mikethebike234

damn so I coulda gone riding after all spent the day getting sorting out the room for a new arrival due in dec....

sounds like a not good idea .. well guess I should rather wait till the shops open and fix then ...

I have busted another spoke on my crappy wheels and it looks like there might be a gap in the crappy weather today ..question will it be ok to ride the bike with a busted spoke or will it damage the wheel beyond repair ..its not touching the frame ...close but not quite.. and yes I know I should replace these crappy wheels I'm actually trying to save up some money so that by around dec I should be able to buy something decent but the saving thing doesnt appear to be going to well....

aaaannndd you posted that at 8......29..lol

Oh goody my thread is still going ....what a hoot some of you guys are an absolute scream. Johan let us know how the ride with flats goes.... I must go clean my bike now I would like to go for a spin this afternoon even though the weather looks seriously dodge up there....brrrrr

Everybody do what you want...I'm not going to tell anyone how/what to use/ride their bike.. what I was trying to say is that they shouldn't just write off flats outright ..... just like I shouldn't write off spds or what ever outright .. there are 2 sides to the debate. It is one of my faviroute debates however..... now what we really need is inflatable pods for when you fall in the river attached to your bike....

maybe you were destined to fall anyway only now you are attached so now you have to detach yourself before you drown in said river......

Latest ride magazine page 74 Shimano m520 spd pedals They state and I quote "Contradictory as it may sound riding clipped in is safer than with flat (non clipped pedals." How can they state something so blatantly untrue, a bald faced outright lie. Are they being paid by the manufacturers or something. I'm sorry in my opinion there is no way that that statement holds true. Bear in mind that the article is aimed at those are going to try mountain biking for the first time. The general consensus has been get used to riding with flats first then move to clips ..personally I enjoy my riding so much more with flats I will probably never move to clips or spds or whatever the hell everyone else is supposedly using because its the done thing. To put a person off riding flats outright like that is just wrong ......Right now where is my flame suit ...ah there in the cupboard let me just get it on....

whats happening there is like a low intensity war in most countries they would send the army in to deal with the kind of s**t that these people live with. Here we have 2 problems 1.our politicians particulary the ruling ones are a bunch of S***s and 2. our army is not what it should be ..the thing is a lot of these guys have been in prison so they have been caught ..another solution would be to bump these guys off while they are in prison oops he slipped in the shower .. sigh one can dream can't one I suppose that would be violating their right to kill and steal and take drugs ..sigh

where I stay in our road about 8 of the more or less twenty houses are occupied all the time next door to me 2 houses are used as small run from home bushinesses nothing obtrusive or irritating. A man from our armed response company stays accoss the road .. our armed response company headquarters are 2 minutes away. They get to our property before they get their call to us about 2 min. then there are the people watching from the mountain that I didn't even know about and only found when one of their guys sent a warning that there was a group of guys looking into cars outside my house ..added to all this it is not an affluent area or I don't quite know how to put it ..for example if they broke into our house they would be very disapointed as we don't have all fancy stuff I think my bike might be the most valuable thing in the house and that is only worth about R3g second hand the laptops are ancient and 2 are infested with viruses the tv is so old it should be in a museum the DVD player is one of those R200 jobs but about 8 years old our HI Fi now thats a good joke I doubt they would get much for that maybe R50 lol and thats it no jewelry no no satelites etc . When I've had guys come to do work here I can hear them thinking wtf theres nothing to steal.... of course now that I've said this all I'd better touch wood theres some demented tikoppe out there that'll literally kill you for 20c...

Can't say I've ever noticed my cheapo crappo WTB's flexing ....a bit bent and buckled yes but flexing ...maybe I will go to the garage now and check....btw thank goodness for disc brakes, nowdays we only have to have the wheels straightened when thay start touching the frame lol

are you all into yoda turning?

if only there were less cars with mad people behind the wheel on the roads to run us over

26er

saw the cape town leg and they were absolutely brilliant.

my only problem with Faerie Garden is that blutty bridge going down for some reason I have never managed to get ir right and I have gotten sick of falling in the river so I just walk over it now ...to hell with my ego..lol other than that faerie garden can be great fun in fact I end off all my rides at tokai with it and some days it all comes together and flows other days I end up in the tree's but thats mountainbiking I guess ...having said that I think I have fallen off more times at faerie garden than anywhere else at tokai....but never anything serious... touch wood..

of course its got those cool strappy thingys on the pedals man....lol

nope definately not ..not at those prices .....10 grand for a huffy.. ?????? what have they been smoking? http://www.wantitall.co.za/bicycle/All/p1#p1

thanks for all the advice guys but I had to call off the deal .. A week or so ago my youngest kid (6yrs) crushed his fingers under a rock and needed emergancy surgery to fix them up ...got some of the bills this morning and you can guess ..not all covered by medical aid either ..micro surgery = macro bills ..so I won't be buying any bike bits for a little while ..solves the problem with the hubs though I just grease them and ride them until they seize...

just throw your bike off chapmans peak and voila the authentic damaged frame look....

sometimes I think the guys that spend 30 grand on bikes are a bit crazy ok I can appreciate that top end bikes are a thing of beauty and I suppose if you're going to race you probably need something fancy with all the bells and whistles etc etc but it would be wasted on a person like me ..if I had that kind of money to blow on a bike I would just get a good entry level bike for around 6000 to 8000 put the change in a fixed deposit or some kind of annual investement scheme ride the crap out of the bike and replace it every year ... and never bother servicing it come to think of it you shouldn't need to do to much to it in the space of a year if its brand new .that would be fun trying all the differant bikes for a year... addmitedly it would limit you to hardtails ..Only thing is if my wife found that I had 30 grand stashed away for spending on bikes hmmm do I see a divorce coming...

oh my hat they are not cheap.......http://www.bruces.co.za/pdfs/Rohloff%20Price%20List.pdf

http://www.rohloff.d...ducts/speedhub/ I want I want I want ... apparently they last up to 200000 kays without hassles and can be used on mountain bikes too cant imagine what they must cost though...

and it is basically http://www.shimano.com/publish/content/global_cycle/en/us/index/products/0/alfine.html ok now i'm just talking to myself ...this is not healthy......

looks like an old sturmey archer on steroids