Jigghead

Pleeaase let her sleep in her own bed tonight, prayers going out to all involved.

Sheesh, well I've heard of the stolen bikes going for, well, a steal. What does this price tag say about this bike?

Please send me directions/GPS coordinates.

OK, eager for this one on Sunday, very eager for a gentle one. Looking forward to an early Sunday for a change.

It's the lycra, I need the lycra...

What time is it going to happen? Where is this Nancy woman? I'm keen to meet some hubbers :-)

Got a TV in my office

198/7 Looks like this one's in the bag...

I wish the thieves many falls and enumerable punctures, same goes for the buyers of the bike. I'd rather they find it tho.

Polar RCX5 with GPS unit. Three button presses to switch between sports is all it takes. I haven't tried the others but for me, I'm perfectly happy.

I saw a septic tank truck the other day, I can't remember the company name, but it's motto was "we take your sh~t"

That is so incredible. Every day we face hurdles and wonder how to overcome them. I think this guy's just answered that question for me...

Ya, if only for an audit. Sorry man. Maybe see if your mate can arrange that weekend for the "off season" and then raffle it off to fund the ticket?

Sheesh, that's not b~ggering around. Wouldn't like to be the tank driver during this op.

What's blue and smells like red paint? Blue Paint.

Two nuns are in the bath and the one nun says to the other, "Please pass the soap"

My regular partner is abandoning me for something he calls "leave" soon, and I'd hate to let my "Spruit Warriordom" lapse during this time. How often is this ride going to be taking place?

Maybe the fact that I weigh over 90kg and my alloy bike is pretty close to this weight contributed towards the excessive speed? My breaks also could have failed given that they are not out of the top parts drawer? I must confess, I wear lycra shorts and not baggies, what does this say about me? Oh, B.T.W

I ride a R7K Merida (2010 model) with 7000km on it, nothing fancy. Point taken on the slow down thing. As I said lesson learnt, careful on passing judgement with the type of person you think I am. Even if I had the cash, I'm not into the very expensive bikes etc. (I couldn't clean mud/dirt out of one of those without crying). And those that are, who cares, it's their hard earned cash to spend as they see fit. My best friend rides a R60K bike and he's the most unassuming guy I've ever met. Not all JHB riders are poseurs, just like not all cyclists think they own the road. The OP also said I tried, in error to bypass him and he jumped in front of me. As said, I'm not here to try and justify the type of person I am, I made a judgement error and someone could have been badly hurt. Lesson learnt.

nah, grazed leg, but I get that often. pretty lucky all things considered.

OK, so I'm not sure what a typical "Spruit Warrior" is, and I've already taken responsibility for my actions here. Just a little info. I have been riding this route around three times a week for the last year, 95% of the time it's between 04h30 and 04h50 in the morning due to needing to get kids to school etc. This is the first time I have encountered FOOT traffic on this particular section of the ride at this time of the morning. If you read my OP, you would have read that I was well aware of what was in front of me but made an error in judgment when not warning the individual and not giving him a wide enough berth when trying to pass him, I have taken full responsibility for this. It's a nice little downhill which I'm sure most cyclists use to full potential given the chance? Given my geography, I am unable to ride in the bush and am unfortunately limited as the where and when I am able to ride. I try not to ride with reckless abandonment ever, that's not why I ride, I'm sure you may be aware, that 40km/h is not very difficult to reach on a steepish downhill with fresh legs? When going down this route during the day, my approach is far slower, specifically due to the foot traffic. The purpose of my post was to alert my fellow riders of the dangers posed by foot traffic, who like cars, we are forced to share much of our rides with, hopefully helping someone avoid the same mistakes made this morning. My lessons, be more careful around pedestrians, always give ample warning no matter what, and yes, possibly even slow down. Calling me names due to my limited geography and making assumptions on why I was doing such speed (reliving some scene from ROAM?) is probably unnecessary. I have reported the incident to the police as suggested, they don't seem particularly perturbed, but it's done. As I always say to my kids, these sorts of things are only problems if we fail to learn from them. The fact that I was not injured and my "victim" seemed for the large part unharmed makes me think that this is one of those moments where I need to take the lessons learned with me into my future rides and with any luck prevent someone else from doing the same thing in the future.

A polar bear walks into a pub and says, "I'll have a gin............................................................................................and tonic" The bar tender replies "what's with the big pause" The polar bear then says "dunno, I've always had them"

I thought about that as well, my mate was behind me and I did suggest that we invest in a pair of GoPro's for the future. We've had a couple of funnies over the years.

I usually slow right down when approaching from behind. I also shout well in advance and would rather stop entirely if not seen or acknowledged. As far as small pavements are concerned, I tend to prefer moving to road in these cases. I must be honest that this was poor judgement on my side and I should have slowed down, called and given the guy a wider berth, especially considering the fact that there was so much room. Lessons learnt tho I suppose, just a pity that he had to learn my lesson too...

The pavement/track is around 30m wide in this area and it was 04h50 in the morning. There's usually no foot traffic.