Wow! Endless entertainment on the Hub. What do we fit to a bike? A pair of handlebars or a handlebar? The handlebars were dropped by xmm vs The handlebar was dropped xmm. My preference is for handlebar. I can see a pair of STI's, pair of calipers, but I only see one handlebar.
Morning everyone, I thoroughly enjoyed this thread. Thanks to the guy who started it all. Hope eveyone has a good day, and to those not in the best of health, especially my buddy AB that crashed in Knysna, wishing you a speedy recovery. Peace, Fakes
Barloworld is not an eg. They're an international team racing international events. I agree that racing abroad is good to improve standards etc, or having JS and Hannachi race here - the thing is who sponsored Yolande? Looks like I won this debate. No facts from anybody - just rants and raves.
The international racing circuit issue - there's no problem there. I'm still waiting for facts about a SA rider who is being sponsored by a company in the host country riding in their leagues. Just one will do, and I'll say thats fair.
In a similar vein then, the whole "buy" South African debate is rubbish. Proudly South African? I would love love to ride with/against overseas riders in our local races - but if you asked me whether I would pay to bring a rider here and race against him - I'd say no. If he's here on his own accord, bringing his Euro's with him, that's great. Good for our economy and everything else. Our local leagues are for locals- besides JS I think we have a Moroccan also racing. The TdFrance is an international sporting event, with international teams. I don't think there is a single team of one nationality. Even the french company Cofidis have two non-french riders (probably playing Domestiques). Waiting for some facts about a SA rider sponsored by a company of the host country competing in the "local" leagues abroad.
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This sponsoring thing of a foreigner will be a major issue if there were 10 or 20 buitelanders being sponsored by a SA company. So perhaps the original post had a bit of sense - can easily be twisted into nonsense though!
If you can try and ride in a group or minimum two cyclists. There are so many crackheads (tik-koppe) out there just looking for trouble, so even the safest of places are not that safe. If anybody's interested, we ride every Sunday from Tashreeka's in Kromboom Road in Rondebosch East.
Hello to all you stressed people in CT and elsewhere Is there a method to detect hairline cracks or weaknesses in a carbon frame when buying second hand? Maybe the CT weather will let up soon and we can go for a ride.
