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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I wonder where he bought it?
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    Argus - 2 laps

    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.
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    Argus - 2 laps

    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?
  6. Bill de Lange, maybe. Built beautiful custom stuff in Joburg, in the 80s.
  7. Captain Pugwash?
  8. Five or six women, from memory, have driven F1 - our own Desiree Wilson even won a non-championship F1 race back in 1980.
  9. http://www.health24.com/news/Fitness/1-911,75139.asp
  10. It will make you Thor?
  11. 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
  12. Ahem: http://deadspin.com/5893881/what-is-going-on-with-all-the-doping-in-wheelchair-curling
  13. Speak to Rodger Duffett in Cape Town, he will sort you out. Triple Shift. Cape Town. Phone: 0827795799. Email: rodger@trikes. co.za. Web site: www.trikes.co.za. Contact: Rodger Duffett
  14. 48 hours until the 2011 Tour director drops his red flag... have you got your Tour Guide yet? letoursa.com, or your local bike shop/newsagent. PM me if you can't find one, I will get them to restock your nearest outlet - they have been selling out faster than Spanish beef. All the stages, all the details, even maps of the area (so you can double-check Phil and Paul have the correct page open on their guide...)
  15. That would be teazers. Or so I am told. There is some bike-flesh.
  16. Let's see some of the stuff you can expect from the 2011 Guide... should be available everywhere by now, or on www.letoursa.co.za First tease(for the rest of the story, buy the magazine!) - JLA has a brand new hip - read all about it in the stupendously good 2011 TDF Guide alongside all the stages, route maps, etc etc::
  17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_6lSLuwU6Q&feature=share
  18. Jeroen Swart at Sports Science: http://www.sciencetosport.com/contactus.aspx The best there is at this.
  19. That one went over your head?
  20. We must have spent some time playing together at the front of K, I was in the Tread kit, on the Red SWorks roadie bike I assumed there was a group of K up the road after Wynberg hill, where we hit the back of J and it all went crazy - and spent the rest of the ride chasing this non-existent group... damn, we passed a lot of people.
  21. Google Street View is fun: number 70 is a Fiat dealership, number 80 is a DentDoctor franchise. The only thing in between the two is a big storm water canal. Oh, and this vendor.
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