The_Break

Hi Gayboy it is not as simple as saying this is how you overcome it when it happens. You are treating a symptom and not the cause. A correctly engineered bike should not do this. Take a look at the guys when they descend the mountains in the big tours, they are doing over 100km/h at times and you will almost never see this happen. There are a few causes and yes some of them are incorrect geometry of the bike (which is unfortunately only the designers problem and hard to prove) but here is what I would check in order, but first a few questions: When the bike started wobbling were you breaking or free wheeling/pedaling? Was there a cross-wind of any type? How long have you had your bike and have you changed anything recently? Have you gone this fast before on Suikerbossie or a similar angle and road surface? My guess is it is one of the following that you could check very quickly: If you were breaking, check that your breaks are set corectly, i.e. that when you pull the brakes that they do not make the wheel move to one side. Rim should sit exactly still. If you were not breaking, could have just been a side wind, this can happen even with short section rims but worst with deep section rims. One of the worst causes if that guys put new forks on bikes or swap forks out between bikes that are not of the correct rake angle and thus cause a change in the wheel base. If the change causes a too short a wheel base then it has a trolley wheel effect and hence the wobble. Check that the bike has the original fork on it. There are a few other factors that could contribute, but they are most probably not the cause. Check these 1st and let us know what you find. Good luck! I had the same problem a few years back and was so scared to ride my bike down a hill I could not go over 40km/h. Took me a year to get it sorted and my confidence back. Cheers.

Well if I was Jacque Collins then that means you are the son of the silver haiored dude. Like father like son? Got one part correct...the other part u missed....If only my dad was that dude without the helmet I would have been a decent cyclist. Do u do training for the fun or u the type that always see negative's in life. I do training for a job, so I see anything that pisses other road users off who try and run me off the road on a nearly daily basis.

glad you got sorted. what helmet did you get? as an aside' date=' i got given a rapha cap by craven that is tempting me to ride without a helmet [/quote'] mmmm a Spiuk Nexion. It is on special Dont go riding without a helmet and a caps. you are NOT a pro OR a tjop! If I am not mistaken, don't most Porfessional Contracts now enforce the use of helmets by there cyclists at all times? I do not think medical aids would pay out if they found out a guy was in a cycling accident and was illegaly not wearing a helmet. Means youu will either have to sell your house die. But if you live, then there is the poor old wife or kids who have to look after you for the rest of your life whilst you become a burden to them. Makes one think cycling without a helmet if a bit more selfish than at first glance. I like the comment about being greated less when not wearing a helmet. I do the same. We had a bloke come join our group once without a helmet. Told him to go and ride next to someone else. Our club captain told him to go home. Guy felt like a prize tjop and next week rocked up with his helmet. Now we all mates and have a good laugh about it. I just dont'understand why guys do it. Besides, my main beef with the dudes was there lack of discipline regarding the traffic lights. How many guys have we had killed here in this area in the past few years. Friends of ours. Most of us probably went to their funerals and rode in procession for them. Maybe shed a tear and all cursed the guy who rode them down. Now I ask you, was all of that in vain cause guys like this still show disrespect for other road users and for their fellow cyclists who get more targeted by motorists, truckers, etc. I average 4-5 hours day on the bike and it does not hurt to stop at a red light, here in our part of the world it may be 5 time on a ride like that. I normally just shout, "Get some discipline!" to guys to ride like idiots when I see them and what amazes me if the attitue of don't tune me because I will F*%k you up. It is like a young boy so full of pride that he doesn't realize that he is in the wrong and should actually just keep quiet and maybe say sorry man and change. Immature. And I do not agree with it being none of our business to put pressure on others in our circles. Public pressure has been proven to be the most effective means of keeping a nation in check second to civil authority. And in our country we certainly don't have enough civil servants to do it all. So we either put public pressure on when needed or let the country decall. As for the helmet, I just mentioned it in hope the guy knew who he was if he read this, if he wants to get killed then that is his problem, but the rest of his actions affect all of us.

Well if I was Jacque Collins then that means you are the son of the silver haiored dude. Like father like son?The_Break2010-02-05 14:25:03

I was out doing intervals on the Bottlery/Kuilsrivier road today and then again over toward the Helshoogte where I passed a cyclist who gave me the idea to start a daily tribute in honor of those we see out on the road who through their wisdom and knowledge have given so much to our sport that we can be thankful for. I will kick it off. Today's winner is: The wise old man in the yellow cycling cap for teaching me and your fellow two younger riders so much: For your wisdom in showing us that wearing a helmet is over rated and silver hair looks so much cooler under a cap. I am sure the motorist who rides you down will be thankful for a suite of copable homicide. For teaching your fellow younger cyclists that is not Ayoba to stop at red robots, but much cooler to fly down the outside of the traffic and then hook it on rails around the corner and through the red light. I saw a few people in their cars cheering at your skill. You may not have seen it, but those 2 youngsters who followed you had looks of awe on their faces. Shucks, bet they want to grow up to be like you. So thanks for being such a great influence on us. Your ways teach us safety and also help us to be safer on the roads as with the cool stuff you pull off in front of traffic motorist can only like us so much more and therefore be so much more careful and tolerant of us. So to the silver haired, yellow jerseyed, yellow capped, legend with no helmet, today we salute you.The_Break2010-02-03 11:23:20

That's a good point, you should always make sure you know which one will get you a complete new bike from insurance and which only partial. hahaha

Just don't join the Makro group on Sundays, they are a bunch of idiots. Caused many an accident to themselves and other bunches they have ridden past. Dangerous on blind corners. Be WARNED!!!! Other nice groups are Wayne Pheiffer (call his shop) and the Cyclelab group on Sunday mornings (Check online). There are also Saturday league races which you can join for R50 a race every Saturday morning. Really great and you can sort of choose where you would like to start off. They not petty about starting at back, but will quickly seed you correctly as there are only 8 bunches. Oh, need to be 30 and over unless they host an under 30s race. PM me for some telephone numbers if you need to hook up with some others.

Can Rudi's peel? Why did you change to 2nd and 3rd pair?

I sweat a lot into my glasses. I have had the M-Frames and the Racing Jackets both which are coated using chemical process. I.e not built into lense. Which do you have?

Hi All My Oakley's are peeling for the 3rd time and I get a letter from Oakley saying that one of the major causes of peeling lenses is sweat due to acidity. Differs from person to person. Makes me rethink my definition of sports glasses. Seems Oakleys are not suited for my sport. Of course if Oakley decide to cover warranty there is a hefty service fee. After 3 attempts it adds up to about R600 and after that ones nears the time when buying a new set of glasses and saying goodbye to Oakley is a good idea. I wash and dry as per their specification. Please let me know what glasses you ride with and what glasses you would recommend I stay away from? I was thinking of Rudi Project.The_Break2010-01-26 07:09:12

I think it is because the link at the top left saying new topic can be a bit confusing to the guys who don't know that they need to start a new topic from within the right forum. I did this for a long time as I thought they were allocated to a forum based on content. Then I was pointed in the right direction. That was today.

1st thing is to make sure the bike is the correct size for you. Go get measured up independently of bike. Sure you have though. You may need a new seatpost as that one looks a bit long in the teeth for the frame. What size is the frame? You will probably need to drop stem down to get a nice position with tri bars. Otherwise bike looks pretty good and if it is 105 like I think then 10k may be about 1-2k too much depending on age of bike.

If you live in PE, buy from Lorraine chemist next to virgin active, they are cheaper than the importer who sells from his house to "Special Friends." I no longer use Cytomax.

70% of original price if in very very good condition. Otherwise I will save a bit longer for the new one.

In a nutshell, when you race long distance mtb races you are normally more concerned about riding as hard as you can for as long as you can. This would ideally mean riding at a constant heart rate which is maintainable over the distance youu want to travel. Off course there are factors that would up this like hills, attacks, etc, but basically you want to keep your heart rate in the sub-threshold zone so that you can keep riding. Training with rate rate is for sure a great way for you to monitor you body during training and racing allowing you to know when too hard is too hard and when you can go harder. That is in a nutshell. HR training does still have a lot of ways in which it is not the best way to train, but for you it sounds great so yes, you can justify HR training. Do yourself a favour and read up as much as you can. Especially regarding training zones and how you determine them.

If you can get a map, there is a route that starts in Jonkershoek and climbs all the way up to right near the top of Pieke Mountains. From up there you get to see the entire Boland nearly. Stellies is about 50km from Camps bay though so for added motivation you will need to visit a couple of wine farms. Preferably after you ride and get driven back by Good Fellas.

Hey, I have something positive to say. When the rand strengthens as demand for it increases the months prior it is going to be great. Cause that's when I pull all my money offshore and move out of here. 1st world here we come!!!!!

I don't see how having GPS is going to help improve your physiological capabilities. That is after all what training is aiming at doing. Of course baring the mental side. While MTB training will be different to road training in certain aspects, using a power meter in training will be the same as you will work according to the calculated power intervals for each session. So no, I do not see any major differences to training with power on a mountain bike. My coach would know more about that as he works with that discipline more. I am more involved in the road, TT and Triathlon side of things.