Red Bird

Same happened to a guy in my school. He was flat. Still had his ciggy in his hand...

Since when is XC flat? Gradients reach 20% and over at times...

Will there be a MTB challenge next year? Can’t find anything on their website

It only becomes fun after a few practice sessions. For me it took months to get comfortable on the track. Still too scared of some of those A lines... Definitely awesome track. The African Continental champs will be there in April. Worth going for it.

Event Name: My Sports Hero XCR (relay) #2 presented by XCOSA When: 19 October 2019 Where: XCOSA Bike Park - Voortrekker Monument, Gauteng Category: MTB The 2019 GC XCR (Relay) League offers all levels of participation the excitement of competing in Cross Country Olympic (XCO). Similar to XCO, XCR consist of mtb lap racing on short but carefully designed and "manicured" tracks that cater even for beginner riders. XCR is fun, safe, challenging and spectator friendly. All events hosted by XCOSA are CSA sanctioned and executed according to international regulations! Participants enter and take part SOLO or in 2-4 member teams. Each SOLO rider and team must complete 8 x 5km laps, battling it out for full honours in their respective categories. Categories range from 10-70 year old. Teams can constitute riders from similar or different genders and/or age categories. Teams with members from different age categories compete in the strongest member’s category. The purpose of the 2019 GC XCR (Relay) League is to 1) guide “newbies” into the exhilaration of XCO; and 2) determine the strongest XCO team by means of a XCR Team Performance Log! The custom designed race track: Same basic track than what was used for race #1 - we just added some excitement Lap distance - 3,8km Vertical ascend per lap - 90m Extreme challenges - None Number of laps - Each team/SOLO rider has to complete 8 laps! PRIZES TO ALL PODIUM FINISHERS!!! Go to Event Page

LOL!!!!!

Try Coetzenburg

me and bike = 75kg

It is very well stocked. You get Farbars, potato, sweets, coke, powerade, water etc. You can start with two bottles and just fill up. Carry your fav energy sachets or foods if you like so you don’t have to stop at every WP. After the M1 you also get guys dishing out tequila ????????

How did you figure that out?

Was wondering why I have been getting spam emails again. And getting strange phone calls from Venda...

Het Hugo ooit die polisie gebel? Dalk moet hy die veearts bel om die mense “uit te sit”. Dit moet net voor Maandag gebeur...

Thread revive. How light are dual-dus frames? Thinking of changing my hardtail frame to a dually and just swopping parts over. But it is hard to find info on the webs...

Just check that you also click on “submit to SARS” after you uploaded

My travel allowance does not show up on my IRP5 form. Is this a common problem at SARS? Or could this be my employer’s error? I have logged a dispute and SARS was quick to respond by saying we should submit the corrected IRP5 form and some other forms meant for the employer...

It is not always clear if a race is sanctioned or not. Some sanctioned races never end up on the CSA website and races don't always state whether they are sanctioned (USN races etc). We entered because we expected that the JUMA would be sanctioned just like last year. I am still quite unexperienced with regards to the licensing etc so a lesson was learned to always check with the organisers first if it is not stated in their race details. JUMA did not state anything about CSA (just like many other races, even the sanctioned ones). What I expected from them was to deal with this in a more professional manner. A friend and I entered and paid a few weeks ago. After realising that JUMA might not be sanctioned I asked them in an email (the online chats above was not me) if they were and if they could remove our results from the list after we raced. I got a short snotty answer without much help at all.

Thought that the site managers abandoned it a long time ago since their online shop and training plans became free and Momentum stopped using them... I only check there for nice training programs now.

All you licensed riders, beware... And their attitude towards this is horrendous!

When opening up your NX shifter, one screw is longer. Remember which side it goes into or you'll end up with a hole on the other side... ditched the shifter anyways as the internals were faulty and upgraded to XO1 since.

Tubeless tyres have thicker sidewalls for protection. If it feels flimsy, it might not be TL

Do NOT do your friend (who knows nothing about bikes) a favour by taking her kids’ bikes to the LBS, deal with them on what needs to be done, even if she is paying (R2000). She thought that only the tyres needed to be inflated, but upon some investigation, I realised the bikes needed new gear & brake cables, chains (they were RUSTY) etc... After she got the bikes back, her kids were very excited and rode it all weekend. A week later we chatted about said bikes and so she revealed that one of the brakes aren’t working again because she dislodged one of the brakes (again) because they only need one brake ????????‍♀️ It was fixed due to wheel rub. Handlebars were ridden backwards at some stage (she complained about her daughter’s knees touching the bars) and I almost gave her a spare stem before she figured out what was wrong. Edit: I feel like I have to show them the ropes a bit, but will see how well the advice is taken.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the original movie called? Edit: found it. Downfall (Der Untergang)

???? I have heard that Spray ‘n Cook also does a superb job

One thing I find annoying is how many specialised tools there are and that they’re not all compatible. Why not just one BB tool? Nooo... it has to be one special tool for each different BB. It still beats having to wait 5 to 7 business days for the bike shop to finish the job, even if things take me 5 to 7 business days to figure out and fix