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Lived in the Karoo most of my life and I would think that those district roads will not have changed much, i.e. they will be serioulsy corrugated. So maybe try and get an opinion from someone who actually has ridden those roads, or lives in the area, because I'm thinking you might need an ass transplant at the end if you're riding a hardtail!

Probably true yeah, feeding strawberries to pigs and all that, but the Drongo clearly actually has some pretty good taste...so here's a few more that sit very high on my list...and all 29ers this time around!

I think he does it to keep the Grammar Police at bay...hard to make a spelling mistake with emoticons...

Plonker! You extracting the urine or what old son?

Why don't you just take it back to the LBS?

Dangle forgot to ask you earlier - and to Drongo's post above - did you have that stupid 37/18 ratio you've been riding lately on it? You might as well have let him take it, would be like trying to steel a track bike...eish! no powa!...and then some...you'd have caught him within 5m

Hmmm Drongo, not to detract in any way from your kink(y)ed Spanish carbon fetish I must disagree with the with you. I do believe that this bike is far more likely to qualify for that particular title. As has already been established you did not say "the worlds (sic) sexiest mountain bike" so this one would be allowed in your thread. It's pretty much hors categorie anyway, so neither fish not fowl... Naked Bicycles Baby Ganoush: TIG welded steel, A-hole with polished stainless bumper strips and B-hole; eccentric dropouts; disc brake; custom steel fork with twin plate fork crown; semi-integrated seatmast. Handcarved Brooks saddle, FSA Metropolis bars and post, Paul Component single mini-brake lever and hubs, custom Walnut Studio leather sew-up grips, Velocity burlwood rims, Schwalbe 35mm Delta Cruiser Path Racing Tires, classic Gimondi crank, Brooks double straps for pedals. No I don't own one - there's only this one left, of six ever made, anyway - but I will...some day. And no this was not some quick Google search...a Naked is on the bucket list. Even the website makes you want one: www.timetogetnaked.com!!!

Had the same issue on X9 and none of the above fixes worked. Specifically jumping off the bottom of the big ring on a hardtail. To check just lift your bike by the saddle about a foot off the ground and let it drop - my chain dropped off the big ring 10/10 times doing this. Finally ended up calling Cape Cycles and before I could really launch into my long sob story, the guy said he knew of the problem. SRAM got a bad batch of springs at some point in late 2010 which affected XX, XO and X9 in that the spring tension was insufficient to prevent the chain jumping off the chainring(s) on technical stuff. Replaced my RD under warranty and no problems since. The spring on the new RD is seriously strong. Not saying this is your problem, but if you've exhausted all of the options/fixes mentioned above, then maybe you've got the same problem I had.

I got just a little nauseous from watching that! Battled to see the point of wearing helmets though - one mistake there and ending up with a split skull is probably your best case scenario outcome, helmet or not! Absolutely mental!!!

I can vouch for the Bontragers, I used a pair in 1.8in (they were called Jones Mud X then) on the 2nd Sani2c which was a mudfest from hell. I rode where nobody, and I mean nobody else was riding at certain times, especially on the muddy climbs, they really are exceptional in the mud. When it dried up though.... they have the rolling resistance of snot on a blanket! I use a Rocket Ron front, Racing Ralf rear combo which seems to be to be about the best all round solution I've found, and works surprisingly well in the mud. I would think the Nobby Nic would be even better on the front, so would concur with the recommendation.

As much as I agree with everyone's replies posted here regarding the 7 finger rule - i.e. crock of sh1te! - I'd take any advice that says "your definitely need a size 'X'" or similar statements with a pinch of salt. I'm 1.83 and weigh slightly less than you, so we're probably similar in build. But you may be one of those guys with long body and short legs or vice versa, so it's not so simple. To get the correct frame size there is more to concern yourself with than just frame size, i.e. centre of the BB shell to the top of the seat tube. Making sure you have enough stand-over height so you can move the bike under you, and ensuring the overall reach is not too long or too short, which can affect handling big time, are pretty damn important. I suggest you go to Wrenchscience and use their fit calculator as it's the best online one I've found. Better yet find a decent bike shop that can do the fit for you. This way you have a set of data you can always use in future which will give you not only required frame size, but overall reach, i.e. you'll know what stem length you'll need to get the same reach for a frame with a different top tube length, and recommended handlebar width. Link to Wrenchscience fit calculator: https://www.wrenchscience.com/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fSecure%2fFit%2fHeight.aspx Obviously all the above depends a lot on the type of riding you do as well, but either way have a set of close-to-empirical data you can use. I've got a set of data from 2004 that I still use every time I buy a new frame. Good luck, and buy your bike elsewhere - if those clowns start like they have it's only going to end in tears... yours

Can you still play the theme tune to Dallas on the calculator keypad? If you've had that since they came out you'll know exactly what I'm on about!

Fair point but I've not had a problem - last dealer I bought from in the UK had shipped the watch 2 days before he received my payment. Rating systems like Ebay has work like a charm. I should know, my wife spends a fortune on Ebay every year and never once a had a problem.

www.chrono24.com Ebay for watches - new used, private sellers, retailers - they're all there and pretty much any brand you could ever thing of. Prices in SA way over the top IMHO

Seeing as this thread has gone a bit beyond "what are you wearing"... ...the wishlist - and still realistically priced, i.e. affordable by mortal man Tutima Grand Classic Chrono Sinn 900 Flieger Sinn 857 UTC Nomos Club Date Fortis B42 Flieger Anonimo Polluce Bronze Anonimo Marlin and lastly Nomos Sundial (sadly only works properly in the northern Hemisphere, but I live in hope they make a southern hemisphere one) ...don't much like mainstream brands as you may notice. No fan of quartz either, all the above are mechanical...even the Sundial

Zenith - most of their stuff too over the top for my liking. That one is 21mm thick (or thereabouts) and I think a 46mm diameter case so unless you have arms (wrists) like Donkey Kong they're a 'mare to wear. Forget it with a long sleeved work shirt certainly. Oh and that price too, but then you won't find a watch with a tourbillon in it for less than that... except some Chinese knock-offs maybe.

Hmmm you've got a point or few there, but I still prefer the 2x10 setup. I like fact that you can run through all the gears on both chainrings with no crossover problems - nice when you come around a corner and some bastard course designer has inserted a 50m long near-vertical climb and you're in the big blade. I've never run out of gears, so my 28/36 "granny" has sufficed for everything I've encountered so far - I attribute this in large part to the fact that you make the best of what you've got. That being your easiest gear means you crank the thing harder and generally crest the hill without walking. I think the SS guys really experience this as they only have 1 gear and therefore it's pedal it or walk. Same applies - to me at least. That said I've had more kuk in 1 year with my 2x10 X9 setup than I ever had with my old 3x9 X0 (might be because it was red) or XT before that. - Rear derailleur replaced under warranty due to bad batch of springs in some units so too low spring tension = chain jumping off bottom of big blade. - Front shifter seems "drift" all the time, can never get the damn to consistently shift well. - 10 speed chains must be forged with silicon in them as the things stretch like rubber bands!(admin please delete this post if I'm not allowed to use the word "chain" and "stretch" in the same sentence) About being lighter - near as makes no difference to me. Think I'll be trying Shimano again sometime soon. At R7999 for a full 2012 XT groupset vs. R13400 for full XO on CWC it's a bit of a no-brainer methinks...

Me I really couldn't be arsed what other people think of titanium bikes. I've owned 3 (still have 2) and will own more in future. Black Sheep st Highlight, Funk la Ruta, Generic Vecsus and Moots MootoX YBB all on the shopping/wish list. Not being suitably qualified to discuss the technical merits of titanium as a suitable material for bicycles, I'll shut my gob. I like it and pretty much 99.9999% of cycling - which we do for fun, not to get a fing doctorate - is about what you like, ergo it's pretty much all about...EMOTION... PS. OP, as already requested please post pics of your new frame.

This makes something "expensive"! Frank Muller Aerternitas Mega 4 - the most complicated wristwatch ever made 36 complications, including 1000 year perpetual secular calender, moon phase, leap year to 400 years, 2nd and 3rd time zones, equation of time, minute repeater, power reserve, flyback chrono, and tourbillon to name a few. 1483 components and not 1 of them electronic, no fancy diamonds to bump up the price, just pure mechanical genius that takes 5 years to make Do I want want one? Hell yeah! Been in lust with it for some years now. But at a retail price of 2.7million...United States dollars!...not even a lotto win is gonna help me much. PS. Xonix will likely will tell the time more accurately, so if that fulfills your requirements, then sure it's decent.

Nice little vintage collection there JB!

Aaaah Gummi gotta say bad choice mate, a Tag is just so...well 3-series-ish. Everybody has one.

Nice!

Sinn U1 divers most days Tutima Einsatzuhr sometimes - needs a service, so not for a while now. I like German mechanical watches and would spend all my cash on them if not for mountain biking. Neither above brand available in SA, so aint seen nobody else with either of these yet! (generic pics, not mine specifically) Polar goes on the bike only...

Agreed, great response Andrew and, no doubt, well restrained too. To the OP, next time you want to rant, type up your rant, save it, go to bed. If you still feel the same way 24 hours later, by all means post it. Little disappointed with you though oh Antipodean one; you lost your red grammar pen? "I apologies"? Tsk tsk....

Admin please could you rectify. An error comes up when trying to load pictures on an Classifieds ad. You will see the last few loaded have no pictures. Thanks