mikethebike234

a R99 floor pump from cash converters stopped working after 4 months the footstand thingie had already snapped off ...I put it down to school fees and threw it in the bin. Am now looking out for a decent one and will spend a bit more this time.

you should hear what my father says about town planners I can't even repeat it on here I would get banned forever ...my old man is an old engineer and designed a few famous roads around the cape and western cape so I respect what he thinks about engineering issues...

back in my late teens I had weird oversize dikwiel homejob with a sturmey archer 3 speed one drunken day my cuz rode it into his swimming pool and out again, never gave hassles or missed a beat for another 3 years despite not being serviced I just put motor car oil in the 3 speed every now and then...sadly it got stolen. It was a mad contraption and musta weighed nearly 20 kgs of all my bikes that and the cruiser were my favourites. but I must say there is a lot to be said for disc brakes they are truly a revelation. Those old cantilever and caliper brakes were dreadful and ceased to function entirely as soon as there was anything resembling moisture in the air....made going down tokai on a rainy day um interesting espescially when all you were wearing was a pair of jeans, a t shirt and a backpack full of empty beer cans.... he he

Thank you Eskom for taking all the attention away from us cyclists ...now no one will give a damn if we ride upside down naked in the middle of the road ...everyone is to busy getting upset with eskom......

alll depends which Helmut???????

into the south easter or with it behind?

give them a bit of thyme the anti helmut crowd will be here .....

Just remember guys motorists don't see a roadie. a mtber or a commuter or a singlespeed hipster or a n old school roadie or a downhiller or whatever they see a guy on a bike, he is a cyclist so thanks to this we will all be lumped with a nutcase element with a mob mentality regardless whether you ride a frikkin DH bike or a tri bike...regardless of all the lunatics in their cars that are happy to shoot each other at the slightest provocation. The problem is that people in this country are behaving like they are permanently on a knife edge or something ..I spend a lot of time on the road in my car and really the level of aggression out there on our roads is insane. I do worry that one day I might stall my car by mistake or something and end up with a bullet in my head for it ...seriously people need to relax a bit its getting a bit scary. Next time you are riding on your bike or driving your car and someone does something a little silly ..think about it ..is it really worth getting in a knot about ....... sometimes you have to just let it go ... because of this event I am going to be nervous on my way to tokai ...

from this angle it seems that bike has a seriously dodgey name

What transpired at the agm?

the tyre companies must be loving this everytime someone comes up with a new size thay get to introduce a whole new range of tyres ....

yes and the laughter of your doctor as he hands you a nice fat bill .......

OK so if I was wrong about all this dung being flung being the agenda of a certain group of Dhillers why was that posted on Tokai DH FB??? Even though they have just stated that one of them doesn't even have a DH bike? Help this is all most confusing cos as it seems to me now they are stirring purely for the hell of it ...maybe they are botanicals in disguise and are trying to sow discord amongst us?????

ok then I'm wrong that was just the feeling I was getting.....

you have no idea how many times he has actually done this to me, hence why I am to scared to ride over that bridge anymore....

This is the conclusion I keep coming to. These other folks seem to me want to cover the mountain in extreme downhill trails with insane jumps etc etc which face it 90% of tokai users myself included are incapable of riding or just really not interested in spending lots of time in hospital burning up our medical aid....Really I cant fault what Deon and co have achieved there despite the botanicals ..despite idiots crashing through illegal trails and nearly flattening one of SA's most notorious fynbos nuts...despite having to contend with Sanparks etc etc etc but then what do I know, I'm to scared to even go over the bridge at Faery garden....

JCBs????? and Sanparks anyone who thinks trailbuilders will be allowed to use JCB's up there is on some very interesting drugs and must share now.....

no only popcorn... seriously I don't have a clue, hell maybe they'll fill people up on brandy and coke at the door...

.......and then a previously extinct flower popped up in the middle of Boomslang and Mr Rebelo and a hundred botanicals arrived and that was how mountain biking ended at tokai...guys we are guests on the mountain and we must never forget that. We need to behave as we would if we were visiting someone important... those botanicals are as passionate about their plants as we are about biking and some of them have a lot of clout. I know this is slightly off topic but just felt what with everyone jumping up and down about world class trails etc we need to remind ourselves that we are lucky to have any trails at all ..also a huge number of riders myself included are just happy to have a place to to enjoy getting a bit of exercise in the peace of the mountain away from the roads and and those dreadful smoke spewing, cyclist killing contraptions called cars, I tell you not a single ride goes by without me being really grateful for that professionally built trails or not. Finally can anyone come to the AGM? or do you have to be a member of a club?

is there a list of people eligable for nomination somewhere?

maybe a stall with some handbags to???

I think I should buy a popcorn machine and sell popcorn at the door to this AGM....

hope your bike is ok ...i see the others beat me to it..lol

kids will drive you to do this to your car..............