Hennie VR

I will slow down/stop and ask if the person is ok if it looks like a serious fall.(a fall other than someone falling over etc. because they rode to slow) If it's in a race and I see other people attending to the person then I don't stop. I'm not a doctor and won't be able to help the person any better than the persons already attending to him BUT I will tell the next marshal I see that there was a crash so that he can call for help if someone has not yet informed him. If I'm on a training ride then I will always stop and ask no matter how small your tumble was.

Did you read the last sentence in my post?

I got dropped by the bunch not long before that point. Burned energy I never had trying to catch them again. Needless to say I was so exhausted by that stage I was trying to wheelsuck even the slowest of riders and struggled to keep up

Yes........IF he did in fact bump the kid off his bike then I agree he should have stopped and asked if he is ok. But I have also seen new/inexperienced riders riding so slow in sections that looks a little "technical" that they fall over or off their bike and in that case you can call me an @$$hole but I'm not going to stop and take pity on you and tell you did well by trying and boosting your ego. If it looks like a serious fall then yes I will stop.

To add to this I also wonder if a brake lever that is more parallel to the handle bar will perhaps help. I wonder if this is possible with those adjustable brake levers.

No need to get aggressive. Like I said I don't condone/defend this type of riding. But please read the mother's report again. She does not say that someone pushed the boy. She simply says they rode him of the track. Now in my opinion this could have happened when they passed him and he could have caught a fright and fell off/over or there might have been some sort of contact/bump but none of this is confirmed in my opinion. I do agree that if this was a malicious attempt to push the rider off course then there should be disciplinary action against the rider even if it includes a ban of some sort. Again I just wonder if this whole event could have been avoided if the course was designed differently to perhaps keep the two distances separate. We always hear of fast riders being @$$hole$ in the view of the slower riders when in fact they might only be racing for a good time.

You will always have this problems on a lap race. It's like having a XCO Wold Cup race and deciding to run the under 12 age category on the same router on the same time. Do you really expect that the Nino Schurter and Julien Absalon racing for a win to slow down and wait for a nice wide jeep track before they pass a young rider. The mother's response is a typical response of someone not understanding the sport at the highest level. If they passed the mother and young rider on a jeep track going 20km/h faster than the slow rider then they will still be told they are inconsiderate and mal. If they are in a single track and they shout TRACK at slower traffic up front then they are inconsiderate and rude etc. There is a reason it's called a race and not a ride. The solution is simple though. Keep the shorter distances on a separate route or only start the shorter distance when the first 10-20 riders have started their second lap. I really feel sorry for the young man and I do hope that this incident won't cause him to not ride/race again. Speedy recovery PS. I do not condone the incident but I do understand why the top guys ride the way they do.

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I think Rouxtjie is one of the new Mods and his first task is to get more activity on the hub. Mission accomplished. I think Matt should give him his first promotion

You forgot to put (194 posts to go) at the end there.

Hahahaha. I wonder if Rouxtjie is regretting his OPINION about a 1000 posts yet. Damm it must be hard work to respond to every "noob" taking offence

I think Rouxtjie's profile views went up by a 1000 since the start of this tread

EISH!!! I need to get a spoke for my SLR wheel. Last time I broke one it cost my +-R135 for just the bladed spoke. Hope I can get some before the Trailseeker next week.

If your wheel has the speed sensor and your cycle computer tracks the distance then you can upload it to Strava. Also you will see the option of selecting Stationary trainer on the upload page. Then it does not show your map, but still records time, distance, hr etc.

The cyclist name was Shown Breytenbach. Was one of our club's members (TCS). The driver in the bakkie apparently passed vehicles in the yellow lane and that is when he hit Shown. RIP Shown

If your able to talk on any ride, then you are not riding hard enough!

Does not change the fact that he has to stop at an accident scene. Hope you report it to school.

We reported a leaking water pipe outside our house twice now. It's been over 4 weeks and no one has responded. Money is leaking out everywhere but yet they don't have money to maintain infrastructure. Someone needs to get of their @ss and start doing their job. At this stage they are just doing crisis management by fixing serious problems and they aren't even doing that very well.

THIS!!! I REMEMBER THIS!!! Hahahaha. Brilliant. That's the way I felt when I remember the answer to a question in my exams.

Net mal mense hardloop as niks hulle jaag nie

I have the perfect solution for your problem. You don't even have to take your hands of the bars to make runners hear you coming from behind.

No.......because I like to pass you at speed scaring the $h*t out of you It's great entertainment

The unsung heroes of cycling

You should be riding to the trails from home and ride back after. No need for showers.

You can ask at a storage facility. They usually sell boxes, bubble wrap and fragile stickers