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My wife goes to the most expensive gym ever, I would not be surprised if it's averaging over R500 a session at the moment.

I went through the same issue a while back...look at City Cycles in Canal Walk. https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/107078-freewheel-socket-needed/page__p__1474151__hl__freewheel__fromsearch__1#entry1474151 Alternatively I saw a couple at the Cajees Cycles in the Park Meadows Shopping centre earlier this week...I'm sure they'll mail you one if you wanted.

Very nice Hairy one! Did you buy the Tower from an oke in SSW? Was eyeing his fork. More importantly...how does she ride?

On the SS I use mine all the time when climbing out the saddle, on my Heckler the same thing, I think on longer travel bikes they are even more useful than anywhere else.

Rode the yellow route as part of my commute to work this morning...from Longridge to Stellenzicht probably took around 45 minutes. I expected a mellow cruise through some vineyards but the route was tougher than I anticipated, a couple of short but nasty little climbs. I was on a hopelessly undergeared for commuting singlespeed, from Steynsrust to our offices in Technopark 1H15 in total, I am sure it can be done in an hour or less if you ride a geared bike, eat breakfast and leave the backpack at home.

Eikendal Road is just past Avontuur on the R44 when going from SSW to Stellies. Go up it a kilo or three and Longridge is on your left, it's that mother of a sore tooth blue roof you can see off the eastern side of the R44 which has been so cunningly blended into the backdrop of mountains and vineyards. The Wannabee's website has some detail but no maps. There's talk of a 35km route with 1200 worth of climbing. I've ridden above Ernie Els before and it was steep as can be. It would be great if access can be arranged from Helderberg Farm across to Longridge and then further along to Stellies asing this route, I suspect they are working on it.

I noticed some trail signs and arrows between the Blaauwklippen and Eikendal Roads and was wondering if anyone had any details of what is being planned there? I believe the Wannabee club is involved...all I can say is big up and thank you to the guys that are working on land access in the area as this is going to make my SSW to Stellies commute a lot more interesting.

Gorgeous...I want one!

I had one as well...it was called a KMX and had back pedal brakes. Riding to school I hit a jump in the vlei at speed, my schoolbag had more boost than I did and came up over my head causing me to do a no-hand superman sick air nippletwister landing in a ball of dust, bruise and blood. They sent me home when I eventually arrived at school...hardest wipe I ever had.

Littering is unfortunately not only limited to roadies...went for a spin at Helderberg farm a couple of days after the XC races and the amount of gel packets I picked up on the XC course made my blood boil. Sadly not attending races is not going to change the attitude of those who choose to live like pigs. Fortunately or unfortunately I cannot keep quiet when I see guys chucking their rubbish on the ground...if they take offense I don't give a crap I am not the one in the wrong.

HAHA if you knock Eselfontein you obviously don't know it! Louis Trichardt se moer I've had the misfortune of having to go there for work...no thanks. Stellies would probably get my vote as top venue though I am / was very keen on getting away from all these pubs / chicks / trails and things for a change...speaking of which I'm off to Eden for a ride...Later!

Stellies is probably the best venue I could think of but WAY too close to home for me...phone calls beckoning me home, household wondering why I'd rather sleep in a gutter outside a pub than in my own warm bed etc....no no no, that simply won't do.

My vote would be Eselfontein Farm, Ceres. Some of the best riding you'll do, nothing to break, no-one to bother...camping woodstock style out there where no-one can hear you scream. Don't suppose there is a date set for this lot?

I'd be quite keen on that Easton bar if you are thinking of selling?

I don't care if it's in Kakamas I'm there! Actually Kakamas could be quite fun...

Hilarious!

Nice to see someone get stuck in aggressively and getting the job done...the frame's looking great, didn't realise you could get something looking that good with a rattlecan.

I still have one of the older Inbred 29s ... I call it my retro ss trail am xc bike...that thing gets punished in all conditions and it just doesn't want to quit. I would probably go for the 456 and put a Revelation on it if I bought another...nice versatile bike. There are loads cheap in the UK...Try get one off ebay?

Steel is real mate! Still wondering why you sold your Inbred and now you're walking down this road again? For the same price I'd personally probably go for the Inbred 29 though your total build is going to end up costing you more.

Impressive work, especially on the fork. Must admit I'm loving that white. Looking forward to see the rest of the transformation...good luck!

His mate looks pretty happy to be there.

Nice to see a whole new batch of lekker SS's poking out their noses. Makes me want to go home and start tearing gears off bikes.

Ya I've been through one or two of the cheap ones but they are simply not strong enough for riding a SS offroad, one of them actually physically broke apart on a climb. I've bought Shimano DX from CRC and the Token came from Evans but at the rate I'm going a Hope Hub and a couple of decent SS cogs would have cost less. The 20 tooth on a 29er ss is a great ratio for where I do most of my riding but they are quite hard to get. You can get the Whyte ones as well, apparantly top quality but very expensive.

Thank Velo will give them a bell. Will measure the Token tonight and check if the rusty one posted above will fit. An alternative for me is to quit while I'm ahead and just build up a new wheel around a standard freewheel hub which you can easily swap the singlespeed cog around on rather than keep sukkeling with these screw on BMX type freewheels which are seemingly becoming harder to find in a decent range of sizes.

This is why I love the web. See what just poked it's cheeky little nose out. Way more fun than an Easter egg hunt.