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For first person action, Battlefield 3 and 4 which is coming soon is the best option. Awesome physics, graphics and game play. Huge maps. Ive played Battlefield 2&3 competitively so im a bit biased.. Farcry 3 was quite fun, Dishonoured was fun in a simple way..Metro Last light and Metro 2033 are decent. Steam has some awesome Indie games at the moment as well, very fun.

Been playing Neverwinter Online, pretty awesome RPG, free to play, recommend checking it out. Wildstar is coming out soon, another excellent looking MMORPG. Guild Wars 2 died miserably for me..

Stop worrying about others and what they chose to wear, it really doesnt even effect you.. One thing is for certain, if a rider is not comfortable in what they are wearing, they will change it, whether its baggies or lycra is makes no difference. By you making a thread such as this one, clearly it bothers you that people ride in anything other than what you chose to ride in. Leave it alone maybe?

GT

Anatomic wear in Cape Town.. weve had all our shirts printed there, great quality as well. Western & Eastern Cape & Namibia: Manie Zaayman / 082 338 1591 / shop.CT@anatomic.co.za Manie will sort you out..

such a pity, make sure they hand you their keys, wallet, cellphone before taking a bike on a test ride around the block..

Shot for the link Tokyo, and I have sent you a PM Rood... Charities is an option if I cant find ind entries..

regardless imo, the cycling community is the best one around.

Yes please, im also looking for 2 tickets to complete out little social team.

I really hope to get a couple tickets for the mates and myself for this years race.. holding thumbs...

On behalf of Revolution Cycles, who were hit by organised thiefs on Saturday 29 Dec: Hi Bike Shop Owners and Staff On Saturday 29 December 2012 at 17.42 two thieves broke the metal gate locks and smashed down our front door and stole three bikes in 14 seconds flat. The thieves were ‘posing’ as informal car guards wearing yellow vests and jeans. One guy wore a peak cap and the other one wore sunglasses. Video footage indicates that both perpetrators are young (late teens to early twenties) coloured guys. It seems that they had a vehicle waiting outside and drove off within seconds of loading the three new bikes. The bikes stolen are all new 2013 models (without pedals) with Revolution Cycles decals applied to the frames. Felt F85 road bike – white - size 56 Merida Big Ninety Nine 29’er full suspension – white with blue and black - Large 19" Merida Scultura 904 Juliet women’s specific carbon road bicycle - small/medium - white with black purple. Please be on the lookout for these bikes and advise us should you see them: - come into your shop. - on Gumtree - on the street or mountain - anywhere Please forward on to as many bike shops as you can (anywhere in the country) - together we have to catch these guys. Thanks. Stirling Stirling Kotze Revolution Cycles & Load and Go 171 Bree Street. Cape Town. 8001. 021 424 5823 083 252 8385

Just picked mine up from crown, think they are pretty busy. Mark working flat out.. You'll have to do some serious begging

Giving good service, and motivating staff to do so is incredibly easy to do and requires one or two skilled people to manage it. Not very difficult.. if a store continues to give bad service, namely certain reps in the store it is the fault of management. Many south africans are bone lazy and couldnt give a stuff about service...

My bro-inlaw came first on a tandem with the first female to cross the line.. sounded like a good event all in all...

should have got a dualie 29r best thing ive ever done...

Sales reps have to almost balance their customer interactions quite carefully on busy days. One issue is that if a person is fairly interesting in cycling but hasnt done the ground work before looking to buy, they can take up a serious amount of time questioning absolutely everything and then still may not walk out with a bike. I think its fair if you get helped, ask a few questions, left with a decision to make, then the sales rep can move onto another customer while you browse or think on it etc. Then come back to you later one. To demand full attention for an extended amount of time is unfair to everyone, including other customers. When I started out, I kept the rep busy for about 2 hours the one day and another 2 hours the next day. I did leave them with over 20k of my cash and it was a good experience, but the shop was pretty quiet. They have to balance each customer who walks in, try work with that. If you dont get helped at all, then its a problem. A good rep will acknowledge each and every customer who comes in and makes sure they dont end up wondering where the help is. Make sure they know they will come back to you in a few minutes while they help somebody else etc. Communication at the end of the day resolves these issues, but need to be fair to everyone.

How long is this special on for?

Jonkershoek on a cooker of a day this weekend.

Its actually a decent ride from Town in Stellies out to Jonkers... if you want a bit of a warm up..

Olympic is great if you are looking for accessories and they usually have a good range of bikes to chose from. I have to admit however that if you want a decent service, dont take it to them. I bought a brand new Scott 950 2013, they built it up for me and I collected the following morning. Lets just say ive had to take the thing back about 5 or 6 times. Right off the bat it wasnt shifting properly in front. Took it back, collected again, and rear wouldnt shift properly. Then the new fox shocks started making this clicking noise when being depressed and released, those went back, returned but they didnt set my lockout correctly. Back it went, couple weeks later, shocks made the same noise. Back it went again. So far so good now though. Shifting is finally working correctly (last visit there for the first service, and the chain shifted right off the rear cassette. I luckily managed to adjust this myself and since has been working without issue. The guys at olympic are great, but the guys doing the servicing need some serious training. Ive also head that the volume of repairs they need to make means less care for your bike when it eventually makes the stand. When I spend about 20k on a piece of equipment I expect it to work flawlessly from the start, and not have to continuously take it back for adjusting. I wont ever take my bike back there to be serviced, I will however buy my accessories there, decent prices compared to most places.

Speedy Cycles in Wynberg does excellent bike services, not a great places for parts/accessories but their service is awesome and cheap. I find the bigger stores give worse service and often just breaks my shifting which I need to reset. Olympic cycles is one of those. I live around the corner from Crown but wasnt certain about them, will have to try them out.

Jonkershoek - awesome trails that you can actually begin at the Fire base just before you get to the gate at Jonkers. They take you right up and into the reserve with access to most of the single tracks.. Heading there tomorrow morning