madmarc

The struggle is real I tell you - You have to put your phone on a selfie stick to see who's calling you 😁

I recently sold a fairly old SCOTT which i upgraded v brakes to hydraulic brakes and tubeless conversion for 3K on Market Place to a mother who wanted to follow her kids while they did cross country running - So there is always people looking for good condition old bikes out there. Also lots of workers looking for affordable bikes to commute instead of paying for taxi's. My gardenologists saves 65 ronds a day since I gave him an old MTB I would build it up make sure its in proper condition mechanically and list it on Market Place for 2 - 2.5K it will sell

Not sure what drink to recommend as its more a personal thing - What works for me may not work for you - For what its worth though i have used 32Gi Endure for years now - I try for low Gi hydration and eats on the bike to avoid the dreaded spike. As far as your eyesight though i could help as i had the same issues - My optician told me there's nothing wrong with my eyes, its's my arms that are getting too short. At the time i was using +2 reading glasses from DikSkem, but these were useless on the bike and looked stupid. I could read the Garmin but when i looked up at the trail and the hot chick in front of me it was a blur. On a trip to Germany I went into a motorbike shop to get some parts for a mate and came across bi-focal riding glasses - they have lens inserts at he bottom near the nose in the main lens. Like the Dikskem glasses you can select from +1 to +3 They work perfect, the lens is in a position so when you glance down at your Garmin without moving your head you automatically look through the lens at the screen - When you look up you looking through the normal part of the glasses. I never been able to find them locally though but you can order from their website - I have the dark for normal riding and the clear for night riding https://www.helbrecht.com/HSE-Sporteyes-Bifocal-Sport-Sunglasses-SPRINTER-23-2231-a_1

Yes sadly all us old timers have had to revert to 12 28 clusters and compact cranks but luckily Campy still caters for us

And lets not forget - When jumping into a sprint in one thumb motion dropping the gear from you 23 to 11 in a split second dropping all the others who are clikety clacking through their gears while you cross the finish line to take yellow

They came up on my bookface feed - So was wondering the same thing - they have some really cool bicycle workshop tools and really well priced

I was looking at the KAROORAK by MTB Africa - Its a bit pricey but built proper and can take 4 bikes and its built locally - I also had a question about the vertical load on tow bars as I have the Thule removeable one which is a goose neck design where they indicate the max load should not exceed 100 kg - BTW this is a SA road regulation based on the vertical load for the draw bar on a trailer, I doubt bike racks were around when they wrote the regulation - So I believe the vertical weight load limitation the manufacturers say not to exceed is more about a safety instruction to keep you within the regulation rather than the possibility of the tow bar failing under load. When i look at our tow bars they are really heavy duty in construction and i would imagine that could easily handle more than 100kg vertical static load - The problem I suppose is if you hit a bump or a pothole that load will increase exponentially through inertia. But for 2 E-Bikes and the ease of loading a heavy bike, I would go for the KAROORAK I think its a really good & practical design BTW I am not in any way affiliated with them LOL https://www.mtbafrica.com/karoorak.html

Ye - He left out the T

You can thank the importer for that. They really don't do the brand any justice

I would agree, they really chucked their name away with Ekar Campy needs to stay on the road, no place for them offroad. Let SRAM and the others fight it out on the trails. Oh and what happened to all out old signatures, I was very fond of mine "I'll walk before I ride Shitmano"

Reported to Admin !! If they don't ban you then please ban yourself

Change to days to years is what i would support. But more importantly, the local importers should be banned for life for messing up a premium brand locally Campagnolo wears in while the rest wears out

These are lekka trainers - I had the exact same one before all this smart stuff came out - spent many hours on it - It was perfect to do power based training - and when i joined Traineroad it worked well with virtual power. sold it for 2K during COVID lockdown when you couldn't even get a mag trainer for love or money. A word of warning - Never lose that cable from the head mount to the brake unit - its useless without that cable and you cannot get replacements

Thats crazy ! - I also question why 32Gi don't sell refills in the sliver plastic bags you get inside the tub - every time you buy it you get a new tub.

Mine is 110 which i can get to with a moderate walk 👴

Signing up as an endurance rider should be a no brainer - doing a 2 hour ride for 300 points when you can do the same for 600 points. Yes your weekly goal increases to 1200 but to get the additional 300 points is a 1 hour IDT session. Also ways of doing a 1 hr session and record a 1.5 hr session for 450 points - But lets no go into all the point hacks, as i'm sure Disco follows these threads 👀

I also flew to Germany with empty softshell bag folded as small as i could get it tied it up with suitcase straps and checked it in - no problem on Lufthansa

Reading this thread brings back many fond memories of the Argus - I'm the biggest whinger when it comes to entrance fees, but lets face it, the ARGUS is special. I did it on a MTB; a road bike; in the wind; in the rain & in the heat of 2002, managed to just get past the stoppage point on ou kaapse weg and finish. Did the normal route and the de-tour routes. One year i broke my hand 3 weeks before the start and asked the Doc to modify the plastic brace so i could hold my handle bar - He refused so i went home and did it myself - No way a broken hand was keeping me away from the Argus. Did my 10th in 2010 & got the special medal - Done 11 in total. first one i did was in 1999 when we had to post in our paper entries in from JHB. Sitting at the PC with my dial up modem waiting for the online entry portal to open. the system would crash like 20 times before it accepted your entry. Entries were full & closed within 2 hours. All the after parties at Camps Bay Glen country club. My best memory was doing it with my son, was his first cycle race at 14. The characters along the route - Remember getting boobs flashed at me my some hottie when i was coughing up a lung trying to get over Suikerbossie - And we cannot forget the Grim Reaper costume guy as you started up suikerbossie. Interesting read on Wikki here about the event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town_Cycle_Tour I see they Robbie Hunter as the record holder for the fastest time in 2008 on the 110km Chapmans peak route - For me this will always be the proper Argus route. I stopped doing it because the excitement got lost somewhere, I got bored fat and sassy and organizing the whole weekend logistics just became an expensive schlep when you living in JHB - Chasing that sub 3 (The holy grail of the Argus) & Club 21 membership became distant & forgotten dreams the older i got. A Pro cyclist once told me - winning the Argus has more prestige than winning the SA National Champs. I think this is one race where the entry fee is worth all the memories created

Looks like a plumber tried to fix it - I would have a serious conversation with LBS

Depends on how desperate the seller is - I think the low end of the market is very busy I just sold a 26er for 3K on market place - had 5 people fighting over it Have another full carbon TREK 26er hardtail XO equipped i was thinking of flipping for 6K, but then i rode it again and thought mmmm naaaa its a fun bike to still ride. On the high end people don't have spare money laying around so its very quiet - I have 4 road bikes - Collectors models - i been trying to flip and even with 2 price drops they just not moving. I may do another price drop or just keep them.

Be careful removing old sealant from inside your tires - You will open every puncture hole it ever got and struggle to get them closed again. I did this on 2 MTB tires, when i remounted and pumped them they looked like a STANS shower and refused to seal. I ended up binning them for new tires.

You can use any 10 spd quicklink - I use the SRAM ones, many will tell you a quicklink is also single use, which is BS i reuse mine over and over when i remove the chain to clean it properly on all my bikes. I use SRAM QL never had an issue

ENVE in the 2nd pic - Deep sections nadda look nice on a COLNAGO. BTW - If i was Admin i'd ban you for posting such porn here on The Hub - Have you no morals dude !!

Also factor in the roadies who moved over to MTBing and then again lately to gravel kind of diluted the entry levels over the years - When i started MTBing i did a 50/50 mix but road has just become so dangerous that its now almost 100 MTBing - and doing road events just doesn't interest me anymore. New entrants into the sport also mostly start with MTBing and very few transition over to road. I think the future of road events does not bode well it will get overtaken by gravel events. Multi day MTB events is also on its way out, with organizers struggling to find anchor sponsors and the cost involved to host the event. More and more MTB groups are organizing their own unofficial long rides and weekends away