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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.

4 Balls! Just 3 more Morne!!!

This is worse than any one-day game!

Look at thesportsbasement.co.za, they have the Trek6000 for R5000 new.

Sorry guys, I think I beat you all- paid at 11h00 and got it delivered at 14h00 on the same day! Very happy!

Just want to give a big up to ASG, I have always received immaculate service from them, and today was no exception: Won a Rudy Project auction last week, paid this morning and received my pair by 15h00. The list of them walking the extra mile is a long one, from them organizing for spokes in a hurry to sorting out problems I had with my ASG tracker on Sani2C. Thanks.

Hi, Me and my partner slept on the bookings for a car shuttle, now it is too late. Anybody who is a spectator willing to drive down our car for us? We are doing the trail. And a license would be a requirement. Thanks Chris.

Just received the same deal, question is will/why will the Police look for micro dots on your bike? And do they have the technology to actually check it? I am not dissing the Police, think they do a great job most of the time.

Ons vertrek uit gansbaai die 18de. Welkom om ons te join. Ons ry die eerste dag tot op stuisbaai. Slaap net op Bredasdorp.

Hi, We are cycling from Gansbaai to Stilbaai in December, thinking of doing +- 100km p/day 3 days.. Overnights are at Bredasdorp, Witsand. Any ideas on nice routes to take? At present we take the shortest largest dirt roads available. Any advice will be appreciated. Chris

Hey guys, I'm riding Sani2C next year and need to upgrade my bike. I have a budget around R15000, I can get a new Scot Spark 40 for R16000, good price and good enough bike? Thanks for the help.