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oh they gonna look amazing, love the fact that they now do custom colors. G

welcome to the Hamster club. ... - a friend of mine sold/or selling that exact same trainer atm. I personally uses TrainerRoad for the last 5+ yrs, awesome, focused, great results. ZWift I find is more social focused. See a nice wall for a nice screen, just need a table on the side for the towel, water etc. G

... EVEN better in real life, standing right behind me in the study G

... For those interested, see: My MoBu Build G

Yes, still have my stage. it will stay here in Jbay as my primary bike when down here and the MoBu will go back with my to Jhb as primary bike there, G

last posting, Hope everyone enjoyed the little walk through this exciting trip. G The Build: Pyga Mobu Pyga Marathon Carbon Rims Chris King ISO Boost hubs Chris King BB Cane Creak Headset Rockshox SID Select 120mm Fork Rockshox Shock, Delux Ultimate, 118mm Thomson XC Flat carbon Handle Bar. Thomson X4 Stem Thomson MasterPiece Seat Post Selle Italia PantherFP seat Shimano XTR DI2 Shifter, Rear Derailer (11speed), Levers and Calipers, Shimano XT RT86 IceTech Rotos, 180mm front, 160mm rear. Shimano XT Crank Shimano XT Chainring and Cassette 1 x 11 as 34 Chain Ring, 11-46 Cassette Shimano XTR SPD pedals Stages Power Meter (XT) Vittoria Saguaro 2.25 front and back tyre ESI Chunky Grips K-Edge Garmin Mount cSixx ISG05 Chain guide Specialized bottle cage + Specialized tool bottle. Get Stoked : BikeShield Clearshield applied.

And the Final bike assembled. guys, it's even better in real life, you don't understand how gorgeous this bike is. G

And there I'm unboxing it, assembling it. Wife thought it very amusing and was taking pictures the Friday night.

And here is the me and my boy driving to PE to collect the box from Triton Logistics the Friday afternoon (box arrived at 11:00 the morning), was not willing to wait till Tuesday (Triton only deliver to JBay on Tuesday and Thursdays). G

So... about 2/3 weeks ago I got a call from Pat, he has my frame ready, what now... well ship it to Grant at Sprocket and Jack, I was saying, in between the excitement, followed by a call to Grant, telling him it's on it's way. (Grant has always build my bikes) What follows is some pictures as Grant unboxed the bike and assembled/build it up using my supplied components.. Followed by disassembling it, as little as required, reboxing it, and shipping it to me. My wife and kids stay in Jeffreysbay which we call home now, I still work in Jhb, so commute... (normally every 2-3 weeks in JBay for a very long weekend), due to Covid, been down here since March last year, probably returning to Jhb in 3 weeks, ready for B&B. For those that notice the serial number... well some might know, I had Pyga 120 650b #1, (I placed the order while in Ireland on a project, Pat was still drawing pictures, designing it) I then followed that by Pyga Stage M 001... I ordered at the launch evening in Cape Town when they opened their new offices there back in 2013 or was that 2014, was like March/April. So ye me very chuffed, this is also M001... Thanks PAT, this is special.

And then THEN THEN it happened, we all know parts/components availability in SA is a serious problem at the moment. Be that Shimano or SRAM, there simply is not enough. I was lucky, everyone else bought bikes from Pyga, other words a frame set, and then a full set of wheels, shocks etc etc all added to it, delivered to you. In my case, I bought a bare frame, everything else, I started buying the day after the launch. I slowly got everything, taking advantage of all specials I could, G

Some time after this... the first frames made it into the public eye in the hands the Pyga race team, which have been putting the frames through many many km's, races, leading to lots and lots of additional tweaking by Pat, the I'm not happy yet, it can be better. G

Now some time past... We had a drinks evening alongtheu way at Sprocket and Jack where the first frame out of the moulds was presented, people in attendance was a subset form those at the launch evening, all followed by all of us going out for a lekker dinner, All pre Covid G

And here the frames starting emerge, coming together, ending in the first rolling frame. Pat standing next to his creation, This is early, this is like Alpha stage, but already it looked amazing.

Next up is some images that we got as the design happened. .. Hope I don't get in trouble, but this was some special images, the little glimpses as the bike got designed. G

... so this is going to be a "multi multipart posting" This is going to be covering a time frame of 17-Oct-2018 -> 15 May 2021 It all started at a little unknown South African company called BST located in Johannesburg, attendance was on personal invitation by Pat Morwood. NOTE: go do a little research about BST (https://blackstonetek.com)... people in SA need to know what amazing carbon skills, experience/manufacturing we have locally, take note of their customer list, Mclaren, Moto Guzzi, Ducati. It was the launch of a new bike to be designed & manufactured, in South African... All in Carbon. The carbon manufacture process was also not simply a copy from how it's being done in the East, total new processes, methods were developed, to make it better. They're not sharing to much about hw/what they did of course, ... propriety and I'm sure we can all understand that. Here we go... I know I'm going to break the max attachment per posting so there will be loads of postings. with some text thrown in. First off is 3 images from the launch evening - 17 Oct 2018, We had Pat, Richard and Ollie from Pyga talk, then the "owner" of BST... followed by a walk though the factory. G Posting/pics with Pat's approval.

... BTLE is single client... so the BTLE send/receiver on the Kicker can only pair with one device at a time. To make it simpler, do similar on your phone, make sure not other BTLE devices are connected to it. G

... they've had the same question/comment made on the new Mobu finish, people think it's got a brown tint on it, people that seen it up close have confirmed def not. G

I got the Stage, in Black, it's a matt'ish finish, def not brown. G

Dean (TopDogToolShop) and Bruce (PowerToolServices) got allot of my Money, and will probably have allot more... G

Not cycling, but also helps me keep sane... slowly I'm working through the "I still want list" G