mikethebike234

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?

I know some people love their music but what they tend to forget is we don't all love the same thing ...personally I love the sound of the wind in my ears the thrum of the tyres on the ground the swoosh of the super fit guy on the 100k bike going past me. Also I feel one should be in tune with your bike know all its little clatters and clunks if you're riding listening to music you wont hear your gears grinding or your brakes squealing and finaly when I am up on the mountain i went there for peace and quiet, to get away from the the general noise of the city not to listen to what someone else thinks is cool music. just my R5 worth...

This problem is not just with their BMX's I have a tyax super mtb ..great bike in every respect except the freaking hubs. They are totally wrecked Cones stuffed, bearings shot, cups pitted to hell axle bent.I don't consider myself a hectic rider either and I have only had the bike for just over a year and a half. I finally got enough money together for a new wheelset. Am planning to put them on the bike this week. The hubs that come on the mongoose bikes seem to be something called Formula hubs and after a bit of research they are total sheet.Bent axles and short lived cones and cups seem to be the norm.Things is the rims weren't to bad but I've bent those as well anyway so a new wheelset it was ... A good bike ruined by rubbish hubs IMHO. Mongoose should seriously consider a different supplier for their hubs.

Shame man thats terrible, hope it gets better soon and you can hit those trails again, Hope your medical aid was up to date,,, I'm sure the bills are almost as painful as the knee,

how the heck did you do that?

someone mentioned that Mr Min is good to use on the bike I went to the shop the other day and there are a few different types of mr min which does one use?

with gold mags and a picnic bench on the boot??????

pity we can't send you some of our rain ..I for one have had enough for this year...

Nice bike - lovely lines what frame is that?

Just got back from a loverly holiday with the wife and kids my plan was to ride my ass off when I got back unfortunately I am now sick as a dog so sadly its gonna be a while before my bike takes me anywhere :( :( ..but I have plans to finally put my new wheels on my bike nearly three months after buying them... hopefully the salesman wasn't lying when he said they would change my bike

this takes me back ..cant believe it was nearly 20 years ago ...man that was crazy times

I don't have any pics but the new Mamba is just peachy just a little fine tuning to do. Great job guys one of these days I really must make a plan to join you on a build day

duct tape.....it comes in an impressive array of colours these days...

breaks who needs breaks just throw them away make youre bike 500g lighter just use youre 5/10's as breaks ............

sorry more info... http://www.naturefresh.co.za/search.aspx?phrase=olive+leaf&x=7&y=9

Olive leaf ..it works

hey its still 4 hours and 5 min till friday.......