Andre Engelbrec

Yip .. CIPRO data would be interesting ... then, surely cyclingSA financial statements should be open to members, right? If so, then there must be some payment to HighOrbit for the hosting of cyclingSA website .... Was advocated on TV that CSA is a very transparent organisation and therefore they will publish financial statements on their web-site. Looked a week or so ago and no financial statements after some questions were asked. Why? Who cares who owns myrace. This is the second year it is a shambles. Last year the big chief did not want to know of potential myrace problems and was hell bent on continuing with them? Even after many people voiced their dissastisfaction. Everyone else was steamrollered. Read somewhere that the big chief should resign from his well paying lekka travelling job should the problems not be sorted out. Why no resignation yet. What was the specifications of the system and the procurement and tender process that was followed. Like the tender process in respect of hosting SA Champs that had to be implemented by the big chief which was never implimented and the decision was taken by big chief himself irrespective of the fact that two other provinces were not given the opportunity to "tender" on the tender process which was not implemented and was not followed.

"Despite some isolated cases of delayed delivery of licence cards, we?re fully behind our new online membership/licensing system, myrace.co.za. We?ve traced the hold-ups in the delivery process to being largely from clubs to their members. We are doing our best to educate clubs with regards to the new system so that they can get the licence cards from their provincial governing body (where CSA sends the cards to) to their members. If it wasn?t so costly, we?d courier cards to every single applicant, but we?re using our resources and budget as efficiently as possible and it?s up to clubs to commit their support to the new system to ensure it works as smoothly as planned." How can you so blatantly blame the clubs while all of us know the problem is on your side with your crap system. THE BIGGEST JOKE IS WE HAD ANOTHER ROUND OF DELIVERIES. AFTER THESE DELIVERIES SOME OF OUR MEMBERS HAVE 4 [FOUR] LICENSED CARDS. WHO WILL CARRY THAT EXPENSE. IN THE PREVIOUS NEWSLETTER YOU ALSO BLAMED THE CLUBS. PLEASE ONES AND FOR ALL ADMIT FAILURE ON YOUR SIDE AND STOP BLAMING THE CLUBS. GET OUT THE COFFEE SHOP AND INTO YOUR OFFICE, ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND DO YOUR JOB.

Saw some dude on a mtb at 19:30 in the pitch dark on a busy road being escorted by some dumb ass in a jeep (fly girl) obstructing the traffic at 17km/h. No wonder motorists are so aggro towards us. Complete with lights. Ride on the pavement it is more fun.

It is your clubs fault see the latest newsletter by your COO. Do not blame CSA or My Race blame your club.

Napalm jou dom ***..n asshole lees wat ek geskryf het. Ek vra jou wat jou aandeel in alles is om rede jy altyd wal gooi vir CSA, my raceetc, etc.

Ag Napalm verdedig jy nou al weer. Vertel ons liewer wie jy is.

What to be buy? Where to buy? What works best?

Napalm what is your position at CSA as it seems you have a lot of inside info. Why are you so quick to defend CSA? Does the following look familiar. ""If you can't get people to pay for what they love, we're all out of business." This seems to be so true. They should not receive what they have paid for.

Do you have a problem with it as your name also pops up. I have made the comment to Omar tongue in cheek because a few days ago he posted about Sylvia Dales suspension within a few minutes of it happening. Was hoping that Omar could enlighten us on this topic as it seemed that he has inside info. It was a mere shot in the dark. I personally have no problem with the body CSA, BUT..... Would like to know Amar's real identity. I suppose you would remember insidents about a year ago about confidential info regrding CSA popping onto thehub.

This is not an attempt to discredit any person, organisation or service provider. My news letter received from CSA and my response to it. <?: prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> =Without any prejudice= Dear andre engelbrecht, More than 7500 applications for membership have been received so far for the 2009 calendar year, with 6000 cards already distributed ? approximately 3000 of those in the last two weeks. ?We?ve now worked through the high-load summer holiday application rush and continue to fine-tune the system where necessary,? said Justin Dowdle, Director of MyRace (www.myrace.co.za). ?Education continues and more and more cyclists are changing their mindset [not me] and putting their trust in the system [count me out on this one too]. [Justin I have no trust in your system. How can you trust an electronic system that takes 2 months to process an application while the manual system took a week?] We are still educating clubs too and encourage cyclists to implore their clubs to become familiar with the system, which really is efficient, professional, user-friendly and trustworthy.? [Clubs do not need educating as we do the bulk of our clubs members license applications as your system freezes etc, etc, etc. You get tired of the little bicycle block running over the screen while the system cannot cope with overload. The system is not efficient it takes five minutes to find your club. How about a search box to find your club? The system is neither professional nor user friendly. You cannot undo anything you have wrongly selected and when you request My Race to delete the entry you promise but do not deliver. Phone MyRace with any questions and it is sorry Justin is the only one that can help you phone him after the weekend for assistance. You then phone and get promise xyz will happen and weeks later nothing has happened. Reply dated 17 February 2009 on a question to the COO is attached. ?Both your managers licenses were approved, which means those cards are also in transit, stolen or never pruinted. I bet it is the latter. Will follow up. I have now confirmed Colette's application _ I have no idea why our office did not do it, but they might "blame" it on the workload, or it might be a simple oversight. ________________________________ I am going to immediately order Andr? another card, and do believe that his card will be oprinted this week still and be sent to your province/club. ________________________________ Please note I am copying Sylvia and Retief. Stay well and best wishes to Andre. Carinus? New members using the online application system at www.cyclingsa.com get their membership card (licence) in credit-card form, packaged in a stylised envelope with a welcome letter. Why do we only receive license cards and with no envelope or welcome letter? An improvement over the previous manually produced easy-to-duplicate cards and another element of CSA?s drive to offer best-of-class service. Do you call not being able to produce a simple card which was paid for on application within a period of two months best of class service? ?It should take on average two weeks [two months, two and a half months?] from the time the application is made until the card is delivered by courier to the provincial association of the applicant. It?s then up to the clubs to ensure the membership cards reach their members,? explained Dowdle. This we do but you should deliver on your promises. You do not know what a nightmare you have created saddling the clubs with this inefficient system and way of dealing with licenses. We get screamed and sworn at for you inability to produce. After all it is a transaction between the rider and CSA/MyRace. The clubs and provinces are the unfortunate parties doing CSA?s jobs at the club?s expenses. Your CyclingSA membership below reflects your 2009 status, If your Status is blank you will need to complete your registration and submit some cycling specific details: To become a registered CSA member, click here. What are the different licence types? click here. Licence Type: Cyclo Sport Licence Licence number: 5810 Status: Confirmed O boy payed for it on 30 December 2008 and still waiting after many promises. Perhaps you should keep the card and refund me including bank costs and interest. Maybe you guys should admit you have problems and fix it a.s.a.p. or resign as this is clearly not working. If this was a business that served its clients in this way they will be out of business in a flash. I suppose monopolies survive with this kind of client service. If you feel I have done an injustice to you with this posting please accept my apologies.

As ek net daar kon wees tydens die voorval dan kon ek haar vashou dat die ou haar behoorlik klap.