mdk555

My wife and I used to live in a complex in Parklands and our bill (prepaid) was R 250.00 in summer and R 350.00 in Winter. In April we moved to a house in Blouberg Rise and bill jumped to R 800.00 (meter payment). Immediatley threw out all old light bulbs and replaced with energy saving ones and bought a 4 plate gas hob (had a 2 one in Parklands) and now bill has dropped to R 400.00. Water, we cut our bill by only filling toielt cistern when needed as 90% of cistern floats dont work as they should. Busy investigating a borehole and then disconecting toilet cistern from main water line and use borehole water flush the loo. Grey water - will be connecting all grey water outlets like, shower, dishwaher etc to a tank for watering the garden. Solar power - can also be done DIY with huge savings. Allready have a composter (Makro R 800.00) and soon worm farm. Kinda feels good saving some bucks and doing something for Mother Nature.

Only carry a small tazer when on one my own on my MTB

Riding a wrong size bike and bad set up has resulted in me spening about R 20 000.00 on a MRI, CAT Scan. physio, 3 specialists and 6 months off the bike with a knee that gave in. Would have been cheaper to buy the correct sized bike.

Hi Admin Site looks great but I am missing the function where a person could see the first few lines of the topic without opening it. mdk555

I used to replace my chain every 2000km. Buy a chain guage and will save you more as that way you save on clusters as well.

The Herald is an awesome ride with some fantastic roads and great scenery. Just a pity that on Sunday I lost my bunch on the first hill and then the bunch I was with was not interested in working.

The Yanks have no style.

and today we have a pomping South Easter. Thank goodness we never had it for the Burger.

Hi David - collarbone is healed and only have a slight discomfort on the shoulder and now back in full force counting down to Dec 18 for the start of the Desert Dash.

@ Woofie - chest is better and had a great ride doing 3.00 @ Ronelle - awesome, where was that @ Brussel - neat

If it is anything like ours then I suggest no-one goes outside today

Another k@k day in Cape Town

I just cannot stop laughing at this pic

Alison Thomson - 021 552 6707. Have been going to her for the past 2 years.

My episode meeting Mother Earth training for TransBaviaans.

Uwe after a little erf buying session at the Tiletoria West Coast Express.

Happened just before the Caltex on the West Coast Road when they where clapping it at 50km+ when wheels touched. No-one else was involved and he cycled back to the start. mdk5552009-10-26 00:18:27

OUCH Double Ouch Looking better Time to catch up om some lost training

Medals are not that expensive and for the WEST COAST EXPRESS the cloth badges used to cost us +- R 4.00 ea and the medals for 2008 came in at R 6.00 ea. This is huge branding for our sponsor.

To novices and newcomers to the sport the medal is of huge importance and is a reward for what they have done. My collegue has her three medals stuck on the wall behind her desk and is hugely proud of them. We will see what happens when she get a checker bag full but right now those three medals are a huge motivating factor to enter another race.

Keep at it WW and never give up. My doc told me that I would notbe able to be back on the bike for at least 2 - 3 months. Well the physiotherapist OK'd me at 6 weeks to cycle and now biokenticist is writing me weight training program which I start 2moro am on the 2 month mark. mdk5552009-09-14 03:52:04

Dumb and Dumber did 15H55 and Outcasts 18H55 TBC