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  1. The whole "status symbol" thing has a lot to answer for, all over the world. Luckily I have no status . . . . . :-)
  2. "Whiteys ride expensive bikes thru jo'burg once a month" shocker and in other news, black people ride in expensive cars thru Sandton every day of the week. :-)
  3. they had a gentlemens agreement, one helped the other first year and was repaid the next year.
  4. When I spoke to Chris recently I congratulated him on an excellent and very impressive TdF ride this year and asked him if he'd be able to try just a teency bit harder next year with a view to some personal glory. He said yes. I think we're going to see great things from Mr Froome next year :-)
  5. Didn't see that but I did see the girl who went over the handle bars just after the NM bridge. She was ok when I passed and had friends with her. I really enjoyed the ride, spent some time at the front, in the middle and at the back. Good to see so many "regulars" and great to meet freindly new poeple. Also nice to see couples coming along together. Always a good move to try and involve your other half in something like this :-) I rode for a bit with some guys I met through work and had invited. They enjoyed it too :-)
  6. I thought the aim was to ride together in a large group? A "mass" if you will . . . . . :-)
  7. I haven't read this whole thread, but it sounds to me like the OP is the problem . . . He can't ride for toffee and doesn't carry basic tools or a phone . . . . I'm sure he'll learn . . . eventually . . . LOL
  8. Bonus

    2012 94.7

    This was my third time. First time was on my own on a road bike - 3:15. Then my GF and I did it together on MTB's with slicks (she didn't have a road bike) and it took all day (literally). Today we did it together on road bikes and she did a 4:48 - which she was very happy with. Now that she has a proper bike and I know she's ok to ride on her own I'll do it on my own next year and go for a PB. Saw a few nasties - including an accident on a sharp corner between randburg and douglasdale (no idea where but there was an accident there on previous years too) and we rode through a pool of blood on the road just after leaving Diepsloot. Hope everyone recovers ok.
  9. Don't know who took the photo. Who could you think of that it wouldn't have been though? Pat McQuaid Betsy Andreu Emma O'Riely Tyler Hamilton Alberto Contador Filippo Simeone . . .
  10. Cheers - I saw in 10 secs after I posted! Should have looked more carefully Duh!
  11. I thought I posted this yesterday but it vanished so I'll try again. Who did the 55km MTB ride yesterday? I did it, but the combination of less than sufficient fitness, gears not working properly and a slow rear wheel puncture made it a very long and tough ride :-( I enjoyed the course, although the last 500m were a bit strange! Most of the bottlenecks were rideable, but not if you were behind someone that couldn't of course! Plenty of medics and support people who seemed nicely on top of things. Saw quite a few tumbles towards the end - probably from fatigue. Medics were on hand though - hope everyone was ok. Looking forward to next Sunday now :-)
  12. http://localtvwiti.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/lance-armstrong-jerseys.jpg?w=400 Nothing he's doing now or in the near future is per chance. Everything will be well thought out and deliberate.
  13. I've always found Alex, Liam and Christoff to be enthusiastic, pleasant and helpful. Nice guys to talk to. They have a wide range of products - many of them top-end items. Of course you may come across a youngster who doesn't have as much knowledge as you'd like - but if you think you know better, catch one of the more experienced guys and get a second opinion. No big deal - and that way the youngsters get to learn as they go. If you think the prices are a bit steep, then shop around. Same as we all do for everything we buy in life. I like the fact that they are 10 mins from my house and can almost always fit me and my bike in. Sometimes convienience trumps price. Sometimes quality is worth paying for. Depends what you're buying and how you plan to use it! PS - The Dome crits are cool - but hard work!
  14. Wasn't he refering to the TT handlebars that GL used in '89 though? Resulted in LF losing by 8 seconds . . . . Was a cracking race, but very frustrating. GL basically did naff all for 21 days except sit on other peoples wheels, then won the TT on the last day. The organisers vowed never to have a TT final stage ever again.
  15. Just browsing through this thread from time to time - can't read everything, everywhere - it's too damn depressing. I've been to the T de F many times, usually for a week or ten days, and I've watched the final stage on the CE twice. I can't tell you how dissapointed I am in the whole thing :-( But, there was something that made me smile . . . . . When any rider wins Le Tour, it is customary for him to share the total winnings between the whole team. The theory being that he will make enough money from appearences and sponsorship not to need it. So . . . . if Le Tour wants to claim back the prize money it will have to go to the team mates to do so . . . . those same team mates that are currently being given get out of jail free cards for what they are doing :-)
  16. I generally ride along the dotted yellow line now and weave past the bollards. There's just too much glass on the cycle lanes nowadays. I don't agree that the 94.7 amatures are the biggest problem - in fact I have a lot of time for them. I have no time at all though for the the riders who seem to have poles up their arses because they think they are better than everyone else and can therefore ride however they want to. Tolerance is the answer, just as it is with so many things. Shame it's so hard for so many people :-( One of my biggest concerns however is not cyclists, but people in bakkies and cars who seem to have the idea that crossing the center line to pass cyclists, even when it's perfectly safe to do so, will invoke some sort of evil entity that will rise up out of the road and suck out there brains through their ears. (I can't think of any other reason why they have to pass us so closely AND beep as they go by.) Happily, I have never had an issue with a Taxi at the cradle . . . . :-)
  17. Excellent ride friday night - and a big thanks to the marshalls who helped make the ride run so smoothly! I tried to sweep the group back to Dunkeld and ended up riding with a young couple who, half way along Jan Smuts, asked me "if we were at Juta yet?" They turned back with some people in a car and I suddenly found my self right off the back! lol Cheers to the marshal who kept an eye on me for five mins til I caught back up :-)
  18. No I think I grasp the point - and I enjoy the ride. Just don't think we should drop the weaker riders off the back to accomodate the people that want to race off the front. I doubt many people who get dropped in the middle of town or Hillbrow will come back for another ride, and that would be a real shame.
  19. I must say when I was marshalling at one set of lights last month, the group was strung out for about 2km and took 10 traffic light changes to get thru. The cars waiting were ok for the first 5 or 6 changes . . . . :-) edit: As far as the speed goes, there will always be people at the front who want to race ahead. My vote is to let them go rather than try to keep up with them and concentrate on not dropping the guys at the back, who are often infrequent riders, first timers, or families. If the guys going off the front make a wrong turn or miss a turn then that's their problem, not Skidds responisbility . . . .
  20. From what they were saying at the scene, he felt unwell, stopped and sat on the verge for a while, phoned his wife to fetch him but then suffered a fatal heart attack. We arrived there 20 min after the ambulance was first called and it was at least another ten mins before a paramedic bakkie arrived. By then it was too late and the folks trying to revive him had stopped. his wife and half a dozen more emergency vehicles arrived a short while later. When we rode back past there a 45mins later there were quite a few family members there with her. This, and the heart attack fatality 3 weeks ago has certainly highlighted how far away from medical responce you are if you ride out there alone :-(
  21. RIP :-( Deepest sympathies to the family. Respect to the guys and girls that tried their best to revive him.
  22. Saw someone doing exactly this on Saturday around lunch time. Thought they were doing it for a race at the time.
  23. Coming into this thread a bit late - but just wondering . . . . Do the "witnesses" that offered to testify against LA have anything to lose/gain by doing so? Is there any plea bargaining going on etc?
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