Azonic

"My eyes are up here"

Ja, the wife and I are going to be there tonight.

Is it you running that Facebook page?

What fork you buy, 650b rigid carbon fork?

Agree, bikes are expensive. MY personal gripe comes from the cost of events!!! When I was younger I used to race every 2nd weekend, club XC racing. But, the last few years the entry fees have become CRAZY. So much so that if I do 2-3 races a year that's ALLOT. I'm not a club member (anymore) nor have I done my CSA license this year. So yes, I understand that I have to pay for a day license (never used to be needed in the past, but lets not squable), then a "non-member" fee, plus the event entry fee, and if you slept long enough, the late entry fee. All of which lets the average little race cost you like R200. WTF. Even without the numerous pelanties, the race is still over R100, often close to R120. For 40km events... so you pay like R3 for every kilo you cycle? 9/10 times I just say screw it, and just go do a training ride.

Have done business wuth CCD before. Quality chap. Quality kit.

Same applies. Going to suck and you'll be keen to fight it, but most juries won't believe you.

If over 20 people claim to have seen it, and give testomy that pretty much matches, then most I'll maar have to pay, photo or not.

Then Indurain is an idiot.

Too bad you don't have a "branch" in PE, got quite a bit of spares I don't know what to do with. All kinds of odds and ends.

Recovery? USN makes an awesome supplement... I believe even kids can use it.

Collected the last frame yesterday. Parcel had frame, fork, seatpost, handlebars and a few other small items in. Paid R118.65 levies.

Got one. Done all the research and have a good relationship with one or two companies.

Lets not start another thread.

This will lead to nothing. The sport won't be "cleaned". The next crop of sem-pros are already waiting in the amateur ranks, willing to do (or inject) whatever it takes to make it into the big leagues - and the process will just start again with the "next" Armstrong. Same thing with the cyclist that was recently killed in PE by a drunk driver. We are told to fight against drunks motorists to avoid another tragedy. Like this guy, these are mostly the "clubbing" middle 20's early 30's kind of trash. Their younger brothers are sisters are eagerly sitting at home thinking how utterly cool their older brothers and sisters are, the parties, etc. So...... the next generation of drunk drivers are ready to hit the roads. You might take a couple of big names down in cycling, but as stated, there are hungry 17 year olds out there, ready to restock the doping ranks.

Sh*t just got real.

Gummi, where was that last photo taken with the oke and the bakkie?

The only road that still open is Kragga Kamma, albeit VERY wet up there. Then the highways will also still be open I assume.

Lake Farm. This is scary... The road drops down a little as it curves to the left. Looks at least a meter under the water. http://www.algoafm.co.za/img/Gallery/2012_Eastern_Cape_Weather_Conditions_-_October_/galBig2012102281837355.jpg

3cm thick layer of tar on a bed of gravel. Yep, that's going to hold just fine.

Ja kan dit sien aankom...

Hierdie lyk kleiner as die vorige vloed daar, korrek?

Bennie ek het gehoor Seaview pad was weer oop dan? Is hierdie net van die laaste paar dae?

Way, way too expensive. I'll maar stick to my X0 with a nice R700 cassette and R200 chain. So I can replace my drivetrain twice more often and still have money to spare.

Crazy product. We give our baby daughter CrecheGuard, basically a multi vitamin. That's it. Basically just a peace of mind type thing to help against all the other mostly sick babies. However, vitamins don't keep you healthy, avoiding someone coughing in your face keeps you healthy. So the CrecheGuard is probably not even needed, but that's beside my point now. Young kids, like what this product is targetting, need nothing more than good nutritious food for great development. We make our daughter's own "Purity", own vegetables, etc, at home. Except for the S26 Gold formula she's on, everything is "natural". So that being said - if todlers just need good decent food for good development and nutrition............ ............why do adults need and supplements to beign with? Did I just shoot a hole straight through USN's business? My wife trains on Oros, I mostly ride on Energade, but mostly water. Sugar and salt, that's all it boils down to. If someone thinks than a certain product magically gives them awesome legs for some event - say hello to a hyped up label (that you fell for) on the package and your ability to perform fueled by the placebo effect. Its well known that sports supplements, protein powders, etc, is one of the biggest money making rackets out there. "Time and time again we have pointed out the numerous supplement scams that are out in the marketplace. And believe me, we only scratch the surface. There are far more worthless supplements out there than we have time or energy to spend on. One very ugly truth about the sport nutrition business is that it’s filled with crooks, con men, hucksters, and just plain bad people. It’s a loosely regulated industry and rarely are the bad guys separated from the good. This makes it very easy for the consumer to get fleeced. On top of that, very few supplements actually have real science supporting their effectiveness. Now you certainly couldn’t tell that by the ads in the magazines. Some of the ads are written to appear so scientific that they make real science journals look like children’s books. The problem here is the scientific claims are virtually all pure fantasy. Completely made up. And believe it or not, the more outrageous the claims, the more utterly impossible the promises these companies make about their products, the more they sell. Seriously, the supplements that turn out to be the biggest scams were at one time or another the biggest sellers. Go figure. I often ask myself, “Are consumers really that gullible?” Apparently they are. In this industry, the more you lie, fabricate and exaggerate, the more product you are going to sell. Now to make things worse, because this industry is actually dominated by crooks, when one company puts out a worthless product with bogus claims and it sells well, other equally pathetic companies will knock off the worthless product and make even more outrageous claims. It feeds on itself. Every ad is literally more outrageous than the one before it. And there is little if any truth to the majority of them. The magazines join right in. You see, the magazines make money off of the number of ads they sell. That’s why you see 200 hundred pages of ads in each fitness magazine every month. I don’t know of any other market segment where the magazines even come close to amount of ads in every magazine as in the fitness industry."