mikethebike234

It started off quite well I bought her nice new wheels, a new cassette even new cranks, I cleaned her, lubed her every week, I promised her we would do the argus together. we rode around the peninsula together, we rode tokai 3 times a week ...then I got my wife pregnant with our 3rd kid ..it was fine until about 3 weeks ago the due date for nr3 was around new year. My training was going ok ... new year came and went, we went into baby overdrive had to get things ready you know ..... then she was a week past due date then 10 days then baby arrived on the 10th jan a very cute little boy which makes it 3 boys .... then I went for an op to have the baby factory decommissioned and oh dear that training has kinda gone for a ball of ess h one tea ....and I am now not getting much sleep, my wife is taking strain with this one and hells bells I'd forgotten what a mission newborns were (no2 is six and a half) So now I am contemplating not doing the argus. I just don't feel like its gonna happen So tomorrow I will try riding my bike and see how it feels then I will make a decision, the doc said it should be ok the op was on Friday. I just don't want to do the argus unless I am fit enough to enjoy it and boy do I feel a wreck at the moment. Worst is every time I go in the garage I can feel her glaring at me ...... like a scorned lover......

whats been going on I've been off the hub for a while I haven't been for a ride for nearly 3 weeks owing to week 1 I just couldn't get going week 2 my wife had a baby and now I've gone decommissioned the baby factory.... so coming to the hub makes me feel guilty as for when I go in the garage and my bike see's me ...... well lets not go there but a few more days and I'lll be back in the saddle. so what happened please tell ...............

the swift is pure porn...

i cannot look at these bikes they are too beautiful there's just something about the clean lines of a hardtail mtb that makes me go all gooey inside....just makes me sad that all of these beauties are way out of my price range....

neils wheels

that looks like a rwandan coffee bike?

if you can afford it do it....as far as I'm concerned PJ are a lifetime/bucket listy type band....if I ever get an opportunity to see them live I will take it believe me....

I am getting a bit worried how fast it is going, up last year june 2011 it was 350, this year june it was 370 now it is 430.. hmmm and yes it might not be bad against 45 daily entrance ... but if you guys keep saying what a bargain it is gives them licence to just go wild and increase the price way way way higher than the inflation rate or anything else for that matter ....so if its a bargain at R500 they will think lets just make it a grand look at all these fancy bikes these people can afford it ....they said it was a bargain .... yes I know a good set of tyres cost a grand blah blah blah anyways maybe I'm just being a troll here but that is my 2 cents in a nutshell keep going on about what a bargain it is an soon it wont be ..

I had a 3 speed cruiser when I was a kid then I had a another bike also with a three speed ..those things a just about indestructible. They also hardly ever need maintenance they were fantastic. One day when I have some money I will build up a 3 speed bike again.. how much was that SA by the way?

Hells bells I was really worried there for a minute....

Maybe we need a full list of what is legal and what is not? Just to clarify things for everyone? or am I just being silly. Surely everything on that signpost at the arboretum is legal?

only three trails are legal? are the snakes not legal? I think I am misundertsanding something here? Surely?

A while ago a track appeared joining up with Faerie Garden just after the troll bridge (yes I know i have an obsession with Faerie garden but thats just cos I keep wrecking my bike there for some reason) where did it come from? I wanted to ride it but havent because I'm not sure if its legal or not? I think something that may be contributing to the problem is that a lot of the legal trails are not even marked anymore ..if we had a situation where all the legal trails were marked properly then it would quite simply be a case of if it ain't marked don't ride it, would apply, understandably after the logging all the signage kinda went to hell. Boulders which is legal (I hope) is not marked and unless you have been riding Tokai for a while and are familiar with the various trails you wouldn't know whats legal or not???? By the sounds of it you have a heckava time getting approval for signage and then get blasted when illegal trails pop up all over the place when quite simply all thats required is some decent signage.. But all Kudos to you for the job you have been doing Deon, I for one appreciate all the work you have put in.

As it turns out the cranks are bent ....and as luck would have it I have come into a little unexpected money and have decided to just replace the whole lot with Deore.I couldn't stretch it to SLX that would have been nice ..I think I am doing the right thing Shimano stuff is much easier to get hold of ... and the write ups on those FSA alpha drives were not great...I think I going to ride a little more carefully in that Faerie garden ...lol.....

years ago when I was a laaitie my dad used to work for the council and one of his projects was that road, at the time he used to have a Citroen GS it had this crazy hydraulic suspension which could raise the car .. we often used to go up there no problem was probably around 1979-1980.... one of his stories is how they had to tow the roller with a grader becuase the road was so steep...

Regarding cranksets is the only differance between the slx crankset and the deore crankset weight? just as a matter of interest?

sound like me when I was a kid on my 3 speed cruiser... now I have twenty something gears and evrey now and then I overtake some person who rode for the first time the day before and its like wow I passed someone .... but some of those old dudes eish ... they come past me all the time up tokai makes me want to throw my bike and kit off the mountain and walk home naked ..crying...lol

I was trying to break the land speed record he he ... and then kabam I see the sky and I'm all tangled up in my bike ... man I laughed until this morning when I realised my poor bike is not amused and I await with bated breath to hear from the mech.......I'm not laughing now ..I still don't what I did ..I was on that straight section after the concrete bridge drop off ..perfectly straight nothing technical man I feel like a twit.......I think I may have hit a small stump with my pedal or something equally stupid...arghh

I eventually went with Deore seems to be the best bet from a longevity aspect I could care 2 hoots for 90 grams I'm hardly the race snake... unfortunately if you've seen my most recent thread I have another erm little problem..... courtesy of Faerie Garden.... :(

that sound like a possibility will have to wait till the mech gets back to me........

yesterday I was tootling along Faerie Garden in Tokai ...actually i lie I was going as fast as I could.. and next thing I know I was lying on the ground Tangled up in my poor bike... So a few bruises and nothing serious ..but when I got back on my bike man it didn't feel so lekker the pedals felt all wonky ..so I thought I've wrecked my new pedals...not too bad .... anyways a long and weird ride back home and a change and back to work i go. This morning I thought I'd just check that it was in fact the pedals so I swopped them out with a pair of old ones I had lying in the garage..no it still felt all wonky. So I took my bike to the not so local bike shop (a bit of a drive but their mech is the best and never spins bs) He reckons at best I've bent the BB at worst the cranks are bent. If its the BB its simple replace it.... if however it is the cranks I've got a problem....The current cranks are FSA alpha drive isis drive cranks which after a bit of research on the dub dub dub are not that marvelous. So we replace with Shimano right ..wrong then I have to replace the BB as well which is just not within my budget I can probably raise about R700.00 I've had a bad couple of months workwise so funds are stupidly lacking at the moment, a new deore crankset and BB is not going to be cheap for me .... in fact I am scared even to find out. OK so maybe I replace with FSA or some other make that has isis drive cranks ...I don't know what to to do ..I just want to ride my damn bike .... :( :( so i wait for the mech to call me back and give me the good or bad news meanwhile if anyone out there has some idea's maybe someone has some isis cranks that are OK ..I don't know .....

The fish rots from the head Mr no 1 is closely connected with the whole criminal underworld and the likes of Radovan and McBride know a little to much.... the whole lot from Brett Kebble, Glen agliotti, cyril beeka etc etc etc all seems to come back to no 1 and it has to do with three things guns, drugs and diamonds. In a nutshell I wouldn't be surprised if Mr no 1 aka 783, himself is having people bumped off . No 1 is not the nice genial old man he wants everyone to think he is ...he is pure evil... why doyou think he has a bomb proof bunker ...its for when the truth comes out ..he is nothing more than a common murderer..possibly the worst pesident we have ever had ..and we have had some nasties ..... but thats just my opinion and probably just a load of paranoid nonsense.....one cant help being paranoid these days though.... glad I don't smoke weed anymore ...I'd probably never leave the house ..espescially if I lived in Bedfordview...

so Im not the only one thinking that....

hells bells why don't they just make old Radovan minister of police....

a meter or 2 behind a truck belching exhaust fumes ..yuck cannot be good for you. I honestly don't know how the roadies manage to ride in all those fumes ..don't people use car exhaust to kill themselves?