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ZTR Olympic rims on Ringle Dirty Flea hubs - R3,2k The S&*t!! Light easy to service and quite bulletproof.

Back to the bloody rules: '2.8 Feeding of riders MUST take place in front of their stationary team vehicle, which have to be parked completely of the road. No riders are allowed to have any assistance whatsoever, while still on the road.' Here is how I COULD read this rule: I must get my "feed" from in front of my team's stationary car It must be parked completely of the road No one may help me while I am on the Road, So if there is a bag being held out and I grab it all is cool as no one has helped me at all. I took it. To be even more pedantic, even if I stop and I am still on the road and someone pass me my feed out of the cooler box they would then in effect be helping me and I should be disqualified.......... Feeding bags have been used since I can remember at the DC and if you did not train with bags rather not use them.

MTB = SRAM

If you stop giving power to the pedals things should stop not keep the momentum. If you coast you need to put the effort in to get things back up to speed. Or am I missing something, is spinning for the freewheelers out there.

Sorry dumb question does a spin bike not allow you to freewheel? if so you cannot compare this to a track bike!

Superfly is GF/Trek and after sales service sucks Huge!!!

Lube for sure, my wife says the same thing...

Milo, Choc Nesquick etc. Probably the cheapest and the best.

And sometimes it is easier to help the due in front of you close the gap than bridge you and the gap you left.

Yes it does, top 50 overall consider the bike (50 is maybe too low already), otherwise get something you like and are comfy on. Climbing is gonna be there AND YOU WILL CARRY YOUR BIKE SOMETIME! So bear this in mind. Done 3 on HT 26's and never had any issues except the legs. Ass was never an issue. If you training what you are gonna be riding it will be fine. On another note forget all the K@K about mechanics and and. Pragma bike wash and lube (OK maybe a chain and a few small odds and ends) is all you need. On my first one we went big and it cost big, thereafter we did it on what the Epic gave us (except for the recovery drinks) and we were fine. Makes a huge difference to the cost.

But the makers were only contracted to make a certain qty. So they are not loosing money, unless they were contracted to produce volumes for that particular market. Still does not make it right.

Agreed nothing beats Merida support in MHO!

Cool machine. Lots of happy miles!!

Eat and TITS, you need to do a few training rides at race pace and at or over the distance required. That's all folks. You seldom train at the intensity you race (even if you think you are pacing yourself) so in the race everything comes to a head. Do more long rides and or more high intensity training rides and you will be fine no matter what your nutrition is. If you trained with it you will be good to go. Damn at the moment I hit the wall at 50km, why? I am *** sleg and think I can ride harder than I can.

As posted before, if you had an invoice and then paid. All would be fair and good, but damn, if you pay money into someone's account without an invoice or reference number you must be stinking rich or way stupid. What if they said what are you talking about?..... and then dragged out the refund. That would have been a serious issue. I once paid mony into the wrong account and it took a looong time to get the refund.

Why bother with the expense? Just take a spare chain and lube. If you go into the epic with newish kit you will be fine. If a shock goes there are agents there anyway. Save the money and hassle. You don't need it.

I don't know, but even on the same size frame it varies from bike to bike.

Ja but you could sell her again and again and again............ Become a pimp. then you can get a new 29'r every year and have change!https://cdn.bikehub.co.za/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif

So there is no hope for me many months of only drinking beer. I should now be in negative power teritory.

If there is safe parking at the office take the bike to work ride home then ride back the next morning.

The more unfit I get the bigger the gear I tend to turn. Baad move as this kills the legs quickly.

Size looks right and with that amount for riding planned entry level will do fine. The R6k budget also seems OK. Especially in second hand, as most bikes in this range are as a result of ppl being bitten and upgrading. Enjoy the hunt.

I got my holdfast ones at Sportsmans Wearhouse.

Touchy arn't we..........

It is easy to do, done it often but normally only up to about 90kph. If you start off and jump in at about 40/50 you just get sucked along. You just need to spinnn a few timed to get you back into place. on a flat road you can almost free for km's the drag is so big. the only real issue is getting out of the slip, very scary if you cant keep up. 70 - 85 is the best speed to sit at. Just be ready to grab onto the truck if it stops faster than you can.