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I snapped an achilles playing squash. All sorts of complications after op with nerves being cut accidentally etc etc. Now fat and lazy ...

I see my sentiment has already been expressed almost verbatim. I cant find a way to delete a post though?

Awesome downhill footage and depeche mode as a bonus

There is somebody on the roof of that truck as well!

Here is some amazing time lapse footage of the lenticular clouds forming over Table Mountain https://www.facebook.com/simon.bloomer.92/videos/10154408455594768/

They are lenticulars, but even so they are quite special and not the normal wave cloud one sees downwind of table mountain on strong NW wind days. On this day we had unusual conditions with a SE pushing up and over the mountain from the south and a moderate to strong NW on the Northern side. The turbulence in the shear layer between the two layers must have been quite interesting and that with a very high moisture content of the air resulted in these beautiful clouds. Off course, it could just be the most obvious answer, which is aliens....

Booby trapped bike left lying around in the hood https://www.facebook.com/brbcomedy/videos/965373653519308/

May the bluebird of happiness be flying over your head ... He's fallen in the water... Chappie Chipmunk show... Test the team... Consider your verdict... Born mid 60's

http://higherperspective.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/tm13.gif 1956 womens Olympic gold vs 2012

I was there that day. The bus had not blown over yet, but had been shunted sideways and come to a halt. The first person out was the bus driver The bus was rocking wildly in the wind, but being a double decker, all the passengers on the lower level were trying to get out first and the people on the top were trapped. Myself and about three others hung onto the windows on the windward side until everybody got off. We begged the driver to come back and drive the bus another 20m, which would have been out of the venturi. He refused and after we dropped off the upwind side, it took another two minutes or so before a really big gust did turn the bus over. The really annoying thing was the papers made the bus driver seem like some sort of hero, because nobody got hurt, when in truth he was a coward and endangered everybody's lives on the upper floor. I traffic cop arrived and there were some great pictures of him break dancing in the wind trying to police the intersection. He got blown over regularly His mate arrived on a motorbike ... wheee whaaa wheee wham slam dunk .. blown right over. Only slightly hurt, but his ego was hugely dented. It does not blow quite as strongly through that venturi now. It still very impressive, but the building layouts have changed and diminished the wind slightly.

Who remembers JoeCartoon? http://www.joecartoon.com/index.php/episodes/3-drunk-flies/

Team New Zealand are on port tack. Oracle on Starboard. Port always gives way to starboard, so New Zealand are in the wrong. Rules are different for power boats. Power should always give way to sail and pass port to port when meeting (as per the give way diagram) What's really confusing about the clip, is that both boats are sailing downwind. They don't go directly downwind, but tack downwind at about 225 degrees (180 + 45) to the true wind direction. With the foils and wing masts, they can approach 50 knots (~100km/h) before the foils start to cavitate. At this speed the apparent wind moves so far forward, that they can sheet their sails all the way in, hence it looked like they were sailing upwind when I first saw the clip. Out of interest, if you let a balloon go at the top mark, these boats will beat it to the bottom mark. I think their course made good directly downwind is about 1.5* the windspeed. Some ice yachts can get well over 2*

I rode there this morning? Plenty of cyclists still around at 11:30.

For years I have battled with my weight. Discovery health considers me over weight, or slightly obese. I cycle more than 1000 km a month throughout the year. I have an enlarged heart from too much endurance exercise, am almost tea total and don't eat badly, but my weight climbs at the slightest reduction in exercise.So this year, I decided to cut out all refined carbs. Gone are the occasional chocolate or fizzy drink. Nuts, biltong etc all OK.I have not had a chest infection this year after 14 bouts of cold/flu last year and ...My weight is in free fall. Its dropping too fast to be considered healthy, but I will worry about that when I reach my goal weight, since I am not starving myself .... I might even have a chocolate then .So for those in a similar situation ... Tim Noakes may be right

Gerhard Genis was fantastic at instigating discipline in the Outriders peloton. He has been sadly missed after a bad injury (broken leg) and moving to the northern suburbs, but has left enough of a legacy, such that we remember how it should be done.

I have had something similar on a road bike. I had a SRAM red cluster on a Mavic wheel. The cluster was machined out of a single block, so that only the highest two gears are loose (13,11). The cluster also only had splines on the very end under the lowest gear (26). It is also quite a loose fit on the Mavic hub. The bike started to make noises, such that I thought the bottom bracket was falling apart. Turns out, that it was just the cluster twisting/torquing about the hub under pressure. The same cluster on an Easton wheel is a snug fit and makes no noise. A Shimano cluster on the Mavic is quiet, but in this case only the first three gears are fixed. 7 are loose. Also quite a loose fit on the Mavic hub though. So no real solution, but try a bit of grease on the hub in case the cluster is moving slightly. Since its only the first three and those are commonly fixed together, I think it may be a similar situation.

10.75 index, seeded B. Master (48) so they must have a fairly small VB group as I am probably about 20th in the Western Cape based on my index.

I was told we were to be sanctioned. Hence my rant. If I was fed bulsh1t, it does not lessen the point. I am not throwing *** merely pointing out that if you sanction one, you need to sanction all and I am quite confident that would be every team in the DC.

I was told that the PPA had been contacted and that the chairman had received a mail. The original complaint stems from a team car and photos were taken of the "incident". Based on what I had been told from a trusted party I posted this mail. If the complaint did not go to the PPA, it may have been all bluster and I have been misled. People do things like that. What possible reason could I have for posting bullsh1t. I gain nothing by making up a story. If it was somebody's idea of a hollow threat joke, then yes they got me and I am the fool, but this discussion had some good points about problems with the race too. Denny Menchov can confirm he heard of the complaint ... and he was not in our team.

The point was not to be selective. We were not part of a winning team. Its like dope testing the tail-enders and ignoring the pro's. If we get sanctioned in the middle of the field, then so should the pro's. We get disqualified, then so do the pro's and any team that did not break a rule, should become the legitimate winner.

No, there is a complainant. We were informed on Saturday night that the issue would be taken up with PPA and that our chairman would be receiving email correspondence on Monday. Its possible that after coming to their senses, the party complaining has not taken it any further. That would be nice.

You can confirm that PPA has received a complaint though? The point of this discussion is not to lambaste PPA but merely to point out that should any sanction be considerd re the complaint, then it must be applied in an equitable manner to all participants.

I am in no way blaming PPA. This is not their initiative. They only respond to complaints, and by their rules I guess they have to follow through on a complaint. But to the team or individual that did complain? You are going to be one of those people that wont give the ball back when the kid next door loses it over the wall.

Nooo. If there is a formal complaint then PPA would have to follow process and the top teams would need to be disqualified, which would be a very very silly outcome. I would also be Mr popularity ;>)

So which club chairman, would handle a complaint about them?