jmaccelari

I have always made it clear that the first person who puts the cash down gets the goods. No reservations, no waiting. You pay, you get. It has worked well.

Ride 28mm tyres on a road bike...

With SSpecialized's shitty attitude and tendency to sue anyone they can in the cycling industry this thing could be made out of pixie ****, priced at R200k and I would still never consider buying it - if I DID have the money! ;-)

I'll +1 that. I have replaced the dumb@ss rubberband system on my new light set with the clamp from my old (now dead) lights. It took me all of one ride to realise how useless the rubberband system is...

This may not necessarily be the case. I won't mention names, but one of the guys who raced tandems with us - a very experienced cycling shop owner - was out for a ride with a lady a few years ago now, and riding very slowly when he apparently tippled over, fell off and hit his head. A very silly little incident. He was wearing a decent helmet. He died in hospital a few days later from a brain injury sustained during the fall. Sh*t luck. Very sh*t luck. A helmet cannot guarantee to protect you from injury, no matter how 'innocuous' the incident. All it can do is reduce the odds and (hopefully) the severity of an injury. Best wishes and thoughts to this cyclist's family and friends...

This 'professor' (professional d**s), just goes to show that you can't lift some people intellectually no matter how much education you give them. He's an arrogant **** with his attitude on the road. Imagine the tosser in a car! Here's a more reasoned reply to his bull****: http://road.cc/conte...oing-helmet-row

Sad day. Bought my first bike at D&H in town. Bye bye Basil.

Sad day. Bought my first bike at D&H in town. Bye bye Basil.

Spoke tensioning is very much an experience thing. I started off buying a DT Swiss tensiometer when I first started building wheels. A few years down the line and I can get it a lot closer by feel, but still use the tensiometer as a final check. It was expensive, but well worth it...

LSD = 'Long Slow Distance', a 'base' ride...

I'd agree that is it hypothetically OK for cyclists to yield at intersections. However, the law is the law. Both here in the UK and in SA bicycles are subject to the same laws as cars, so I expect to follow the same laws. So for me, it's not about the practicality (what I 'can' do), but the regulations (what I 'may' do). So, for example, if I see a cyclist in SA without a helmet, he is a law-breaking tjop. If I see a cyclist in the UK without a helmet, then it's his own problem (helmets are not a legal requirement in the UK).

Heard about this earlier - bad news again. Condolences...

Condolences. :-(

The only thing I have found problematic about SS is that I have to be careful taking off from stopped. I tend to push very hard to get going quickly and if I'm not careful I tend to bugger my knees up.

I proudly wore my Cycle Lab kit this morning while stopping at traffic lights. But that wouldn't make a headline...