GreyOwl

Bud, your best bet is to go to someone like Ronelle (I see your both from the Cape?) Let her assess it and treat accordingly. Your gonna get all the wrong info on a forum. Go see Ronelle, she's also a physio, and a fellow Hubber!!

Funny Bob...thats my other branch your refering to!!

I doubt the massage would have caused such a pain. Have you had a sports massage before? Such a pain would suggest there is something else wrong to me. Agree Ronelle?

Renaults are cool Bob! You have a cool car bud...I like them.

On what? The Mercs? How?

I'm not bragging! Its true!

Yes...and every time you go near, it unlocks! So you walk away not actually believing that it has locked itself again!! Its terrible if you suffer from that whole "did i lock my car?" syndrome!! Coz evertime you go to check, your car is unlocked!! (unless you ask someone to hold the key thingy!!)

I just wish they could have kept as near as possible to the original route. Coz now its never going to be an accurate reflection of how the race has been over the years. Its a pity.

Thats very relevant!! However...does anyone own a new Merc? These cars give me sleepless nights!!

I rolled a tubby on Belville once!! Not funny...but I managed to keep upright!!

Bob is technically my uncle!!

We can cure cancer, send men to the moon and even developed Bar One ice cream....so why have we not developed a puncture proof light weight racing tyre yet?? I think NASA's priorities are all wrong...

I treat all types of athletes. And to be honest, I think its more widespread than we actually care to believe. Its definately not unique to cycling.

Exactly Mud Dee!!! It aint going nowhere! I once had to pump JP Van Zyls racing wheels for him...Continental Olympic 'B'...16bar!! I was cr@pping myself as I pumped!!

I liked the "Dolphins Cry"

Personally I'd never repair a tubby. Never ever. Nor would I use that tape stuff...but thats me. However, I did once win a kermesse with no tubby glue on my wheels, just pumped them as hard as possible! But I have been known to be insane.

Ok, wheres Bornmann? I've raced on tubbies all my life(actual proper racing) and would not race without them. But for races like Argus, 94.7 and the like, your better off using clinchers if you start in anything other than elite. What you gain in performance, your gonna lose by sitting on the side of the road wishing you'd have raced with clinchers...

A tubular is more responsive and lighter. But its a racing only wheelset. The tubulars are more expensive, but thats because they are designed for racing in mind. Dont buy a decent set of Tubby race wheels, and put cheap tubby's on them. Thats not on. But there are some great HP tyres out there now, and they last long. And you can repair them if they puncture.

Sheesh Spinnedude...did you have a bad Argus by any chance?

Tubbies are the best for racing...and if you have a backup car...Your mad to train on them... Clinchers work just as well for non pro riders...

Who cares...given the chance I'd hook up with her!! And I'm 32!! Besides, the females of the human species are cunning from an early age...its giving them an unfair head start! Go Tom!!!

You guys make me laugh!! I look foward to the day when everyone wakes up and acknowledges the very clear truth about cycling.

Go Tommy!! I reckon he's entitled...its not like he's hiding it!

No Athena, not bitter...just correct. Racing Hart, right team, wrong rider. But ML is a good friend and shared a similar sentiment...GreyOwl2008-03-11 23:30:49

Your not wrong Colonel... As they say in cycling "the sin is not in taking, its in being caught" I have a great deal of respect for a particular SA pro. We rode together on the same team over a decade ago, and he went to race abroad. But he eventually came back. I asked him why he came back, and he said "I didnt want to use the medicine...so I'll settle for racing here, with a clean conscience" I leave it there...