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After the fires I never renewed my permit ..expired a few days ago. Once there kid clarity on what the hell is going on then I will renew and start riding again until then I will polish my stanchions and have wistful recollections of old tokai.... sadly I haven't even got on my bike since I probably won't ride again until tokai I open again . ..yeah I hear you saying go ride the northern suburbs trails ...I just don't have the time and the spare cash to drive out that way. I am curious about this black hill though ...but where is it ...is it legal? I also don't have the time and money for a fat fine and or court appearance either..

,quote name="marko35s" post="2650552" timestamp="1435163082"] Wow they really are coming crawling out of the woodwork today. Wait till Friday ...

Hi there I recently acquired a Silverback Eclipse 24 for my second kid. My sister had it on her farm and my nephew recently got a new bike. Unfortunately it has not been looked after and needs some work and since I didn’t pay for it, its worth doing. So I have had a good close look at it and the list is not to bad, the worst is the forks ..they have a fair amount of rust on the stanchions and it would be nice to replace them with something either good 2nd hand or new? Advice? The brakes just needs adjustments and a clean. Wheels a trueing and bearings serviced. The bottom bracket is kaput and I will take it in to be replaced.The bars are quite tatty looking I might just respray them and replace the stem. The shifter’s are not nice and don’t work so great, it would be nice to replace with proper trigger shifters but I am unsure how much that would cost or wether it means replacing the derailleurs as well ..they actually look ok. The cassette seems to have a fair amount of rust not sure if that is a problem or if it needs to be replaced ..it isn’t worn so unless the rust is a problem it will be great for a while. The frame is actually in great condition and just needs a good clean and polish. If anyone has advice or some parts that would be great. Some of the work I will do myself and some I will have to send it in to have done …if anyone has advice on that ….usually I use crown cycles..but I’m open to suggestions….bearing in mind that this is going to have to be done on a shoestring as things are a little tight at the moment… Specs Fork type Suntour M2025 50mm with preload Rims type Aluminium Rims Hub front Silverback Concepts Steel Hub rear Silverback Concepts Steel Shifters Shimano RevoShift 21 Speed Front derailleur Shimano TZ-Series Rear derailleur Shimano TX-Series Crankset Pro Wheel 24/34/42T w/chain guard Cassette Shimano MFZ-21 14-28T Pedals VP Components Bottom bracket VP Components Brakes Silverback Concepts V-Brake

I have a kiddies bIke that I took to pieces and never put back together. ..

I have a kiddies bIke that I took to pieces and never put back together. ..

so can people other than than ZAPO or TRA go to this meeting then ..?

Good one considering its going to be held at a shooting range ha ha ha ...

You know with Tokai closed and off limits for so long ..possibly a couple of years it would be really nice if Sanparks could find it in their hearts open up some of cecelia for riding. But I suppose that is dreaming. What is going to happen is that they are going to end up with a huge problem of illegal riding and the legal trails that are still open (Rhodes memorial is the only other one in the south that i know of) are going to suffer extreme congestion. Are there any other legal trails in TMNP besides rhodes mem and tokai ..please educate me ..I'm really missing my tokai rides ...the reason I specifically ask about withing TMNP is the I and many others are now sitting with permits which we cant reall use enough to justify having bought them? or am I just being ridiculous...?

Just got back from a ride there and this no longer applies, guy at the gate told me that entry for children of all ages is same as grown ups - R60.00. This is insane that means that to take the kids for a little ride at tokai will cost R180.00 (3x60.00) NOT ACCEPTABLE!!! I think that they actually just don't want anyone using the mountain. Give them time and it they will start to charge for walking on the mountain...believe me its just a matter of time ...........Seriously Sanparks need to be put in their place or kicked off Table Mountain.

screw the colds and little sniffles I went all out and got chickenpox from my kids this week ha top that ....I don't think I have ever been so ill. It started on Sunday night with a fever and slowly got worse on Tuesday morning I had a couple of spots starting up so I went to the doc who gave me some anti viral s and some anti inflammatory's and a shot of voltaren. On Wednesday my whole face was covered with pox in my throat frikkin everywhere but it seemed to fizzle out around my waist i could almost count the ones on my legs ... then wed night the itching ...so i medicated myself to sleep and on Friday I started to recover ...what a frikkin nightmare I'm a bit nervous about when I should start riding again though .....hells bells I hope I don't have to go through that again ..... I still look like crap with flipping sores all over my face and head.

Went for a marvelous ride on thursday, today I am man down along with 2 of the kids the oldest one and wife seem to be ok ...so far. I think by the end of the week the whole of cape town will be down ....

went for a lunchtime ride up to the mast today and actually took some pictures ..ran out of time so didn't quite get to the mast though ...was a nice ride ...the gravel road before it turns to tar has taken a bit of a knock though...was an interesting excercise finding a line through it ,,,

I have finally decided to scrap my crappy front dérailleur as it is going out of whack way to quickly and has been the single most irritating and fiddly piece of junk all out. It is a Suntour XCR 414 and did I say it was a piece of junk oh yes I did ... anyways I did a little research on new ones and I like the idea of an S-Ram X7 or X9 but my goodness there are a few out there Questions .... have a 9 speed cassette will a ten speed FD work ok with a 9 spd cassette? Or do I have to find a 9 spd specific one? What is the diffence between High mount etc etc ? I have an X7 rear dérailleur and X5 shifters would changing to a shimano FD mess things up and would I then need to change the front shifters? Ok thats it for now ...I await the fount of Hub knowledge to come forth with answers........

I mean Gauteng

oh I see you're in Guateng....

Kenilworth branch have a medium I think.... http://www.cycleteknix.co.za/products.php?type=Silverback-MTB

my advice ..spend the extra bucks and get the stride 10 - has hydraulic discs. Once you have tried hydraulic discs you will never go back. I found a 6 month old stride 10 second hand right here on the hub for 3500 had only been ridden a few times. I been saving up for a bike for my kid so I bought that. It is in perfect nick. It has nice components ..not so fancy that you will cry if anything gets wrecked. You can upgrade as the components wear out which is where the addiction gets serious......

those Titan frames are really pretty...Thinking about getting my kid a Titan

ok so after a bit of a mission I have got the Joe's ecoseal. Bike + in constantia apparently Olympic in claremont have it as well. Will finally be setting up my new tubeless tyres this weekend ..hopefully today.Just gotta find a floor pump for a price that does not make me want to cry.

the american version....1lt Jack 2 liter coke drive your jeep into 19999lt water

well the first time I heard Nirvana was at a party in Trill rd observatory in about 92.... I think those days are a bit blurry I was twenty years old and high as a frikken kite ..there was a huge tub of punch ..mmm obs party punch.... you can just imagine what was in that punch ... then over the speakers at high volume comes this song ....here we are now ..entertain us.. the truely amazing thing is that I can remember anything at all ..I was a real wastoid back then ..a space kadett of note... but that was a long time ago 22 years so that makes me ...

I cannot imagine though what curt would have made of being inducted to the hall of fame .....

what about the neverending Pearl Jam vs Nirvana debate ...that used to get very heated. I wonder if Curt would have aged in as dignified manner as Eddie has. Thing is that PJ shunned the media after Curt went and capped himself and in a way it allowed them to evolve into what they are today ...maybe they don't have hits like they used to but every album they release is a gem and they are a top notch live act that should be on every music lovers bucket list. As for Nirvana both Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic are accomplished musicians but who knows what would have happened to Nirvana if Curt had not died. Word is that he was going to get out of music altogether except then his dear wife decided to kil him... thats one of the myriad theories out there and there are a few..... makes for interesting reading though