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At a press conference a short while ago it was announced that the Cape Town Cycle Tour 2015 will go ahead with some significant changes to the route after Chapmans Peak drive is declared unsafe. Click here to view the article

Edit: Seriously off topic for this thread, but I guess it's appropriate to highlight safety on a CSA thread... Lobbying for all of the above. Sick of the standard email response: Dear Mr Booth TCT: Cyclist Safety needs- Pre Argus Cycle tour The Office of The Executive Mayor, hereby wishes to acknowledge receipt of your correspondence dated 18 February 2015. Kindly note; your correspondence is receiving the necessary attention. Please be advised, this office will revert to you in due course. Please quote our reference number #### in all future correspondence. Kind regards

For a clever guy you are really battling here. There are various levels of fee that CSA charge. Licences Come in 2 flavours for non pro riders, Annual at R120 or day at R35 per day per event. Every rider who rides in a CSA sanctioned event has to have this licence. So in your excerpt from CSA, as CTCT had not charged the entrants the day licence fee when the entries for World Funride Champs were paid, CTCT would be liable for this amount in order to get CSA sanctioning. Day fees CSA charges the event organiser a day fee of either R6 or R10 per day per rider. I have no idea which events pay R6 and which events pay R10. This is a levy on the organiser for the CSA sanctioning. Calendar fees CSA charges the event organiser to list the event in the CSA calendar as a sanctioned event. I believe the minimum amount here is R5,000. Commissaire fees The race organiser pays set fees to have CSA officials oversee the event, including travel, accommodation and grub. Prize money Not an event organiser fee this but every winner is obliged to pay a portion of his or her winnings to CSA for the privilege of being allowed to win a sanctioned event. Make of the press releases what you will, these are the fees required to be paid.

It's offensive that you a) categorise views conflicting with yours as greedy human behaviour and b) tell us to be grateful a big corporate is hoping on the bandwagon to make money from cycling. Facts are Discovery has done nothing, I repeat nothing, to stage funrides in this country, organisers have taken the risk and hunted high and low for sponsors. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Now that cycling is a big sport, Discovery is jumping on the bandwagon, not through sponsorship, but through using the events of others to make money for themselves. Why not just facilitate more funrides by providing sponsorship funding like Liberty, Momentum, ABSA, FNB, Nedbank and Coronation (to name a few) do? Sorry, I stand corrected, Google tells me Discovery actually does sponsor one cycling event.

National Road Traffic Act, 1996 (Act No. 93 of 1996) stipulates, inter alia, that vehicles may only be adjacent to another vehicle when overtaking and that all vehicles must obey at traffic signals, In terms of the act a pedal cycle is classified as a vehicle. While there is plenty of research to suggest it is safer for cyclists to ride 2 abreast as it primarily reduces overtaking distances, the Act does not allow this practice. Ironically it is illegal for a motor vehicle to pass cyclists riding 2 abreast as if they are overtaking. Unfortunately there is a large amount of ignorance in the community surrounding the rules of the road regarding other road users as well as a lack of tolerance by both motorists and cyclists of one another. Compounding this is the willful disregard of some of the basic laws of the road by cyclists, such as stopping a red traffic lights at busy intersections and not indicating intentions. As much as we don't respect some of the laws, our deliberate flaunting of them does reduce our credibility when we request tolerance from motorists. While it is no excuse to endanger the life of a cyclist because he didn't obey the rules of the road, we must be seen as being respectful of other road users if we are to be taken seriously. Let's remove this from the motorists' arsenal against us. The PPA #staywider campaign is aimed at changing the mindset of the community enabling better laws that protect all road users. The criminal justice system in SA cannot cope with enforcement alone, we need acceptance by the community to effect change,

Internationally iconic? I do wonder how many people tell their friends abroad they are going to ride the Argus rather than they are going to Cape Town? Research indicates the latter. The renaming eliminates the complexity of accommodating multiple sponsors and positions the Cape Town Cycle Tour factually based on where it occurs. As Capricorn points out "Changing the name wont dilute the experience one bit. Later generations wont even know what 'the argus' means anyway." Which is perfectly true for the worldwide audience that is so important for South Africa to attract now that striking has become our major economic output. The City of Cape Town and the Western Cape government recognise the unique opportunity that cyclo tourism offers the economy given the Cape's natural attractiveness to cyclists. The renaming has nothing to do with the Cape Argus wanting out, it remains as a major sponsor and a newspaper very supportive of recreational cycling and the benefits of cycling to the community it serves. Regarding the "ludicrous entry fee", this is a charitable event where ALL profits go to charity or the benefit of the broader cycling community. Is R430 or R400 if you are a PPA member really expensive for one of the best organised and fun days you can have on a bicycle, including being the world funride championships? I bet you spend more on energy supplements and post ride coffee in the weeks leading up to the event. With 40,000 entries all snapped up in days I don't think the market agrees with you.

No, Barking up the wrong tree here.

No Van, you miss the point completely. Sport only happens because people participate in it. For whatever reason. Professional sport only happens because society is happy to pay to be entertained by it. Without this payment there is no professional sport. The participants take advantage of this fact to be rewarded but in the greater scheme of things our lives as spectators are not affected by the sentences specified by WADA on mandate from the IOC. Are we defrauded because we watched a guy win a race and he was later found to be cheating? No, we are not. Maybe 2nd place was, but as spectators we lost nothing. Are we entitled to lead the moral crusade against the bans agreed as adequate by the world anti doping authority?

I may be wrong but I think there is a huge, no massive, difference between a CA and a bike racer. On the one hand: The CA is in a position of trust and is relied on by our society to act honestly and with integrity in all their dealings. They have a professional qualification based on education and a body that overseas the standards to which they are held and must act, Any CA convicted of fraud is removed from their professional body and may no longer act in that capacity. So you can't hire him. On the other hand we have a guy who races a bicycle for society's (Edit: apostrophe) amusement and entertainment.

Paulissen was pinged for fertility drugs and retired. Then made a comeback.

Why do we bother with correctional services to rehabilitate criminals? Just hang them all and rid society of all who do wrong? Or incarcerate them and never let them out? Are you guys god fearing religious people of any denomination from a modern society with a social conscience? Reading the lack of compassion for time served for crimes against humanity in the form of cheating at sport makes me feel that I've woken up in the middle ages. No one is ever forgiven? What are the attitudes to those we know cheated through dope to achieve the life time of results they did but are idolized mainly because they were never caught, not because they did not dope?

He is a shameless self promoter that from the dark days of cycling, thank goodness he has had the sense to retire, even if it means one more effort to remain in focus as he attempts the hour record. After Basso was kicked out of CSC before the 2006 TDF Voigt has had nothing to ride for, other than his pointless, and ultimately futile, breakaways with the exception of TDF stage 13 in 2006 racing with no team leader and Giro Stage 18 in 2008. 2 stage wins from how many "legendary" breakaways? Luckily for him Trek have not had a GC contender since Big Tex so have put massive marketing support into Jens resulting in his Chuck Norris reputation. And with Trek being an American brand, Phil and Paul on Versus pushed his exploits beyond their actual worth in order to appeal to the US market to keep their ratings up. So much so that if Jens was in the break it was heroic whereas any other guy would almost be labelled as idiotic by PnP. And where do we in SA take our commentary from? He was a great cyclist but he definitely would not rank in the top 50 of all time. Now he must take his retirement and stop promoting himself.

No, he got 2 months reduction for, and I quote the CSA press release, "Cycling South Africa reports that David George has, as per the provisions in the SAIDS rules (Article 10.5.3 Substantial Assistance in Discovering or Establishing Anti-Doping Rule Violations), made application to SAIDS for a two-month reduction on his two-year sanction" Maybe you should read before you condemn and post. I know it's not popular on the hub but it is an important life skill, Surely we should all support riders who provide info that helps catch the cheaters? In the most famous case of reward for providing info 1 guy got life and the witnesses got 6 months off season. Except Horner who got nothing. Do you really think 2 months off 24 months for talking is getting off?

The hearing bought his Bill Clinton "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" defense which makes him not guilty of doping as opposed to post by SwissVan claiming he was innocent. Impey was not innocent, if he was innocent he would not have not have had a case to answer, he took a masking agent but could explain how it got into his system. A bit like the stain on the little black dress.

See if SAIDS reduces his ban or not? Did you read the article?

At least he acknowledged he took it and copped his ban without going through the tedious bullpoo that we have been subjected to by others who have been caught. I suppose the difference in the reading on the bullpoo hydrometer is those that want to profit from their performance financially and those that don't.

You forget dealer trips to Eurobike and Interbike, freebies all around the world to ride new products in exotic locations, all in the price the consumer pays. R&D adds value. The rest? It does if you are the recipient!

While it is not something that is neither legal nor moral and should be pursued by the owners of the brand I am interested why it makes you want to cry? Is it because a guy might turn up on a trail or at a race and kick your arse on a bike that looks like yours but cost him less than half the price to be put together, thereby potentially showing you to be a brand slut and/or a poseur with more cash than dash? Interestingly the frame is the thing that carries the brand name but usually makes up about a third of the cost of a complete 29er, the rest of the stuff we never refer to when asked what we ride costs far more. Disclaimer: I make part of my living selling genuine non branded non fake frames and all the other stuff that makes a 29er either faster or lighter.

In reality Giant used the IP it learned from making CMT products under contract to launch itself as a brand. As did LG in the electronics field.

I doubt it. But as you googled it you must be right in how it all works, particularly the XXX + a few that become grey imports. FTR: A grey import is a genuine item made by the genuine manufacturer but imported by a party other than the official distributor. A frame from any one other than the official manufacturer is a fake.

Clearly the ability to click on a link and read it is not a prerequisite before contradicting a post on the hub. But to save you the effort I have done that for you and used copy paste to save you the effort: "Harris confirmed that the winning team in the TREAD Buffalo Category at the 2014 The Munga would also receive a free entry into the 2015 The Munga as part of the weight-division category prize." About half way down the article...

After you have done whatever the good doc V12man tells you to do get a dressing made by TIELLE called hydropolymer Adhesive Dressing and stick it over the wound. The dressing allows the wound to heal naturally and provides a barrier to stop your pants sticking to the scab. You'll be cycling in a few minutes. A number of World Tour teams use these to get riders through races.

About time someone started correcting grammar and spelling on the hub. Since some of the old guys have moved on standards in the use of the language and the courage to correct miscreant posters seems to have resulted in a noticeable drop in readability of posts.