Captain Fastbastard Mayhem

You can ship them, and it'll work out the same as a local bike after duties...

HAHA! Fair enough, to each his own. Personally I like tom sauce with burgers, wors rolls, mac and cheese and a couple of others. Prefer mayo with chips.

Fry off bacon (or bacon flavoured veg equivalent if you're a veggie / Muslim) diced onions, cherry tomatoes & mushrooms in butter. Bacon and onions first, then cherry tomatoes then mushrooms. Add salt & pepper & oregano & basil to taste. Once cooked, add flour, stir until combined (no clumps) and then add milk & pamesan cheese (don't bother about creating a separate white sauce, this is far easier and more mess-friendly) until you have your sauce. There must be quite a lot. In the meantime, cook your macaroni to just less than al dente (must still ahve a bit of a "bite" to it) and once cooked, drain and combine with the sauce. Pour into an oven dish and top with a small amount of grated white mature cheddar and mozzarella. Bake for 30 minutes or until cheese has become a lekker golden brown colour. The pasta would have cooked even more in the oven, which is why you must undercook it initially. Serve with liberal amounts of tomato sauce or mayo.

Oh. Another way to regulate juices. Method. Sous vie is the only way to guarantee that the juices remain in the meat and no flavor of the protein itself is lost.

Lol. Posting from phone so clicked post instead of highlighting

Indeed. It's just for caramelization and presentation that the sides are seared. Only way to regulate juices is the way you cook it ie time and temp. And of you're using briquettes to sear, you're doing it wrong. Rather use charcoal.

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That's what I do for roasts, mango. I was speaking specifically to the ability of charcoal to last as long as briquettes, thereby allowing one to cap the weber and leave it for 2 plus hours depending on the roast. With briquettes, only a bad batch will ruin the chances of it working. With coal, it simply doesn't last as long as briquettes, thereby limiting the ability to cook a roast in the weber.

People braai on briquettes that HAVEN'T burnt through!?

I'd love to be haunted by that bike...

I shall try. How does charcoal react in the low n slow type of cooking for a roast?

The Nukeproofs have a slimmer profile, so won't get caught as easily as the DMR's. But as for the bang for buck, the DMR's are strong as a cockroach.

When I use my braai, wood all the way. When I use the weber, briquettes are the only way. When I braai at a mate's place, it's whatever they have. My godmother has a fire pit though, and using anything but a combo of wood AND briquettes is asking for disaster. Just doesn't have enough airflow...

Yeah. Paralysed from chest down, 10% chance of walking again. He wasn't on Vasbyt though. He was riding into the quarry and his head hit a rock after he went otb.

When making macaroni & cheese, instead of going through the palavah of making a white sauce in a different pot and then adding it to the mac & bacon / tomato / onion & herb mix, and dirtying ANOTHER piece of kit, I just fry off the bacon, onions, garlic, tomatoes & herbs on a medium-high heat, then when they're all cooked throw in a couple of spoons of flour (whichever one you prefer) stir it through the cooked goedes and then add your knobbetjie of butter and your milk to bring the "sauce" together. I then add the cooked macaroni (slightly on the undercooked side of al dente please, it's still going to cook in the oven) to the meat / sauce mix, stir through so that the mixture is combined, then transfer to a oven dish and grate some cheese on the top. Far easier and quicker than making a separate roux for JUST some white sauce.

TMI...

Faerie garden, yes. The initial bit as you're riding up it is VERY flowy and not at all technical. It doesn't really get that technical except for the bridge section (the dreaded troll bridge, as a mate of mine calls it - he still has to get over it from his fall there!) It's got everything you need to teach your lightie some ST riding skills. Roots (can be ridden around) rocks (can also be ridden around) and switchbacks. It doesn't have any drops, and it's nice and smooth. If you want to limit his exposure to it, just do the bottom section until the wooden bridge, then turn around and come back down. The other trail I would suggest for him is My Roots. It's also VERY flowy, and has 2 sections where he may be caught out a bit. One is just after the 2 big berms, and it's a big rock drop (you can't miss it) with a pallet lying down next to the rock as a "chicken line" - you may have to ask him to walk that section. The next one he may have to walk is just after that, which is a large left hand downhill turn. That's it. The rest is only technical if you're going fast. Another would be Your Roots (just next to My Roots, runs parallel to the jeep track) and that has hardly ANY technical bits in it, if any at all. That's actually easier than Faerie Garden. I think, though, the best thing is to take him along and let him know that he doesn't have to act tough or HAS to ride everything. Watch his body language to see if he's scared of a section and then let him walk it, have a look at it, and maybe just hold his brakes down there with his feet on the floor. It worked for all us lighties back in the day when we were unsure. But remember to give him a helmet. Absolutely imperative.

Yeah! Chicken runs aplenty, and even the big things (drops, tables etc) will be rollable to enable progression of skills. At least, that's the plan. IOW - no monster gaps, no death drops or anything like that. Drops will be rollable, but at such a level that, depending on speed, you'll be dropping it at a certain point. Likewise with jumps. They will be "safe" in that there won't be monstrous gaps filled with spikes and dead babies. Tables, or rollable kickers onto stepped down landings etc. All in the name of progression and fun. Obviously we will keep a lot of the natural features, and when it is not feasible to make a jump / drop rollable, chicken runs will be inserted and signposted. I like the idea of a flag system for chicken / extreme lines like they have in Morzine. Green for chicken line (or yellow ) and red for extreme line.

I know that corner well... Can catch you out if you're not careful! Especially if you run your pressures low, like I do! 2 wheel drift for the win!

Us Debben okies like our curries HOT HOT HOT. Nando's HOT is just a mild in a big girl's blouse.

Eish man, nooooooo... N2 / M19 interchange in the morning & afternoon!? No fanks.

Yeah they were. But only because th epublic (generalization alert) think the following: "oh, he came 20th. must be riding a *** bike" or "oh, he came first. Commencal is AWESOME"

Apparently (according to the Pink Bike rumour mill) FSR stands for For Slow Riders... I just think he had a bad day...

That hardly qualifies as grinding, dude. Grinding is in the region of 50-60 RPM