madbradd

I reckon a good squeeze of whatever you have in your juice bottle through the window is harmless enough to not have a lawsuit or charge thrown at you but enough to really puss off the driver. If you have hammer perpetuam then in a few days the driver will be even angrier!

Last year was a bad year for spending as I bought 3 new bikes. Anthem, tcr composite and on-one inbred. Then new helmet, some kit, bike carrier races, travel and accomodation. So if I exclude the cost of the bikes and carrier probably 30kish. That said I also spent about 12k on golf without actually buying new equipment and only got about 10 games in... Edit. That was from October 2012 til now. So year and a half.

I'm on Classic Core which is the hospital plan. They won't cover you for anything unless admitted to hospital by the Doc. So check up on your plan details... should help you out.

I have to say taking something back 2 months later is a bit dubious to begin with. If I was a bike shop owner I'd probably be sceptical that my guys had caused the damage. Try find any industry where a 2 month "trial" period is entertained. I use MSC (normally deal with Jared) for all my local purchases and work which I don't do myself... have never had an issue and they've always been eager to help out wherever possible. I do agree that they're not great with calling back, but that's only complaint I could throw their way. As for the screwdriver to the crown race, I've been in their workshop a couple of times and can't believe that they didn't have the right tool to install a crown race. Are you absolutely sure the damage wasn't their before the bike went in?

Actually... shouting "fore" would confuse the golfers, as you're supposed to shout "four'" as a warning to the fourball that's about to be taken out. Aside from that... as a golfing cyclist myself I'd hate to have to push my cart through the tracks ridden into the course by cyclists, therefore the tracks would have to limit the track to the perimeter of the course. Most courses walking distance is about 7.5km including between holes so you probably won't get more than about 4 or 5km per lap - great for night riding but hardly a long lap by anyone's stretch of the imagination. However I think a prime opportunity exists at huddle park where there are still 2 unused courses. Wonder if anyone has approached them.....

So I thought I'd finally add my SS project experience to the thread. A mate and I decided we wanted SingleSpeeds. Decided to go with On-Ones. Ordered two frames. A few notes to anyone doing this: Make sure both boxes get invoiced. My frame went to Germany for 2 weeks before coming to South Africa Make sure you order the seatpost clamps... On-One Inbreds have a funny size clamp. Order chain tugs! you will need them and you may as well get them with this purchase We also ordered stems, seatposts, and bars from Chain Reaction, singlespeed wide base cogs, spacers and chains from Kiwi (www.rapide.co.za), cranks from Driveline (check out their catalogue at www.driveline.com.tw we dealt with Rebecca and despite the long wait we got some cool cranks for a very reasonable price) and the rest we chatted to the LBS (Morningside Cycles). I've gotta say big thanks to the guys at Morningside, bought 2 and a half bikes from them now, and they really helped out with keeping the cost of the project down. So what did I land up with? On-One Inbred 29er SS Ltd Suntour Epicon Fork DT Switt Wheelsets (One set from a Scott 920, the other from a Scott 910) Shimano Deore brakes (One set 596, one set 615) Funn 90mm Stem Funn 808 Flat Bars (so we can progressively cut down to size) Da Bomb hellfire seatpost Gusset half link chain Driveline XTS crankset - I have the MA-100 too, but need a wider bottom bracket. Spez FastTrak 2.2 Rear and GroundControl 2.3 Front Hope you like the pics I'll try to get some better quality ones up soon (bike needs a clean)

Anyone looked at what the equivalent food will cost? Ie how much does your recovery drink cost... and how much does it cost to get the same from food.

Last year this time I was looking at the anthem, epic comp, merida and scott. Anthem seems more versatile in that it is "an xc bike with trail manners" (I think thats from pinkbike) whereas the others are more race oriented. For value on the components.... merida > giant > scott > spez. I went with the giant and upgraded the shifters and crank to xt, added geax tnt tyres and walked out at 25k on the nose. Am I happy? Hells bells yes, but last years paint wasn't the best. Would I change anything? Yes. Would have left the slx crank on and upgraded the brakes as well.... last years was avid 5s, this years is slx. If I had 25k now for a bike..... anthem for sure... xt shifters upgrade only. Plus this years paint looks amazeballs. How are the wheels? I'm clocking 110kgs, and haven't had any issues.

This is what I was hinting at. I'm not sure there is even a standard for LED lamps and/or light fittings.

Out of interest, Which standard were they approved in accordance with?

http://www.light-test.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=39&Itemid=59&lang=en Nice comparison site

I've got the 1200 lumen one from easybike... I think its a magicshine, which cost about a grand. Really wide field with a smooth intensity increase ie no bright spot in the middle. I ride with it on my bars at about 50 percent most of the time and put it on bright for downhills. The addition of a headlamp would definitely be helpful for looking down a singletrack and also for mechanicals, but is not necessary if you're doing shorter rides. Often do the delta park night racing and the light lasts the whole hour on full, but I normally run it 50 to 75 percent. What you need to remember is brighter isn't always better. If you have a bright spot your eyes adjust to it making it difficult to see anything outside of that bright spot... therefore don't mount a bright spot on your handlebars.

+1 Fox Dirtpaws - love mine and need a new pair actually.

Cwc just had a sale where they had a bunch of 26 inch forks going for R500. Maybe chat to them?

Ahahaha. Love the analogy.

You're going to replace the tyres with 'proper' tubeless ones anyway. Both have shimano brakes, so really comes down to looks and slx vs x5 shifters. I'd probably go silverback based on looks and (for me) shimano > SRAM

Started in P group, rode 3:19, improvement from 3:52 from RR. There was a guy riding a stump jumper fsr most of the way with me, started m group and probably finished a minute or so behind. Big up to him.

Tallboy. Maybe not as racy....but the yeti sb-95c is too sexy to not look at.

Nothing wrong with 105.... build a relation with your lbs... you won't be sorry.

Fixed It! How did nobody else see that though?

I've heard very good things about the specialized carbon soled shoes... might be worth a shot. Concept Cyclery in melrose arch will stock them, but probably also Dunkeld cycles and Summit cycles may have. The new cyclelab has just opened in fourways too... probably worth looking at them.

+1. Sounds like my kind of racing.

+1

Chat to a company called Rentsec. The' do off site monitoring solutions as well as high quality cctv, on both purchase and lease agreements. may be able to offer you something.

Was seeded E batch, got bumped to D, also got to the last water point at around 2:45. Walking the rocky section really killed the time and was a bit blown in yhe last 2km... finished 3:22. Was pretty happy with that. Is there not an option of having a longer chicken run for those rocky sections? Not being able to ride them cos there is a solid line of people walking on the trail is a bit of an issue. Or at least some marshalls keeping the walkers off the track.