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Just read on Bikeradar that Mad Fiber have stopped production and are on the verge of bankruptcy. "Exotic composites wheel manufacturer Mad Fiber has stopped production and could be on the verge of bankruptcy after just fours years of business. The company's chief financial officer Russ Riggins told Bicycle Retailer that the firm had shut down production several weeks ago. And Ric Hjertberg, who co-founded the company in 2009 said on his blog that he left as the business began "choking on a series of decisions in which I was not involved." He said the company will "go to bankruptcy" shortly. Seattle-based Mad Fiber developed a reputation for developing a novel approach to wheel-building. Their first road wheelset weighed 1075g. Earlier this year, Mad Fiber released wheels with new spoke patterns, freehub designs and design options."

Did he get the KOM on Strava ?

It's VAT on the cost of the items plus a R150 DHL clearance/handling fee. It used to be R100 but it's gone up. DHL do what they call a 'pre-clearance', so even though your stuff isn't in SA yet, they have been notified that it's on it's way, so they get their paperwork ready so that it goes through quicker. Enjoy.

Hey F_R_A_I_L_ , just for change here's a photo of , me, you and Zane at the One Donner

http://i.imgur.com/friCHNG.gif Watch it, it's worth it :clap:

I think you should be proud that you had the determination to finish. it was tough out there yesterday and a lot of guys just gave up. So well done..

Depends if customs stop your parcel. If they do, Duty on shoes is 40% and then 14% VAT + plus the usual disbursement fees to either DHL or SAPO.

If I remember correctly there were a couple of similar incidents to these circumstances a while ago where a couple caused *** in a shop and then went to the police. They then tried to institute civil damages against the owner of the shop for injuries and damage caused. The problem is if you try and fight those claims then it can cost you a lot of money in lawyers fees etc with little hope of getting your money back from the complainants. If they did go to the police station there should be a record of it somewhere. I think the best advice would be to get written statements from the shop staff while it is still fresh in their minds as to what happened and descriptions etc. Gather any CCTV if you have it available and keep it safe. Good luck.

There's no way you should be handing out your ID number to anyone, and if anyone demanded it to buy something from them then I'm sorry but that's not worth it. Your ID number is valuable and it's all too easy for people to be giving it out to all and sundry. ID theft hasn't caught on here in SA quite as big as it is in the UK but it's coming.

I wonder if L.A would sign this?

It was great riding, and at least the weather played along.

Just heard that the guy involved (silver Navara) handed himself in to SAPS Tableview (accompanied by his attorney) this afternoon. Fingers x'd. :clap:

I'm glad this guy has hopefully been identified. I spoke to the reporter briefly yesterday and I know SAPS @ Tableview have been given information as well. It would be nice to think that no matter his profession etc, that he still gets what he deserves. It was also nice to see the power of social media in action helping to get something done.

Bonus!!, then you get to ride on Tues and Wed

Just took a drive around that area but didn't see anything resembling that vehicle.

To me it looks like it was parked in the Bayview area , it has those style houses and small streets with paved driveways. I really hope they can ID this guy.

That's good news. Someone must recognise that vehicle.

I don't have any further details unfortunately. I saw it on one of the community forums and thought someone must know who the guy is. I hope the original OP has maybe given SAPS enough to go on and chase the CCTV footage if they can (but I won't hold my breath). It looks like it happened yesterday morning but I'm betting the guys a local, so hopefully they get him sooner rather than later.

It is actually scary that there are people out there with this attitude. I wonder what the scumbag would have done if it was a guy who had said something to him. Would he have been so brave then.

This was on one of the community forums in the Blouberg area, it's very vague on exact details but you may just have some ideas, some of the local guys may have come across him before? My wife went for a cycle this morning and was attacked and assaulted by a maniac close to Bloubergstrand. She was cycling with a friend and a white male approx. 40 years old skipped a stop street and nearly hit her while talking on his cellphone in his silver double cab 4x4, possibly a Ford. No number plates. So she shouted at him to watch it and get of his phone like any biker or cyclist would do when nearly killed by an idiot talking on is cellphone skipping a stop street. he slammed on brakes, got out of his bakkie and punched her off her bike, then spit in her face, grabbed her arm, twisted it behind her back, and tried to throw her in front of oncoming traffic on Marine drive. Luckily all cars stopped and people tried to intervene but everybody was too scared to approach this guy as he was screaming he would kill all cyclists and everybody else. We laid a charge of assault with SAPS, and according to the station commander, we can probably also get attempted murder because of trying to throw her if front of cars whilst screaming he is going to kill her. The problem is we don't have a name, or registration number (no number plates) or anything to assist the police in finding this guy. I have been cruising this whole area non stop since 11:00 until now 20:00 trying to find this guy, but he is probably hiding in his house beating up his wife and molesting his his children or something, like the coward he is. I will spend ever cent and every second of time I have to find this coward and get justice done. If anybody in the Blouberg/West Beach/Tableview area know of a middle aged white male, overweight, with a newish silver double cab 4x4 without number plates, please let me know. If the identified person is the person that attacked and assaulted my wife. I will pay a R50 000 reward no questions asked The original post can be found here: http://www.wilddog.za.net/forum/index.php?topic=134255.0

Some guy in a submarine

Why not start a couple of name and shame FB pages. We could call the Afrikaans one " Hey Koos, you drive like a D**s " And the English one " Hey Rick, you drive like a Pr*** " Would that work?

Just heard this morning that a cyclist was attacked on the new stretch of the Sandown Link Rd in Blouberg yesterday. Although it isn't officially open yet, he had apparently cycled along it when he was attacked by two men, one armed with a large rock and the other with a knife. They took his bike and everything else he had with him. I think it's better to avoid being alone on that stretch until it opens properly to traffic.

The new Pinarello with disc brakes

Nice bike, I'm going to keep an eye out for you on the R27