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  1. openmind
    So we just walk that section - a CX bike hangs nicely on the shoulder.
  2. openmind
    The 100 Miler is a great race, but it's hardly "off-road"! Just look at the pics - lovely groomed gravel *roads* The only real technical challenge is picking the right line through the corrugations, hehe!
  3. openmind
    Just use the singletrack on the harbour side to link Marine drive to Church street.
  4. openmind
    There is an odd duiweltjie or two, but Stan sorts them out.
  5. openmind
    To avoid the hotspot: Going out of town, leave the bike lane by way of that long ramp that takes you up to the Lower Church Street bridge (by the Old Brewery). Turn left at the top and loop round to join the N1, but while in the loopy onramp hop on the single track that runs right next to the road. It goes alongside the N1 and over the sidewalk on the bridge and then next to Marine Drive all the way to the harbour entrance in Paarden Island. Then you have a wide yellow shoulder until you join the bike path again by the market. The single track is a bit bumpy and not really skinny tire compatible, but what are you doing commuting on your race sled for anyway!? Any tire more than 25mm will be fine on that ST. Going in do the same in reverse - just use the loopy onramp as an offramp, cross the bridge at the top, zoom down that rampy ramp and roll into town. If you're uncomfortable going against the traffic on the shoulder then just cross the road for those bits. QED.
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    A .gpx file is just a computer file format - a few lines of code will produce a .gpx file with any numbers in it you like. Perhaps Fanie needs to add a bit more entropy to his algorithm p.s. until Strava partners with all the device manufacturers and shares some secret encryption key with them to prevent digital doping, it's all just a big w*nk.
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    It all depends where you drill it I would drill under the BB - the BB shell in an alu frame is usually quite meaty. Make the hole a little bigger than you need and you'll have a water drain at the same time. You should have no trouble routing some cable casing around the bb cartridge itself (inside the shell). I would not drill the seat tube anywhere near the suspension pivots - you never know what the stresses in those areas look like.
  9. openmind
    There is the unwritten corollary to rule 95 which provides exemption for Euro pros.
  10. openmind
    Add a correction to that disclaimer: this is a new event, not a rebranded Tour de Boland. There was no Tour of Good Hope last year. Pictures of and references to last year's tour are from a different event. It amounts to shameless exploitation of the successes of a competing event. The http://tourdeboland.com still exists in its original form. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
  11. openmind
    Cool, I had a Kona Cinder Cone in the 90's. My friends rode Explosifs. Great bikes. Here she is: Just don't ever use that Hyperlite bar - they used to break like sticks. Too light for their own good.
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    Don't forget you will be paying 40% (or is it 60%?) duty on that clothing when it arrives. I hope you've factored that into your price comparisons. I personally never buy bike clothing from a non-SA online retailer. It's not worth the risk of getting the size wrong and when you factor in the duty it is often cheaper locally.
  13. openmind
    Make sure your wheels are actually road tubeless compatible. Your Fulcrums should be the "Two-way fit" type. The critical feature is that the rim's bead MUST have the tubeless profile or else you run the very real risk of blowing the tyre off the rim. It's not enough that the rim is sealed / has no spoke holes. There are many rims that have no spoke holes that are not road tubeless compatible. I have Fulcrum Racing Zero's Two-way fit and have run Hutchinson Fusion tubeless tires for two years now with no punctures. Awesome technology. Can't wait for the Schwalbe Pro Ones - they are in a league of their own apparently (performance, puncture resistance, weight and comfort).
  14. openmind
    Fantastic! Well done Louis!
  15. openmind
    This has nothing to do with Lance and everything to do with "Hey, look, I wrote a book. Go and buy it." Cheap clickbait fluff piece.
  16. openmind
    Yes, but very nice n+1 fodder...
  17. openmind
    So Bike Snob is a dick, Cav is an asshat - you have a way with words, don't you?
  18. openmind
    Pielle het twee elle
  19. openmind

    Polar V800

    openmind replied to SwissVan's topic in New Gear

    Anyone know why you can't buy just a speed sensor for a V800 - looks like you have to buy the speed and cadence set to get the speed sensor. The cadence sensor is sold separately though.
  20. openmind
    I'm selling my Nespresso Esenza coffee machine and Aeroccino frother - see ad here: Nespresso Coffee Machine And Milk Frother
  21. openmind
    Don't knock a triple crank, especially on a bike like this where a few grams are of little concern - the ability to dump or gain a bunch of gears twice instead of just once with one click of the left shifter is invaluable, especially on undulating track where you are trying to maintain momentum and a reasonable pedal cadence. Shimano front shifting is so good that you can do this reliably under power with no mis-shifts.
  22. openmind
    Funny how simple threaded BBs just don't seem to creak; or if they do, it's easy to fix. Maybe pressfit is just a technology step too far.
  23. openmind
    Silicone spray.
  24. openmind
    They might be on to something - my heart rate drops by 3-5 bpm if I close my mouth and only breathe through my nose. Problem is, I can't keep this up as my skinny white man's nose does not let me breathe fast enough through my nose only. I've tried the strips which work until they peel off from sweat (which happens pretty quickly). Apparently, your nose conditions the air adding moisture, removing dust etc. which improves the ability of the lungs to take up O2. So the more you can breathe through your nose the better.
  25. openmind
    I raced a Pinarello Montello SLX in the early 90's and happened to be on holiday in Italy in 1992. I was in Treviso (Pinarello's home town) and looked up the local Pinarello bike shop. Giovanni Pinarello happened to be there and I started to chat to him about how I loved my bike and about Miguel Indurain who had recently won the Tour on a Pinarello. He offered to show me round the factory so I hopped into a Pinarello branded car full of carbon disk wheels (!) and we drove off to the factory where he gave me a personal guided tour, showed me his maglia nera (black jersey - for the last man in the race!) from the 1951 Giro, let me sit on Indurain's bike that still had a Tour number on it and gave me a signed poster of Big Mig! His son Fausto (who runs Pinarello today) took some pictures of us with my camera. I'll never forget that day. RIP Mr Pinarello.
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