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I'm just saying what seem to have made a great difference in my health. I might keel over tomorrow from some kind of disease, but for now it seems to work for me. (As for your reply on the indigenous people being wiped out by measles etc ..... that is disputable, since many of them were murdered outright by the European settlers) Disclaimer: Please do not follow my example (consuming vast amounts of raw milk etc.) without doing your own research. 😉

ok, so here goes, I haven't visited a doctor since 2018. Not saying I haven't felt under the weather, but not to an extent where I felt sick enough to visit a doctor. Since 2020 I haven't taken any pills either, whether capsules, fizzy pills, headache pills, vitamins, antibiotics etc. Nothing. We do not eat any processed food, anything boxed or packaged. I understand we are fortunate to be able to do so. And it is a bit more expensive buying organic, but we don't exclusively eat organic. But the greatest change we've made is using only raw, unprocessed, unpasteurized milk and dairy products. We stay in suburban Cape town. (Ideally one day I'd like to plant my own veg 🙃, but for now while still in Cpt, we just source from wherever) And of-course no tap-water. Not saying I'm never going to get really sick again, but something has dramatically changed since we started using raw dairy products only. I think it has to do with the gut microbiome. When we do get sick, it usually passes within a week with some rest, and/or a few days' fast. 🙂

.... to me, most of Froome's success could possibly be explained away as team work and his own complete commitment to the sport until the Queen stage of the 2018 Giro D'Italia. I lost all interest in him after that victory.

mine isn't quite from the time when all bikes were 'gravel bikes' 😁 ... but yes, some of the pre-70 bikes have some nice clearances. 🙃

those are 700c rims, not 27.5 😃 .... the 38c tyres and the 30mm-deep 700c rims might create illusion that it is 27.5 rims?

Thx I bought an extra pair of hinged 28.6mm water-bottle clamps from CRC a few months ago. Will use them. (i hear you about the saddle, not very aesthetically pleasing 😉 ..... but I am comfortable on the Adamo range. All my bikes have them, and the Adamo Peak was the only Adamo I think is appropriate for a gravel bike? .... that would flex enough?)

Will the shorter route have sub-1-hour bragging rights?

So the retro gravel build is nearly done, I have just run the housing all the way down for now. I've replaced the rear derailleur with an old XT 9sp. Beautiful thing about 9 sp is that all MTB and Road groupset components are interchangeable. So the 9sp 105 STI works perfectly with 9sp XT derailleur to give me space for the 32T in the back, might even take it up to a 34T or 36T if I can find something cheap somewhere. Got an Adamo Peak saddle for 100 rands on bikehub to replace the "green thing" .... 😁 The chain on the 11T cog of the cassette catches the frame, but with a 53T on the front the 12T is fine for now. I just adjusted the stop-screw to stop at the 12T. ... just need to tubeless the 38c tyres, then I'll head onto gravel somewhere (future change might include another crankset?) .. but very happy to use as is 🙃

I think we all would like to think so. But it might be that there is something in the 32GI that reacted with the paint? This is from another site listing the ingredients in the 32GI Hydrate: (don't know what the OP used) potassium citrate, magnesium sulphate, riboflavin 5-phosphate, thiamine hydrochloride, pyridoxine hydrochloride, ascorbic acid, calcium d-pantothenate, nicotinamide, cyanocobalamin, sodium citrate, flavoring, colouring agent beetroot red, maltodextrin, sucralose (non-nutritive sweetener), polyethylene glycol, citric acid, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate https://32gi.com/products/hydrate-tabs https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/6009803683728/hydrate-32gi (Can't verify information on this site is correct) In general Citric Acid can break down coatings and leave a cloudy appearance

.... or the paint absorbing moisture, and just having time to dry out by the next day?

Thank you, that's awesome Conversion will be the cheaper solution then for now, what sealant did you use?

@MongooseMan what was your outcome here? .... what did you choose? Did a ride with a friend this weekend who rides the Rook Scout and had the same WTB Byway tires. Punctured early in the ride on tar. I take it its difficult to convert these to tubeless with the nylon sidewalls? What did you end up getting?

😂😂 yes, that green saddle is really hectic, I should contact Gareth again at Velobrien to cover it for me in brown leather. He has done other saddles for me in the past, and they came out awesome. 🙂

Thank you, sent Brett a message ... this is the frame I'm busy with. A middle-of-the-range LeJeune, think it's from 74'. It doesn't have any water-bottle bolts either ... just gave it a quick sand-down, primer, and colour. Want to join my friends on their gravel rides .... ... and might use it for commuting too.

Hi, does anyone have one of these they want to sell? "Double cable stop" for converting vintage steel frames to handlebar-shifters without shifter-mounts on the down tube? or a DIY hack I can do in the meantime? thx

Thx, I did. I replaced it with an Energizer, and seems fine for now. If it falls below the required minimum voltage (2.8V) within the year, I'll try a Renata battery next. Renata and Maxell seems to be the default battery used by most watchmakers? I had the Energizer battery on hand though, and just went with it for now.

See Lanoy sell "Orange Sealant" in a 473ml bottle for R350 https://lanoysports.co.za/collections/orange-seal And Olympic sells "Stan's Race" 950ml for R690 https://www.olympiccycles.co.za/product/stans-sealant-race-32oz-946ml/ So no noticable price difference between them ... think I'm going to give Orange a try, been using Stan's Race on the road bike for years with some good results, but every now-and-again it doesn't quite seal.

Not so sure about this seatpost damper design, does it influence the distance between the BB and the seat ... so your knees are going to take some strain? MTB dual sus the distance between the BB and seat is always constant.

Were looking for 6902's a while back as well, ended up buying some 61902's from Midas at a fraction of the price.... Haven't had any issues yet. Thought if these bearings are good enough for automotive use they should be more than adequate for MTB load? 🙂

Bike fitting might seem like a "grudge payment", but from personal experience I would also recommend it. I have long limbs and a short torso, and bike fitting never use to be an issue until compact frames with their non-standard geometry and specs came around. Luckily, according to the bike-fitter, I'm somewhat flexible and with the addition of a setback seatpost and slightly shorter stem could make me fit comfortably on that purchase. (a decade ago) I have all the measurements saved ie. angle and distance from BB to seat, and distance from seat to handlebar, reach, height/drops etc. for whenever I build up new (old) bikes. At 1.79 my perfect framesize seem to be a 55cm old school steel frame, with a longer seatpost 😁

At 57.5cm "top tube" the bike is close to XL? How tall is your friend, and what is his inseam measurement? I see there is still space to lift the handlebars a bit. Also check with seller whether the seatpost had been cut? It's a unique seatpost, so not easy to replace. Well done for assisting your buddy.

Even though the news paper tried to keep the narrative going that Van der Poel was entirely at fault here, and probably deleted any comments that would suggest differently, one can see by the ratings on the individual “comments” that less than 10% of the readers agrees with the comments made. Nothing to see here …

I'm about to force a stuck vintage BB shell off a 70's Le Jeune. Sprayed some anti-corrosion potion in/on there last night, and ready to try again. Axle/shaft is out, drive side is not budging. Just want to confirm - does all Le Jeune's have English threaded BB's? Don't want to be rotating it the wrong way 😑

I'll wait until a few weeks before the event to see if someone is selling their entry ... Don't want to have anyone poking me with a swab to take part in a race or anything else ... never know, they might make monkeypox a "thing" ... 😉 ... and make testing or "something" else a prerequisite .. 😁

Just arrived .... Some Tektro R559's - Long reach 53-73mm dual pivot brakes. For the really old road bikes where you can just-about fit a fist between the seat-tube and rear tyre . Allows space for some nice wide gravel tyres.