Slave

Di. All that blood on your hands and the possible jail time. You wanna get Dash dead, just tell Mrs. Dash (GF) that he was riding with ya. She'll do the "work" for you and wipe him out. Glad you enjoyed the ride. This weekend I'm going to try the faster bunch and try to work on speedand distance. Yesterday, I had a complete rest and today, it's the hills again. Rest ride tomorrow and then the hills again on Thursday. Rest Friday and get my ass kicked in on Saturday with the faster of the two bunches. If I live to tell the tale, I'll post on Monday.

So Di, Dash, how was your Saturday Ride. Dash, you remember to eat, dude?

Plan to dude, plan to. Going to go and get 40 gallons of energade an' start suiping myself into another blood group. Naartjie positive. Thing is, I wasn't aware of this whole thing until this mornig, so I went out and klapped a fast 48 yesterday arvie an' the legs aren't letting me forget it. Did that loop I do with the bunch on Sat AMs. Average 32.1 kp/h's. Man, what a ride but eish, the after effects. I was kinda hoping that the legs might not talk to me for a few days, but they got other plans. They nagging me more than Liewe Exie. (The ex Mrs. Slave.) Plenty rest for me for the rest of the day and work for Mrs. Slave tonite. Need a good leg rub / massage TLC. Loads of that energy drink, Plenty cheesburgers and chips and a few peanut butter sarmies between meals, some very sweet tea and, oh ja, I nealry forgot bike prep. Gotta make sure that 900 year old beast in the garage is up to dis-ting.

Ah, the toyi toyi. Otherwise known as "die vakbond vastrap.".

Thanks guys and sorry to rain on your ride, but I'm gonna get me some sadlle time come Sunday, all the way to the mealie curtain. I figured if it was going to rain I would chicken out, but guess what? Come rain or shine, I there like a bear and ride is the outcome. Dash, you got a spare life jacket there dude? 's my first fast one and I wonder how I'll cope and what soort of time I can manage? Will let y'all know Monday. BTW, Dash, now I've pulled out you can chat awy to Di all you smaak dude. I'm off to race office to get me a ride number. Yeeeeeee-haaaaaa. (Actually I'm not that exited. JUST A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN THAT.)

JB, you're a veritble mine of information. Based on your description, I have to then say that the race is dented, not pitted. Whether or not this is caused by fretting or some other cause is not known. If you let me know where you're based, I will try and get the race to you so you can have a look at it. I do also have to add, that I put far more grease on both the bearing and the race than was absolutely necessary. I know that this is not an absolute guarantee that it will prevent pitting, because the ball bearing will squeeze the grease out over time, prob'ly caused by the vibration from the road surface and the pressure of the ball against the race as only a very small area of both will be in contact at any one time. But all the same, I used liberal amounts of grease. It was / is good quality wheel bearing grease (Agip). I know that there is minimal turning of the bearings during riding thus preventing the grease from being spread over the surface. What I do find confusing though, is that this is the only bike I have ever had that has this problem and not just once, but twice. So perhaps there is some other underlyinig problem that we have not identified. I did not notice any flaking at all in either case when I replaced / repaired the bearing sets, so it's unlikely that the ball bearings themselves have failed. It is the bearing race and only the bottom one. (The one attached to the fork) The dents themselves did not look shiny to me, but have to admit that I did not subject the race to that much inspection last night. I was more concerned with getting the job done. I have keptthe part though so both old "pitted / dented" bearing races are available for inspection. I can relate to the flaking and pitting of balls and races as this is another problem area I have experienced with the bottom bracket races and balls. I have seen the effects of flaking and pitting. Two weekends ago, I pulled out three balls that were flat on various areas of the three balls. Several years ago, I replaced the races on both sides of the bike because both cups were well worn and one was fairly severely pitted in one spot. Whilst I have your attention, a friend suggested that I replace my ball bearing and cups with a more modern sealed crank. Is this possible on my rather antiquated peejou?

Droo, that sounds like something usefull. I will check it out when I get home. Mampara is correct. I have a 900 year old Peejou but you idea sounds reasonable. @Mampara. Thanks for the link, but we have a clever mail marshall and I cannot get to the link.

Bliksem.

Some of you may recall that I have a problem with the headset bearing. I changed it a while back and 500 k's later, the bottom race was pitted again.I think it was JB suggested that I tightened it too much. So now I had a race specially made and put it in last night. Feels good again. The metal it was made from is somewhat harder than the one I got at LBS and I don't want to have the same problem again. How do I "tension" it so it's not too tight? (Just want to be sure I don't have the same problem again in 500 k's time. At the mo' it is hand-tight and there is no play in the headset.

I'm 30 with 19 years experience. BTW, you should had more age bands. That way you can get a better demographic.

Dudes. Hillarious stuff here. Really, some ofthe replies had me ROFLMFAO. But hey we have a fellow hubber in pain. Some of us been down that road where wife left, chucked us out, whatever, but like at the time it was the worst thing imaginable. That we got over it and went on to bigger and better things, (in some cases smaller and better GF) is just like the furthest thing from his mind right now. We need to organise a strip show and batchelor celebration to get this dude over his pain. We can always make smart, funny comments later when he's like had some time to stop bleeding. In the meantime, let's help a brother and give him some TLC. Hey Mike, that's like a serious bummer dude. Sometimes your best revenge is to let the other woman have her. On the bright side of things, having beer and watching too much sport on TV is not gonna give you earache anymore.Slave2Love2009-01-22 01:43:37

If these weather chaps are so good at predicting expected weather conditions, surely they can give one a rough guestimate of when it will be most likely to rain. i.e morning or afternoon showers expected. They still get it wrong much of the time although I have to say, they are getting better at their predictions. An' yeah, I know there are lots of variables that can change anytime.

Is ROAG just another bunch of Rogues?

Hey Di. Been doing some thinking. I will be up and about fair early on Sun to watch some of the guys and as yet have no fixed plans about what time I will kick off my long sunday ride. Propb'ly wait for most of the racers to get on their way and then follow some of the route before I turn off at Henley for the ride home. So the actual ride will be a bit later. I don't want to get in anyones way and unfortunately the routes around my area are fairly limited. From Henley, we head west, past Boscos and then to Walkerville, before going up the lido hill, doing the hills of Columbine and then home from there. Like I said, prob'ly a ride of about 80 to 100 k's Unless it rains, or some kindly soul donates a fast one ride entry to me. Fact is sometimes stranger than fiction. Agteros is injured (note how very sad I am. No really, I am, injuries are not lekker and I'm very sad for agteros. Doc says his quad is torn (and I though this was a bicylce race. Would have though it would take a mechanic to diagnose a buggered quad.)) But I'm not sad for me because this fine gentleman has VERY KINDLY donated his entry to me. What a . Thanks man and sorry DI, but I have a race to ride come Sunday. Now, I'll be up extra early to be at the start and go the whole hog. What a bonus. Yeeeeeee-haaaa. I haven't been so happy since I were a children (wait, it's never too late to have a happy childhood.) Swear if I never had ears, the smile would go all the way round my head. Slave2Love2009-01-23 02:49:40

I see the issue there dude. So you stopped at Klipriver on the way home then.? Had a similar issue. We stopped at some little fella's cafe and all (and all and all) just the other side of Henley when we continued same ride. That place was about the same as that truck stop at Klipriver. Only difference was the water came out of a water tank so we declined that offer and decided to stop elsewhere. But, we did buy coke and bar one's there. Lucky the coke's like sealed. BTW, Dash not the only one. I was in such a hurry to leave home I forgot to eat my pre race meal. No wonder I was a leetle flat when I got home. Problemo is when I get that flat the inflator valve just don't work and wife can't inflate me. Eat, ride, sleep. Nothing else matters. Hat, coat, bye.

Hey wise bird. Like what happens when dash forgets to eat dude. Like I seem to remember the dude forgets to ride as well. Dash, set the reminder alarm dude. Eat, ride, Eat, Ride. Nothing else is important. Ok sleep. Eat, ride, sleep, Do it again, repeatedly.

Nah, the dogboxis not cool. Suggest you tell GF that Confucious say " Woman who put man in dog house soon find him in cat house". Have a good one dude.

Yeah Dash, you prob'ly will be but that's still a K@K excuse. A wheelchair got wheels right? Right, so ride the dam thing dude. 'S all good dash, 's all good. Di is prob'ly better looking than me anyway and eish, if you ignore GF for long enough, she maight just sell your cycling junk dude. BTW. Can I tell her you riding with DI? I'll look out for items for sale on Monday.

So, if you're both feeling so energetic and need time in the saddle, why not all get together for Sunday. We can do a group "dis-ting" after you go out on SAt arvie for your little adventure round the North. Just remember, you gonna have a tough bit on Sunday as well and you might want to save a leeetle energy. I'm off to buy 40 gallons of Energade, I have a suspicion you may need it. Count me out on Sat, I may be certifiable but that energetic I aint.

er.... Psssst, Dash. I was chatting up the lady and you're muscling in on my action. Wee laddie, you just ruined a friendship.

Early. Want to go out and watch the elites come past. What time does the race start? Anyhoo, after the elites and a few other groups go past, we will amble along and do the route I have planned. Should be a good ride. I may not be as fit as you think I am. I was pretty after my 100 k on Saturday.

Hmmmmm. No takers eh? Looks like you might be stuck with my suggestion. Looking at doing between 80 and 100 on Sunday. (Nope, not racing the fast one.) Have a fair course mappedout for at leaast three hours of boths hills and flat routes. Should get you some kinda fitness.

Better idea. Pull out to my place and we'll go jump the fence an cause some mayhem on the course come Sunday. (Got that idea from one or other hubber this morning.)