Butterbean

It's a rare item. It's the hard case for a set of fatshark RC goggles. So yeah, I wouldn't know where to start with finding another one

Same here, I love them! Only thing missing for me is the hardcase, luckily I found one that fit them, so I feel less stressed chucking them in a backpack between flights and drives.

I see they've now rebranded as Team NTT?

Shower caps, my man..

I eyeball using tile grout. Line your wheel up dead centre on longitudinal grout. And then align your bars using a horizontal line of grout. It's the closest eyeballing I can find...

What's your tire pressure?

Well, I grossly underestimated that route... Did plenty of training but not enough climbing... Ended up throwing in the towel at WP2 but had to go through to WP3 to get a ride home... Absolutely suffered and the mud wasn't fun when I had long ago bonked. Really impressed with the organisation, I thought the event was awesome. Didn't enjoy the start pen. People shoving bikes over the fences, pushing and shoving their way around... Really wasn't pleasant and really shouldn't have a place in our sport. Water points were awesome and we'll stocked, was the first time I've been at the back end of a race and nice to see the entire selection was still available right to the end. Will be back next year, probably won't be tackling the 160 for a while, so will do the 100km route next time around!

I really never feel like there's a power difference between flats and clipless, but I prefer the clipless keeping my foot on the same place on the pedal. I don't do really any gnarly stuff, so not worried about putting foot down in a hurry, but on flats I didn't enjoy being bounced off the pedals on a hardtail...

May seem out of left field, but I experienced legs okay but out of breath quite a lot when starting out. Until I discovered I have exercise induced asthma. I now have legs giving up before breath, and that's the way it should be when you're fit, I think... Candence also plays a massive part. I change things up based on how I'm doing. Legs feeling bad but not out of breath? Up the cadence. You take the strain of the muscles and onto the cardio. Breath running out but legs okay? Give the lungs a rest while you drop the cadence and let your legs do more work. Ideal is to have them both balanced at the same time, but that's lots of practice and paying attention to it. Racing everything goes out the window when you're trying to stick with a group... Even with a Power Meter I can't afford to look at numbers when sussing out a bunch, so it comes from familiarity with effort, and what is sustainable, and what is not. Play with the gears and cadence. Do some cadence training exercises. Good luck man.

I've combined our water storage as racks, and it works great. Also simple to move around when required.

According to their website, absolutely. The MS derailer being supplied with the CWC package is actually an older 10 speed model anyway. There is a specific 12 speed derailer but I haven't seen one in SA. Not that I'm all over the bike market. I believe rapide has a ton on shifters that he can supply, not sure though.

Not necessarily ultra long term, but it's been on my anthem for a while now and really no major issues to report. It shifts well, lasts long, and the ratios are great. One weakness is the design does hinder the very last downshift. There seems to be just a fraction too much material on the arm so no matter your adjustment, it doesn't jump onto the 11 tooth with much vigor. However, the frustration is limited to the work stand. On the trail, I've not missed a shift and it feels great. Apparently you can sub the suntour derailer with a Shimano 10 or 11 speed and they're golden, so if you were to experience any major issue the fix would be simple. Chain life seems good, shifter feels great.

Buy a steel one instead.

Entered today.. Have no idea if we can finish the 100 miler but it'll be interesting to find out!

On ebikes... It seems there was some inconsistencies... Pulling into the first set of gates I was right next to an older woman on a giant ebike... Marshall immediately pointed it out and just said, "no E-bikes, sorry." she of course flipped and insisted she was only riding with kids, etc... I felt for her, but also not... She would have got the sms just like I did... She clearly just thought she was above it... However, after the minor protest, the Marshall did say he would speak to someone, etc etc... I wonder if they just made the allowance if someone pitched up? Saw none in the alphabet soup I was in... Sure as **** would have grabbed on for a tow if I had!

Yeah *** idea that... That area is dodgy at the best of times, and while I understand you may have been thrown off by the event, you would have been better off parking nearer to the finish... Sorry for your loss man, it must have been such a bad experience to get back to that...

I didn't have a great day... First CTCT and didn't know what to expect. Came into it undertrained, overweight, unprepared, and only just recovered from a cold... Went way too hard out the gate... The wind totally fooled me and I just kept trying to hold a wheel to avoid the wind and ended up suffering more than I would have in the wind. Felt incredibly good in the mild wind on the M5, and only slowed down in fish hoek when we got hit by the headwind... The rest of my day was survival mode... Crawled up the climbs, cramped twice up chappies but managed to get through suikerbossie without cramping... Then cramped up along seapoint but had to finish.. Started in 5B, ended up probably around 5:15 for my time... Ride time was 4:44 but I had to stop and sort the cramping out... Honestly, it was a slog, a chore, and I hated the last half... But somehow I'm sure I'll be there again next year!

Anyone tried the ol' glitter in sealant story? Makes sense that it might be helpful on tubeless Road setups as I assume the coagulation of the latex at high pressures is the Achilles heel of the system?

This whole MTB thing is starting to get addictive! Ringing in the new year with a ultra quiet ride...

Luckily I was wearing a hi vis shirt, so they let me on the site!

Who knows? Maybe I get lucky... With a bike, I mean...

Wider is way better... Proven to be less rolling resistance, I find the cornering and stability amazing, and you can run a slightly lower pressure safely to aid in comfort and road noise suppression. Go as wide as your frame fits without the tyre profile looking too much like a light bulb...

Sir, please can you learn when you to use an, before replying to another post? It's now more annoying than anyone littering anything.

Again, designing the tyres to last shorter distances is what pirelli is struggling with... I can only imagine their entire R&D team has been working on long lasting tyres for the entire history, now they've been asked to create a super grippy, super stable tyre but that must degrade fast enough... I can sympathize with the engineers.. I still think the grip level gap will make the difference... It would either force guys to go longer on harder tyres, with a one stop, or you could go two stints with super grippy and a short stint with the primes. I'm sure it would leave enough up to the imagination of the strategists.... Let's hope that the new aero rules will sort out the overtaking too... Right now qualifying is the most intriguing part of a weekend... At least le clerc is making things interesting, it's fun to see how he's able to make a car perform beyond its abilities... Would love to see him and Max Verchrashen go head to head as two young drivers like they used to...

Pirelli have stated how it's actually really difficult to make a tyre that F1 wants, it's apparently a lot easier to make a tyre last longer.. One of the better suggestions I've hear lately is to rather have large gaps in compounds, so instead of the selected weekend compounds being HS/US/SS, it should rather be HS/SS/M. Could be a simple solution really..