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Completely, various steps need to have been taken before highlighting the issue, at least giving the shop a chance. I think there is also the topic of defamation and/or slander? One needs to be careful

no

All these horror stories from bike shops leads me to think that we need some sort of Hello Peter for the cycling community. There are too many "LBS's" around that seem to take advantage of customers, that and the poor skilled mechanics screwing everything up. Ive had my fair share of dodgy experiences and now deal with different shops for different things. One shop for goods, one shop for specialised work, and one shop for general services. Seems to work well. But having a site where bike shops can register and comment against threads started by unhappy customers, will do wonders to save face and actually build better relationships. We all know things go wrong, but its all about how those issues get handled etc. If Bike shops were made aware that the community is now using a central system to notify others of bad experiences, they will jump at the opportunity to defend themselves.. I hope. If not, they will lose customers.

Ill check out IRide... thanks Edit: I see they offer a Basic Service Course which is exactly what im looking for. Costs around R300. Going to book myself in for the next one. http://irideafrica.com/clinics/mechanics-workshop/

Im keen for a course in CPT as well...

sick! I just need a bakkie now

I bought a Ryder 1200 lumen front light from CWC... did the trick for me.. battery life seems decent as well. R850

absolutely loved it. Ended up spraining my wrist quite badly on the night ride, so unfortunately was unable to ride on Sat. But what I saw of the short route was absolutely awesome. I somehow missed the last left turn to the finish and ended up doing another loop to finish. Ah well, was fun never the less. I had hopes of finding the best of the ST this weekend but will have to come back very soon to ride again. My new favourite place to ride, going to book the eco huts asap.

Jaco I would.. coming out of a multiple ankle ligament injury which seems to act up at around the 30km mark. Dont want to try push it and I know Ezelfontein isnt smooth jeep track. + 1400m of climbing.. might be a bit much for my slightly underprepped legs

been waiting for this since I entered... off day tomorrow. heading up early, and plan on staying for the weekend. Seems that ill need more time on Sunday to nail some of that single track I might miss doing the 36km..

dont even think you need any cash. There are these dudes on scooters with spares ready to go.. dont even think they ask anything for them. They will even pump it for you. This was in the tail ender group

Companies are out there to help themselves before they help you. Prices at events are generally more expensive, because of the immediate need. So yes, we get taken advantage of, and theres really nothing we can do about it. This is evident in every single industry out there.

David Thorne is brilliant... This one is classic: http://www.27bslash6.com/halogen.html

haha yeah, loved it.

Not many people like the bridge? Damn.. it is actually my favourite section of the trail Have seen numerous people fall into the riverbed after getting the angle wrong, however its awesome to get it right and power out the other end. This is on the way back to the start though. Had a nice little technical climbing section on the way to silvermine alone the top path that has also been dumped with sand and made smooth. Was so hopping for it to be tricky, but it wasnt

I take mine to my LBS to lube up the pivots every so often. Heard horrible stories of these things seizing up and ruining the frame.

100% Issues come in with runners/cyclists on narrow tracks/path knowing full well that there is traffic. I had to scare the crap out of one female runner who could not hear me whistle or shout and basically had to skim past her side. She skrikked right into the side bush.. I had a good laugh. Sorry for you, but pay more attention.

hmm only applies to roadies maybe?

No excuse for a shoddy online purchasing system. If you cannot get the pricing right, I dont even want to think of what else might be an issue at the same time.

Evobikes has a groupset for about just over 2k which is really decent. However no stock.. Easybike has em for about 2.2k.. might actually go local rather than buy oversees, much of a muchness it seems.

reading up, lank okes recommend SLX over the XT, even thought the XT are slightly more expensive.

Thanks, just found the first two..

Then the next question is SLX BRM 675 or XT BRM 785

Does anybody know of one? Have a family member going over and would really like some SLX brakes. I can order them on CRC and ship them down but not sure if theres a better option in the states? One I can have delivered and brought over to me when they return. Thanks

LOL - I had some good laughs here