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My mavic 719 with hope hubs combo are strong, stiff ,light and durable .2 years ,4 stage races later and they have been cleaned and lubed only .Also fitted on tallboy

I have avid elixer CR AND XT ON DIFFERENT BIKES .Never had problems with either .Avids are always noisy when they are cold or very hot .Even the cheap shimano brakes work well .Cannot say that about the juicy,s

Get a Tallboy or settle for a Pimp jumper or a Bling works !

My brakes squeal every time they are cold or very hot Who cares!, they slow me down

I don,t see how to improve on the tallboy as is .I love my 2x2 Bentley .

I suggest a Red Bull run from the top of the descent .The Joberg2c riders will elaborate !

I walked plenty and that saved me a lot of trouble and pain

Sounds good ! And we don,t have to go home to lick our wounds for 3 days

Hi jc .What was your time .In the saddle, i mean .Is 3 towers 3 days of this ?

I changed from a non spesific carbon frame SS with shimano hub and tensioner to a on.one inbred with SS frame and fire eye SS hub .The instant engagement is great and the SS inbred frame is superb ,but the whole bike is 2 kg heavier and from 38 x18 on the carbon frame ,i now need 36x18

Personally i would much rather fly over the handelbar than fall in the peleton at 35km/h on tar

I destinctly heard at the race briefing .Ride within your limits !!! Take enough fluids !!! .I am the only one listening or what !

On one .Because i have one

Recently bought an arch ex ,X9 wheelset brand new on the hub for R3000. I have another set with crest rims and X9 .X9 not as good as my hope set ,but not bad either .Hope is still the best value

Yes YES and Yes .Joberg2c last 6 days and all six days of CPT are the best Stages of mtbing in RSA in my humble opinion

We only live once !.I feel your sentiments .I cursed every meter of jo biliksem and vowed never to do this event again,.but that happend with my first magalies monster too.I noticed there are 3 masters riders that broke 4h .Well done !and to dubber that had no dismounts and rode all of it

I agree .I was a A batch seeding and walked a lot of the climbs,mostly to avoid cramping and parts of the descent .I also did my over the HB on that treacherous descent .I gave way to a rider just to see him crash 10m in front .A lot of riders don,t have the experience when to get of and walk .I have ridden a lot of technical courses and this is up there at number 1 or 2 .When i got to the end of that descent my thought,s were .What carnage is going to happen behind me !And it did!I still managed to be on the 2 page of the results and i can still work tomorrow

Giant anthem with alu frame and good componants like full XT ,Rock shox sid fork and monarch rear .

RIP and condolances to his loved ones .Maybe a good time again for everybody to touch up on our first aid knowledge .MTB,ing is a dangerous activity in mostly remote places

Most times ever i got of my bike and walked .Even parts of that downhill .At some point myself the rider in front and rider following me went down at the same time ,and we are supposed to be A and B batch riders

Don,t do it on a MTB

Cool ! I will .I will be riding red and black Tallboy with red shirt

Say hi! when you pass me .I will be the one slapping out the cramps and swearing

A batch marathon .So when the snakes leaves me for dead i will ride alone again !

I think the speeches on race etiquette we get from the commosior here in gauteng is working .Overall i think the riders have become much more respectful of their fellow competitors.The seeding process is also better than last year