The worst part about England's batting performance was that Kieswetter (a South Africa), made almost half of their runs. Without his 35 runs they could very well have broken the T20 record-low of 67 runs. England was 60/9 at one stage, but then the bowler that handed Kieswetter half of those 35 runs, handed the #11 batsman 13-odd runs in one over. Overall, from where we sit, England got a thrashing to remember
Wish I could have taken a photo, but yeah. Saw the most beautiful sunrise on one side of the road and lightning on the other side. Had to turn back unfortunately as the rain threatened to get worse.
My Kenda small block 8 gets a fright each time it sees a)sand or b)mud. Doesn't stop me though. Pretoria has a lot of dust which with these last two weeks has all turned to mud, so I just grind through it all and use it to my experience (mud -> tyres -> extra weight -> tougher riding -> #whatdoesnotkillmemakesmestronger )
Depreciation is what he's getting at. But it doesn't in any fashion tell you when your bike is kaput. Upgrades on a bike screws that one up. My one bike is 8 years old (well the frame, that is), but the components are brand new and the frame performs just as well as a brand new one.
I'm 177 and ride a medium 29er. But I think I get you on it, I feel I could maybe maybe fit into a small. Best would be to try the bikes out, see if she fits on them. The 29er felt big for me at first, but now it's as easy as riding a bike.... well, yeah. Mostly.
For 15k you can look at the Scott Scale Elite 29er (iirc) that costs 12k. I looked at it a while ago and it's not a bad bike at all. Full XT, Rock Shox Reba. Elixir 3 brakes (admittedly not my favourite) and it weighs 11.5kg.
Pretoria did have a road race - The Union buildings one (the name changed a few times so no name for it). Was fun and all, it just collapsed because of sponsorship issues. Same as this, road closures were an issue.
The power of the braking force is definitely where your rotors meet your brake pads. It's probably true that the area of contact between the rotors and brake pads is relational to the stopping power, but it's also obviously going to be determined by the friction between the pads and the rotor. All your brake levers do is force pressure into the hose which in turn forces the pistons out onto the brake pads between which the rotor is pinched.
Don't remind us about that one... the road closures plus the lack of motorists actually listening to the marshalls was shocking. I don't know how you can actually get all these roads [semi]-closed off properly, but good luck to them, in all honesty. These are busy roads but they are awesome to ride on either way.
I spent a total of over 30min in bottlenecks waiting to go. But I enjoyed the race. Was a fun ride for me, my time is horrible though, seeing as I wasn't seeded and spent half the race in traffic, but I'll be back,
Ok so this is my first MTB race.... how do you guys know which batch is which, seeing as though they start every three minutes? Will it be like the queue system like they have at the 94.7/Argus? Anyhow, good luck to you guys.
You should rather go the measurement route. My [Kenda small block 8] 29 x 2.1 gives me 2275, as measured and I find it accurate when testing it with my GPS.
No expert, but it depends quite a bit on your tyre pressure too - I noticed this on my 29x2.1. Mine was 2275mm though - I set it using the double-distance tape-measure method.
The testimony they have against him is sketchy at best. It's like you arresting some kids for using, saying that you'll let them off lightly if they testify that kid<x> sold you the drugs.
