bustthesickness

Hopefully you were wearing a full face helmet with that! Continental MTB tyres are direction for front or back. When flipped around for back use' date=' the arcs on the tread have a flatter edge for more 'bight', when flipped for fronts, they have an arc'd design which guides the tyre nicely. Great tyres, maybe even the best I've ridden to date. Used the Gravity and now onto a set of Mountain Kings, truly a wicked tyre [/quote'] I'm running Race King 2.2 at the moment, thinking of putting a Mountain King 2.4 up front for more bite.Yep, you wont go wrong with that choice. Be sure to buy the 'PROTECTION' version of the Mountain King. The budget version has very thin sidewalls and is churned out in China. The Protection version has Kevlar reinforced sidewalls, Black Chilli rubber compound (better grip,longevity) and Kevlar bead, plus it's handmade in German by low class german slaves in sweatshops. My kinda tyre I can get MK 2.4 UST Supersonic with black chili, handmade in Germany for R400. It's not the protection version, but at that price it's a good way to test it out. The fact that German's are slaving away to make me a tyre is just a bonus. The Supersonic is the lighter version I think. A good choice. I have 2.4's on my Teocali and am loving them. So much grip. As a front tyre, I think it can only be rivalled by the Maxxis Ignitor for AM riding.

Hopefully you were wearing a full face helmet with that! Continental MTB tyres are direction for front or back. When flipped around for back use' date=' the arcs on the tread have a flatter edge for more 'bight', when flipped for fronts, they have an arc'd design which guides the tyre nicely. Great tyres, maybe even the best I've ridden to date. Used the Gravity and now onto a set of Mountain Kings, truly a wicked tyre [/quote'] I'm running Race King 2.2 at the moment, thinking of putting a Mountain King 2.4 up front for more bite.Yep, you wont go wrong with that choice. Be sure to buy the 'PROTECTION' version of the Mountain King. The budget version has very thin sidewalls and is churned out in China. The Protection version has Kevlar reinforced sidewalls, Black Chilli rubber compound (better grip,longevity) and Kevlar bead, plus it's handmade in German by low class german slaves in sweatshops. My kinda tyre

Hopefully you were wearing a full face helmet with that! Continental MTB tyres are direction for front or back. When flipped around for back use, the arcs on the tread have a flatter edge for more 'bight', when flipped for fronts, they have an arc'd design which guides the tyre nicely. Great tyres, maybe even the best I've ridden to date. Used the Gravity and now onto a set of Mountain Kings, truly a wicked tyre

I came across a large [1.2 meter] Boomslang at Tokai yesterday. I was riding up at the top trails and came across the snake when I was resting. He was standing up about 50cm and slowly moved off into the bushes. He was black/very dark with a yellow/green underside.

I've only ever ridden RockShox forks, I LOVE my Pike 454's. 140mm of super tweakable plush travel. Brilliant forks.

Thats a really cool story. Makes me have faith in the human spirit.

Jeep tracks are boring to ride. Technical ascents are great fun to ride. A lot of races and courses have super technical single track uphills. Jeep tracks are for.........JEEPS!!!

Anarchic?!!! hahaha. No, Tokai is not anarchic, people just ride and don't whinge about 'international rules'. Just pass each other the easiest way possible for both parties. How boring to have trails that are uni-directional. If you can go both ways on a trail then it gives you 2 trails to ride. They should hand out nappies at the gate for all these rule makers. Just ride, pass, go home, eat your noodles

go for the digital one, whatever you do!

No, rather just make the bridges 300 to 500mm wide.

HTFUB!!!!! ;o)

Nice one guys. I like the use of staves to build the platforms. The first picture, this looks too wide though. Maybe you need a few do or die sections to really test commitment.

yeah, I stopped buying that mag ages ago because of the same rubbish you talk about. Now I buy Mountainbiker. It's a MUCH better mag. Big up to them for the effort.

They topped it up in his camelbak for him

Or... you tossers in cape town could learn to take your helmets off when you go to coffee shops or whatever... you do look a bit on the retarded side' date=' sitting there, drinking your lattes, with your helmets on... [/quote']

As air (unlike the hydraulic fluid) can compress, this makes the brakes feel really spongey and powerless. Any air bubbles left in will also expand with braking heat and lock the system up very quickly. Fading occurs when the brake fluid inside a hydraulic caliper boils. An important characteristic of brake fluid is that it is incompressible. When a brake fluid boils, gas is formed within the system that is compressible and any lever stroke available goes toward compressing the gas instead of generating brake power. Interestingly enough, when a fluid is under pressure, it is very difficult for the fluid to boil. If a brake system is under pressure, the fluid temperature can rise above the boiling temperature without the fluid actually boiling. Once the pressure is released, the fluid will instantly boil and fade will occur.

It's REALLY great to see guys building their own playparks on private land. Awesome one guys! I'll definitly pop in for a ride when I'm up that side in January.

No need. The park looks lame, and they shld be thankful that people even give their honest opinions here. Hey, so you don't like them. It's really ok. Methinks the park owners shld come ride at Tokai some time and see how rad trails can be.

It's not a public park. It's a R50 a go facility. If people dont complain and say what they feel or want, then how can they know where the weaknesses are and how to improve the place? oh sorry, you're one of those 'dont complain' people...yet you are complaining about complaining. hmmmmm