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Escapee..

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  1. Bike gets stolen, owner finds it on the interwebs and sets up a meeting to "buy" it back http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GVpIaPEGM&feature=player_embedded
  2. Can i have some more info on the bike please? I cant make 8h45 but i can do it at 9h00
  3. Okay so this would be a good time to buy my first bike at a REALLY good price?
  4. Well done Pieter! I have never smoked but all my friends that are trying to quit are suffering!!
  5. Bought some of the original flavour yesterday at PnP, was about R31 Will give some feedback next week
  6. I have been shaving my legs for the last 5 years Why? Chicks dig it
  7. I haven't seen it before, but will definitely give it a try. Always a mission to get breakfast with some protein in it so this looks good
  8. Looks like you can find it at all major retail stores http://www.futurelife.co.za/find-us/
  9. Okay so we all agree he should be in the Paralympics and not the Olympics?
  10. She has changed her running style accordingly
  11. I am competing in the high jump in 2016 This is me training
  12. The IAAF ruled that his artificial limbs were actually giving him an unfair advantage — that their springiness allowed him to push off the ground more efficiently than does a normal human ankle, letting him coast along at higher speeds using less exertion than other sprinters. He was banned from able-bodied competition...Herr, an inventor of advanced prosthetic limbs, says his tests show Cheetah Flex-Feet put Oscar on an equal footing with his competitors. "We did energetic tests to see how much oxygen Oscar was consuming. We looked at his rate of fatigue; we looked at biomechanics — how much force he applies, his step length and his stride frequency," Herr, who is also a double below-the-knee amputee, told Life's Little Mysteries before the World Championships last year. In all categories, Pistorius' performance followed the same trends as other top athletes. "People argued that Oscar had an unnatural rate of fatigue" — that his artificial legs gave him extra stamina, Herr said. Tests show this isn't the case. "To measure the rate of fatigue, you take a treadmill and turn it on at a particular speed. He jumps on and starts running, and you time how long he can maintain that speed. You do this at several speeds, then plot normalized speed versus duration, and you get a curve. Many sprinting athletes follow a similar curve. We found that Oscar follows the same trend." That means he got just as tired using his blades as everyone else did using their calves and ankles. In their experiments, Herr and his colleagues found that Pistorius moves his body slightly differently than other athletes, but consumes energy and oxygen at the same rate. He swings his lightweight carbon blades back and forth a tad faster than most of his competitors swing their heavier legs, but he must also push off the ground harder to get the same thrust; overall, these factors appear to balance out. Lastly, Herr argues that if Pistorius' prosthetics work better than biological limbs, they'd be giving a boost to other amputees, too. But Paralympic athletes have used the same technology for the past 15 years, and no one has achieved Pistorius's running times. "It's clearly because of Oscar, not the legs," Herr said.
  13. I really dont understand why they let him run in the Olympics in the first place. Yes he qualified, but if he was in the running for a medal surely the other athletes would have said something about it? IMHO he is just running in the Olympics for the "kumbaya" factor
  14. I really don't get the whole Oscar running at the Olympics story
  15. Nothing wrong with her dude I would!
  16. Hearing more and more people complaining about the terrible service from ABSA
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