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media@silverbacklab.com - works for me... tech stuff though - not colours and shops and stock etc

What email address do you have for Silverback?

sjo sjo!

It's a riot Hairy! I've got two sets of wheels for it - a 27.5+ set and the 29 set. Its got adjustable geometry and designed to take both wheelsets. I'm really enjoying it.

A brand spanking new Mattoc 27.5+ /29 set to 140mm and a set of WTB i35 rims on BearPawl hubs with IBEX 2.4's. Good riding.

If you are going to be riding more trails, my vote would be the Camber. It is a very capable bike, still light and nimble. I am a giant Giant fan, but would only go for the Anthem if I was planning on racing more. Also note: only based on reading reviews and chatting to friends riding these two. There's always going to be different brands that can work for your budget and or riding style, but if you like those two - that is how I would differentiate it.

Hey Slowbee, I know you've been riding for quite some time, so would not make the mistake of buying the wrong type of bike for your riding style. And I'm sure that you've checked out every single bike vs price available locally and based your two (three) finalists on that. What are you riding mostly? That will taper the vote between those two imo.

Someone had a bad day on Helderberg over the weekend - I found one side of a Trek flip chip pretty high up the mountain. If yours, drop me a message - and come get it. Cheers

I just bought my second pair of WTB Assym i35 rims - due to selling my i29 pair with my bike. Took one helluva beating and only had one ding (my bad for running on a semi flat through a rock garden chasing a kom) Great value, strong, good looking and fairly light.

Heavy days man, sorry to hear of your terrible experience!

aha, you learn something new everyday.

I must be honest, I have no idea what you are asking here...

This is kind of what the saw looks like - somewhere in between these 3. Could not get an identical one online. The handle was a bit more handgun shaped.

Listen; retrospectively possibly worth mentioning; there was a guy standing against one of the signs next to the road almost at the robot and as I came by he was busy typing/sending a message on his phone. I recall him because I greeted him and he said hello back, but that may very well have been a spotter telling these guys that solo rider with good looking bike is on the way. Just a though. No actual evidence of this...

smaller guy had the saw - dreads. was a small pointed saw like you would use for trimming branches or smaller wooden projects. probably around a 20 - 25cm long blade with a wooden handle that could be perceived as orange I guess, but small enough to be easily concealed.

Big fan of my Mattoc! Enjoy!

Corse Dopamine Carbon wheelset on my trail machine. Sjo sjo.

I have only had two rides on my (still uninsured) Carbon Corse wheelset, so that was a no brainer... All jokes aside though, I immediately stopped the tug of war when I realized they have a weapon. Could not believe it when the bugger ran after me with the saw! The tackle and ankle tap was purely opportunistic and I can't take credit for that. Seriously - just a blessing that it ended as it did!

Check the map, please share yes!

https://www.strava.com/activities/1370683333 here you can see my little jack dance on the climb, very close to Lord Charles still.

This morning just before 6am I went for a ride on my trailbike. Plenty of traffic out and on a 'safe' route. Planning to ride from Somerset West on the R44 past Lord Charles, and then do a 20km return trip before work, just a quick spin. Around 300 or 400m up the road two guys are walking towards me - they've been walking down the road since I've started the climb, I took note, but nothing suspicious about them on first glance. Around 20m from them they go wide and one walks towards the yellow line, one towards the shoulder, meaning that I have to pass between them, since there's plenty of cars on the road, so I can't cut into the road. Small warning lights go on, but I dismiss it as being paranoid. As I ride between them, they both grab me. I almost break away and they become jittery and frantically grabbing at me and my bike. Smallish 20+ year old guy with dreadlocks and a bigger guy, short hair or shaven head probably around 1.8m wearing a dark hoodie (brown or green) with a massive logo on the front. I'm currently riding flats on my trailbike, and so when I pop off at least I'm not connected to the bike. They both grab at the bike and I get a hold of the rear wheel so we enter a tug of war. I realize after a second or two that there's no way these guys are just going to let go and so I do a quick check of their hands, and that's when I spot the saw in the one guy's hand. One of those pointy saws (lekker rusted) with the crooked handle used to do branch trimming. At that stage I decide that it is not worth it, so I let go of the bike and start running away from them. The guy with the saw actually starts chasing me with the saw down the road. I run in front of an oncoming car (the last one of the batch that crossed the green), so I'm pretty desperate. The gentleman stops and forms a barrier between myself and saw guy. But saw guy does not run away, he stands there looking at me. I ask the guy if I can get in his car and then saw guy starts walking away. At this stage I see the other guy is still up the road and now mounted my bike heading towards us (down the hill). I go on instinct and rugby tackle him. Note: I'm not a rugby player and tbh a guy on a bike carrying momentum gives you one helluva shot, but luckily take him down and quite hard on the road, and as he jumps up and tries to run, I get an ankle tap in for good measure. When he goes down again, I am considering a punch when I notice saw guy running towards us. I grab the bike, bars all skew from the fall and run up the road a couple of meters. The guy that I tackled luckily seemed rattled enough to stop the pursuit for the time being. He now joins saw guy a couple of meters down the road, and they just stand there nonchalantly waiting for the car to go before they come after me again. At this stage a bakkie comes up (AH building Supplies), the first vehicle over the new green light, and so I also stop him. After he stops they turn around and walk down the road (in no rush whatsoever). The bakkie gent (Gerrit) is nice enough to pop my bike in the canopy and give me a lift home. Flippen hell, what a morning! So blessed that only my knees are scraped from the tackle.

Yesterday morning on the trails.

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