BenGraham

I was wondering what happened to the Spur series so this is helpful to know. He is only starting grade 1 in the new year so I don't know yet. I don't remember seeing MTB on his school sports list but his school is literally a few blocks from the Spruit so it totally makes sense. I will certainly be advocating for mtb to be a school sport if it isn't already.

That would have been perfect. Just had a look now. Will keep an eye on them. Hopefully there are more events like this. Thanks.

So my son who is about to turn 7 has been really enjoying riding single track with me on the Spruit. He has a little competitive streak and recently asked if he can do a race. I honestly would love to make it happen but I don't know what events are available to a 6/7 year old. He does about 8km with me at present. We did Delta recently and he loved the descent. I did need to provide some additional motivational support a few times on the climbs though. He does the Emerentia full anti-clockwise like it's nothing now and has been asking for new trails to ride every time we go. I've started riding to Victory Park with him but his mom worries about crime along that section. I suspect I may have to wait till he's 7 to enter most things. But keen to hear what's on offer for him. Would appreciate any thoughts. Thanks.

If I had such a short stroke I'd also want to avoid drawing too much attention to it.

Glad to know I'm not the only one. Something changed somewhere. I've never had a problem before yesterday.

So it had somehow been added to a list of blocked sites. Which is odd since I explicitly told brave to allow cookies. I even tried logging in with shields down. Weird. But logging out and then removing all references to bikehub cookies as well as deleting all existing cookies and then logging in seems to have fixed it. Thanks for the advice. Seems I was the problem not the site.

So I've discovered that I can't access the forums on the Brave browser. Chrome works but I refuse to use Chrome due to privacy concerns. In Brave I am able to sign in on the front page but as soon as I click through to any other part of the site my nav bar then shows me as needing to login and I am not able to comment on any discussions in the forums since I have to login. So I login and the cycle repeats. I've only tested this on Brave and Chrome as I don't have time for exhaustive tests but this is an issue for me as I do not use Chrome unless I am absolutely forced to. Chromium is great Chrome isn't.

I've never ridden it but I have shot it as a photographer. I think the best part is probably the Northern farms section which is where I got the best pics (but to be fair I haven't seen the whole route). I don't think they go anywhere near the spruit. Northern farms is great but you don't need to do the race to get access to those trails. If you haven't ridden at Northern farms and would like to it's probably a good way to go. IMHO I'd do the JUMA over the 947 MTB (which is exactly what I have done in years prior). But I don't think that will be happening this year. Others could probably tell you more but that's what I know about it. Honestly I'm a little interested but It strikes me as a little too XC gravel grind for my liking. I shy away from races where people consider a bridge technical.

Nah its definitely e-bikers.

I did not know this was a thing. Unfortunately if my financial prospects don't suddenly and dramatically change I'll be missing out this year but I will hopefully make the next one by which time, if all goes according to plan, I'll be arriving by private helicopter.

Hold on. So you guys wash your helmets? I just wait for it to rain on me at some point. Always happens eventually.

I'm just dropping a note to say that the update looks great. Super excited that things are being addressed. I for one have had my share of issues with the old platform but I realise that it takes time to build things so I'm just excited to see the progress. Bikehub represents the kind of website I'd like to see more of and I can even put up with the occasional car ad if it keeps the servers running and the developers paid.

When are we getting wireless brakes?

I ride a single speed mountain bike. Why am I watching this?!

That's the one.

That looks familiar. Good to see it build up.

I finally have a picture that does my bike justice. Still a work in progress. This thing is begging for a dropper. Then a new fork, then bigger wheels (currently its 26er wheels and fork on a 27.5 frame). But its already an absolute ripper. It descends like its on rails. Love it to bits. One of these days I'll get a chain guide style tensioner for it to clean up the look. Also the chain slap from the spring loaded tensioner bugs me. Anyway. This is my steed.

Looks like I'll be seeing even more rule 5 violations out on the trails now.

My thoughts exactly. Also you know when the marketers use absurd language like unicorn hair they intend to charge equally absurd prices for everything. Unicorn hair, just like unicorn pooh smells like bs to me. I'm not saying it isn't incrementally better but you do have to ask how deep into the land of diminishing returns you want to go.

This looks very nice.

Lol. no.

Its all I have at the moment and I've done more kms this month the the prior 6 before it combined. And my average speeds have stayed around the same.

What the heck that's a ton of stretch. I can see why they'd stretch though its inherent in the design the little bend in the plate just slowly straightens out presumably. Mine at present is a 10 speed kmc. Yes overpriced for a single speed chain but when I bought it I was trying to get my RD back up and running hadn't yet considered getting rid of it entirely.

Interesting looking setup. If mine gives me trouble I'll look into this. So far it hasn't given me a moment of trouble. Might be helped by the small chainring.

Definitely something I'll look at in the future. Right now I'm trying to get out of the MTB arms race. I got some skipping when I first set this up but removed a link and suddenly it no skipping at all. Who sells up tensioners. Rapide doesn't seem to have them.