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My apologies Mr Cervelo, yes this race was organised purely with you as our focus, so nothing grieves us more deeply than that it was not to your exacting specifications, going forward all riders putting forward positive feedback will be exiled to the circle of shame. Please accept this bottle of over-priced bicycle polish as a burnt offering to your Awesome steed, which we are not worthy to gaze upon.

I'm in AA

Relax, seeding out.

Yeah, at my discovery assessment I was flagged for having too low a BMI and too high body fat The calipers body fat method is only as accurate as the person who takes the measurements... OP in the other end of the same boat, my feeling is if you scrutinise your diet and your exercise routine and are satisfied tell them to go jump... btw most of the fittest sports people are healthy weight anomalies.

Poor marshalling would be my guess... Another was Boyes drive turn towards Westlake, dude standing there with a flag waving frantically, dumb as a mute... no signage. Saw 2 cyclists turn there, marshall didn't say a thing.

My daughter's gran had her either du Toit or Le Jeune in for a service, the mechanics hired it out to someone who was riding a race, during which he was hit by a car and the bike written off. In the case of my bike though, bought it from a shop that I later discovered has a shady reputation, it had sora components (date codes ZB, AB) my friend a few weeks later bought a Giant OCR (2003 - guess based on paintwork) her Giant (which comes stock standard with Sora) had a mixture of Shimano 600 components and 105 brifters on it! Initially I thought that they must have swopped the comonents to increase the selling price of one or both bikes, in hindsight I wonder if one or both wasn't stolen? Part of the reason why I mailed the original owner of my bike. I heard that my friend had resold her bike a few months ago .

Doing my fourth 21, wanted to do the ultra this year, but a spinal compression injury last year put that plan on hold. goal: will be happy with around 1:50.

Have you tried beer snail bait traps, my sister had issues with snails in her veggie garden and said this worked for her.

Anyone know during what time frame Francois du Toit was building frames under the 'Du Toit' name? I have a Du Toit, but it doesn't have any of its original components, so I cant work out how old it is... there is a name on the top tube, who I believe was the original owner for whom it was custom built, have tracked him down via facebook and dropped him a note, but I don't necessarily hold out hope of hearing back.

When next you stop to check your mail you should receive my proof of payment, enjoy the ride.

My little girl hasn't done it before, but last year when I did my first Argus I was prepping my kit, walked out the room and came back to find her having donned all my kit, including helmet, glasses, gloves and cleats, she wouldn't take it off for hours... figured she had her heart set on being a cyclist. Entered.

This lady* is awesome! *also explains why she had the patience

How're your hub classifieds sales coming along?

I can't use my real name, if someone were to google it they would turn up a vast number of women with less than savoury occupations.

looks like it has already been done.

Normally only "complete" for about 2 months into the future though, but serves its purpose well enough.

http://www.alltheevents.co.za/

No worries, bike is fully capable. In my case the weak link would undoubtedly prove to be the rider

just shy of 2km

Anyone got some tips for a novice on what can go wrong with a road bike on the gravel, apart from punctures or overzealous braking/traction loss?

This year I did the shorter route, just entered for next year's longer route

I'm pretty sure there is a stash of hypothetical remedial works designs for chappies, they have a infrastructure management plan where all the future problem areas have been highlighted... and solved, as I understand the roll out was just a capex issue... so I have a feeling little to no engineering work needs to be done, its just a matter of applying the engineering solutions on hand to the problem as it has presented... I could easily be wrong on this though.

Still pretty impressive either way.

Sorry, what I meant was the road's layerworks would have gotten moisture in them, to properly fix the road they would have had to rip all the wet layer works, and replace them and then resurface the road, otherwise you'd just end up with the layerworks failing in a few weeks to months' time. so if they didn't excavate approximately 5m of road 1m deep, they didn't fix the road, they just 'made a plan'.