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Had a great time! Best part was spending time with great mate! Thanks budy! My wife also told me about fist fight, commissar was rather upset just before she started. My only gripe : the cameraman on the quads, can you not wear a helmet? Driver and guy with the tripod. Trying to teach a 5 year old to wear a helmet and you play kamakazi does not help!

That is the MET.(Metropolitan museum of art)

Agree, I am that guy who refuse to ride with my sister in law's little ones if they don't weaR helmets, and it usually ends in tears and the parents being mad at me. They also don't believe in buckling up for short trips, but they know the rules in my car, so he reprimanded his dad the other day, "oom Chris ry nie as ons nie vas is nie" It is there for a reason, just wear it.

Interesting read: http://news.sky.com/story/1272768/cyclists-who-wear-helmets-wasting-their-time

Don't tell the other half, she might try that as well!

How do you stay mad at that? After he decided your cycling shoes looks like the perfect chew toy?

Damm! So I don't have any excuse for pushing my bike by that stage?

When I first read the title of the op, I thought my Sani partner is looking for help! Or is he trying to say I ride like a girl? Mmmmmmhhhh....

His name is Archi, and a Beagle. And he is 12 weeks now. And extremely busy. Can not wait for him to grow a bit older so I can take him for a jog. But for now he loves his walks, new handbags and underwear!

Double post.

Our new home wrecker who the moment he snuggles up against you is forgiven for everything he chew during the day!

It was Fulcrum red metal xl, and the rim is no more. Spokes, i will also rather replace the spokes too. Luckily this is for the insurance. Nothing wrong with the hub. What type of new wheel would you suggest?

Not to hi-jack but a question: I took a tumble near breeds nek this weekend, and broke my rear wheel. Now I need to suck it up and buy or build a new one. What would you suggest? Weight 95kg, DS, 26" and mostly enjoy long slow rides and Sani each year. Any ideas on rims and so? Thanks

jip, we will again make sure everyone gets in, so will be riding near the back again!! Never seen a guy so happy when we told you just around the corner there is some single track on day two!

Somehow got my colours mixed up!! We had a few chats with you guys on the route, we were the slow ones on white Bianchi's, due to fitness rather than illness!

Hey Patches, You the guy with a green bike(did not see the make) and riding with a lady?

Did they comply with the deadline?

Please don't tell anybody about this , then me and the misses can enjoy the views of Pretoria on our own every afternoon, maybe take a bottle of champagne, blanket ..... Went there for a quick detour, and what nice trails. Not too technical, and not too steep. Well worth the time. Can't wait for the entire trail to open, will become a friend this week.

During Marshall law in the Cape Colony, people had to hand in their Bicycles, as not to help the Boers. Here is one of those places.

OK here is the story: The first Bicycle to be used in a war was during the Spanish War of 1898, when Lt James A Moss of the US Army, had to rush a 100 black cyclist to help control a riot in Havana Cuba. After the report of this reached South Africa, Danie Theron and a friend of his, Koos Jooste, met the Transvaal Government to try and persuade them to start a cycling corps. Pres Kruger and Commandant-General Piet Joubert had a interview with the two men, their main point was a horse needs to drink, eat and sleep, while with a bike all you need is a pump and some oil. The General jocularly said and it does not even bite or kick. Jooste showed them that to avoid punctures he used a piece of untanned leather; this was one of the areas the British struggled tremendously, as the thorny bush did not help them at all. Pres Kruger said he will only believe it if they had a race. So Jooste raced a “Martiens” tot the Crocodile river and Jooste won. Theron was instructed to start a new corps. “Wielrijders Rapportgangers Korps” The confusion regarding the Jameson raid was that Danie Theron was part of the party to arrest the Jameson Raid. There is a book written regarding the use of cycles in the Boer war, Bicycles during the Boer war, 1899-1902 / by D.R. Maree. Publisher Johannesburg : South African National Museum of Military History, 1977

Hi, Danie Theron begged a General to allow bikes to ride dispatches, and he had to set up a race between a horse and bike, so he got the ZAR champ at that point to ride to a certain bridge to fetch a note aand back. I will get all the names of everybody when im back in the office to go over some notes of mine. The bike won by around 45min, this was in 1896, just after he attacked a journalist because he wrote bad things about the Afrikaner, So Danie Theron started the Rapport reiers, this is where the organization "Rapport reiers" heeds from, the Theron's Verkenners korps, was a unit he set up with gen. De Wet, 1900' they started of as purely recon but later developed into small raiding partys, the british hated them. Will give more details on everything sometime tommorow.

This sounds great!! Can everyone just edit their post to remove the words tough and mountains, the pretty one will not appreciate. Will give give the locals a shout tonight. Thanks for all the feedback.

Me and the pretty one is going there for a week after Christmas,I see we can ride in Mlilwane and with a guide in Hlane. Anybody else done these reserves? Any other suggestions to visit in Swaziland? Thanks.