Jigghead

If it's within the parameters of the law, then by all means, no charges. However, some serious civil suits should be dealt with against the department for allowing such behavior.

Google pocket pistols, they're quite small and easily concealable. Having said that, you are only entitled to use it if your life in in danger, so beware.

I would like to see what the effect would have been if the bolts were attached in the same positions and the wheels were proportionately differently sized or even no bolts with proportionately different sized and weighted wheels.

I use a Tundra 2 and to be honest, they're hard as nails. I wasn't even aware that they had padding to collapse in the first place. Still, after my ~ss was worn in properly, it's the best saddle I've had.

I've only ever owned HT bikes. I have ridden DS and must be honest that I quite enjoy the liveliness of the HT from a feedback perspective. Having said that though, I believe my next bike will most likely be a DS for no other reason than the fact that I have a few friends who used to share my view on the HT and changed their minds after riding a while with the DS bikes. If you can, ride both and decide from there.

I tried when we moved into our new offices at the beginning of August, landlord vetoed the idea tho... I asked the beauty parlor over the road from my office if I could pay them monthly in order to use their shower facilities after a midday run. Being Thai, they were a little unhappy about the idea so I left them for a week or two. Going back, I asked again and was told, again with a suspicious look that it was not going to happen. My closest bike related venue is Cajee's (also over the road) and I'm not paying those crooks anything. So, Virgin Down the road it is, I was just hoping to not have to get into the car.

I'll try that, thanks.

My seat post seems to be slipping a little each time I ride. I've looked around and found a few people suggesting copaslip as a solution. I have tightened it as far as it will go and still a bit slippery. Any suggestions/ideas?

Good thinking by whoever stopped anyone from taking the brake lever out of the wound. I believe that is where most of the damage occurs on these types of injuries as the item stuck in the fella could actually be stopping the bleeding. Apparently pulling out a knife or other object when it goes in often allows the blood to start flowing and the injured could quite possibly bleed out. Hoping for a speedy recovery as well as a similar or worse fate for the c~nt who pushed him off!

I moved from Avid Elixir 7 to Shimano XT and all squeaking stopped. It was new rotors as well. I believe the Avid make more noise in the wet as well. I must say tho, alothugh very ugly, the Avids worked well.

Price differences are quite big on some of those items, I'm assuming you checked to make sure they're all the same spec/series?

Thanks fellas for the feedback. I've thought about powder coating but have heard that often the heat involved will compromise the welds, any thoughts on this? I was afraid that this would end up being my only option, I was just hoping tho...

Ja, it'll be raw and polished once complete, so more paint stripper it is then...

I have an alu frame that I'm running out of patience with trying to get all the paint off. Is sandblasting before shining/buffing the frame a viable option?

What a lekker race that is. Not sure what your HR should be, but make sure you keep enough gas in the tank for the run. You're not going to make too much time up in the swim, but if you push to hard on the bike, you'll k~k off on the run. That's what happened to me for my first tri.

You'll get laughed at and teased all the time. And they call a 29"er with same size wheels a clown bike?

Those should stay lost boet...

Have you tried loosening that nut in the middle of the mount itself? It looks adjustable.

I bought the Arch EX's when I weighed around 98kg's and I love them. Attached them to some Hope hubs and I'm hooked. I can't vouch for the others but I have no regrets. I'm now 91kg's and dropping, but that's 'cos I haven't had a drink in 5 months.

I wasn't aware that your tongue could actually come out of your cheek!

I have the Forerunner 910XT and the fenix 2. Both are great and both do similar things similarly well. The bonus with the fenix 2 though is that it can be worn as an every day watch as well as does not require an aditional foot pod for running. Satellite acquisition is also way better on the fenix. Ray Maker also maintain that a new Forerunner is on the cards for early next year. I'd go fenix.

The 26"er vs. 29"er debate is no joke. This is serious business!!!

This guy keeps drinking all these beers, he's not going to be able to get on a bike! Maybe a few Steri Stumpies?

It's only racial profiling if the OP wouldn't have done a similar investigation and taken similar action if the person in possession of the bike was another colour. The problem is that our race spread in SA is quite skewed and therefore, if everyone was of equal LSM there would still, in theory, be more black perps than any other race. I agree wholeheartedly with your last sentence here, I think this should be the primary item. All this aside, I never fail to be amazed by the level of effort that some of us put into trying to right a wrong like we saw here. What a spectacular outcome and kudos to SAPS for following through so effectively. It's not the first time that I've heard glowing reports about Parkview Police Station. @DirtRider you are a champ of note!

Ja, that's why I took a pic, mine both have two numbers under the bottom bracket and I'm not sure which is the important one.