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With all due respect ITO your mugging incident, how can you complain about being done for riding illegal trails? Illegal riding just screws it up for the hard-working guys trying to get official permission to ride that trail. Every time a ranger sees a cyclist there riding illegally, that process is held up. Don't do it, and you won't have to appear in court. Illegal riders are the problem, not the TMNP rangers. If they weren't having to waste time fining entitled mountain bikers, they could get on with making the parks safer.

Hi Skippy. Please PM me your contact details and I will get them to MEC Robin Carlisle so you can lay the appropriate charges with the police, especially the 1m passing law charges, and so the other side of the story can be told. We need cases to be brought to court to start enforcing this new law, for it to work.

I wonder where he bought it?

My absolute favorite phrase in the South African cycling lexicon. (just ahead of 'hold your line') We ride 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100-plus-thousand rand bikes, and then bitch about being charged very little, in the grand scheme of things, for something quite special. Nobody is forcing you to ride a second lap, it is a privilege. And it costs the organizers money to have you ride a second lap, no matter how much you try to convince yourself it doesn't. Extra staff/man-hours to handle more complicated entries, extra staff at the gate to OE (in my experience) to collect two-lappers' cards and apply fetching pink stickers, extra man-hours to manually strip out our results and remove the second lap so we get an accurate first one - lord knows how ape we would have gone if they got that wrong! Don't wanna pay? Then don't play. Simplest thing ever.

We rode on a safe, closed course, with full access to all the safety, support and other amenities the Trust offers every entrant. Our second entry went through similar processes to make it happen (I suspect it cost more to process second-lappers than regular entries, as there was/is no system in place to manage automatically). So, let's turn your question on its head: Why shouldn't they charge for lap two?

Bill de Lange, maybe. Built beautiful custom stuff in Joburg, in the 80s.

Captain Pugwash?

Repost?

Five or six women, from memory, have driven F1 - our own Desiree Wilson even won a non-championship F1 race back in 1980.

http://www.health24.com/news/Fitness/1-911,75139.asp

It will make you Thor?

Ahem... In one famous instance, Garry Kasparov changed his move against Judit Polgár in 1994 after momentarily letting go of a piece. Kasparov went on to win the game. The tournament officials had video tape proving that his hand left the piece, but refused to release the video evidence and allow Polgár the win. A factor counting against Polgar was that she waited a whole day before complaining, and such claims must be made during the game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_chess

GIYF

Ahem: http://deadspin.com/5893881/what-is-going-on-with-all-the-doping-in-wheelchair-curling