Blackbeard

Foul-mouthed, tattooed, machete-wielding Mexican hobbit. Love his work. Edit: Mexi-CAN

Then I hope you (we) have good weather and a light wind at your back.

I'm horrified. Glad you are okay.

I have the 12nm which I find to be very stable and secure. I prefer a firm release, but I suspect that based upon my experience with the 12nm the 16 nm would be to tight for me.

A digger loader is operational on Chappies.

We re-use our safety pins down here.

They clean and sweep the entire route the night before the Argus. Cape Town Municipality have their sweeper trucks going out regularly at night/very early morning.

But the PPA are in the Western Cape .......whine whine whine and I won't do the Argus.... whine whine whine. (obviously not aimed at you DJR).

I have not noticed any work being done.

You might want to consider hiring a road bike. The Complete Cyclist in Hout Bay specifically caters for this over the Argus weekend.

Regarding the headphone issue, there is a surfing product which helps. It's earplugs moulded to the shape of the outer ear. It has a small uni-directional perforation to aid hearing. It's designed to limit surfer's ear - the closing of the inner ear canal due to extended and prolonged immersion in cold water. It isn't very visible, cuts out the wind chatter and still permits hearing.

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Only in winter. And, unless my maths is wrong, that would make it your 10th.

I'd prefer it on the 9th.

I agree. A cyclist can generally see a runner from a distance giving the cyclist ample time to check the road behind him/her and to move over to give the runner room. Not so much around corners though, particularly on fast, mountainous downhills. I tend to go through tight areas very cautiously.

I find that cyclists on Chappies are generally very well behaved with the obvious exception of newbie mtb-riding ex-golfers who have to talk very loudly so we can all be impressed at their low level commercial acumen. Runners tend not to use the verge where it is available and will often run in the centre of the lane. In groups, they often run 5 of 6 abreast. I have had two close calls where a runner has cut across the apex of a bend on a blind corner - if I were a car they would have been dead or at least severely injured. I tend to disregard people who do not comply with the law or common sense and say nothing, but I am always bemused by their aggressive and confrontional attitude.

Just wrong on so many levels.

I did a few classes when living up in the Big Smoke. I moved to the Fairest Cape and I have threatened to join UCT/Hoerikwaggo every year since, but my new business made it difficult to commit fully. I think this is the year. I did Karate previously, but Aikido has always fascinated me since an elderly guy (Darko) a fraction of my size threw me around with ease (and I am not light) and put the pain on. Are you at the UCT Dojo?

Your Master in absentia. The Guy with his picture on the wall.

O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba says ... Edit: "Enter and blend, Baby. Enter and blend."

While cycling down Main Road, Hout Bay past the graveyard just before Mandela Park, on Monday around lunch time, I passed two teenagers pointing what I took to be replica 9mm firearms at each other. There was one on each side of the road and the traffic passed between them. They were obviously seeking reactions from passing motors, perhaps a dry run for use later in an asset liberation exercise. Passing very close to them in good light I could not tell whether they had real firearms or replicas. I assumed replicas as I hope that that type of individual would not have possession of a real firearm.

Thank you.

Removed my post as I don't think it will take the matter any further. Good luck all!

I lost my rather long reply to NicoBoshoff's post in the ether, but this works and is a lot less verbose.

All cyclist/motorist accidents should be reported even if only for crime statistics purposes. A criminal case number makes it more difficult for SAPS to lie about the crime figures.