Joe Low

Consequences should be - 1 angry customer and a ban on him selling on the Hub; no problem. My eldest son is 20. He does what they all do. When he was 16/17, I said "if you get arrested dont call me in the middle of the night - i'll come and get you in the morning". He's never called but he did tell me it cost him R20 to get out of the police cells once.

The deal is void, mistakes were made - no need to continue to give these folk a hard time. As usual, the lynch mob looks worse than those they are attacking.

Was out on Weds night mostly on jeep track with a group. I didnt take spares because it was straightforward ground, until we got taken over a lot of cut grass and devil thorns. 2hr ride became nearly 3hrs as one after another got flats. I kept quiet and everything crossed that it wouldnt be me next - i think tubeless was my friend; but would've been embarrassing so I'll take something with me from now on.

If I came unstuck through my own fault and wanted help, I would have asked. ....didnt realise there was a club, I've been winging it by myself not helping up til now.

She does have a "what the hell am i doing here" look about her. They did dress her up pretty silly; but good to see she's got the proper mtb'ers manicure.

Good for Pmb folk. Their is no market for high-end bikes in Malawi, so it would be interesting to have some more details as to what was found.

I've seen manuals saying that the lever should leave a (temporary) print on your palm when you close it. Generally they should point up and some folk get very excited on some (imagined?) safety issue if they point down.

Sure - it's all opinions, but I reckon playing football on a bicycle is more dangerous.

I stopped thinking about it when i was a kid - as far as i was concerned there was a little man inside who pushed levers and buttons; he was related to the other little man inside the TV flipping pictures over.

I think the argument is very similar to why guys dont use condoms Slowbee. But then that's hard to check for when they're riding a bike.

Why should he be setting an example to anyone? And if he's made it to his mid-60s he probably knows what he's doing.

There's times to wear one and times where its not so important. Not a big deal.

I know you're concerned about getting billed according to size, but the Hub wont charge you more for posting in a bigger font.

My friend forgot to take their homeopathy meds and died of an overdose.

That's why they call it that. ;-)

I think Stretch is correct; but Capt A has a good handle on practicalities. I think a cyclist has to take account of custom and what our dimwit motorists are likely to be thinking. Being right and dead isn't so great. Couple of points - if you're going out on 3rd exit; don't go round the outside lane. If you cant be confident and get in the middle; then better to walk it. Scariest roundabout i've been on - Arc de triomphe, across 5 or 6 exits. Once only!

It's a great event & Wickus doesnt look like he's getting rich on it. For a mid-packer it's a serious but do-able challenge. The training must be taken seriously and the costs are much more than you've worked out so far! Apart from the distance; your biggest adversary is likely to bethe weather.

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2 people on this thread, and now me, have pointed out that the more recently-priced watermelon, going by the sell-by dates, was the cheaper one. And if there were two melons at two prices, a top tip would be to buy the cheaper one.

There's a few Tjoks, but also regular mtb traffic coming across that road to and from rietvlei and the r59 blockhouse. Still wouldnt advise for single female, but cool in pairs and more. You feel like a champ goin down and a putz comin back slight incline and prevailing breeze against.

12yrs - not the best result, but far from the worst. I hope it means something to the families of those who were killed.

Do you think cycling is becoming the new golf, for business reasons? No, and I dont think its the new golf at all, as this qu has been raised since i got into the sport 10yrs ago. At it's heart cycling is individual, anti-social & consistently time-consuming. To be any good takes a determination and application that any 40+ businessman is going to find it hard to give, and not detract from the business's performance. You can be a fat-arse and play golf a few times a year wandering about having a chat with your cronies, at a reasonable time of day and eat and drink to excess after, but no semi-serious cyclist is going to be able to do that. If you're not at least semi-serious who are you going to impress businesswise, and what's the point?

My friend did a study for Cycling News a couple of years back that showed a +/-30% difference on entries to timed finishers over a numner of the major road events. No chips DNFs Didnt show ups These were the main reasons. On the didnt show ups, the time between the entering the event and doing it means other things happen in-between. Illness, no training, cant afford the trip, better things to do, weather etc etc. Big drop-off, but i can tick the boxes on most of these reasons from my own experience.

Anything that increases unpredictability on the roads is going to cause more accidents imo. Cyclists going against traffic fits into this category. More than that, if i had to constantly look at the danger facing me, rather than risk being hit anonymously from behind, I'd cycle even less on the roads than i do now,.

You're a classy dame and i'll fight anyone that says you're not.