Minion

I had forgotten how much medals can mean to people until someone I know got a medal for completing their first Amashova and first 94.7. She has won gold medals at SA Champs and medals at the German equivalent of provincial champs in another sport. The so-called trinkets she received for those two cycle races hold a similar value in her collection as the 'proper' medals. Just because these medals have become meaningless to you, doesn't mean they won't hold great significance for someone else.

According to my Garmin, I lose altitude on the IDT.

Isn't it the weekend of 18/19 February?

A little bit, but mainly FEM, CFD and CAE software.

Again, it could depend on the software you're using, but most of the stuff I've come across, it's more like buying a car and then getting a faster, improved model with additional features every year or two. Whenever your car breaks, you get free access to a technician who will fix it.

Not sure what software you're talking about, but it's a successful model for quite a lot of high-end engineering software (though not necessarily the stop working part). With the software I now support, yearly maintenance gets you major updates (including significant new features and performance improvements) and however many hours of my (qualified engineer) time you need to fix your problems. If I can't fix the problem, you can be assisted by the international support and development team of the software itself. If you don't pay maintenance, you get no updates and support, but the software will continue working.

I've you've been a member of a cycling club in Central Gauteng, then you've been paying that R75 fee every year for the past couple of years.

Not true. The shape also moves the centre of pressure for the wheel closer to the steering axis. This reduces the steering moment caused by crosswinds. The overall crosswind force might be the same (I don't know), but the effect on bike handling is greatly reduced.

I would dispute that. For someone doing 180km in 5:00, it might end up saving 10min (3.2%), say. Someone doing it in 7hrs might only save 3.1%, but this then translates to a 12min absolute time saving. There are aero benefits for everyone. Slower riders get a higher absolute benefit (more minutes saved), but a lower relative benefit (their % speed up is lower). It then becomes a personal choice of whether or not the benefits are worth the cost. For someone doing a 5hr split, 10min may well cost a podium place. For someone taking 7hrs the stakes are lower, but you may well kick yourself if you miss your goal time by 1min when you could have saved 10min with better equipment. Edit: for a 40km split, someone doing it in 0:57:28 might save 0:01:55, while someone doing it in 1:14:14, might save 2:29.

Headsets from 20-40GBP: http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/headsets-1-ahead-dept586_pg1/

It's sad how often this applies to our government.

Until you get disqualified for carrying an illegal fairing.

This is just a result of lazy/sloppy editing. In the days when even Google has an 'English (South African)' option, it's really inexcusable and just shows a lack of proper care.

Someone forgot to change the language on their word processor.

This makes sense, though I seem to recall Joker mentioning that he trains with power. He'd need to get a couple of the paid plug-ins in order to get similar power analysis functionality to a program like WKO+.

I believe Paypal offers seller protection, but only if you sent it to the verified address that is linked to the Paypal account. Also, you can only pay from Paypal into another Paypal account (in SA, at least). I suspect what will happen is they will pay, you will send, they will institute a claim that the item never arrived, Paypal will reverse the transaction since you didn't send to the verified Paypal address.

At the moment, none . My PC with Sporttracks died and I haven't installed it on my laptop. Off the top of my head, I had: - Equipment plugin - mainly for tracking maintenance - Weather plugin - Garmin Fitness - until recently, the only way to create power-based advanced workouts for an Edge on the PC. - CSV export - Overlay plugin - I preferred CSV exporting to Excel for comparisons, though. I think I had a few more, but those are the ones I remember using the most.

I think it still keeps more than one month of data, but you cannot display more than one month of data in the summary pages. The main reason to upgrade is to get access to more plug-ins, though the really good plug-ins are pretty pricey (5-15 EUR). Upgrading also allows you to track more than two equipment items.

A dilution ratio of 100C corresponds to less than one atom out of all the atoms in the known universe. http://www.badscience.net/2007/11/a-kind-of-magic/

I think it depends on your individual setup. If you can get the same relative positions of the contact points on the two bikes, then the Tarmac will probably be more responsive due to it's steeper head tube. If your individual body shape means you have to make compromises on your fit to get into a reasonable position on the Tarmac and those compromises significantly affect your comfort and power production, then you'd be better off ditching the Tarmac.

Sort of. That does appear to apply to cells grown in a culture. Not sure whether it would have direct application as a treatment method for cells living in the human body.

Sounds like BS. Ask him for some scientific studies/papers supporting his claim.

That's their crash replacement policy. For normal defects, the warranty is one year.

I don't think that's the case. I chucked my ride from GC into Excel and calculated the average, ignoring zeros. It went from 65rpm to 85rpm. I suspect it's more likely to do with how the handle auto-pause i.e. actual gaps in the file where there's no time or any other data recorded.