madmarc

the problem with Ciovita is their sizes are very small - I normally wear L - XL, with their cuts i have to go XXXL - I have 5 of their jerseys all the same cut and they all fit differently - I have a set of Bibs which fit me perfect when i ordered and additional 2 sets the shoulder straps were so short it felt like my shoulders were being pulled down to my feet. In their defense, when i spoke to them about it they sent a courier to fetch them and fixed the problem and sent them back all done free of charge Now I never buy kit online anymore - LBS who stock their kit normally are the same price so i first try it on before i buy

Here's hoping the new Gen5 has all the quality issues fixed, so no need to get it replaced 3 or 4 times. I wonder which generation will have the option for a proper Campy freehub that works ?

Online cycling and training apps are getting insane, and cyclists are getting caught up like sheeple in the insanity - What happened to the days where we just rode our bikes as hard and as long as our bodies would allow, and then smashed a coffee or a beer with our mates afterwards - ye ye COVID 19 and all that but its temporary ! Where we bitched that a decent bike cost 15 - 20 K but we unload 25K + on a IDT setup in a heartbeat. will we become gamers ? all be it very fit gamers or will we remain cyclists.

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Check out the DOCS they have monthly ride from Rand Water in the South to Vaal dam once a month. Very well organized

sounds like a good idea - be good to see your finished product

Was only a matter of time before the rocker boards challenged the sway boards. Who's are best ? None I tell you. Because everyone trying to emulate indoor what happens on the road. Before you can do this you need to be moving forward and the pivot point needs to be at the same height - You cannot achieve this on any design rocker. On the road, the angle between the bike and the road is constantly changing - on a rocker/sway board it remains at 90 deg. The jury is still out on where the pivot point is out on the road - is it at the BB height or where the tires touch the road ?? irrespective, on a rocker/sway board its below the road. An energized rocker will always force the bike back vertical - which is the complete opposite to being on the road where the rider pulls the bike back to the vertical. The sway board design probably emulates this better. But its natural position will always be to the vertical as well, but the rider will have to do more work to keep upright. At the end of the day if you using a rocker to get that outside ride feel - you wasting your money, it won't happen. If you looking for some side to side movement or for and aft movement, then ye a rocker is the way to go.

That bird needs to aim better

I had this problem the other day - For some reason my trainer (Kickr Core) lights were off both the ANT+ and BT lights, but it was all plugged in. I unplugged it completely and then plugged it all in again - been working perfect since then. I leave my trainer plugged in 24/7 so maybe it was because of loadshedding i also hear its not a good idea to leave the trainer plugged in all the time.

They should make the top gate (Old entrance) the MTB entrance maybe for Multicard access only. Then we could park at 33 high street or the new shopping center and ride in like the old days This would reduce congestion at the entrance and they would sell lots more multi entry cards = cash in the bank for trail maintenance.

Went on Sat entered at 8:45 entrance was not bad at all, only about 6 cars in the line - maybe i was lucky, the guy i went with was 10 min behind me me in a line of about 20 cars. Did the red route, but cut out the river section, didn't wanna disturb the bird (Or maybe i was hammered I dunno) Trails are lekka clean for the most part - Good that they burnt the reeds as they were very overgrown - Now they'll grow back in the summer again. Lots of trail walkers on the MTB trails - which i'm cool with - share the trails, be nice, don't be a box. But my only concern were the walkers on the downhill single track from the top gate back to the start - This should be verboden for walkers there gonna be a serious accident if they don't enforce this on this section. 4 guys only just managed to jump out the way when i was bombing down, I also only realized they were in the trail when i was nearly on top of them, head was down on the trail trying to keep my navigation on point. there is a specific walkers trail next to the tar road they supposed to be using. I would hazard a guess that most of the trail walkers are using this place for the first time and don't realize there are dedicated and marked walkers trails. In the past, walkers were not allowed on the MTB trails and MTBers were not allowed on the walkers trails - Its only a matter of time before there gonna be an incident if the Taroko don't get this under control.

that looks really cool. Have you ever considered making the rear plate out of Aluminium - Been watching some Youtube vids of a guy in the states who make kits from Aluminium - They maintain that wood designs tend to walk around the room while rocking and the wooden curves tend to wear unevenly after a few months. Not sure if that's a fact or if they just pushing their AL design. My take on the Linear motion would obv be to mount the 2nd board on top with as small as possible gap between them. Also to keep the overall height as low as possible - So the Linear plate could be cut from Aluminium 3 - 4 mm thick. In my 1st post there are linear bearings parts that come in different dia's these start at 8mm up to 20mm - Maybe 12mm setups on each side would work - One would have to get the dim drawings of the bearings to check what the gap would be. With this design you could mount compression springs over the round bar between the bearings to preload the board. - Probably the best, simplist & neatest option. A 2nd option would be to use 2 rails of friction linear runners. this would keep the gap really small, but you would need to preload the board with tension springs - probably on each side edge of the setup. One would also need to check the max vertical load these friction runners could handle they say 3920 N which is approx 400kg. they not cheap though ! Locally you can source these from DIY Electronics https://www.diyelectronics.co.za/store/ or speak to bearing man - they might also have solutions. A 3rd option would be to find industrial drawer runners mounted on the sides - So the linear plate would slide in like a drawer. Here again one would need heavy duty drawer runners to handle at least 100kg + vertical weight. Preload with tension springs as well. A 4th option would be to design 2 tracks on each edge of your current board with shafts and small roller bearings mounted on the edges of the top board also preloaded with tension springs

Thanks frosty - So as i understand its whatever discount you qualify off the 4K (I'm family) and not off the purchase price - correct ?

Can some one explain the fitness device discount - I'm looking at buying a Garmin watch from Sportsmans I'm on Diamond with 25% discount (Sportsmans) have a disco cc and the healthy gear card for sportsmans So if the item costs say 5K how do i calculate what discount i will get back Thanx in advance

Only bird i can think of that would act like that is a crow - very territorial and aggressive if they have babies the feel are being threatened.

yep still working for them - I went from the chemicals used to provide your food to the machines that plant and harvest your food. Havnt been to the Vaderland since end of Feb - As soon as Oom Cyril says its okay i be on the 1st flight to my other office - Not on SAA though

The 7km radius is mainly for chemical fallout - I wasn't aware they still manufactured chemicals as most plants were shutdown. When i worked there the main most dangerous were Ammonia Sulfuric Acid Nitric Acid From there the clever scientists developed all kinds of products like fertilizer - pool acid - chlorine etc etc In the process their largest production was Ammonium Nitrate (Ammonia + Nitric acid) which when mixed with Lime becomes LAN that you buy for your grass. It's not volatile but can be used for homemade bombs when you add an accelerant and an ignition source - If you wanna know how ask Timothy McViegh, he blew up some building in Oklahoma using the stuff. But when mixed with diesel becomes the white granular explosive used in open cast mining. Think it was sold under the name Energex at the time. This is where the mixing stations were used, the recipe had to be exact or it would explode and the reason why the stations were unmanned during mixing and where most of the Modders explosions happened. Once its mixed its fairly safe to handle and needs a detonator to set it off. Other explosives were cable type called cordite mainly used in underground mining - this type never exploded per se but rather burnt very quickly (40 000 ft/sec) so when wound into a coil and inserted into a hole in the rockface it had the same explosice effect. Another was PE4 which is a putty based explosive like you see in the movies - This is mainly used in demolition with shaped charges for directional demolition. Also mainly used by military - lots of bridges and buildings in Mozambique & Angola no longer exist thanks to this stuff. The other main fertilizer manufactured was Urea (Ammonia + Liquid Carbon Dioxide) used to boost crops for agriculture, it ends up containing over 50% nitrogen - So if you don't have an icebox to keep your beers cold - throw 1/5 a kilo Urea into a bucket of water and chuck your beers in - within a few minutes the water temp reduces down to about 3 deg C just make sure you rinse the bottle before you open the beer or your hair will grow 1 inch per day. Other chemicals were Copper Sulphate - Water treatment Aluminium Sulphate - Host of uses Lead Sulphate - Not sure Copper OxiChloride - Wood treatment - Thats the green colour on wooden poles Arsenic Acid - The sh%t your wife will use to kill you one day. CO2 - Dry ice. Here they produced CO2 for 29c / ton and sold it for 290 ronds / ton Okay history lesson over

Wow! Is this still current ? - I wonder how many residents are aware or even seen this

Called the ROSE Alarm used to evacuate the factory - Gets tested every Friday at noon. I'm surprised they still test it - Not much happening there now that would result in an emergency evacuation. I was present when some terrible accidents happened In the apprentice training bay practicing for trade tests when a mixing station blew up which was about 1.5km away - Bricks and debris came through the roof luckily no one got hurt. The percussion blew out most of the windows working in the compressor room on the Urea plant - a pump exploded in the power station approx 900m away - what was left of the pump impeller cam through the roof and killed one of the Engineers. In the detonator manufacturing plants all machinery and tools were made of wood to ensure there were no sparks generated. On the Nitric acid plant there was a round flat filter approx 5m in diameter that had to be changed once a year. The filter mesh was 100% palladium - there were 2 armed guards inside the room and 3 outside. When the fitters went in they had to strip down kaalgat and wear a white paper like overall. When you finished you removed the overall and got dressed in your normal overall in a separate room - the paper overalls had to be incinerated. When the filter was transported to the plant for installation it was escorted by same armed guards - the fitters doing the installation were changed every 30 min. Clearly they never trusted us

I did my trade at the old AECI - Strange to ride through all those old buildings and remember doing maintenance repairs in them. back in those days they were in pristine condition - the mixing stations were like operating theaters they were so clean.

That area is fenced off - They are the current bunkers used to store explosives by AEC In the area we ride their are buildings built behind large embankments - these are the old bunkers currently being used as stores by some companies - One is being used by Sea Scouts I think. There is also a section near the river run with the old dynamite mixing stations where the old management built a trail through the old buildings - cool to ride through - Looks like old WW2 bomb shelters - Hopefully new guys will keep this section as well

I have a XL TREK Top Fuel 9.9 - GX Eagle - Old Bondrager wheels with a dropper post = 12.6kg

Thats good to hear - Ultimately i want to run off a laptop with screen wirelessly cast to the TV

Those having issues connecting via BT on Win10 laptop - I just spent hours getting it to work. Win10 needs to have the latest service pack downloaded and all up to date. I could see both my BT HR & Core in the "Add BT device" but it wouldnt connect and both TR and Zwift could not pick them up. In fact TR beta app indicated my laptop radios were switched off. It seems Win10 sets all BT devices to start manually - they need to be configured to start automatically. Here is a link that explains it - Once i followed all the steps as well as making sure all my BT applications had the latest drivers it now works perfectly https://windowsreport.com/bluetooth-wont-turn-on-windows-8/ I'm waititng for my Ant+ dongle to get Win10 to have both options hopefully the Ant+ setup will not be as difficult. However running off a laptop will mean you need a good CPU/GPU or the picture on the TV becomes jumpy - especially Zwift - TR will work fine as long as you have min 4meg RAM & BT4.0 min. If you having issues with TR then download their Beta version it seems to work better Currently I run both TR and Zwift off an Iphone 6+ (mounted on handlebar for touch screen control) cast to a 50" 4K TV with HDMI cable (Lightning to HDMI adaptor from apple but get the one that you can keep the phone on charge it has both a female HDMI & Lightning port ) I run JOOX at the same time for music which casts through same HDMI cable to tv and from tv to music center.

Just a thought - that Dock-X needs to have a dual design for both road and MTB.