madmarc

Found him https://www.facebook.com/cain.hashimoto/

Vry cool and great to see you out on a bike after a stroke. I used to follow a guy on FB in USA that builds MTB trikes - No welding - Uses Al pipe and handle bar stems to assemble them - His last build was an E-Trike - did really cool work, but then he disappeared havnt seen any posts from him this last year

Don't get me wrong i'm not knockng the small guy - LBS have their place and most do a good job, all i'm saying is dont get married to one. OP is a very new beginner with a very small budget - I doubt the kind of client a LBS would want or be able to satisfy - Makro fills that space but he needs to understand he will not get the same support - So be ready to do a lot of the fixing and servicing himself. Once he gets with the program he'll realise he neds a bigger budget and a different supplier. Too many people on here telling the OP that MAKRO / Game / SW bikes are crap, which is understandible on this forum. But they are not crap only the assembly and after sales service is crap - the bike is fit for purpose and represents the value he paid for it, ride it, maintain it and it will give him many miles of happiness. If i was him i would Strip it and reassemble - everything tight and lubed Spend money on a bike fit - get my ass measured and make sure the saddle is the correct size. Get the basic tools for maintenance - watch lots of Utube videos. Ride it like he stole it His baptism of fire into the sport will be a lot more enjoyable until he hs the budget for an upgrade

Nothing wrong with your purchase from Makro based on your level of cycling and budget. Nothing wrong with these bikes sold through big brand stores other than the assembly - Most are not assembled properly and the main reason they start breaking an falling apart. I bought my sons first MTB from a local Indian shop for cheap compared to the other bike shops - But i completly stripped it and rebuilt it - He put the thing through the ringer for 3 years and i sold it for more than i paid. Any parts i needed the sam eshop had them - chains, cables, RD's, shifters, brakes, tyres, tubes they had alles and they were cheap But thats the thing they are cheap and the quality of the bike confines you to a certain entry level in cycling and dont expect the shop to have any knowledge of cycling or repairs when something happens. But its a good place to learn to service and fix your own bike - with the help of the university of youtube. Its also a good choice if you messing about at entry level to see if you really enjoy the sport without massive investment in kit - I know many who spent 1000's on kit, rode once or twice and then decided naaa not for me only to have all this expensive kit hanging in the garage. So ride the damn bike, enjoy it and enjoy fixing it, but don't waste your money upgrading it. Once the bug bites you can rebond your house and get into it proper with a proper MTB from a proper bikeshop. But remember bike shops are only interested in taking your money, so buy the bike at the best price between the shops but learn to do all your own maintenance, service and upgrades - Always shop around for components as well as online.

I nearly pulled the trigger as well on some Maxis - Really good deals they had - Then i decided naaaa not after all the horror stories i've read about on them

Ye that why i asked because those that hodled their prize would be smiling today But no Prize money this year ! thats crazy, but shows the level of participants - They not in it for the prize money its more about the glory which is great. I remember going to the original launch event of Munga where the prize money was $ 1.0 mill - Well that went south very quickly to $ 0 today

So what is the prize money this year and is it still paid in BTC

I've bought from them but had it shipped to UK as i was visiting my kids so never shipped to ZA Their prices are very good service was good but took a while for delivery approx 5 - 6 days from Spain to UK I bought my USWE backak for R 1 300.00 locally they were R 3 500.00 for same thing

Its probably better than the original - All mine bought locally had the top layer of rubber peeling off in first 12 months absolute crapest bar tape i ever used

Depending on how its used, there is a legal issue on this - Don't get me wrong, I fully support it BUT ! We had the same systm on construction equipment we sold as the OEM. Our clients were mainly rental shops who used to get their equipment stolen fairly often. they would then send us the SER No's which we entered onto our workshop database. Inevitably most of these machines would come into our workshop for repairs and service at some point. We would then contact the original owner as well as inform the current owner that the machine was stolen. In the begining and being naive to the law, we handed then machine back to the original owner only to get charged by the new owner for theft, on top we were sued for a replacement machine or same value in cash. Which we lost in court. So what does the law tell us to do Finding a possibly stolen machine we had to inform the original owner that we were in possesion of his stolen machine that he reported to us. As well as inform the new owner that the machine was stolen. The original owner then needs to contact the investigsating officer at SAPS to come collect the machine as proof/evidence of the crime - If the machine was insured then the insurance company has to be informed by the original owner who in turn must contact the SAPS to collect the machine. Once the machine is collected by SAPS, only they can decide to hand it back to the original owner or the insurance company, or keep it as evidence for any possible court case. If none of the above happens then we were obliged to hand back the machine to the new owner who originally brought it in for repair. So according to the law you can only hand back the machine to the SAPS or the new owner. In most cases we handed it back to the new owner as SAPS were not interested in coming to our offices or the investigating officer had closed the file or could not be contacted even though the original owner was standing there watching this all happen. If we handed it back to the original owner we would get charged with theft and expected to make the new owner whole again. It became such a ball ache we stopped doing it - we simply informed the original owner we had recieved the machine and gave the new owners details to let them sort it out between themsleves. And heres the kicker - Now with the new Poppi act (or whatever its called) you cant even give the new owners details to the original owner - He can sue you for breach of privacy. The bottom line is only the SAPS have the legal right to confiscate propery suspected of being stolen and its up to them what happens after that. So the only thing a bike shop can do is contact the original owner which is useless because they cannot hand the bike back to him or Contact the investigating officer if their details are recorded with a case number and hand it over to him as stolen property for confiscation. I wonder how many bike shops are willing to get this involved when they realise the ball ache

This gonna be epic to watch - please post where we can support his cause

Interesting question I use my 830 on all IDT sessions on IV/TPV for Disco points mainly - On all the seesions recorded in Connect it has my speed & power stats not sure if its getting it off the app or the trainer - I would imagine its from the smart trainer

I agree - I think both TR & ZWIFT are gonna see a lot of customers migrating over - Its really a good deal considering what you get. Its still not as good as ZWIFT but in a year or 2 i think it will be better

Had this issue for my wife to get her points, i got an old FitBit IONIC which seemed to work fine but then got a VERSA 2 for cheap and it works perfect once linked - Just make sure the model you get can track and record your ave HR on a session as some of the smaller models track while you riding but dont record it too upload afterwards

If you ride in a group - Then ride at the back