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Yeah, but for my purposes, SAPS only require a new one every 12 months.

A couple of years back, my dad was nicked doing 120+ish in an 80 zone. Went to police station, fingerprinted, bail, court date, the whole trip. Gets community service and has to go to anger management classes. No criminal record. He did sell the motorbike though.

Who brought it to your attention? I have personally ****** up enough times and paid enough traffic fines (admission of guilt fines) in my day, yet I have a spotless criminal record (for various reasons I have a police clearance done every 12 months) https://www.legalwise.co.za/help-yourself/legal-articles/consequences-paying-admission-guilt-fine Oh, and to your point regarding Ekurhuleni, almost all of the traffic fines I have ever paid are in Ekurhuleni.

So, you didn't turn pro then? Stayed an amateur?

I can't see the term "industry guys" or whatever variant, used on this forum and not think of that industry meeting that holy roller told us about. Anyway, back to the topic. WTF is up with this degenerating into a language crapfest? Anything that get's our sport highlighted in a positive way is epic. Well done all involved. The language part is like people claiming ownership of certain aspects of the sport. Like the guys here that bitch about people riding for KOM's or riding to race. Or people here saying you MUST have fun - all whilst conveniently forgetting that everyone is different and we all get different (and personally valuable) benefits from a bicycle. Toss the prejudice and applaud bicycles.

Geez. Riders are such softcocks these days.

We did that to a steel frame I started riding on back in the 80's. Top tube broke about 40 mm back from the head tube. Also on a Viking (steel frame) broke on the seatstay between the top tube and the brake arch. Both repairs worked great and I rode them both for years afterwards.

https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/150874-show-us-your-koms-on-strava/?hl=strava

Surprisingly: What Has F1 Ever Done for Us? https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1816116

I just yell louder at my stoker... (But not too loud. Actually not at all, maybe just in my head, cause she is also my fiancee...)

Oh ya, I also think using a long cage RD saves you like 0.00000001watts, cause the chain goes round an effectively wider radius, so there's a friction reduction or something like that...

I dunno if that translate into road shifters, but it should work. If it was me, I'd try it first and if it doesn't then hit the classifieds for a newer RD?

The long cage rd is because most tandems are running a triple up front. You need the long cage to accommodate the excess chain slack. (it's effectively the same issue an MTB has, with the huge difference between the small and large rear sprockets even running 1x) You are running a double at the front, so you can probably get away with a regular cage rd, but running a 32 at the rear, I'd stick with a long cage rd.

Until Scotland secedes, it'll be British. Isn't the politics thread over there ---> btw?

Nice to see the name back, but this is really closer to a Giro Del Capo than a proper Toer.

Went south again on Saturday, and I see the track is still there.

And those are still a maybe...

No brainer from the shop as well. "The bike was 100% when you took it. You must have done something to it. You can't blame us. If there was something wrong with it, you shouldn't have taken it and paid us."

It looked like it was gone, only a radio controlled car track left there or something.

(Yesterday's ride) Oom Ben didn't lie, it's blerrie windy in da Souf. I felt like staying here: BTW, what happened to the MX track nearby here?

Three antithetical thoughts in one post? I really don't get the snobbish attitude in this thread.

Of course to slipstream a truck (or whatever) at that speed, uphill, is no mean feat. Probably against the spirit of strava, but that's meaningless to me. Like their rule against cyclists pacing each other to a kom. It's all not very real world, is it?

From my armchair and reading a few posts here, I'd go with a stiffer bike, so it can get to the desired speed quicker. As you point out, weight of the rider is far more than a few 100 grams between bikes, so the inertia thing would be dependant on that. Doesn't it make more sense then to accelerate the total mass of bike and rider as quickly as possible?

Don't you mean stiffer?

Hardly surprising that people on a cycling forum are seemingly amazed by Alpecin. I mean it's not like they are involved in the sport in any way.