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Ettas

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  1. Try GSG bibs. Affordable, long lasting and comfy.
  2. If you are a cyclist, your guns are turning your pedals.
  3. What a nice race. Well marked route with some beautiful single track. The water tables had the best date squares I have ever tasted. The only gripe was the honesty seeding. Quite a few people rated themselves quite a bit faster than they actually were. Luckily there was a long stretch of tar to alleviate the problem. Will be back again next year.
  4. Really enjoyed the race. Very few bottlenecks from A8. Will certainly be doing it again next year. My first 947 MTB was also unseeded and took a long time to finish. If you are not seeded, expect the wait and just enjoy it. That was my mindset going into this one. Was pleasantly surprised at the lack of traffic and still managed a decent time.
  5. I don't need HTFU pills because I received **** service. I will just not go back. They are not doing me a favor by servicing my bike without a booking. I am doing them a favor by choosing to service my bike with them. I don't have to be unique to get good service. But... making clients feel unique is probably one of the most important attributes a company could have in the sales and service industry. Being greeted by name in your local bike shop or restaurant goes miles in getting return business. Besides the fact that I am in my thirties, working in a project environent in the mining industry has not allowed me to act like a millennial. All I am asking is for good service.
  6. Yes I did and I understand that, but it is not an excuse for **** service.
  7. Had to take make road bike to a different shop this morning because my LBS is closing down. Walked in with my road bike, which I never ride except for the 'big' races (on my MTB about four times a week). First question I got asked is "did you book it in". Really crappy service. Looked around the shop at new bikes, as my dad is interested, and no one offered to help. I left my bike there, because I am pressed for time, but will probably not go back.
  8. Do you race for prize money?? Nothing says I am a pro like winning the Carnival City Macsteel National Classic. We once beat Laerskool Putsonderwater in a rugby match. No prize money so I stopped playing rugby after that. Wasn't pro enough for me.
  9. Actually cyclist are not entitled to their own lane and should stay as far left as possible in single file, according to the laws of our roads.
  10. Way to generalize, but I totally agree, a Wildtrak with a winch pumping David Guetta is so last season. And to add insult to injury the winch is "E" lectric just like an ebike. And the stuff you said about ebikes. Thats also true.
  11. 57.51% of people voting a certain way doesn't make it right....
  12. Their speed and agility is second to none. Learning how to snatch properly takes years of practice. Olympic weightlifters are also more flexible than cyclists. I think we should have a weightlifting day for cyclists to put things in perspective.
  13. Not including, world strongest man competitors, powerlifters and olympic weightlifters? Olympic weightlifters are the strongest pound for pound human beings on this earth. There is no doubt.
  14. I guess that depends on what your definition of fitness is. Does being able to run 100km in one go and not able to lift your own bodyweight off the floor make you fitter than someone who can run 30km and lift their own bodyweight off the floor 50 times in a minute? Matt Fraser did a 172kg clean and then swam 1km in 20mins. So he would out-swim the weightlifter and lift more weight than the swimmer. Of course not everyone will agree. Just telling you their thinking behind it. Basically, slightly above average at everything below: http://crossfittherack.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Whats-Fitness.png Having said that, its probably impossible to find the fittest person on earth, but these guys and girls are right up there with the fittest people on earth. Edit: The fact that weightlifters and gymnasts do so well in CrossFit (Toomey and Fraser both competitive weightlifters) does tell you where the bias is.
  15. A picture, relating to how IQ tests are formulated, from a website that offers free online IQ tests MUST BE TRUE in representing what the average IQ in South Africa is. Makes perfect sense.
  16. If you pay for a race and they advertise water points there should be water at said water points. Plain and simple.
  17. Good luck with the challenge. Don't want to change the thread to a nutrition debate.
  18. Which number? Couldn't find the one you were referring to?
  19. Start by reading the Lore of Nutrition. In Tim Noakes' case with the HPCSA all they could come up with was a shoddy paper called the Naude review compared to his more than 6000 pages of evidence. I'll get other sources from the book, but it really is worth a read. This will put things in perspective: https://keepfitnesslegal.crossfit.com/2017/01/05/big-food-vs-tim-noakes-the-final-crusade/ Don't want to bash you with low carb high fat, but just give that article a read. Our dietary guidelines are based research sponsored by the sugar association, coca cola and other big food companies. Then decide for yourself.
  20. Maybe the pic was taken with this ... http://old-digitalcameras.com/Images/Kodak/DC3400_1.jpg
  21. Decided to give crossfit the backseat this year and focus more on endurance sports. Need to get down from 95kg to 87kg. Hopefully I can lose a big chunk of that before the Knysna Bull at the end of Feb. Plan is to check calories and cut the crap.
  22. Oh sorry, I thought missing the point was what we were doing
  23. Great job comparing Spaz to an Audi, but the Giant would definitely be a Toyota not a Cherry.
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