bustthesickness

Hey MH (easier to type). Yes, I DID in fact consider that people ride the trail the other way. It's easy to ride the river section from both ways. It was always possible to ride it too. So yes, I did consider this. Thanks for checking in though.

That's a bit dramatic! Well, actually the BRIDGE is a bit dramatic. It is the true definition of "making a mountain from a molehill" Yes

Out at Tokai over the weekend and I noticed that the little river crossing on the first trail at Tokai now has a plank bridge across it. I was so disgusted that I had to dismount and vomit in the bushes. Why oh WHY if people can't learn to ride these crossings do they feel the need to LOWER THE STANDARDS of the trail to their incompetent levels???? Why not just spend an hour or two learning the lines and riding them, get proper momentum etc. and LEARN TO RIDE the trail as is. I have seen a few roady types out there with their aero helmets and spandex face planting in this river, and now because of this sordid bridge I have lost one of the few good laughing moment potential spots. Seriously, the bridge has got to go. It stinks. People must learn to ride the trails. Yeah, first time I tried to cross that river from the back I tapped out, but after a few tries it is easy as it gets. bustthesickness2009-04-17 03:44:03

so Fandacious, quit MTB then. It means one less person I have to pass while on the downhills I actually very seldom wipe out on MTB, and I ride pretty hard [when I get the chance] You shouldnt need to push your limit over the edge to have fun and go fast. Just learn to ride better. bustthesickness2009-04-14 05:17:39

stop whining

check out www.mtbr.com http://www.mtbr.com/cat/bikes/xc-hardtail/giant/yukon/PRD_363502_1527crx.aspx bustthesickness2009-04-08 09:56:53

I have a cool trick for cleaning the tube. Get yourself some thin nylon cord like the type used for washing lines (or even thick string). Tie a few knots in the one end. Then let the pipe soak in hot water so it becomes pliable. You then thread the cord through the pipe, squirt in some washing liquid and pull the knot through the pipe. This method works really well for me. I also dont wash the bladder with anything but dishwashing liquid as the chlorine taste REALLY sticks to the plastic. I rather just turn the bladder inside out and wash it as I would a plate.

posers

you need to RESET your cookies. Strongs

rather buy a decent hardtail and upgrade the frame at a later stage

hahaha

I dont like the geometry of these. The top tube is about an inch too long. Nice simple suspension though. The REAL let down though is the MICROSOFT logo on the upright. Yah, as IF I'd wanna have such a putrid word on my bike. I'd rather it said anything but that, even McDonalds, or Mr.Price! Oh, and the fork on that bike is rubbish, you'll need to look at upgrading that. I think it was only from the RDS07 that they used 7075 ali, and this is 6061.

as the old saying goes: "A fool and his money are easily parted". still, a solution to all of this is to get a decent job or business and make proper money. I agree about it being a total rip off for a bike. For 100k you can get a really rad motorbike, a semi-crap-half-decent second hand car, a DOPE round the world trip, a down payment on a property, which is not a depreciating BS asset like a bike [toy]. Guys like Fritz and Andrew are not the baddies here though, they've just spotted a bunch of over obsessed riders and they're supplying to the demand. Nobody gets forced to buy bikes like this, and you know what the saddest is...the kinds of people I see on these 100k bikes are overweight mid life crisis testosterone starved men who need to fill that gaping hole in their life WITH A BIKE that is so technically advanced and over designed for their needs that it's actually a joke to watch these weekend warriors out on the trails plodding along. sucker born every day eh. Still, I cant talk, I got suckered into buying a DB9, but then I get chicks with that too ;D

haha, glad u enjoyed it. heh I didnt realise it had all been answered for you. If I didnt have a real job I'd have had the time to waste to read through 5 pages of drivel. Anyways, the offer stands for any roadies who wanna bust some sickness at Tokai. I'll be glad to show you trails and laugh my arse off at the faceplants, dodgy dismounts, un-manual manuals, narrow bar spandex clad wipeouts! I'll even bring my camera and fisheye lens to capture the glory.

99% of the time there are walkways on sides of roads. They are singletracks. I'm always keen to ride dirt tracks rather that wreck my R900 conti's on a stupid, boring, car hogged tar road. It's called having fun, something perhaps roadies are not used to. In any case we like our dirt strips. Do I care if you have a problem with it? Let me think REALLY hard, ummm, no. Do I care if you don't like MTB? Nope. Do I care if you're such a technically bad rider that you fall every ride you do? Nope again. I do however invite ALL roadies to ride our STOOPID trails 'cos I for one love seeing people prang in ridiculous ways. It makes my day actually. Bring it on. I also LOVE hardpassing roadies on technical tracks 'cos while they were riding their intervals on boring tar roads, my mates and I were getting in singletrack dirt mileage wherever we could.

wrks perfectly in firefox must be windoze explorer. go figure

yeah, put on some slicks and go ride Chapman's peak If it's pain and hills you want, you can goto Silvermine and ride the mtb trail there, or you can ride on the tracks below table mountain [enter from tafelberg road], or drive to stellies and ride at Jonkershoek. there, is that helpful enough?

naaaaaa' date=' it's about bustin' the sickness! whOOOOOP [/quote'] You are born a mtbiker... The pearls don't come with the bike. So dry your eyes, and go find a road bike somewere. errrrrr, ooooookay. whatever you said, I'm sure at least you understood it. Either way, have a nice day

naaaaaa, it's about bustin' the sickness! whOOOOOP