[Where has your bike taken you today?]

Long road bike ride, better for endurance than a mountain bike ride all day long 😎

"Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission"

[LCHF - Low Carb High Fat Diet Ver 2]

5 minutes ago, Jewbacca said:

Everybody knows that if you do cross fit, eat vegan and take Herbalife supplements you will lose weight, keep the weight off, have loads to talk about, be a part of 3 cults AND have a chance to grow a multi million dollar business!

All the other diets are just fluff.....

Off topic, at a braai over the festive season

Mate "I can't believe he is 13 and still believes in Santa"

Mate's wife 'you're 39 and still believe in Herbalife you tchop"

[2023 Festive 500]

8 hours ago, sirmoun10goat said:

This is not a challenge, it’s a marketing campaign. If it was truly a challenge, there would be other requirements, such as minimum elevation, minimum speed, must be done in no more than x number of rides.

When you are feeling fit and good, set your own challenge, call it the Ouzo300/400/500/1000 or whatever you want, and go for it. No need to wait for the next marketing campaign 

It is what you see it as .... personally I see it as a challenge to keep motivated during that specific period else is to easy to just chill out because everyone else is. I have accomplished it many years, last year 2022 I couldn't and 2023 I only managed 370. I had as much fun doing that than all the other times I finished it 😎

And I know I'm not the only one that sees it like that

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

'You don’t laugh when the wolf pack is coming'

Absolute cracker of a morning for a ride on the Highveld 😎

[2023 Festive 500]

5 hours ago, Spinnekop said:

A better question.......
Does virtual rides EVER count?

Only if there's a 'covid' lock down!

[Amateur 3D Printing]

7 minutes ago, Kom said:

the Varia doesnt have a tether "hole", but im going to tether the mount itself which is a garmin oem part. i cant see the varia dislodging there, but the PLA might split near the bolts.

ill do a couple of rides and remove and check for fractures. ive got some PETG on order, been difficult to source black filament for some reason.

Best I get on it then, I don't have much black PETG left 🤔

Thanks for the heads up on that

[Amateur 3D Printing]

26 minutes ago, Kom said:

Got hooked by the varia deal Garmin were running over December, but surprised at the poor design on mounts it came with.

before buying 3rd party, i thought id try a home job hack ... might need to tether the varia to my bike somehow in case the PLA breaks. 🤪

i printed with 100% infill and it feels mega solid .... lets see 🤔

 

Very nice, just from experience always tether! More important since its 'out of sight' while riding

[Open Letter To Strava]

8 minutes ago, New world disorder said:

Strava is just a dick measuring competition. 

Normally said by those with small ... 🤪

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

Just out and about and I was asked recently, so what do you think about when you're spending all that time riding on your own?

After some thought I can say that I've stopped trying to solve the world's problems, those days are long gone they can solve their own! What I generally do is calculate how far at what average speed in the time I have available and what route to take ....

This morning though I recalled being told by my now ex son in law, whom I still have an excellent relationship with and who happens to have been an excellent road and track cyclist

'Very few people can really push a 53x11 and you're probably not one of them' .... 'yes when you're going downhill you might roll out that gear but that probably has more to do with gravity than your legs'

At the time I was pretty peeved but over the years I have learnt that he was right 🫣

Now some of you may disagree but give it time .....

Your thoughts while you ride, if you ride alone that is 😎

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

4 hours ago, Danger Dassie said:

Some good festive 500 vibes

Nice Dassie!

 

As a matter of interest I believe one of the Joburg regulars was on a graffiti tour with my mate big Thys the spray painter recently ... and a bit of a chat

Come on who was it?

[2023 Festive 500]

Legs were a bit poked after yesterday .... did 50 today so 357k in 6 rides

'Stoked' as the cool kids say 😎

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

Popped passed Kiepie's place .... Always felt sorry for that oke.

Important milestone passed today, tired and sore but so well worth it 😎

First 100k in almost a year and a half!

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

Decided what the heck I'll take a ride to  Bass Lake and back for something different this morning .... I mean it's about 25k's so 50 in total.

Had to be back by 9:30 .... turns out its over 30, had to seriously haul the mail to get back on time. But one must get the picture so whatever it takes right?

It was blimmin lekker to test the legs for the first time in a long time and they were up to the challenge 😎

[2023 Festive 500]

24 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:

Almost there, just another 490km to go. 😂

And there I was concerned that I have 400 to go ..... But let's see 🙈

[2023 Festive 500]

Last year this time I was lying in ICU (came home on Xmas day) and no riding after that for almost 2 months ...

I have recovered and have joined the challenge, having said that I certainly won't make the 500 but am interested to see how close I can come ... 

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

'It's just a bike' .... jinne ek verloor amper my kop 🙄

[Apple Watch Ultra 2 or Garmin Genix/Epix]

3 hours ago, patches said:

I remember when they were THE fitness watches, but I guess they've fallen behind over the years. Good to hear they're upping their game!

I remember a simpler time .... Ja ja ja there were ox wagons 😜 .... If you wanted heart rate you used Polar and if you wanted navigation you used Garmin. If you wanted both well you had to use both!

These kinds of decisions are a lot more difficult now like many others.

In my day you drove what your Dad drove, if he was a Ford man well then so were you. Easy peasy 😎

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

The beauty of empty streets is the freedom to wander and wonder.

[Where has your bike taken you today?]

Took a moment out of the rat race to go try out the 'RAT' bike ... just remember even if you win you're still a rat 🐀

[Gravel & Monster Cross Custom Bike Shootout!]

The rat/mullet bike all done and dusted, test ride this morning .... that fork has about 45mm of usable travel.  Enough to make for a comfortable ride on the general gravel routes I ride, not sure how much of that is the 'phat' tyres and how much the fork or a combination. Crap on tar though 

[Riding alone most of the time, do you?]

4 minutes ago, Jewbacca said:

I think some of you are missing Panda's point.

Riding alone is risky for YOU but in the event of a fall you are often relying on strangers for help. Strangers who didn't sign up to spend their day assisting people who don't ride in groups because it doesn't suit them, but then rely on a group to get out in tact.

It's a tricky one because although most solo's acknowledge the risk is theirs, if people ride past them and say 'not my problem' while they bleed to death in the bushes there will be a level of un met expectancy of help

I do get his point and I know I'm going to get flack for this but I would consider it normal decency to help someone out whatever the circumstance but hey that's probably just me

[Riding alone most of the time, do you?]

Since my life (and its been a fair long time) it's the first time I've ever heard that kind of sentiment .... maybe the riders of all kinds are just a different breed here in the souf

On the 2 occasions that I've had serious falls in the last year stranger's (in one case it was trail runners) that came along called the contact on my ICE bracelet and in one instance the ambulance

I know the risks and as mentioned I have decided for myself that it is acceptable, whatever will be will be. At the same time I do whatever I can to be safe and get home to my family

[Replacing my roadbike and hardtale for a single gravelbike.]

8 minutes ago, ChrisF said:

You lot are stressing out @NotSoBigBen

Ja nee kyk maak my mal 😲 .... Gravel bike is like single speed, you either get it or you don't ... Many confused Paduwans here 😎

[Riding alone most of the time, do you?]

29 minutes ago, Mamil said:

I haven't read the while thread but how many of you, when riding alone, also slow down a little to catch enough breath to be breathing easy enough to give a cheerful hello when sailing past someone you've been chasing up the hill?

Conversely, who else, when being overtaken by someone, has to engage in an internal monologue about how you're there for a zone 2 ride and nothing more and maybe he's only riding 30km while you're doing 130 ....?

Anyone who passes me definitely hasn't been as far as I have even if it's in the first 5k's of my ride and the audacity to pass me ..... pass someone what's that?

To a certain extent some sentiments displayed here is why I'm not a group rider 😜

[The "I need something you might throw away" thread]

Got sorted 😎