I then carry on around the dam loop jeep track in a clockwise direction. I was yelled at by a group last weekend that I was going the wrong way. I was not the only rider going in this direction, they shout at a few riders apparently.

Ooh that is bad, sorry Kevin but thats cheating

The joggers/runners in Westlake seem to think the cycle lane is for their convenience, I assume this would count as the road surface and they are not meant to be there?

Anyone have any details of the mountain biker is who was airlifted out of tokai this morning? Hope he is okay.

It could be worse, from the medical journals: For girls: Reactive fibroblastic and myofibroblastic proliferation of the vulva (Cyclist's Nodule): A hitherto poorly described vulval lesion occurring in cyclists. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21164294‎ For Boys: Advances in Sexual Medicine, 2012, 2, 1-2 Published Online January 2012 Biker’s Nodule: A Perineal Nodular Induration of the Cyclist www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=16579‎ To the Editor: Perineal nodular induration in cyclists, also known as ischial hygroma, third testicle, accessory testicles of cyclists, or cyclists nodule, is an entity that is relatively well known to sports medicine specialists and to professional and amateur cyclists, but practically unknown to other doctors.1,2 www.revespcardiol.org/en/pdf/90183789/S300/‎

Trying again: this didn't happen to me but a friend (team entry would be great) Start of the Argus a few years ago, we have parked in Greenpoint, getting kit on in the dark and discovered she had not packed her road gloves. No problem put on a pair of full finger gloves and heads off to the start. In the start chute feels helmet doesn't quite feel right - takes it off to readjust, guy next to her asks if she always keeps a set of gloves on her head!

Marelise Badenhorst - She has a masters degree in orthopaedic rehab, sounds like what you looking for. https://www.facebook.com/westlakephysiomb

Full article here: http://twistedsifter...ut-netherlands/ http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/worlds-first-suspended-bicycle-roundabout-hovenring-by-ipv-delft-netherlands-1.jpg Hovenring is the world’s first suspended bicycle path roundabout. Located in the Netherlands (where else?), Hovenring can be found between the localities of Eindhoven, Veldhoven and Meerhoven which accounts for its name, Dutch for “Ring of the Hovens“. Designed by Ipv Delft, Hovenring comprises of a 70-metre (230 ft) tall central pylon, 24 steel cables and a circular bridge deck made out of circa approximately 1,000 tons of steel. The cables are attached to the inner side of the bridge deck, right where the bridge deck connects to the circular, concrete counter weight. This helps prevent torsion within the 72-metre (236 ft) diameter bridge deck. To further ensure stability, concrete was added to sections of the bridge deck along with M-shaped supports near the approach spans. Construction started on 11 February 2011 and the new crossing first opened on 30 December 2011 but had to closed shortly thereafter due to unexpected vibrations in the cables caused by wind. After extensive research by structural experts, two types of dampers (high frequency and low frequency) were attached to the cables to resolve the vibration issues. The Hovenring officially reopened to the public on 29 June 2012. http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/worlds-first-suspended-bicycle-roundabout-hovenring-by-ipv-delft-netherlands-11.jpg

Someone told me that horses are only afraid of 2 things: things that move ...... and things don't move.

Saw that this morning guy on a huge unicycle flying up Boyes drive! It was amazing

Arrived at the Porcupine Hills mountainbike race in Franschoek to find I had only packed one cycle shoe. As I had driven up in slip slops I had no choice but to borrow my friends running shoe. He is a size 10, I am a size 4 we used insulation tape to get the shoe tight enough to stay on. I rode with one foot cleated and one enourmous foot trying to not catch the front wheel. looked like a clown, felt like a clown but I still had fun and it still makes us laugh a year later!.

Hi Dom not much info on your website. What time does it start, do we need to enter online etc

Seriously? All this emotion about 2% of the race, of which the first half was as good as tar. Like someone said earlier the worst crashes happened on the tar not the gravel. If you chose not to enter because of that you missed a really great ride with excellent marshals. If you couldn't handle it no one was stopping you from riding with one foot uncleated and if that means you were going to loose your group they are better cyclists than you and deserve to come in 5min ahead of you. And no, I don't have a big c%ck.

Okay thats great news, he looked alive but pretty banged up we I went passed. I always feel so sick when someone dies at at a sporting event, they get up in the morning to do something they love and never make it home to their families in the afternoon. Like the two swimmers from the 70.3 last year.

is it true that the guy in the middle of the road died? the one were the farmers bakkie was in front of him. when i went passed he was looking around but the guys in the cyclelab tent said he died. I really hope he is ok.

And I will only ever wear that finishers Tshirt as a pajama top

Slighly off topic but also what really bugged me was the food at the finish: Spur voucher - they only had meat burgers (at the W2W they had veggie burgers) and the other meal voucher would have got me a white bread and bovril sandwhich. No vegatarian options at all, at a metal concert that would be understandable but at the IM, really?

temerity tɪˈmɛrɪti/Submit noun 1. excessive confidence or boldness; audacity. "no one had the temerity to question his conclusions" synonyms: audacity, boldness, audaciousness, nerve, effrontery, impudence, impertinence, cheek, barefaced cheek, gall, presumption, presumptuousness, brazenness, forwardness, front, rashness I have actually learn't something on the hub!