RichieT

Today.. first day of no rain for two weeks or so Harties, top of Redstone

I rode there last Sunday.. prepare for a lengthy bike wash. Even if there's no more rain (which is unlikely), there's a lot of standing water... and mud!

Kings Kloof is on the Tarlton road on the LHS about 4-5kms north of the big intersection at the bottom of the Krugersdorp hill . It's a tough ride, but needs to be tried

Top of Alberts Farm, Northcliff today

What the man said, you have to know the ACTUAL weight

How about this way...

Horse drawn?

Yeah, a great shame about Yellow Saddle... I have accumulated about 10gigs worth of U Tube video tutorials as well as text tutorials covering most aspects of bike maintenance which, when properly sorted/filed I was thinking of making available on Dropbox or similar. But in any event, I recommend just googling any issue you have and spending 10 minutes to half an hour sifting thru the results. Most times you will find out exactly what you need to know...

Trinity Cycles http://www.trinitycycles.co.za/ Schoemansville 012 253 1473

You can rather learn to sort these issues out yourself. In my experience it pays in the long run.. less high blood pressure and confidence in your bike. I've done a tutorial to bleed XT brakes, attached here. It's not the only way to do it but works for me. Give it a try. Shimano XT brake bleeding_2.pdf Alternatively, there's a LBS in one of the newish shopping centres east of Harties that the guys talk about. I can't remember the name, but I'll post it later Oh, and get onto XT rotors as soon as you can

If you're going to mount your phone on handlebars Endomondo has the best dashboard.. speed, time, average speed, distance all show nice and big on one screen... and you can configure it anyway you want to... then you upload the ride to Strava later. If you pack your phone away in your back pocket then you might as well just go with Strava, cos it's so cool to compare your rides... the others don't do that as far as I know. The disadvantage of using Endomondo as a dashboard is you have to use an app called "Keep Screen On" , and then your battery won't last more than 2 to 3 hours... especially if you break to take a few photos The other way 6 plus hours no prob

great idea.. but now we got to carry nylon rope in toolkit as well!...

Depending on your type of riding, check out the Giant Trance as well

My guess.. if it was stolen, is that a another cyclist took it. I was at NFarms on Sunday and I've never seen so many peeps there before, except on race days. There are car guards, and I've never seen "outsiders" lurking or even walking through the area, With so many visitors that day, the car guards could easily have missed a cyclist removing the "wrong" bike from a rack... I've worried about this issue, and I always park in view of the restaurant area if I stay for breakfast... this is SA after all

Thanks for providing the correct name! No wonder I couldn't find it on the internet. It is a pretty good product. Thinking of the other version for tools too...

XT Ice Tech rotors wil make the whole exercise worthwhile

Using POCLOC you can still record your ride and take pics, with your phone relatively safe from moisture, sweat, mud, dust and a mild scrape if you keep it in your backpack. You just can't use it as an odo. If you have a Samsung, you have the free two year glass breakage and moisture warranty anyway, so not too much to worry about taking your smartphone riding!

Or there's a soft waterproof bag called, I think, Pocloc. This is good for keeping phone in backpack safe from water if you fall into the river. It lets you take pictures without removing phone. I have one of these as well.. got it from LBS for R100 which is quite expensive for a R20 plastic product, but because it's for cycling... well you know.

You can buy this from Sportsman's Warehouse, or order direct from Hong Kong cheaper. I have one, and ordered an extra mount for my second bike directly from Hong Kong which duly arrived after 3 weeks by normal mail (2 weeks sitting in local PO). It hasn't been drop tested yet, or dipped into a river, but the case seems sturdy enough and it's like wide screen TV with my S3 on the handlebars! http://bikeconsole.com/detail.asp?catid=88187&Pdtid=689955

Northern Farm today .. great cycling weather.. cool overcast.. and deserted..

Hope so... sent PM

More than likely yes...

I have also often seen the carpark full and nearly no one on the ride! I have no idea how that works.... On 27th I'm either going to ride Spruit or N Farm and then definitely N Farm on Sunday 28th, so maybe will connect on Thursday. How many kms do you ride?

I got de-saturated!

I would say yes. I mostly ride there alone, because it's where I ride when my normal riding buddies can't make the ride. But to be 100% (or should I make that 99%!) safe I would possibly avoid the lower river section and the far north west bit, but having said that, I have not heard of any problems occuring there recently. But if you're interested, I will be riding there a couple of times over the next week to 10 days if you want to link up. I ride 40kms at 16kms average. As Bonus says, it will mostly have a few other riders out there, but don't bank on that, I have been on rides when I've seen nobody!