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I a agree, with you and do use the hub ,youtube and bicycling.co.za bit scared to mess around with it before a race doing clarens,hopefully still sani2c and I dont have the tools to remove the bb and freehub. thought Id have it checked by a pro to make sure its in good nic.

been taking my bike to hotsopt for the last couple of years with great service but for the last couple of times needed to take my bike back 2-3 times to fix up the mess. two other mates in club also got the same type of service and we need to get a new service point in Gauteng. we are about 100ks out of Gauteng with no decent shop in town. ( from witbank MP ) cant drive 100ks to take my bike back for comebacks.

found one in ride mag( i think) sport basement advert, also think my hr monitor is fine for where i am at the moment. and spending 30k would be more then my bike costs.

is it worth getting one? the going rate around 6K or can you find it cheaper. what is the recommended brand?.

" But you now only have 2 gears on the front which is awesome I would never go back to 3 gears on the front" Why do you say you prefer 2 gears in front to 3? If you have less options for gears, doesnt it make it harder to ride? And thanks "the One" for your input I managed to go out for a ride today( with a roll of tp just in case) and must say the bike handles like a dream and climbs like a monkey!

bought a new silverback storm and didnt realize that it only had 20 gears until receiving it. I'm still a noob and not sure how the gear ratio will comapre to my prevoius 27 spd. I have bug at the moment and not able to train. Any info will be great.

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lekker

just paid for my storm 1 this morning

sounds like getting tested is the way to go. I want to take up an extra sprot to get some decent core exercise in my training plan. been thionking of swimming or getting a canoe or kayak. any recomendations?

sounds like getting tested is the way to go. I want to take up an extra sprot to get some decent core exercise in my training plan. been thionking of swimming or getting a canoe or kayak. any recomendations?

I have been using ftitrack with a Training Plan MTB - Intermediate 2 - JUNGLE JIM (8 week) 8-10 training hours per week. My hr has gradually increased over the last couple of months and not 10bpm in a week. When i started the fittrack program my hr was 180 and now about a month after the program ended I'm at 190. there are 3 hectic climbs on the route I do and i check my monitor when going at my max up the climb iow at the top. I feel I still have quite a way to go till I'm happy with my fitness and this is when the formula started to bug me. I thought going over the amount the formula gave me could be bad for me. I feel better then ever and will just keep monitoring it and see where it ends up.

This is all very interesting to me thanks for all teh replies, I have searched the web but didnt find what you are telling me. to answer your question. I have a specific route that I train on atleast once a week and noticed that my hr keeps increasing when I check my monitor from week to week or month. this caught my attnention as I'm doing the same hills (with what it feels like to me the same intensity) and my hr keeps increasing. I have noticed in the past that if I'm sick it goes of the charts, but this has not been the case. I cant imagine what it feels like if your hr is 218.....lol

thanks

cool so Im not gona die! so the fitter you get the higher you hr will go?