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  1. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Why would you want to? Skinny ass tires aren't good for anything. Less grip, necessitating higher pressures to avoid punctures, less grip...
  2. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Thanks for the reminder. Need to fit mine!
  3. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Lid for my lightie - R 109 or something from Kalahari. Well worth it.
  4. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Damn, that's beautiful. I may know someone who got called a "pissie" for ordering this very frame
  5. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Lemme be the first to say... I TOLD YOU SO!
  6. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Ah! Your boys are Thomas Morons! Lekker school. Matriculated there back in 2000.
  7. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    You need to consider the % increase in this case. It's not "just 20mm" it's actually increasing the travel by a whopping 20%. That's a lot...
  8. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    ouch...
  9. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    How good are the victorinox at holding an edge? I use a whetstone, and also have a sharpening steel (more to just get rid of the burrs) but the Scanpan has a horrible edge to it.
  10. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    It's called a Thermomix. http://thermomix.vorwerk.com/home/
  11. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    yeha, it's a case of buying one at a time!
  12. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Plus you just HAVE to shample the whinezzzz
  13. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Oh - on this... I have a set of Scanpan classic knives. Beautiful to hold, nice weight, and they are middling in terms of price (R 300 to R 500 per blade) but oh my sack, is the steel weak. They don't hold an edge (no matter how sharp) for more than 2 minutes of cutting (I sharpen them on a whetstone and cut on a wooden chopping board) but for anything with better steel (Global is rumoured to have the "best" mid-level shop bought steel) you're looking at spending R 2.5k for a single knife - at a minimum. Then le creuset. Damn, I love that stuff. I have 5 items from them. Square griddle skillet, 24cm casserole, stoneware oven dish, coffee mugs and some ramikins. All top notch stuff.
  14. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Yeah, and that's what I'm afraid of! Or, rather, the fallout that will happen after she sees this shiny new object in the kitchen, that couldn't POSSIBLY have cost OHMYGODHOWMUCHDIDYOUSAY!!!!???? Chernobyl say Whaaaaaat!?
  15. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Sweet mother of all that is...
  16. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    LOL. Same. But it's made easier when we get 45% off the ticket price (25% healthyFood discount as well as staff discount of another 20%) so it's kinda cheap. Only ready meals I buy are the ones for the monster, if we're going out. But I get the appeal of just banging it in and letting it get on with the doing bit! Just that the R 17k is a bit steep for my tastes. I'd personally rather spend that on a gas / leccie stove & oven and a few good knives & le creuset goodies!
  17. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Just curious, Wayne - how does it decrease your grocery spend? V interesting, if that's the case
  18. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Disclaimer time I suck at bunnyhops & manualling. I know the theory, but my lard ass can't really apply it that well! EDIT - I can't jump that high in real life either, so I'm limited ito height I can get in a bunnyhop.
  19. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Watched Love Actually last week. Was great!
  20. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Lol. That's because it's exactly what I was referring to. A box jump is when you jump, from a standing position on the ground to a position on top of a box resting in front of you. You start by going into a crouch and then exploding up and forwards, bringing your legs up and under you at the same time in order to come to a rest on top of a box. Bunny hop is the same general principle, except your floor is the pedals and the box is an obstacle that you need to clear. Lift the front end, crouch and explode upwards. Suck up the bike (bring your legs up to clear the box) and the bike will follow. Land... Where the majority of people get it wrong (with cleats, mainly) is that they jump without first compressing / crouching or lifting the front end. That's like trying to do a box jump without crouching - all the upward motion is coming from your calves, instead of your quads, hammies, glutes AND calves. That's why they get so little air...
  21. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Thanks! It's the same type of technique as doing box jumps. Crouch and jump. The bike WILL come up with you. You need to lift the front wheel first, but that's how it's done. Lift front wheel (the better you get at this the easier it'll be to bunny hop and the higher you'll go as well) and then do your box jump. Suck up the bike, as if you're trying to get on to the top of the box.
  22. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Wear it proudly... Your heel was probably way higher than it should be. Jumping usiing cleats you generally pull up with your toes, as that's where the contact is - you mustn't try to pull up, you need to literally jump and then suck the bike up with you, instead of pulling it up.
  23. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    LOL. It happens! It's times like that that remind you to keep your heels down, and make you realise how important it is to ensure that you let the bike do its thing.
  24. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    AKA - Endo.
  25. Captain Fastbastard Mayhem
    Really is easy... just need to move your weight properly.
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