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Should work for me then?

You said it Thug. Refer my previous post re .38 calibre (Luger). I will be leaving home at 05h45 as well, but in a nice warm car for the first section of the route from Alberton to the meeting place. Then I begin with my BIG FREEZE. At least by the time you get there, you will either be all warmed up of just plain frozen solid. Somehow "harcore" sounds so much less offensive than "Stooopid". See ya all in the am. (yeah those brave enough to make it and complete their commitment to this ride.) It should be fun once it warms up a bit.

So now there are NO excuses for not riding. just think of it as conditioning and hill training with additional weight to strengthen legs. So, I'm thinking if I stir this up enough, Trubie is gonna do me in and dump the body on one of those disused mine lots out west. Only excuse that may work yet. (MWAAHAHAHAHAHA.)

You sure about that WW? I think everyine is going to be under cover tomorrow. Just wait till you see Trubie decked out in skiing outfit looking like he's doing the first Antacrtic bike ride ever. He looks seriously Ninja with all his winter kit. (Plus he's a big dude, so if I don't make it tomorrow, know that he did me in en route and dumped the body.)

IanJ, I'm off the the chemical man. Dudes, we have been hyping up this ride for a monthand so far it is the biggest hub ride I have ever been part of. So I simply have to be there even if it'sonly to finally meet you crazy bunch. I'll not miss this ride / meet for anything. I may have to wimp out and take the pink blouse though, but I have to be there. Time to meet the rest of you that I haven't met. 'sides, I think Ox is expecting a write-up on the little excursion and I too have some minor mods to test.

Kid that may be true to a certain extent. There are some scary @ssed critters out thereon the ride though. Hard core dudes like IanJ, Thug, Trubie etc. I will need to be hanging onto the handle bars just to keep up. It's not the legs or the cold I am worrying about. Organised gloves, have thermal tights, a warm jacket. Will hijack one of wifey's scarves for the face. Snorted as far as the weather is concerned. What irks me is that I will miss some sparkling company and I won't know what to do with myself if I don't ride. Already this week I have been off the bike too much. Rode Sat, Sun and Tuesday. Feel like a very important part of me is missing something . LIKE A BIKE RIDE. Last time Ox was here, it was a nice cool zero degrees at Xumbugs. Not the most pleasant ride ever, but it wasn't that bad. Cold is not as bad as you might think, Chicken KID. I'll be off the the chemist dude shortly to try some anti inflamatories. Life on Saturdays without my bike between my legs sucks big time. I suppose sooner I getit done, sooner I'll know if I can ride. Back later.

Ian, I care not if it has hub logos or not. As long as it's frilly and very pink, it's all good. Does this hub have any awards? Another forum I belong to have all sorts of awards. You get ranked according to how many people vote for you and they have stuff like "most intersting personality", "thought provoker of the year", "most intersting forum name". We should chat to admin and get a category for "pink blouser of the year". I should win that one. On the other hand, if I do ride with my bad shoulder, will it earn me any brownie points?

Unlike the mothers the world over, I am not heaving a sigh of relief. Trubie suggested I take some Cataflam. I never thought of getting an anti inflamatory so maybe not a bad idea. I'll take a trip to the chemist at lunch time. Sad about MJ. He was def whacko but some of his music was excelent. More sad to me was the passing of Farrah Fawcet. She was much better looking than Wacko.

Simple. Coz I'm a poefter roadie.

Dudes, after pulling the piddle for the last week or so about doing the chicken thing and not riding, it is with great sadness that I am officially withdrawing from this ride. I hurt my left shoulder last night. (No, don't ask, cause I don't even know.) 19 weeks since I last missed a Saturday morning ride. I am hoping that during the day the pain will subside enough to do the ride tomorrow, but she's not looking good. Now, I am off to sulk somewhere.

Hey Matchstix, watch out for flying doors man. I'd move my bed if I were you. And keep the bike away from the doors too.

Ah George. AKA CAW (Cold and Wet, The city of the four seasons.) Now the mountains there are very pretty, but why would anyone choose to live in Siberia. The borders are open, Hellooo. Get some good hill training and single track stuff there do you Matchsix? One day when I grow up, I want to cycle up the Outeniqua pass (Spelling?)

Awesome pics dude. Where is this?

Hey WW. No, I have no problem with that. It will be very difficult though since I am leaving my car at home. Traveling with Trubie. As long as you have a pink blouse for me to ride in, no problemo.

Keep it up chaps, keep it up and I will definitely become chicken enough to stay on the porch with the puppies. Freak. It was cold that day when Ox came south to ride. I got lost in the mist and only the sound of popping tyres kept me going in the right direction. I think it was a nice and fresh zero degrees when we got to Xumbugs. Least, that's what I remember it being. But was still zero and that is more than minus anything.

Er Captain, just the other day the FNB stadium (Ok, it was a few mths back.) was taken apart by angry fans. Seems the thing to do in Africa is rip the seats out and throw them around. Soccer hooglians are the same here as anywhere. 'cept now we gonna have all the imported frikking yobbos as well. At least I can go riding instead and choose not to be anywhere near a soccer stadium. Just my 5 cents.

Epoh, what colour you want, I can get them in any colour that is popular. You can even have one with your teams logo on it. How many do you want? 'k, so I hate the things, (or is that the contant boring drone emitted by them?) so much so that I went off to cast my vote. Please supply an e-mail adress. I comply. Now several hours later, I have not received my confirmation e-mail to say I voted. I think this is a spammer site or something where they hook you up to theit spyware or some other thing. Or they gonna send me zillions of 419 scams, money demands / requests and loads of junk mail. Last night I watched 5 minutes of USA vs Spain. The nose drove me to go sit outside in the cold and freeze rather than watch any of the crud that was on TV.

Ox,my man. I do not see anyone holding a .38 calibre to your head and whispering in your ear "Ve haf vays und means...." For that matter I do not see a luger being held to your head either. By a process of logical deduction and conclusion, it is therefore apparent to me that your modus transportus for Saturday morning is voluntary. You trying to run with the hard core dudes, like playing with matches. You will burn your fingers. Stop trying to prevent me from having a happy childhood. Dude, you like a friikin parent. "Johnny, don't do this. Johnny, I told you never to play with the neighbours daughter." Frik, dude, gimme a break. Let me have some fun with my (your) new buddies. All the ones on my other thread are worn out. (Same as the neighbours daughter.) Hellloooo!

Andy, I hate to inform you but the ride on Saturday is actually in the west. I grew up in the north, now live in the South and know precious little about the east and the west unless it Kruger National Park in the East and Pillanesberg in the West. For the rest of it, they are merely places en route to other places. I guess same can be said for the North or the South. It's like there are only two good things in Cape Town. The mountain and the N1 route out of there. Hat, coat, outa here. Seriously, SBR is a lovely ride. I love it. There are plenty hills around here and if you can stand to ride as slowly as I do, you're welcome to come over and we can go and do some hills. Personally, I hate the things but I realise their value in training. If it's just the two of us, then traffic should not be an issue and we can even ride later when the weather is a little more cyclist friendly. I'm still trying to find an acceptable plausable reason for not riding Saturday. I am really not looking forward to the weather. (Then again, 10 minutes on the bike and we will be sweating.)

Yip. Bikes never have headaches, PMS or other ilnesses that the feminine gender is prone to. They so sometimes give us a bit of grief (the bikes) but I can outsmart a bike any day. Fiugure out the problem and fix it. Not so with women. Moral of the story. Ride a bike. Who cares about single women, married women, any women? Have some good lady friends like Nance and WW, but that's more than enough. Hills, yes. A few coming up, but they too end. And usually there is a corresponding downhill to rest. With women on va uvva hand, you get uphill all the time and no place to hide or rest. Shall, I pack away the spoon now before someone beats me to bloody pulp with it? (Good call.)

Yip, just set the limiter screws. Bike shop should have done that when they fitted the derailer. It's actually not difficult at all.

Have a Shimano 105 Shifter (8 speed) on a bike donated for underprivilaged riders. The shifter will change the gears one way but not the other. I took it apart last evening (only as far as removal of barrel from casing.) The grease was very "gummy" and lots of dirt, so I cleaned it with toothbrush and Handy Andy. Used light machine oil to re-oil all sorts of levers and springs. I got the shifter working again but noted that as soon as I put it back in the houseing, the problem returned. So, the assumption is that one of the springs or levers is worn and the housing limits the amount of lever travel required to change the barrel position and therefore the gear. Lacking the tools to take it apart furhter and reading a thread previously, I also lack the number of hands to do do this. Question is, is the thing worth repairing or should it be replaced. I am sure there are a number of people who have similar problems with Shifters.

What do you mean no racing? A training ride is not a training ride until I get dropped at least 3 times. Don't worry Nance, I can see I'm going to be dropped so many times on Saturday that I will have an even more odd shaped head than I am currently used to. If nothing else, I need you to be there so I have a good reason to ride at the back. There may be more than just the two of us and it will be fun when we get past the pain barrier. So looks like Tazzman, you and I will be bringing up the rear. If the hills aren't too bad, I may just have one or to "intervals" one some of them. GOv2.0, dude, just call me wooden spoon. I love to stir it up. Sometimes more fun can be had ripping the hole right out of the hosepipe than watering the garden. It was fun yanking that chains of our northern cousins. Come Saturday, they will kick my butt, but for now, it's more fun than I have had since I were a children. Care to tell me why I can't ask if there are single women on the hub? Are there? Is it important if they are single or not? Trubes, did you go riding this AM in tihs cold? It's not cold. It very cold, with a capital "F".