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Sani, Hill2Hill and Amashova.

If your weight is too far forward your back wheel will lose traction and start to slide out. Where it slides depends on the slop. Try staying seated and moving your butt further back. Also if the gear is too easy you will bounce as you pedal causing both wheels to lose a bit of traction.

If you are in a racing bunch then you are placed manually by the officials. If you are not then you are obviously not serious about racing for positions, so who cares if WT places you as 1st or 5th especially if time difference is nominal. As for start mats, they are there to record which group you started in and to prove that you did in fact start. Time should be calculated as the time you finished less the official start time of the bunch you started in. That is certainly how all of CC races are calculated, although I remember the Argus was a bit weird in that regard. You should have an "actual" which is the difference between the time across finish less time across start mat. Your official time is the one mentioned above.

Funny thing is that we don't have a problem with bike theft - realtviely speaking. It seems that a disproportionate number of theft cases relate to bike theft in highly civilised, first world cities. In SA, and all other third world cities, bike theft is pretty much in line with other types of theft.

sitting up probably messed with the balance a bit. You could probably have controlled it by putting a knee on the top tube.

Johnny Koen mentioned something about Nolan committing to track for 2012? Any big plans for Nolan in particular?

Without a doubt one of the most bizarre wastes of money in SA history and that takes some doing. What was worse is that the department of Sport have a spokesman that is unable to hold a basic conversation.

Are you sure? Every day I see between 50 an 100 traffic violations by motorists. I usually break 4 or 5 (ie I clip in and start riding before the rest of the traffic starts the mad rush to the next light). How many motorists do you know that don't speed ie put other road users at risk because they can't manage their time?

Bobbie, I'll be there for the ride-coffee-ride but won't stay for the lunch. So if you're booking numbers for the lunch, make it one less.

More likely the joke would be on the supplier/merchant. If they don't check the signature you simply charge back teh amount charged to your card. The bank sends the charge back list to the merchant who then has to prove the signature was checked by submitting a voucher showing the signature that matches the card. So had your friendly lady thief bought the booze, the liquor store would have been R7k out of pocket. So the next time the bank tells you that smart chips on the card are for your benefit, tell them you don't want it. All the smart chip does is create a safety net for the merchant and the bank where they can disclaim liability because you were careless with your pin.

XTR hubs are as good as you're going to get for the price. Don't tell Minty but Chris King hubs are not worth the difference. The Mavic 717's on the other hand are not great. Mine lasted not more than a year of on-off riding and I'm a chicken on the trail, so no big jumps for me. Rim got out of true quikly and the spokes started breaking routinely.

You gotta find a partner to fork out some part of the entry at some point. No need to bring the issue up until you receive the payment INTO your account.

Works like this. Riding partner asks if you're keen again. You say yes and make payment. Riding partner pays money into account. You tell wife you just got R3k in your bank account.

They have to pay VAT on the increase as well so the 8% is actually 9.1% with VAT impact. At R6400 per team the increase is 7.9% before VAT and 8.8% at R6450. Worth noting that it is still an increase of only R625 per person, which in whole numbers doesn't seem as much.

It is the law of course to have a bell.

Are you sure? I want to buy XTR wheelset with Juicy ultimate Very sure - I run XT centrelock rotors on my commuting wheelset (yes - slicks for the Anthem) and the Avid Roundagons on my knobbly/race/not tar wheelset. Both hubs are Shimano though - XT and XTR, so you could just use the centrelock adaptor that DT Swiss make and buy Avid rotors.

How about this for a measure. Barry Austin used to post here a lot and keep us informed on various happenings as well as post his informed opinion on matters cycling. In the last month Barry has posted 10 times and 4 times was on a single thread. Good indicator that nothing of interest cycling wise has come his way.

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I suppose the point is that riding an MTB is fun. The aggro makes it less so which is a pity. Agree, Holy, some of the queues are avoidable if guys just keep momentum. Someone commented about Sani2C adventure. The vibe there was excellent. There I rode day 2 even slower than usual as my downtube was cracked and the rear sliding around like crazy (plus a throbbing in my elbow that had been skinned by a rock), and felt no pressure from behind even down Nicks pass.

and how do you propose they rate this?I know it can be frustrating, but it is pretty simple - if you want a clear run then race harder. If you want to play on technical stuff, don't race. I see lots of guys that expect the middle of the pack to give way because they are too slow or lazy to ride the first hill hard enough to get ahead of the crowds. i heard a coupla bad things about karkloof this year, but was their idea of having two short and one long race on different courses the way to go? and easy on the slow middle of the pack guys... I'm definitely one of them at the moment. But I understand that if I am held up by someone, they rode faster than me to start off with, so I'll wait for a way through and then go. I pretty cautious on the technical stuff so I do hold some guys up, but I'll make way when possible, so I don't usually have complaints thrown my way. I do see the same guys bitch and moan about others though. My favourite comment was some fool who complained about the guy up front "why the f@$% does he keep passing me on the uphills when I just pass him on the downhills!". Anyway, Karkloof can be a big problem with the long and short races merging on crappy singletrack near the end of the race. The marathon guys are exhausted and most are complaining about the singletrack - usually means the slow guys in the short race get a good pasting if they don't give some track within milliseconds.

and how do you propose they rate this?I know it can be frustrating, but it is pretty simple - if you want a clear run then race harder. If you want to play on technical stuff, don't race. I see lots of guys that expect the middle of the pack to give way because they are too slow or lazy to ride the first hill hard enough to get ahead of the crowds.

4:15 was okay when I was at school. 15 years on commuting is far more sensible. And one times up the M19 is enough, especially if you do intervals to get there and then "recover" up the climb.