jarek.pski

If I recall corrected SC is one of few manufacturers that has a life time warrantee on their pivots. Mate of mine rides TB1 and has not touched anything since purchase in 2012. Bike has been in for services multiple times... Check the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xreZdUBqpJs

Why do I keep coming back here?? Expecting a miracle...

Invisible bike, speed wobble! http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j198/trigun221/Funny/InvisibleBike.gif

is it because of your beeeeeg goolies?

Don't die! Here... admire this beauty while we wait! http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww8/drsyntax/cannondalemtb-2.jpg

What my girlfriend uses to see where I'm during a long ride or race is Familonet. She can request live tracking of my phone, speed, heading, and location on the map. You however do need a internet connection, and gps function on for it to work, this does drain the battery. Is this what you are looking for?

I've ridden up and down haka, socially as well as during TS and MTN races. I more or less know what I'm in for I'm always keen for a social ride, will keep an eye on this thread. Let me just get back to S.A first!

I'd like to get into this, and want to enter the June event. Other then the obvious FF Helmet and padding, what else do I need? I think my Full sus Stumpy is good enough for the terrain?

USN bottles I use a brush for the inside. Cap, I remove the rubber nipple completely and use a thin camelback brush in there. I get powder sediment, and protein in there too. My bottles have a tough life

I've switched from Scott to Spez Comp MTB shoes. Best R1400 I've ever spent. Replaceable inserts, and Boa ratchet. You cannot go wrong. Any Spez cyclery concept store has them!

Bear in mind FSA and Truvativ won't cost much over a thousand Rondts! Stiff, and light. Not sure why Easton is considered 'better'?

If they have stock! Whatever I need they never have stock!

All my bikes either had the Truvativ T30 Carbon or FSA SLK. Both full carbon, and both super stiff!

I think it's the hard and isolated terrain. Sudden changes in weather. The climbing isn't spread equally over the race distance, it comes in 'bursts'. No shade and no tall vegetation to hide you from the sun... not sure actually. Now that you mention it, when Barberton used to be on the MTN calendar the rate of climb per km was greater then Atta, but Atta still took twice the time Maybe I just suck at mtb

I drive down with someone to drive the car from start to finish. Book accommodation at both start and finish, take a few days before start, and 1-2 after finish. They also have a service where your car is driven down to finish

Aggression sells... look how well USA is doing selling hardware!

Whatever you do stay away from Easton!

Highly recommended. Very well organized, beautiful remote areas, scenic route. Next year will be my number 5...

Was there much mud at the cradle trophy? I found the XTR and XT pads wear very quickly, in terribly muddy conditions During a 24hr race a few years back I managed to write off a new set of XTR's too..

Great... First pic on that page is the Polish junior national squad. I promise I don't have a kit like that!

Hello Forum, During my tour of Europe 2 years back I have visited a few concentration camps, and places of mass death caused by the Nazi Germany during WW2. I have been across Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, and Austria and have seen my share of misery, pain and suffering caused by human beings. When I visited Mauthausen camp in Austria in 2013 I have come across a very peculiar exhibit, and since this is a cycling forum, I'd like to share it with everyone. What I saw was an old bicycle that was used by a ex-prisoner shortly after liberation by the Americans in 1945. The bicycle was given to survivor Stanislaw Kudlinski by nuns in Linz, Austria, after the liberation, on which he set off for his home town of Poznan in Poland (by modern standards and roads that's approximately 700km away) Shortly after liberation of the camps in Europe there were millions of 'displaced' people that basically needed a ride home. Stanislaw could not wait weeks (even months in some cases) to get a lift back home. So he cycled. Bearing in mind that Stanislaw probably weight quarter of his weight, and still very much frail he took on this journey to get home http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae176/crObar/IMG_278897702498123_zpsc6yyfwhp.jpeg http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae176/crObar/IMG_278919598066971_zpsrdew0ywm.jpeg Not much is known of Stanislaw's life afterwards, but looks like he lived for quite a few years, and the bike returned to Mauthausen as a permanent exhibit in 2013, by his grand daughter. Sorry if this is a bit morbid, but this story has been very much stuck in my head ever since.

It would be like riding with two sand bags, one up front one at the back! Monster will be p*** easy!!

http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae176/crObar/143430_zpstynounov.jpg Sorted?!

Not many people understand the concept of Strava! Go as farking fast as possible, ride over anything in your path, and hope someone's beloved pet doesn't get stuck in your wheels!

http://i969.photobucket.com/albums/ae176/crObar/IMG-20140426-WA0007_zps0wjfsyvz.jpg I managed something like this. My German bicycle was falling apart at Kingskloof, managed a builders warehouse fix that weekend! Flat washers, and SS bolt to keep the bearings in, and out of grime