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Also went the Rabtron route. Spares came to R500. I wired it with a DPDT switch to have 1 LED - OFF - 2 LEDs. Also put a POT in (using the buckpack control pins) for variable brightness control Going to use it on the freedom challenge from next week. I figure that in the middle of the night, on my own in the middle of the karoo even a match or candle will give PLENTY light. I tested it locally and the light is really a BIG step up from the original light I was going to take (Normal torch bulb like 5 AA battery light). Even with 1 LED on it gives me more light than my Petzl XP I wanted to post a picture but apparently I do not have sufficient permission ErrorOnly members with sufficient permission can access this page.

Tried them. The bombs keep on rattling loose. Lost a few bombs and threw the little holders away eventually. Now I pul a road tube over the bombs and keep them in the saddlebag.

You cannot get lost in the Trans Baviaans, so you can switch of the GPS and get your speed/Distance from the cadence sensor. Battery life with GPS off is about 3 x nornal life, I have recently tested mine and it died after 27 hrs.

Seems like It will be touch and go. My newish (done the Epic) Bontrager front tyre delaminated on a downhill during Sani2C nonstop. Lost control and went down hard. Was operated on tuesday morning. I am entered for the freedom challenge Race Acros SA starting 17 June. And I was so ready and fit and lus...

With a plate

Those who have suffered from the unfortunate broken collarbone. How long does it take on average to get back on the bike? How about broken ribs?

Much easier to throw the emty bottle in the dustbin than to wash all that energy mix out of a camelback

The velcro strap is not to fasten the cage to the seatpost. That is what the contraption that the tri-athletes use is for. The velcro strap is to put around the bottle and cage so as to stop the full bottle behind your sitvlak to pop out over the first bump in the jeeptrack.

This contraption works well on a roadbike but will not hold the bottles on a mountainbike. I use one on my MTB but... I ride with 1 litre bottles (I buy mineral water in them.) They have a normal Coke type opening. So I put my powder in them before I ride. Then I have my filled bottles in the normal cages ( I use alluminium Topeak cages and bend them tighter) and then just fill the empty bottle with water at the waterpoint. The "dirty" bottles get thrown away. Manhatten Ice Tea make a good drinking spout that works great an the nornal coke screwtop. If you want to carry the extra weight in the seatpost cage, valcro straps is the answer.

The GPS will be the better indication of the two

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Afstand met 'n GPS in 'n reguit lyn is baie akkuraat, but the 305 takes a reading of position etc every few seconds and connect the dots mathematically with straight lines. Lots of curves (MTB) would make it more inaccurate. I would think that there is also a discrepency with regards to ascending and descending. I would think that any method to measure distance travelled on a bike that can come to within 5% is pretty dam good enough. (Most car manufacturers will not claim better than 10% - That is why they only trap from 10% over the speed limit)

The 305 get it's speed from the satellites. Only when you loose reception does the edge not display speed. (In a tunnel, sometimes under heavy tree coverage. etc)

Any Idea who stocks Maxxis High rollers in Pretoria?

The weather sucks. Sunday was the last chance to do seriuos training. Now it is short high intensity sessions just to keep reminding the body about VO2 Max, LT, FTP, and all that stuff... This is tapertime!

Also use sports tracker on the n95 8GB. Let me express myself clearer. Edge 305 Battery good for appr 8-10 hrs Memory good for 3 epic days or a week of training, then it re-writes the course/track data but keeps summary in history. GPS quality very accurate - 4-10 meters Edge 705 (hearsay) Battery good for appr 10-12 hrs Memory good for 500 hours of track/course data (500 Mb) - SD card is for maps etc. GPS quality very good 4 - 10 meters N95 Battery good for 6 hrs plus (G3 switched off - Phone standby off and some other power saving measures - backlight etc) Memory 8 Gigabytes - that speaks for itself GPS quality - 20 - 40 meters and losing signal easy. I am following the 705 forum on motionbased and am still undecided wheather it is a nice to have or must have.

I started off with a set of noname SPD type pedals that were really rubbish. Then I bit the bullet and bought eggbeaters. They did eat away at the sho sole but the bigger problem was that the springs was eating away on the loops where they meet and a lot of play developed within a year. They were way to expencive for replacing regularly so I switched to SPD 520. At R300 per set I could live with replacing them once a year when the spindle was worn away. I have now bought a set of 540s for the epic. So: Eggbeaters - brilliant design, works well, not durable enough for the price spd 520 - have been happy with them once the tension is set up correctly. no serious mud problems spd 540 - the jury is out.

Its own batteries will only last a day. When it switches off it has enough power to keep the data intact for a long time - The GPS is the power hungry culprit. I used a Alarm/electric fence nackup battery with a carcharger to charge mine during last year's epic. Again on the motionbased website forum is plenty methods to strech the battery life with add on batteries. If you cannot save your rides every second day to a laptop it is not worth riding the epic with an edge 305. It will only save about 2-3 days of data. Then it summarises the data and overwrites the track record.( i.e. where you have ridden.) This year I will record the ride on a nokia N95 8GB. GPS is 70% compared to Garmin but storage is Plenty.

For the best forum on Edge (305 and 705) see motionbased forum http://www.motionbased.com/ Very clued up bunch. If The Garmin importers (Avnic, Anvic or sanvic or something) wanted to make a killing they should have had it ready for the epic. It will record the complete epic and then some (appr 500 hr of riding can be recorded before it is full)

The Boer & Pom will do Epic training. We will be on Roadbikes and will do at least 2 full laps with variations. Try and catch 5 big climbs. Will be there at 7 in a Silver 323i with thule on the back I think. The boer is the one with the beard.

What worked and still works for me (108 Kg to a race ready 79-81 kg) is to eat balanced (20% Prot, 20% fat and 60% Carbs) BUT COUNT THE CALORIES. If I want to loose weight I aim for 1500 Cals and what I train I loose faster. Maintenence is about 1800 Cals plus what I train. The harder I train the harder I eat!

I have plenty, Will try and post them tomorrow. Send me your email to strydomi at iafrica dot com

After Breedsnek turn left at the tar - a short section and then left again past the hotel and the treetop adventures. This ads a nice extra loop befor hitting Zuurbraak

3 options that we use: 1. Around Roodeplaat Dam - Pretoria 2. Breedsnek - Hekpoort 3. Suikerbosrand - various options

Breedsnek se lang kant 25-30 minute.