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Click on "Reply", then click on "More Reply Options" Then click on "Browse", select file, then click "Attach This file", wait for it to upload, then click "Add to post" You might need to resize the images smaller before hand.

Post your photos and describe the damage.

Some info here on the different ways of categorising climbs: https://bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/how-are-the-categories-for-climbs-decided

Just a short hop across the border, there are a few HC and Cat 1 climbs in Lesotho https://www.strava.com/segments/search?utf8=✓&keywords=lesotho&filter_type=cycling&min-cat=4&max-cat=5

No - but my point was that just checking the ingredient list is not sufficient.

Testoforte had unlisted ingredients.

He failed the test in 2016. He was still being sponsored in 2017 by Biogen and Navworld. Wow

Testosterone https://www.drugfreesport.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/SAIDS-vs-Gordon-Gilbert.pdf

Entered. Frosty: any chance you can give us a link to an interactive map, or a gpx file? Nvm. I just mapped it quickly. Strava Ride with GPS

Why do people who think ASG charge to much go to such lengths to let every one else know this is the case? Bad case of FOMO?

Unless you are in one of the licensed cats (Elite, VA etc.) just print you number in a big font with word.

I don't think most clubs even view the support vehicle in this way, rather it's just there to give riders who can't finish the ride for mechanical, or other reasons, a lift back to the start. Case in point, CL have only 1 support vehicle for the 10 or so groups. I agree with the rest of what you say.

It's one of the few roads one can use to get to and from the Cradle, hence used by a number of cyclists, and it has a very high motor traffic volume.

So paraffin - might refer to using paraffin to clean the chain, or using melted paraffin wax (same thing as candle wax) to lucubrate the chain. Both require removal of the chain from the bike, which means replacing the quick links or pressfit pins for Shamino chains every so often. Cassettes don't need lube, nor does the outside of the chain. Lube needs to be "inside" for the chain. When I say inside I mean between the pins and the bushings, and between the bushing and the rollers. When the guy put the lube on for you durring the race, it was probably a lack of lube between the bushings and rollers that was causing the noise, and replacing that solved that.

Velo/Friction Facts: Chain Lube Efficiency Tests

Maybe one of the mods and pin this.

Sorry, what is php? Google is failing me. Paris–Brest–Paris? - No

So Trans Afrika 2017 has been cancelled. So I'm considering do the Munga instead. An issue for me though is I have very little MTB experience, and I've never done a MTB race. Can anyone recommended some MTB races in the Gauteng area that would have similar riding conditions to the Munga, that I can use to judge my ability to do the Munga?

I bought some reflective tape, and sewed it onto existing garments. I'm very happy with the results. I bought the tape from Rob Yyly Trading. http://rwtsa.com/

Oh wow. Sorry did not read the whole thread...

Lol, you guys complaining about the entry fee. I've heard about a MTB race down in the Cape. Apparently the entry fee for that is quite Epic...

Surly you won't get an official time without an entry. I don't think they are that useless.

Here you go

With a EL start, I'm going to have to be doing this.

I'm doing this just for seeding. The only other races I've done in the last 12 months have been riding with a slow friend, so if I don't do something, my seeding is going to fall. As a bad climber, due to being a fatty, I get much better seeding indexes from flat races, hence this race.