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Oohhhh, those are rather lovely 🤩

Looking forward to being back there on Fri, this was such a lekka weekend last year 🤙

My latest haul from Temu. Full carbon 3D knockoff saddle for around R450 and 3T knockoff carbon seat post for just a bit less plus a few TPU tubes for around R80 each. I've also found CST tan sidewall tyres for my vintage bikes at around R250 each. I cannot find anything local that comes close to that price. Initial impression is good but let's see how long they last 🤙

Cycling in the WC is in a poorer space after this past weekend. Absolutely devastatingly bad new losing these two icons of our sport 😢 I knew both of them well but spent many hours riding with Meurant, both at Del Vera and later at Muratie and listening to his stories and plans. The last ride we did together some time ago he still shared with me that he and his old man had bought a barn find Audi and they were working on it together to get it prepped for the Kalahari Speed Week. He and JP were two very different characters. Where JP was as rough as a bears ass and called a spade a f*&^ shovel, Meurant was more refined, quieter and chose his words a lot more carefully. Yet they were best mates and beyond cycling, both shared a love of vintage muscle cars and making them go fast. I'm going to miss them both very much, RIP you legends 🙏

I very much doubt anything will work in this instance, the surface area you're dealing with is very small so getting good penetration with any fluid is difficult. They often just snap when you apply too much force on them anyway.

Well said @Herschel 👏 I recently blessed a gentleman named William, that sells garden signs all around the northern burbs with an old 26er mtb that I picked up for next to nothing. Actually the 2nd one I've given him, the first one was for his son in grade 8 a few years back, who is now studying Engineering at Oxford off an international bursary he received 😲 The shear joy and elation on that mans face will stay with me forever. It was raining outside but he still jumped on it and rode it up and down the road to test it out 😄 Too often we take so much of what we have for granted and fail to see the need around us that we can assist with for very little effort. Giving is indeed better than receiving 🤙

That's so awesome to hear, well done gents 👏🙌

We won't shelve the idea all together but certainly won't be hauling out the cash for early bird discounts just yet 👍

With a winners prize purse of $17 500, that's a healthy and deserving payday for a guy that breaks his balls day in and day out on his bike. Lekka Matt 🤙 In other news I see the recently retired WTP Romain Bardet won his first UCI gravel race in Monsterrando this past weekend.

Well that'll be a pity, I've spent the last weeks trying to convince my DC Team to finally enter the Tour du Cap and now it might not happen at all 😩 Fortunately no money changed hands 😄

As a first step, I'd drive an oversize Hex bit into the stripped hole with a hammer and then try again. Try shock it loose rather than just pushing down on it, so use a hammer on the Hex bit. I've had success in the past doing this but on something different. Looks very dry in there as well, try soaking with some penetrating fluid first.

Same as TPU tubes... the local markup on Temu bought TPU tubes is just silly,

Woodstock Cycles in CT is busy relocating and Nils is getting rid of a lot of old 2ndhand stock lying around. It might be worth your while to give him a call and see what he has available, you've got nothing to lose 👍

Please share with us on how we can also become Nomads, it looks A W E S O M E !!!!!!

Try find a 2ndhand freehub first?

Beautiful Chris, the fitness must be picking up nicely with all this winter commuting you're doing. Well done for braving the crisp winter breeze 😄👍 How are you enjoying that Revolt? On a side note I see that the Baviaans record was broken this weekend, both riders onboard the new Revolts 🤙

Lejuene is a French brand that FdT bought the rights to and built bikes under it for many years. He later sold it to Hennie Wentzel and when the carbon craze took over it closed down. I believe the rights have recently been bought by another Capetonian to keep the legacy alive. FdT also built the bikes for Peter Allan and well as his own brand in later years. It was rebranded simply for marketing purposes. That was often done back in the day.

Correct, that frame was not manufactured locally, it was just rebranded as a Lejeune. It's probably mid 2000's and I'd imagine the original groupset to be 9 speed, maybe touching on 10 speed.

Noted Chris. There were 3 or 4 retired police force members in the bunch so I'm sure they called the correct authorities.

The Bottelary accident happened around 9am. A group of riders, including Hennie (Wiele) Wentzel and Andre (Dippies) Dippenaar and others got clipped by a drunk driver. He hit Piet's bar with his side mirror and the whole lot hit the deck. Wiele has a deep cut in his leg and Dippies was taken to hospital suffering with concussion. The drunk driver tried to make a getaway and was chased by a youngster and his wife in the car behind that witnessed it. They managed to get the car stopped and took away his keys and took him back to the scene. They waited for well over an hour for any cops to arrive on the scene.

A "bargain" is relative... a multi-millionaire selling his SL8 for half price is somewhat different to a student having to sell his SL8 to pay off his student loan.

Well stated @Shebeen Sadly with these "human bots" now trolling BikeHub, it has also reduced the chances of the regular contributors on the site picking up a bargain for themselves as they did in the past because they're getting snapped up before our very eyes by these resellers. Life moves on but it's never the same.

I guess someone has to be the guinea pig, let us know how they work and hold out over time 😄👍

Yoh, that was a stage for the history books. No punches held at all, just a solid duke it out session right down the order... WOW, incredible racing 🙌 Let's hope the rest of the week is more of the same 👍

Watch a fellow Mamil panting for 10mins just felt a bit weird and I was somewhat concerned someone might walk into the office and wonder what I was watching 🙄... but nevertheless, well done on a great effort 👍😅