I see Jacob Zuma has joined the Hub. Wow. Welcome, and we hope you really enjoy the Hub. Can we ask you to use your influence to open up bike routes and paths in all cities and towns to allow commutes from our homes to work and back without risk of being killed. Say yes and you will instantly get just over 5063 votes, and rising. I invite Arnie, AM and Owen into my lounge almost every week. I use the slot for my Tuesday session on my IDT. Its a weekly routine for several years now. What SC needs is some sassiness and risk taking to make it more adventurous and fun. I have seen various attempts at this over the years, with for eg, the Aussie, then the two guys prepping for the Epic, the live interviews and the live wires , the occasional product reviews, that one series where the guy spoke from the restaurants (I never got what that was about), the end inserts of Xtreme crashes, etc, etc. Nobody can accuse the producers for not trying. The point is it must be really difficult to come up week after week with something new on what is probably a limited budget. But some of the ideas posted are great. - What about the exploration of commuter routes in the various centres? Hog, why don't you get a video camera onto your helmet to send off to SC to show your commute? Explore various routes that cyclists can use. - Follow each of the pros around for a few weeks, develop profiles and take us through a day or a week in the life of our pros- that will be an interesting series that could be carried over several months. These profiles, consisting of interviews, race footage, a look at family life and club life, travel and tour stories, etc, I think could be riveting stuff. Then at the end we would have a record of our pros that we could still be viewing 20 years from now. Who can show me a good profile of Ertjies Bez or Alan van Heerden?? What a pity! - Look for our most eloquent pros and get them to guest host SC for a few weeks- like this they get exposure for themselves. The best way would be for them to comment on the races they have perticipated in. Imagine NH or ML personally taking us through their thought processes in the last minutes of their races. No doubt there are those who will need presentation skills training, and the director may have to do a few takes- as long as they come across well- we don't want to see our pros made to look foolish on TV because of poor direction. AM, Owen and Arnie should be there to help out. - For those who don't like Arnie or Owen or AM, yes, there will always be somebody better, but who? Come on, come up with names, rather than just crit. And be realistic. Forget James Woods or Alec Baldwin. I know I couldn't do it, mainly because I'm on the IDT at the time . What about some of us Hubbers- any volunteers, or do none of us have "made for TV faces?" They will put on make up hey, so don't worry about that. Etc, etc, etc.....