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I see Vitality is putting a team together for this event, you can win an all expenses paid entry. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=346638883440348

Hey Anton, are you still looking for people in your team?

Time to move on, have you seen the new Orbea Oiz bikes? If I was in the market now, those would be pretty high up on my list.

It's the first model that came out a few years ago, my wife also has the 5s (bought same time as mine) and her wrist based HRM is also crap. So if yours is better they've obviously resolved the issues. (or we just bought duds)

Is it necessary for us to get the conversion before we get going? Can we wait? Should we wait? Or should we just get it over and done with? yes no no yes

The Fenix 5x sapphire is a great watch, just dont buy it if the wrist based HRM is important to you. The accuracy on it is terrible and I have to wear a chest strap. I use it for MTB, road, hiking and golf. Battery life is good as well, I rode the whole of Cullinan2Tonteldoos last year, navigating all the way and had plenty of battery left at the end (13hrs)

I havent rode this route for a while, this past Friday I was there a bit early, so instead of waiting I decided to start riding so long. As I crossed William Nicol (green for me) two idiots on their way to the engen blasted over the red light, almost crashed into me and then proceeded to hurl abuse at me for not having a light on the front. I then remembered why I havent ridden this for a while.

I wonder how big a ball you'll get if you put all the daily discarded chewing gum of the world together?

I started experimenting with nutrition when I was still racing enduro bikes, where you often have very long days in the saddle. I realised all these hi-tech foods is just a bunch of crap. In the end I dumped all the hi tech rubbish and just stuck to the basics and real food, and I felt no different. I now have a very basic formula, any rides under 1.5hrs I eat something small before hand and only drink water during the ride. Between 1.5 and 3hrs I'll have a bit bigger meal before hand and chow two bananas during the ride, still just on water. Anything over 3 hrs I'll drink an Endurashake before (lady that I know that makes these herself, great product) and eat something like salted nuts or fruitcake every hour, still just drink water. Thats been working for me for the last 10 years.

May I suggest golf?

The biggest benefit I find is that you can get a nice wide rim that weighs very little compared to similar alu rim. They very stiff as-well and you definitely notice it under power. Check out Csixx, they based in Cape Town and produce great wheels and some other components. Their products are trail orientated and they have a replacement warrantee. I'm 95kgs and havent been able to break one yet, so I'm pretty confident in their strength. http://www.csixx.co.za

Take your gravel bike, take cedar to witkoppen, go north towards rivonia and jump onto the spruit route all the way to melville koppies. From there go past the Zoo and over the M1 by Killarney. Go through houghton and linksfield, take Civin road toward Gilloolies go under the eastern bypass and carry on past glen dower with boeing rd until you get edenvale road. Turn south and ride until you get main reef which will take you into boksburg. Use the gravel bike as some of those roads are very busy so you can jump on the curb if you have to.

I've just had long discussion with someone closer to the story and all is not what it seems. Far from it and like I said earlier there are three sides to any story (really wish that one day I'll be able to hear the third) NSQUAREDZA, in retrospect, my first reply to you was emotive and childish, apologies for that. This thread was never intended for or directed towards you, I was disappointed with how Yeti handled the situation (and still am) Can I ask the moderators to either lock or delete this thread as I dont think there's any point in continuing with this as its just hearsay and speculation.

Thanks for replying, to be honest I do know that there's always three sides to a story. So I'll refrain from commenting any further, as I'm not directly involved. The whole situation has left a bitter taste and I'm severely disappointed for my friend and with the brand. I'll retract any comments deemed defamatory if I'm shown to be incorrect in making them.

I'll take the criticism of being emotive and one sided on the chin. Defamatory defiantly not, I know enough to know that there was a definite lack of ethics involved here and I know that I as a customer like to make buying decisions based on that.