petatodd

You are way off. SASCOC decided that sporting bodies could only be made up of provincial members and PPA is not a provincial member. ITO the CSA constitution though PPA had certain rights as it was PPA money paying the bills. CSA decided to comply with SASCOC ruling (to stay as the recoginsed governing body of cycling) and changed the constitution without informing PPA and taking PPA's legal rights into account but wanted to keep PPA's money. PPA said ggf and withdrew totally from CSA.

And most years they just send you a licence anyway when you apply. Whether you pay or not. So disorganised. I licensed myself years ago to get a preferred start at the K2C when the wa pad was a wa pad and not the super smooth highway it is now. Meant starting in the 1st batch and causing others to walk rather than walking because of them. Huge value for the money. In actual fact, when you enter a race you put in your CSA number and EVERY organiser accepts that it is a valid number.

What good may come from this is the 1.5m rule. You may now legitimately go to the local cop shop and lay a charge against that guy in the Datsun 1400 bakkie on Chappies that tries to knock you over every time he passes you.

It's not the lycra they staring at. It's what's in the lycra. That thing you're trying to smuggle.

Be kind. Fat Pat is fighting for his life and the dead s--ts that run cycling in this country need your 35 rondt to support him so they can stay in power and look after themselves rather than cycling. Still having difficulty seeing why we pay this tax on our fun rides.

Not complaining. Stating facts. Always amazes me how riders can sit in the safety of the bunch, do no work and then moan that the pace wasn't high enough and their time could have been better. All in a non league race racing for 200th position! A bit like the South Africa we live in: not enough werkers.

On the front behind the 10 guys doing the work in front of him not in the photo. Everytime the paceline got going it would peter out after the 4 guys and 1 other girl did their turn. But when the final corner came all of a sudden there were 30 guys up for the sprint. This photo just shows what, over on the TDF thread when Cav wins, they call wheel sucking. I love bike racing.

percent surely?

If you can work out your BPM as a % while riding you're not going hard enough.... I can never work out why guys use BPM, it's totally irrellevant to anything to do with a bike. Zones or % are what counts in telling you how your ride is going. "Ooh, my heart rate is 160" Big deal, so what? At 160 you may be at 95% (going pretty hard to almost dead) or you may be at 74% (just cruising in the fat burning endurance zone). But then I don't work in a bike shop and call an "install" the act of putting on a few O-rings and 3 cable ties assuming the client has bought the cadence sensor. What about the speed sensor and the wheel magnet? Is that really necessary to add to the "install" on the Egde 500? And I also don't go around calling guys "tjop" as it's a pretty ineffective insult.

Oh dear, It's December which means it's summer. Rule #21 Cold weather gear is for cold weather.

I stand corrected.

No Slow, only zones 1 - 5 not as %. The display is limited to actual heart rate in beats or % where you can use % of actual max or % of HRR which is max less resting heart rate. Maybe Tankman knows what this means. Edit: You can display zone and heart rate together but not heart rate and %. Zone can be shown in a graph.

It just gets worse and worse for poor old Tex http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/sports-illustrated-dubs-armstrong-anti-sportsman-of-the-year Sports Illustrated dubs Armstrong 'Anti-Sportsman of the Year' Lance Armstrong tops the list of names for Sports Illustrated's 'Anti-Sportsman of the Year' with British track cyclist Philip Hindes also nominated. The American earned the title of 'Sportsman of the Year' in 2002, having won his fourth-straight Tour de France title. At the time, Armstrong dubbed it "the year of the team," with US Postal dominating the three-week race from start to finish. With the culmination of the United States Anti-Doping Agency's investigation into Armstrong and his associates, and the handing down of the 'reasoned decision' document in October this year, light was finally shed on what was described as "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen". The UCI then backed USADA's decision to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France wins and the handing down of a lifetime ban for repeated anti-doping violations. Sports Illustrated suggests that Armstrong have his 2002 award "revoked", saying that his legacy in the wake of evidence "crumbled faster than his steroid-fueled thighs used to take him up France's Pyrenees Mountains; former teammates admitted that not only had Armstrong constantly used steroids, but also that he practically forced his teammates to do the same. Not that he'll admit to any of it."

Me or the my bike?

I got a little white board with my number on it, sort of cut off on one side with 3 holes in it. What is that for? No instructions came with it. Is it for the front of the bike like in mountain biking? So Action Photos can find me without using those ugly orange stickers?

tjop? Like you are such a genius you can predict the screens someone who has never had a Garmin wants to see? I doubt it but am happy for you that you are a legend in your own lunch box. So how do you set up heart rate? % of max or beats per minute? Oh, no wait, to set % we actually need to know the max and I wonder how you do this...

Ah, but when it's over we can leave. And you stay. Where's the suffering now?

Saw Matt's post under news. Clicked through thinking Lekker, we have another choice to spend our money with rather than importing ourselves from the usual sites we use abroad. Alas, the store is getting fed from some far away country and every product I looked at said 5 - 7 working days to dispatch. The prices are going to have to better than hot to survive if your customers have to wait 7 working days for you to send their goodies. That's what brilliant about living in Africa. The big first worlders come over here and treat us like we know nothing about shopping. And because it's Africa we'll happily wait 7 working days for them to pack and send our stuff.

Same PC, Chrome, FireFox and IE. Took that cr@ppy fruit made product off otherwise I could have voted 4 times on each PC. Times 6 PCs....

Hopefully you'll regale us on Monday with tales of how you didn't even take the 39 along and never went higher than 17 on the back all the while pushing that 53. We're not going to accept just "the big blade" without knowing the number of teeth!

Make me laugh. 2 O-rings and 3 cable ties and maybe a wheel magnet called an install?

Funny accent for Manchester over the PA

I found a site, carbon29er.com that has built up bikes and frames in stock, I got the 29er dual suspension with XT and Arch EX from them. The total weight is 11.4kg for my medium. Been riding it for 3 months now, the only hassle I've had is people stopping me on the trails to ask what I'm riding and where I got it. I decided to spend my money on components, not dealer margin, brand name and marketing budgets. Spoke to them during the week about a road bike, they told me they've just built up a road bike at 6.7kg for an extra large. I think that's amazing at the price.

I would happily buy.

I enjoyed this from Cozy Beehive: http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com/2012/10/crucifixion-and-reform.html?utm_source=thehubsa&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=petatodd Crucifixion and Reform http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SKm6wbbLW4s/UIXjf2pOFiI/AAAAAAAAIj8/DYo6Ql2DUxI/s400/lance+armstrong+god.jpg