Yang

About 2 pecan nuts around my waistline, About less is more- couldn't agree more. But the 3 lizards look really cool together. Experimented with the paw prints on the top tube but looked horrible, so took them off.

Found an easy and cheap way to decorate my bike with self adhesive laminate, cost R9.00 from CNA. You just need a permanent marker and scissors, and you've added character to your bike. You can lift the laminate and stick it elsewhere on the frame if you change your mind.

If I am not mistaken, this happened at the bottom of Chappies, as you enter Hout Bay, about 89 k's into the race re my Polar. This part of the race is fast and the road narrows as you enter Hout Bay. You lean into the curves to max your speed. I was astounded to see a combi appearing so suddenly in front of me, stopped on the side of the road as I came out of the curve. I assumed that it was a rescue vehicle helping a rider who had lost control and smacked into the side of the road. I went by too fast with my eyes front to see if anyone was injured or the details of the vehcile. The main thing about where it happened was that it took place on a blind corner, and given the speed at which we were riding and the narrowness of the road at that point, it was virtually inevitable that someone would collide with the idiots. I agree that they were likely abusing their position to drive to a vantage point, and it is just a plain effing lie that they were not aware it was a road closure- who are they after all- day visitors from Mars? I am just sorry that it was your son that this happened to, and I hope that you do take on the municipality, in line with the advice given by the hubbers, and that you are successful. This will force them to take the appropriate steps in future to avoid this.

Thanks Slowbee. I was really chuffed when I spoke to some of my Mozambique mates who are real race snakes and I finished within about 20 minutes of the best of them- put the ride into perspective.

Nope- I already got my complete positions in age group, start group, gender, ave speed and overall.

I have an old Raleigh 6000 that I bought and am going to set up for IDT - What saddle do you recommend? This my old racing saddle, after a scrape with an indoor parking lot roof while strapped to the roll bar on my bakkie. But its as comfortable as ever- its padded and does the job. I have other saddles in better shape but this one works. The LBS's normally keep the standard saddles that come with their bikes and okes want to swop them for more expensive saddles. I've bought a couple of Scott saddles this way for about R120 each from the bin at Power Cycles in Durban. So I suppose I would go for a cheaper saddle that is too heavy to race with and is padded.

CSA should be using these incidents to lobby for bike paths, extensive networks through the metropolitan area. Events like the Argus and 94.7 bring in RMillions to their respective cities, especially for Cape Town. Give some back to cycling, create the protected routes, and even create jobs. Start now with the lobbying, bring allies on board to create pressure, and maybe within a few years Cape Town will have a network stretching from the west coast, to the east, with links into the suburbs and extending even into the towns. Imagine!

BTS, its a pity to see your obvious eloquence and mental agility cloaked by an attitude that is contrarian and uncompromising. One of the principles that most decent people live to is respect for women. You have implied in your postings that a women should not be hit, but you have created a very dominant perception that is reality in the minds of Hubbers that you are chauvinist and a woman hater. It may tickle your particular collection of brain cells that your postings have evoked images of you being abused by a woman when you were a very small child, or that you have been roundly rejected by women because you are exceptionally fugly or very, very short, or if you are not fugly and in fact of acceptable looks to women that one or other of them has taken you to the cleaners during divorce proceedings, etc, etc.... and that all of this attitude towards this lone female rider is a manifestation of a real psychological problem. It sounds like you could do with some help. To TNT, I actually enjoy most of your posts. In fact, your redeeming qualities in the middle of the freudian attitude you seem to have about women on this post and in others is that your posts are sharp and fun (when not about women) and that you have a livestrong band in your signature. Also that you know very well the futility of arguing on the net.

Yep. No, surely they wouldn't do that?????

To the bottom of your lift up garage door, attach a tennis ball on a cord that will bounce off your windscreen, everytime that you go and park. This is especially after you arrive at home, exhausted after a race or a training ride, and all you wanna do is hurry into the house to crash on the couch, and you forget about your bike. Also tie a tennis ball to your car port. It would be interesting to know from Cajees how much business they have had from guys with bikes on their roof racks ..................................................................

That 705 sounds like a case for recall, or mass replacement by Garmin of the current bracket. Sometimes these guys have to do radical customer service recovery, and this would do it. Otherwise good luck with the return of your unit.

Roof racks are for surfboards, canoes and paddle skis and for bikes destined to be scraunched against a low roof, tree, or barrier. If cars were meant to carry bikes on the roof, they would have been designed for the roof to be 1 metre off the ground. Just ask my Trek 470's saddle. At least I got off lightly, but my bikes have never been back on a roof rack.

Jeez the lines are slow tonight- thought my first posting didn't go through so repeated it- deleted this one.Yang2009-02-11 13:14:28

@Velo- Checkout the stays. Is CKT copying Willier, or is Willier copying CKT, or are they the same thing Good question Velo, good question- didn't know that.

@Weapon- yep, Nico Bell did a great build, a reflection of his appreciation of the bike. He was duly impressed, which is high praise indeed from a pro who knows his stuff and carries top end models in his shop.

Sorry WC, I feel merciless- here's another one. Check the shape of that tubing. Yang2009-01-29 05:24:33

No problem Keith- I will be there on Sat as well. Also another pic.Yang2009-01-29 04:09:55

Hi Andrew- very good chance I will see you then.

@Keith- thanks- Planet X is a great looking frame as well. I'm in Durban this weekend, will be at the Casino at 05:30- why don't we get our magnificent machines together. PM me if you're down that way as well and available.

For the Campy cognoscenti, with some of the carbon weave.

Cycle Boys, Cycle Factory and Bell's Cycles will tell you the prices- total excl wheels about R31,000. Frame made by one of the two largest carbon manufacturers in China /Taiwan, who produce between them 95% of the carbon bikes in the world, incl Giant, Cervelo, GT, Merida, Specialised, etc, etc, etc. So for a Chinese bike, boys, its just as good if not better than some of the frames you are currently riding- just an unknown brand- for now- watch this space, as this new generation frame and others like it rocks the overpriced, overrated, overmarketed, overbranded establishment.