Spookie

Thought that ad looked too good to be true, this explains it… 🤬

Imagine they cut off the first 2/3rds of the race… oh wait. They did that for the women 😉 Both Podium presentations at the end 👌

So I was driving on coast road this morning at around 7:50am and a taxi tried to overtake me on that EXACT corner. I could see in my rear view mirror how he was overtaking other cars dangerously before he arrived behind me. There were still 2 cars in front of me, traveling at 60, cyclist coming towards us in the yellow lane on the other side of the road. Solid line due to the corner. The bro was going nowhere. But still, you best believe he literally just drove next to me in the wrong lane for ages before having to slam on brakes and go behind again because there was a mycity bus coming towards us. It hasn’t even been a week. This isn’t changing without major intervention, and it just really makes me so sad. I used to see that as one of the safer roads to ride on because of the shoulder… now I’m just like if that’s not even safe… I had a really bad crash due to an uber doing a u-turn into me on chappies 4 months ago, broke multiple bones in my face, 2 operations, plastic surgery and over a week in high care. I will admit I’m really starting to struggle with justifying the risks of getting out on our roads lately 😢

Like many of us I cycle this road a lot. Just this week within the space of 20min cycling from Hout bay to camps bay, I witnessed a taxi undertaking a car coming down suikerbossie, then a few min later another blew through the red traffic light going about 90kmh at llandudno, and then I saw at least 2-3 others driving at around 100kmh overtaking into oncoming traffic, cutting corners etc 😭 it was honestly only a matter of time. And on the same ride I rode up to tafelberg road which is where all the cops were hanging out ticketing cars (I assume licence discs). While I’m not excusing driving with expired license disc displayed on your car, given the apparent shortage of staffing, and known reckless behaviour on our roads (which I had just witnessed), it made me extremely disappointed that these resources weren’t being put to far better use with visible policing on the coast road. It is well known that taxis drive recklessly on this road (they were even banned a few years ago for a while).

Or what I did was buy a 2nd hand lightly used sram 12 speed NX cassette which also fits on a shimano HG hub

I meant more about the “deal” that was struck - I couldn’t see anything mentioned about cycling specifically when i searched online, only some doom and gloom articles from back in Feb 😂 but yeah, at least Paris nice is a good start…

Colour me intrigued 👀 Details, please! 🙏

None of the above from what I can see. What a complete waste. Sport was the only thing that DSTV vaguely had going for it and now even that is not doing well. I mean they also canned the Winter Olympics

Wait, so DSTV has the rights but they aren’t even showing it?? Ffs useless

FYI - Someone started a petition that they plan to take to the court tomorrow: https://www.change.org/p/demand-justice-for-idries-sheriff?source_location=psf_petitions

Maybe he is just wealthy 👀 and he has been on the hub for 18 years…

Bru, you sold yourself out… dont think anyone else “piemp”ed you.

I wouldn’t classify someone who buys bikes to get certain parts they otherwise might not be able to obtain to be used in PERSONAL bike builds, and then sell on what they don’t need as a “dealer” if you ask me… but I’m no lawyer…

If a seller doesnt like/agree with the terms of the platform, there are other available options (eg marketplace) to use instead…

Ahhhhh Friday… 😜