Starchboy

Glad I read this thread as the PPA email was in my Spam folder. Looking forward to number 14.

I would love to do something like that. Perhaps when I retire. There is an organized cycle tour, the Tour d'Afrique. The last time i looked it cost about $10 000 and I see the 2024 trip is already booked out

I have the same issue, but this just got posted on their bookface feed: “With so much excitement around this year’s event our call centre is currently experiencing high volumes. If you’re a PPA member and struggling to get through, mail us at info@cycletour.co.za and we’ll get back to you ASAP. We are also aware of the payment confirmation ‘time out’ issue: Don’t worry, your status will be updated later if your payment has been successful.”

I bought a Big nine 5000 earlier in the year. It’s an absolutely brilliant bike, very happy with it. I don’t know if a Big nine is the best value for money MTB you can get, but if it isn’t it must be very close.

Fair enough, but 52000 miles (or R5200 per year) for doing something I do anyway is not to be sneezed at (especially in COVID times )

Not sure if this was covered in the Captains posts "We are excited to let you know that as of 3 October 2020, Vitality Health and Vitality Drive members who are also qualifying Discovery Bank clients with Vitality Money can now earn even more Discovery Miles when getting active and driving well. You can earn up to 1 Discovery Mile for every 1 Vitality Health fitness or Vitality Drive point you earn weekly. What this means is that you could earn over 60 000 Discovery Miles a year for getting active and driving well, weekly."

If you have, then don’t worry. The world can always do with more Radiohead.

Isolation by Joy Division. Somehow appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mz5AEgE24o

You could think of something like a hybrid bike, like a Giant Escape. I had a Giant hybrid until the frame cracked a couple of years ago and I ended up with a Defy as a replacement under their warranty. The Defy is also something you could look at, although I find that I get neck issues after about 3 hours in the saddle.

Absolutely. The big clubs will survive, of course. I suspect though that there are some Championship, league 2 and 3 clubs that will go to the wall in the next year because of this.

For me the empty stadiums show how important crowds are to enjoying sport, even on TV. I watched some of the PSG Dortmund game and a couple of others without crowds present and it was weirdly unemployable. Hopefully owners will realize that, and stop being as exploitative of fans. Some hope I know.

Premier league suspended to 03 April https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/mar/13/premier-league-and-football-league-suspended-until-4-april-coronavirus Bowing to reality I guess, but the right decision.

At least until we die. What is a solution heer though. I reckon postpone Euro 2020 to 2021 and try and finish the leagues/cups in June/July with the hope that Coronavirus is under control by then. Or just wipe this year off with no champion and start again next year. That would be very amusing for non Liverpool fans, but a bit unfair.

Ebikes started going past me at Suikerbossie. Pretty impressive seeing them walz up the climb compared to most of us at that point.

I also saw someone on the side of the road at the beginning of the Smitswinkel climb. Medics were there and he/she was in a recovery blanket. Hope there were no big issues.

I actually thought the goodie bag was better than usual this year. Big bag of muesli, a water bottle and a 20% voucher off SIDI at Takalot when I need some new shoes. The rest went right in the trash.

Well I read a piece by a random dude in the interweb (which must mean they are en expert) who said that coronavirus definitely possibly came from drinking tiger milk whilst standing on a hill so......yeah.

I for one welcome our avian overlords.

Curse myself for not training enough and start thinking about procrastinating about a possible preliminary schedule for thinking about a training plan for 2021 CTCT. Plus beer and braai.

One of my favorite parts of the hub are the restorations, when something old and rusty gets turned into something that makes me drool. Mainly as I am a complete klutz when it comes to anything mechanical so I know that I would mess something like this up. This is a classic example, what a lovely bike at the end.

Don’t worry about that in future. After the U19 World Cup we will probably be raiding Bangladesh for recruits, not the Proteas .

Which is exactly why we need a thread to celebrate that fact!

I bought mine second had about 4 years ago, so I reckon its about 6 years old. I'll ride it until it either falls apart or I get so old that I decide I need an ebike.

Oy buy 20 R50 Takelot vouchers to buy something, its idiotic. They could just get 1 point for every R50 spent, but then i guess it would be far easier to get an extra play every week.

Yes there is. Rules are here: https://www.cyclescheme.co.uk/the-rules-of-cycle-to-work