GaryvdM

Thanks for all the advice guys. I'm going to first try make the existing setup work by sanding a bit more of the tread away, so that the cleat can slide in, if that fails, I'll try raise the cleat with a spacer. If that fails, I'll get non dual pedals. The cleats are the one's that came with the pedal. It's a Ryder pedal. They advertise that the cleat is SPD compatible, so thats why it look like the Shamino cleat.

So the only cleat systems I've used up to now have been Look and Shamino road cleats. I'm fairly confident with the cleat-in process with these road cleats. I've started doing some MTB riding. I bought my dad's old MTB from him. It's a 1996 Kona AA Mountain Shock. Yes, I know, 26". But I've been having a lot of fun on it on the Spruit. And I've entered my first MTB race: the Delta dash. The bike had bear traps on it. I road with them for a while, but shat my self a few times with my feet coming out on jumps. I then road a few times with my road pedals. I'm much more confident with cleats than with the bear traps. But river crossings in the road shoes are not so lekker, and this is doing a lot of damage to the road cleats. So I went and bought some MTB pedals and shoes. So I asked my LBS for a flat + cleat combo pedal because have also been using the bike when I walk the dogs, and I don' t want to have to use a cycling shoe when I do this. (This was maybe a mistake.) At first I could not cleat in at all. After I took the shoes off, and tried to cleat the shoe in while I looked from the bottom, I realized that the shoe treads on the sides of the cleats interfered with the pedal body. So I sanded the treads away where it interfered. I can now cleat in, but it is a slow painstaking process. With the road cleats, I find it very easy to get the cleat to find the front of the pedal. I just put my toe on the pedal, and then slide my foot forward. I guess this works with the road cleat because the bottom of the shoe is flat. With the MTB pedals/cleats/shoes combo I bought, this does not work, cause of the treads on the shoe, and the bits of the pedal that makes it also a flat pedal. So when I try cleat in, it's a hit and miss process of trying to find the exact right place. And when I get it wrong, it's either a case of the metal and metal grinding together, or the something on the shoe hooks on the the pedal. In addition, I've had the shoe uncleat unexpectedly. (I have the pedal tension set in the middle of the range.) So I'm trying to work out where I have gone wrong. Have I bought the wrong type of pedal and cleat, or the wrong type of shoe, or the wrong type of pedal, cleat and shoe? Or do I just need to persist with it?

According to racetec, she did: http://results.racet...09km)&GG=Female (Taylor is her maiden name) Huh. Last year = 2013. Question was about 2008.

It was probably SuperSport filming. Here is the schedule for the highlights: http://www.dstv.com/Search/?searchterm=argus&section=all. Unfortunately there does not seam to be a broadcast of the full show. I see on your blog you said you are still here for a few days. Hopefully you will be able to catch this.

Would be nice to be able to see everyone's splits to do statistical analysis.

As far as I know, there is no way. Maybe send an email to racetec to get them to add this to their website. (I plan to do this as well)

1 sub 3 from F: Viles, James 2:59:27 462/31046 M 432/24262 F 1/515 M 30-34 57/2477 36.44

CSA made it requirement for one to belong to a club in order to get CSA membership, and hence enter a CSA sanctioned event. I think this happened in 2009. They then changed it. You still need to be a member of club to get a racing license, but you don't need to be member of a club to get CSA membership. I think this happened in 2012

The 50mm hoops were scary. In particular one side gust we got in Camps bay, I was leaning about 20 deg into the wind. I think I handled it well, and finished safely, but I will bring both a shallow, and a deep section front wheel to the next Argus.

How did your ride go 3wings? I hope it was enjoyable and rewarding, despite the wind.!

Scary! In a side gust in camps bay, I had to lean about 20 deg into the wind. Lesson learnt: bring 2 front wheels to the Argus, deep section, and shallow section.

Oh no! What happend?

Lekker race! F group was awesome. No accidents, and we caught the e group at Smits. I think this was cause it was a bigger group. Chapman's was not to bad, but I suffered on Sakerbossie. Finish in 3:18.

Yes nice and still till about 8:30, and then it picked up. (I think you jinxed it.. ) If it does that tomorrow I will be beneficial to people starting at 7:00. No wind until Smitswinkel, and then a tailwind after Smits.

Source of the article: http://cyclingtips.com.au/2011/09/the-lost-art-of-the-group-ride-2/

Tell me about it. It's a killer on the hills.

You guys are making me nervous. Like jcza, I packed my bike on Sunday, with 50mm wheels. I am 95kg. Will I be ok?

There has been speculation that first few groups are much smaller. There are guys with low seeding indexes that are in lower groups than before. But no one knows for sure.

No. Maybe the driver did also committed an offence, but this does not make the evidence invalid.

I hope they have been thought a lesson.

Similarly, on Faizel Hendrisks' face book page, (the guy that posted the comment about teaching them a lesson,) is a pic of him wearing a Club 100 jersey. But just because he own's the jersey, does not mean he still rides for the club.

I also can't take credit for the idea. Someone else did the same thing for 94.7 last year, and that's where I got the idea.

I feel like you are cleverly wording these statements in a "you expect others to do this" way, but you are in fact indirectly making these threats yourself. Further violence just makes things worse. It's just as bad as the incident which we are discussing. Remember if MC2 is like any other road club, they probably have a A, B, C, D groups out on the road on any day. If the group that was responsible for the attack was say the A group, are your threats fair on B, C, D riders? Please can I ask you to stop making statements like this.

I created it, but I like to think that it belongs to TheHub community. Lots of people have contributed to it.

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