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For what it's worth, I doubt that the cops will do anything at all. If you want to get some satisfaction, find the tjop and pour brake fluid all over his taxi and or beat the spots off him.

No, just hubbers.

Glad to see there are at least some others that have their priorities in the correct order. Between hubbing when I should have been working, cycling when I should have been home, and pampering the bike when I was being ignored at home (translate as spending endless hours and nights in the garage building bikes for other peeps and pampering my own) I am now free and easy. Yip, my ball and chain fell off. Now I can hub whenever I want, ride my bike without getting earache, and pamper it without having to hassle about headaches. Ain't life grand? Ironically, I spend far less time on the hub these days. I have increased my FB time though. Back to mining salt.

Like he said, all well and good. I know I have a right to be on the road and to use it and to be safe while doing so. But that means jack when a car weighs ten times more than me and the bike combined. Safety is about being aware and cautious as opposed to being right. In this mornings traffic, my commute was a bit slower but still a lot faster than by car. Greener too. Been commuting for just over 6 months now and I enjoy it more and more. I would love to see more commuters out there. Oh and yes, we have to earn any repsect we get from motorists. I daresay that they hate when ther see us zip by and not get bogged down in traffic. And so they will look for any reason to dis us. So we should therefore stop at all traffic signs that require us to do so.

I have used ordinary wheel bearing grease with good results so far. If it can withstand that sort of environment then it should be able to handle the BB in the cranks. Now watch JB come rushing in here and say it's too thick. Then again, so am I mate, so am I.

Indeed I did. Only had six gears so I ran out pretty fast. Then I converted it to 8 speed with STi dist-tings despite the BS saying it couldn't be done. Rode it like that for many a moon.

Did the Benoni Alberton Ride twice this past weekend. It's a relatively flat ride and then from Alberton you can climb up Klipriver (Butchers Hill)for the grand finale. Not many other alternative and I found the route along Rietfontein road fast paced and safe enough. Enjoy. Commuting can be heaps of fun.

Couple of years ago I was the one who would argue that grinding big gear up the hill was the way to go. I had this debate on the Hub and everyone tried to convince me that spinning was the way to go. So it took me a long time and lot's of patience and trying for this old dog to learn new tricks, but I say that spinning is much better. I am less winded when I get to the top of a hill. Spinning defintely uses less power and it seriously feels like I have more energy at the end of a ride. Dunno, maybe I am just a dumb old fart and I may be completely wrong. Spinning works for me, but I still like to get up a hill in a slightly heavier gear than most. Defintey lighter than I used to though.

Year before last at Race for Victory. The course is in my back yard so I figured I had this one taped. The distance frommy house to the start line's like 11 kays. Not quite enough for a warm-up ride, but what the Frikadel? I know this course blindfolded. My vest looks like hamster with bloated cheeks. Banana, energy bars, I have enrgade in my bottles, the weather is nice and cool. Windy, but cool. Race starts and going up Lido Hill I get dropped. Go through Walkerville and past cheese factory and I am under real pressure to keep the bike going. 1st water point and I load up on more bananas, drink and drink some more. I feel drained with like zero energy. My mates who I passed catch up with me and the slower one eventually drops my ass. (WTF?? I can usually kick his butt any time on a reasonable day???) I get a puncture and have an energy bar while I change tubes, hit the road again, Entrance to SBR is another WP, cool, load up on more bananas because I have eaten 4 since the last one plus an energy bar and sucked out at least a bottle of energy drink. That first climb and I know I am in serious trouble. I really hang on digging so deep I think I may have hit Aus. Next climb (which in my experience) is the worst in SBR. Peeps are walking. I force myself to stay on the bike and make it somehow, but now I even more forked. Another puncture and I just want to hurl the bike over the cliff and lie somewhere and cry. I eventually get going again, and now we are into the wind. I stop on the rod outside of magagula heights waiting for the recovery vehicle. I wait, all the peeps puching their bike up that mean fother mucking hill are now coming past me and for the first time in my life, I am happy to abandon a race. NEVER happened before. No recovery vehicle ever arices and eventually, I get back on the bike. I could not lift my leg over the saddle to get off at the finish line over 4.5 hours after the start. I still cannot say how I rode the 11 km home, but I do know that I swore blind I would never cycle again and I would take up being a professional couch potato.

Don't know much about all this stuff but I would hazzard a guess that you wear the stuff as long as you want to be compressed. Medical science has shown though, that tight pants / undies can lead to a low fertility rate in men. (Then again maybe that's not an altogether bad thing.)

According to my high school geography, The Partown ridge is a divide. Any rain falling south of the divide goes into rivers that flow to the Atlantic ocean. Anything north, goes into rivers that end in the Indian Ocean. Hope that helps.

Dude, I am not a rocket scientist or smous. What I can tellyou is that you are the same height as me 191 cm. I can also tell you from experience that a 58 cm frame is too small. Conventional wisdom says that when you sit on the bike with your hands on the bars, (hoods of shifters) the front wheel hub axle should be in line with the handle bars so you cannot see it? bike frame too large, you will see the hub behind the handle bars and too small, it will be in fron of the handle bars. Personally, I don't like compact frames, but that is my personal opinion. Far prefer a standard geometry bike. I have also found that one bike is pretty much the same as another. Wheels, hubs and shifters make a big difference to the bike and potentially how fast you can get it to go. GEt the right size frame first, otherwise you will not be comfortable on the bike. I think this is the most important thing.

There are a couple of ways to look at this. Yes, that kind of attitude sucks. I agree. On the other hand, when you have a fairly large field, like Dome to Dome or telkom satelite, one often ends up with slower riders falling out of their bunches and using up a whole chink more road than they need. Weaving and generally getting in the way of other faster groups and riders coming up from behind. There is a great deal of difference between asking nicely for the slower riders to maybe move more to the left so the faster guys have more space to pass safely. I got some serious verbal abuse asking nicely, and yes, I agree, I wasn't ever going to win the race, but I was racing as seriously as I could, because I wanted to get the best time possible. So the bad attitude goes both ways. While you may have been taking in an enjoyable Sunday ride, maybe the more serious people behind were in some form of competition. Either with themselves for a PB, or maybe they had time deadlines to meet for any number of reasons. One such cyclist missed out on a 2h40 94.7 and the net result was a lot less money for the charity he was riding for. The slower peeps need to acknowledge that faster riders may be behind them and just maybe it would be common courtesy for them to be more left. Then the racing snakes wont have to ask or use abusive language. But like that's just my take on it. Some more plain common courtesy between all of us will only make the world a better place. Nes pas?

I'll share some of mine with you.

Cyling. The curse of the drinking class. Build a bridge, get over it mate. It's done. Nothing can undo it. Either give up drinking or give up cycling. (says he who was celebrating new found freedom on Saturday with a bottle of Scotch.) At least I manged 40 km's before I got home. Had a nice little recovery nap. Today I had a great ride to the office. Looking forward to the ride home too.

Only reason you never see MTB peeps going through red traffic lights is because they don't have them on Single track or in the bush where they ride.

Ever consider the possibility that she may have lost her balance momentarily and that the weaving was so that she didn't fall, in front of you? I think, but feel free to correct me if I am wrong, that common courtesy is to slow down when you see a cyclist just in case this sort of thing happens. Then again, only thinking peeps have any form of etiquette anyway. The rest just find reasons to whinge for no good reason.

To all those who mentioned the Water Points. Thanks. I spent this year's 94.7 as a volunteer coke pusher at WP 6 on the N14 at the Petroport. I require no special thanks for this but just want to say that until one has the experience, one never realises how much work goes into making a water point happen. So to all the other volunteers who help out at all the races, I know what you guys and gals do to make a water point work. Kudos to you all. Thanks for all the work you do and a special thanks for doing it this year at the 94.7. You peeps rock.

I did duty (volunteer) at WP 6 for the 94.7 and watching the way the cyclists arrived and departed, I was stunned that no accidents happened at the WP.

My opinion: The safety of races is from different perspectives. If you have full road closure as you do in the 94.7, it is considered a "safe race" because there is little danger of a cyclist being hurt by a motorist. On the downside of a "safe race" like 94.7 is the fact that you have a very large contingent of inexperienced cyclists who probably don't understand bunch riding dynamics. So the safety of the race is that you now have the race itself made unsafe because of the competitors /cyclists. Other races, there is only partial road closure so there is the danger of motor vehicles being involved in accidents with cyclists. But, at the same time, you have a much smaller field of cyclists and they are probably much more seasoned bunch riders. In any accident involving bicycles, one or more are going to go down and there will be pain and bleeding. In an accident between two cyclists, the chances are that one or both will be hurt. In an accident between a car and a cyclist, the chances are that the cyslist will be seriously hurt or killed. So, from one aspect, 94.7 is a safe race (road closure) but not from the other (inexperienced cyclists). Maybe the trick from the race organisers is to seperate the novices from the rest of the herd. Like maybe one has to do a few (races) to "earn a place" in one of the better groups. And even this is no guarantee since accidents are always going to happen anyway. A blown tyre can cause one cyclist to fall, and the chain of events is that several behing him go down as well. Accidents are part of cycling. Someone once told me there are only two categories of cyclist: Those who have fallen and those who are still going to fall.

All the more reason to make sure that the order is correct. A tough economy is a pisspoor excuse for bad service. The way I see it, is that suppilers just really don't give a toss. Oh, he wants black pedals but we only have silver. We'll send those instead because it will be so much of a ballache to exchange them that the customer will just accept it. If it were me, I would get hold of the suppliers and get them to ither deliver the goods zachery as ordered or make a full refund. Oh and place an extra order with them if they are unable to rectify and tell them that payment will be made on receipt. Then cancel the order when you get notified it has been despatched.

Apparently the tests conducted show that no drugs were used during the alleged rape. So if she lied about being drugged, it's possible she might be lying about other stuff too. Half the population are against the case not being prosecuted and the other half are against the NPA for prosecuting. What do people really want? Problem is that crime is what it is in this country largely because justice is not seen to be done. I do thnk though, that this is only because of media pressure. I believe that this sort of thing goes on all the time and nothing gets done about it. Why now, if not for media pressure?

According to every source I have read on bicycles, it is.... For one thing, (if a cyclist is capable of thinking), consider the speed differential. Maybe a bike can do say 60 down a steep hill, but a car is doing maybe 80 to 120 depending on where this happens. For this reason alone, I never ride on a freeway even if it's not illegal. The speed differential is too great. Going up a hill, the speed differential is greater. Therefore, when I ride, I ride further left the slower I'm going. (On the law of averages, I should soon be a MTB rider because I'm just getting slower as I get older. ) Very good description of a bunch of arrgant dickheads on bicycles. We also tend to forget that it doesn't make a huge difference if a cyclist is in the "right" in an accident with a car. He will always comeof second best in a two horse race. Surely this is incentive enough to be extra careful instead of being an extra ********. Don't know, maybe I am just a poefter roadie who is just too scared to push the envelope. Rather a live coward than a "flat (read as dead) hero". I once had a training ride in the cradle thanks to some planning by a fellow hubber. If ever invited for another, it is not the drawing pins that would keep me away. I just don't need that extra amount of worry that some irate motorist s going to ram me from behind because of some arrogant behaviour from a fellow "cyclists".