Azonic

How does it work if someone posts a wanted ad? Do you sponsor 15% 25% towards the eventual buying price?

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Damn thats a short thumb.

I'm 1.88 - 1.89m and ride 180mm on my MTB's. I find the extra leverage works nice with the big wheels. However, I also have longer legs than most people my height.

...and you cancelled on him how many times yourself?

Veels geluk, ek het dit nie geclick die eerste keer nie.

Who gets it?

I have a headshock.

Am I the only one that fails to see what the end user actually gets out of this, except the potential free snacks at races? Sounds very much geared to just making Cannondale more money? Don't shoot me, just asking.

That was the same buck that dived the MTB'er off his bike last year. After not shooting to fame like the biker and being forgotten about nearly overnight, depression stepped in. He sadly took his own life by stepping infront of that truck.

Darkie I think it was. With whites referred to as boere outright, I have no problems with that word. Lets stay on topic.

Luckily I saw the offending word before it was removed. Wasn't overly bad if you ask me. Beside the point though.

I just love those okes. Usually with popped collar shirts on. Drag racing from robot to robot, as if they get sponsored petrol. Its a pure case of having less braincells than the rest of us.

The shocking thing to me is that when these okes make an accident, they don't seem to really give a ****... Knocking a cup of coffee over on a desk gets more of a reaction than what these guys give.

Sho... so its not just me I remember the dual slaloms we used to have at Sabie, on the hill just as you came into town. The EP team managers at the time didn't enter me correctly (or something), making me slip through the cracks during the heats as such. I had to eventually ask the guys at the gates, ok when do I go? Eventually they said ok now its you. Now in my defence at that time I couldn't affort a XC bike and a DH bike (not that you used to get "real" DH bikes those days), so I went to nationals with a set of more "rugged" wheels and riser bars which I'd just put onto my bike the night before the DH and DS. So after the officials tells me, ok now your turn, guess who lines up in the gate next to me. One young Greg Minnaar. Oh f*ck was all that went through my mind. Gun goes and I pump it out the gates. Ka! ka! ka! ka! ka! ka! The sound of a chain skipping on a cassette that it wasn't meant to go with. "DH Wheel" = fail. Had to pretty much soft pedal most of the course and finished about 1-2 secs behind Greg. Had lots of fun though We had XC nationals at World View in Maritzburg also many years ago, and the DH at Cascades on a course much different to the World Cup course we have there today. The dual slalom was in town, albeit I wouldn't be able to find the spot again today. It was on a grassy slope between the neighbourhoods somewhere. The course was under floodlights, was a night time DS. At one point the lights went out for some reason covering everything in darkness. In the dark we heard a commotion what sounded like bikes going down the course. Heard afterwards it was the late Wesley Fowler and his mates doing a butt naked run down the DS in the dark

If you look at this video and the quality of the drivers in South Africa... you realize how lucky we are to be able to make it home alive after a ride. PG18, here and there. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a03_1347121175

That's awesome buddy... I'll post some more memories from those days tomorrow. :-)

I used to race what used to be the SAMBA National Series years ago when I was in my teens and early 20's. It would be so lekker to tour the country with the rest of the EP team and road trip up to the various races in SA. Other times my folks would go with. Awesome days. During those days, as a youngster you got to know the names of the "big guys" on the scene, the local idols on the scene - the guys that were at the top of the podium 10, 15 years ago. Every now and then you happen across an old photo and you cannot but wonder, where are those guys today. Do they still ride, race, did they give up racing all together? I came up with this silly saying a few days ago, and it ring very true for me: There is no place so lonely as being the only one to remember a certain memory or time. Read that again and make sure you understand it. Like I would ask a friend, "Remember that time when we........" And he just goes, "No?". Then you think, so the copy of this memory in my head, is the only copy that anyone, anywhere remembers? That's a sad place right there. Am I the only person to still remember these names, or think back to those times and those guys? Carl Hutchinson (circa, mid 90's) Greg Miller - Wheeler rider and one of the countries best DH and XC riders. After SA's first World Cup in Stellenbosch many years ago he didn't perform at the level he thought he would as a local and quietly faded off the scene. Wynand Jacobs - friend of Dylan Victor. Dirk Lourens (I remember him making his own downhill bikes with crazy suspension in the days when 4" was extreme) Jason Delport (I remember his as a sick fast young junior). I found this writeup about him from over 10 years ago "Early starter South African Jason Delport was sitting on the yellow Honda road motorcycle that served as the leader’s hot seat through 29 riders after crushing the previous best time by over 11 seconds. With only a handful of riders left, he was getting used to the idea of being world champion and said, “I just hope nobody comes and beats me. I don’t want to get off this bike here.” But just as Delport’s time was starting to look untouchable, the third-to-last rider, Julien Camellini of France knocked over five seconds off it and waved his arms excitedly as he crossed the line. Australia’s 16-year-old Sam Hill also beat Delport, but he was three seconds behind Camellini. But when Cory blew in 1.39 seconds faster, Camellini had to settle for second." You can actually just look at this link and see some of the old names: http://www.geocities...a/dh/NatDH1.htm Again, is it just me? Its not a case of living in the past. I see having fond memories of the times that made you who you are today as a very good thing.

Maxxis Crossmark. Used them for the first time in Trans. Connected centre knobs roll fast and good for cornering.

No problem, appreciate that its not just me that read this story that way.

+1 Exactly what I said in my very first post.

For sure. So with that being said, I'll devide the blame for this situation up like this: 20 year old: 40% Parents: 30% 14 year old: 20% 12 year old 10%

For once I will agree with you, but surely there must also be a bit of "built-in" reasoning skills to know right from wrong. Stupid example, "Slippery when wet" signs shouldn't be needed, its bloody obvious that the whatver will be slippery when wet. 75-80% of right and wrong comes from the parents, but the rest should be plain logic. Is this Oros I'm drinking to the point of feeling sick? Um no. Should I continue drinking it? Sure!. Um, no.

http://bloggingblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Ostrich-man-head-in-sand.gif Glad that's working out for you.

Yeah, but you can't be truly caring without being strict. "Ok Jannie, sure you can go smoke that joint at Johnny's house, just look after yourself, ok?". Love, Care and Strictness should be hand in hand.