Giant Anthem Advanced for me is the clear winner here. It will leave the Pyga behind. The Pyga is the better choice for trail riding. For leisure rides and a funride now and then, that Anthem is better choice for me. Carbon is better than Alu.
Pyga is a better trail bike due to more travel, but I would say the Anthem is the more versatile bike because it is a better racer but also very good down the trails.
I have never encountered any of these examples you mention, these obvious misrepresentations you mention are not common. However, Retail misrepresentation of prices are very common. The reason they do this is simple, because they can, SA consumers are suckers.
Do you want to compete or do you just want to say that you did it? Because if you are not intending to compete in a world cup race maybe it is better not to do the world cup race and let someone with future potential go in your place. These races are not for fun riding but for serious competitors only.
Thank goodness not all are too sissy to stand up for what is right otherwise these criminals would be more rampant. The sissies should roll over and let their stuff be stolen and they can call their actions wise, that is fine, but those who have the guts to fight back should be thanked.
This should have happened long ago. There are MANY rogue riders, it is not only a few. These landowners that agreed to prosecute are extremely generous to do so - to take on legal action and the associated cost and effort with it - if it was me (and I assume most landowners would do the same) I would just ban mtb riding on my land. We should be grateful for these landowners for not banning all mtb riders.
Good advice, but, if they can`t get victims in the mountain, they will get their victims somewhere else. Giving up your freedom of movement does not help.
When my friend was travelling in Switzerland on a bus he asked a fellow passenger if his bicycle would be safe from theft in the cargo hold of the bus. The passenger`s eyes went big with fear and asked: "Do you think there is a thief on the bus?", and wanted to inform the driver.
My boss from the Netherlands, when I told him about the crime in SA, he laughed and said in his city there are bicycles floating around not owned by anyone but that are used around the city by anyone and not needed to be locked, like communal bicycles. This would not be possible in SA. Why? Because that bike will get stolen properly in less than half a day.
The increasing crime will not kill the sport but it will take away your freedom to ride where you want. There will be less safe places to ride, and no the gym does really count as a safe place to ride for me, it is only a safe place to do mind-numbingly boring training.
People from overseas are always shocked to find out it is not safe to ride on your own in SA because they simply are not exposed to the same crime levels overseas.
In SA there is a much better chance that you will be killed, and/or raped if you are a woman, but you say "It is simply not true that cycling is more dangerous here in terms of crime", this does not make sense.
Sorry this is not the same everywhere in the world, if this happened in Europe or US the police would have taken the scumbags out asap, but here crime pays, and the thugs sit there and await their next victim without fear.
