Patensie

I run them tubeless. Grip is good (esp with Ibex which is more of a trail/all mountain pattern) and the Canis is fast rolling. I don't think you get the Ibex in 29er, but I've seen a lot of new BMC-s running Canis front and rear. At this stage I cannot comment on longevity, but it seems to be an inbetween compound.

I run Onza: Ibex front and Canis rear. Transformed my bike. Best upgrade yet (still need to get a dropper seatpost, though).

I bought a 2005 model with 68000km on the clock at the beginning of 2012. Really enjoy the car. It is NOT fuel efficient (+-8.5km/l ave), though. No issues thus far.

Some ultra-runners swear by them: http://www.atrailrunnersblog.com/2005/10/product-idea-injinji-nut-tsak.html

Where did you get this??? Interwebs? Wikipedia!!! Looks like an American definition... Not helping much... In SA Law, Murder is defined as "the unlawful and intentional causing of the death of another human being" – Snyman Criminal Law 447. Therefore 3 tests to prove murder: Unlawfulness - easy, did Gouws have a lawful right to cause the cyclist's life - NO Intent - More difficult, see my previous post on intent. Cause - Did he do it? Let's leave it up to the Judge, Prosecutor and Defense to iron out. You said you'd like to approach this topic based on the law. The law is neutral. The law is clear. Perhaps do a bit more research before posting?

Recklessness = culpa lata (a form of negligence (gross negligence), not intent). Difference is a subjective test (intent - did Gouws foresee) vs objective test (negligence - would the reasonable person have foreseen) Ignorance of the law is no excuse = claiming ignorance will get you nowhere.

Let's try to look at this from a legal point of view in a neutral fasion... They are charging him with murder because the prosecutor will try to prove intent to kill on Gouws's part. There are different forms of intent (dolus): Dolus directus, dolus indirectus, dolus determinatus, dolus inditerminatus and (the one I think the prosecutor will go for) dolus eventualis. Dolus eventualis: The person who acted foresaw the outcome (killing somebody) as possibilty from his actions (driving drunk), accepted the possibility (yes I know I may kill somebody while driving drunk) and still acted accordingly (gentlemen, hou vas my bier ek start die engine, let's go). [Losely translated from an Afrikaans textbook (Deliktereg - Neethling, Potgieter, Visser from 1996), factual setting my addition]. This is what I believe the prosecutor successfully did in the Jub-Jub case. Thus there is legal precedent to charge Gouws with murder. But what do I know - my legal knowledge (mainly commercial law) is 15 years old and very rusty...

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I commute regularly. Good idea.

I do the same from Helena Heights.

Go up Blaawklippen into Stellenzicht (last farm before the gravel road starts).

There are a few marked routes: Green - easy, yellow - most direct, blue - bit more difficult and black - even more. I believe the idea with the yellow route was to get a fairly direct route between Stb and Swest.

It is still open - road it on Monday. Easiest to explain is from SWest: take the Eikendal road up to Longridge and follow the yellow arrows. Ends at Stellenzicht on the Blaawklippen road. Search Helderberg mountainbike route.

I try to leave home at around 6/6:15 am. You? Work in town, ride Eden as well - I'm not fast so that adds 30+min to the ride.

Been riding eggbeaters since 2004 - no problems. The original set is now on the road bike I use for commuting. I think it was serviced once in 8 years. It doesn't give me a day's hassle.

Yes they use the same cleats. Mrs Patensie has candies on her bike, I have eggbeaters. Eggbeaters shed mud a bit better and easier to clip into, while candies give a bit more of a plaform (stating the obvious). Much of a muchness though.

Awesome to see a common duiker ram on the Helderberg yellow route this morning

I do a 16km-one way commute at least 4 times a week and split my riding between dual-sus 26er and road bike - depending on what i feel like the morning. On average, the road bike is about 7 to 10 minutes faster. Bought the road bike specifically for the commute. In hind-sight I should have bought a cyclocross bike.

Great wind-at-my-back ride on Helderberg mtb route from Somerset West to Stellenbosch. Going to be a toughie back home though. Damn South-Easter.

Sorry - wrong: Thought it was the Leba Pass in Angola... not.

Now trying to make sure, but think so.

Angola

Hi, first post on the hub... Back in 2000 my boet, our best friend and I decided to start MTB-ing. We bought bikes, packed our rucksacks and my dad dropped us off at the top of the Baviaanskloof (Makkedaat) to cycle back, unsupported, to the family farm in the Gamtoos valley. Mom still nagged us to take helmets, which we duly strapped to rucksacks and promised to put on on the downhills. We planned to ride till nightfall and freecamp (i.e. tresspass) somewhere. That first day on our very first mtb ride we did 104km and camped (in the rain with survival bags) under a yellow wood tree in a kloof off the road. We were the ONLY cyclists in the Baviaanskloof. At some point we got into the upgrade (my-bike-got-dior-you-got-acera) race and it took us a while to get over that nonsense, but a bike now still cost more than 1 month’s salary (before tax) like it did back in 2000 ;-) and non-riders don't understand that. We didn't call it Endurance, XC, All Mountain, Downhill or whatever - we called it MTBing and we enjoyed it. We got a bit more responsible since then (wearing helmets - but that was only because my boet fell himself into hospital, as well as having wives and children), but we still ride to enjoy it. It does, however, seem that MTB-ers lost a lot of the fraternity it once had: when you'd greet and stop to chat to anyone on a bike on some desolate road or track in a wilderness. That has happened due to the commercialisation that occurred and the big race scene. For this reason I haven't done an mtb race in the last four years: Personally, I don't enjoy it any more. Many are enjoying it: to each his own, but I don't. I'd much rather go on a 3hr Jonkershoek ride on my own than do a race over the week-end. XC/marathon riding is big in RSA, but even though I have a XC bike, I just ride it for the fun of it.