The_Real_Jacko

Or a different driver.

City of Cape Town is obviously more jacked than GA. Here's a part of an e-mail I received: Dear XXX Thank you for reporting this unfortunate incident to us and please accept my apologies on behalf of the City of Cape Town, well as the Vehicle Operating Company, Kidrogen. The Driver has been identified and as this transgression is being viewed as a serious incident by the City as well as the Operator, disciplinary action will be taken against the Driver. The Operator has requested your willingness to participate in the disciplinary action. Will you please be so kind to indicate if you will be available and provide Mr XXXXXX with a contact number where he can get hold of you; or to discuss the process forward. Kind regards Kobus Swanepoel Customer Relations Management (CRM) Transport Information Centre

And a good day to you too, Sir! And please, don't be a Kilroy okay?

It's the last pedestrian/cycle crossing where you cross the red bus lane, just before it ends and joins the tar. The cycle lane then continues on the right of the road and splits in two and continues through the trees before you cross the road to go under the bridge.

I don't really post here as I'm a bit busy for forums in general, but I thought I'd share my experience since I cycle a bit. I use the cycle lane coming into town from Sunset Beach now and then to commute. About two weeks ago a MyCiti bus almost klapped me at one of those pedestrian/cycle crossings in the Woodstock area - and proceeded to jump the stop street about 30m further. If I hadn't been motorcycling for more than two decades I'd have been a corpse - it teaches you to assume the most dangerous outcome wrt other road users. In my experience the MyCiti drivers are not a lot better than minibustaxi pilots. I followed him, took a photograph of his reg no and his face when he was stationary at the traffic lights where they rejoin prior to civic centre. I then contacted City of CT via Twitter and the long and the short is I'm sitting in on his disciplinary next Monday. K*k gaan hy k*k. Their response has been very positive. I will let you know what transpired. One angry commuter.

This is exactly what I was told and what I did. I'm really happy with my Sola 3. No, it's no Cannondale Scalpel, but it does offer a great frame and good components at a very competitive price. I have other expensive hobbies, so I can live with the fact that I do not own a R70 000 MTB.

Garmin Premium HR straps... eish. I was on my fourth one (they'd last less than 4 months each) when I tweeted about it in exasperation when the folks at Totalsports wanted to "send it to Garmin for repairs". They VERY quickly reacted and we started corresponding by e-mail. I got the new Premium 2 HR strap for free. Well, let's see if it lasts longer. I've owned a lot of Garmins through the years, mainly automotive units for 4x4ing and adventure biking and know that their after-sales service is generally quite good. That can't be said for all vendors, though.

You, my friend, are in the pound seats!

Just cleaned the chain, dried it and lubed with Mobil1 10W60 fully synth that I have left over. In fact, I have so much leftover oil in various containers in the garage that it would last me150 years. I really enjoy this thread, coming from a motorcycling background and having serviced a lot of my own bikes. I believe that these hideously expensive small bottles of "bicycle lube" is borderline criminal.

Lekker, man!

I think my BMX and dual-purpose motorbike background made it a no-brainer...

Amen Farmbike! Get yourself checked out AND control your cholesterol, ie go on statins (anti-cholestrol meds) sooner rather than later. If I wasn't so "clever" I'd have gone on to statins 8 years sooner and maybe avoided an MI altogether. And remember the daily small dose of aspirin!

I'm not going to be drawn into an ambush so soon. I have an opinion, but I'm keeping it to myself. Let's just say that you cannot freewheel your takkies.

Nope, sold in April. It had almost R40K worth of bling on... HPN tank from Germany, handbuilt rear shock with remote piggyback reservoir, revalved forks, different springs (all Martin Paetzhold), some Touratech goodies like crash bars and bashplate, Hepco & Becker luggage rack, CAD designed instrument & nav cluster fairing. In the end I sold it for as much as I bought it for four years earlier. But you always lose. Due to my work I travel a lot and I also test vehicles, so I was riding less and less. Eventually I had to replace another battery and decided to sell and wait for a few years before I get back into biking. I've done almost everything there is to do as an adventure biker. Did the Advanced course with Jan Staal, did numerous GS Challenges, was 4th member (media rider) of team SA in the 2010 International GS Trophy were we came 2nd. I think I just reached a stage where I wanted new challenges. Right now (apart from wehk), my priorities are fitness and my shooting (rifle and pistol) and meat hunting. Oh, and the wife too.

Hi there fellow pedal steppers. Apologies for only introducing myself after two or three posts, but here goes: I live in Slaapstad, home of the Southeaster, rude cyclists (ja, I chuckled at THAT thread), expensive real estate, right-lane hogging and WP jou lekker ding. I only recently started MTBing. In fact, I'm still only working on my cycling fitness (actually I'm working on developing a harder posterior) and intend to commute two to three days per week, courtesy of the lekker cycle lanes that run past Sunset Beach where I reside, all the way to the city centre. My poison of choice the last three years has been running, but I'd like to mix up my running with something less punishing on the joints. I'm a total newbie ito of cycling. Well, during the last almost thirty years, as I used to race BMX quite seriously and was invited to part take in SA champs in 1983. I actually took a break for adventure motorcycling since April and enjoyed riding my BMW HP2 Enduro all over the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape and Namibia. For the immediate future I'll have to stick to my white, 4x4 double cab. How's that for a unique choice of wheels? I want to conclude by saying that this bicycle thing is very hard work compared to a 100hp dualsport bike.

I had high cholestrol which I left untreated (lekker hardegat en slim, ne?) through my 30s. Then at 41, three years ago, I had a heart attack or MI (myocardiac infarction - or, my-oh!-cardiac in-FARK!-shun ). I had to drive myself to the hospital, but I got excellent care at Milnerton Medi-Clinic and then off to Panorama Heart Clinic where dr. Pierre Roux put in two titanium stents in. When you have a heart attack you are weak for a few days and weeks. You are *** scared. You experience anxiety. I was advised to start exercising. It is here though, that our conventional medicine, or the application thereof, sorely lacks because I had no guidance whatsoever. Thankfully an older doc and Internist, dr. Benkenstein, phoned me out of the blue. He had heard about my MI and studied at Stellenbosch under my father's uncle. He's quite an athlete and then gave me the advice to keep my heart rate at under 120 for the first week or three, gradually increasing it. I did a lot of stationary cycling, rowing and then gradually started to run. Eight months later I did the Two Oceans half-marathon. In three months I'm doing my fourth Two Oceans. Oh, and just over a week ago I bought my first MTB, hence my membership here. I think us MI survivors need to give ourselves a big pat on the back, sit back and chill out. We can be very hard on ourselves. I had a bout of depression and anxiety some time ago, but thankfully I got through that with some DIY cognitive behavioural therapy and mild anti-anxiety medication to handle the few instances where I felt quite scared. And I say this as someone who was a paratrooper in the SADF. Yes, I was *** scared. There, I said it. There is no shame in being scared when confronted with your mortality. If not, you're a psychopath. We are human. We run, we fall. We laugh, we cry. We reach heights in our jobs, we get knocked down. We get hurt. But we get back in the saddle again. Because to live is to experience all these emotions. And if we look into ourselves we can actually get out on the other side stronger. To be sure, this is no Hollywood movie with a happy ending. We are forever changed after such an event. We can never be totally carefree again. The trauma still lurks there in the shadows. But we can acknowledge it, face it and control it. And when you eventually succeed in doing that (it takes effort and some focus, but is a realistic outcome for all of us), you will be "strong like lion." Sterkte daar, Live5!

Kranswurm, jou lekker ding! Thanks.

I'm fairly new in the MTB thing. In fact, I only bought my bike last week... I saw an LED torch with handelbar mount at Duesouth. Now, the mount looks quite lekker, but the torch is only 200 lumens. I have a Klarus XT2C tactical torch that is 580 lumens and very compact and runs on one 18650 rechargeable battery. So the obvious solution for me would be to buy a nice handlebar mount for this torch. One that would be easy to quickly attach to bars or remove. The Google hasn't given me any joy in SA and the odd cycle shop where I've enquired I've been met with blank stares. Any suggestions?