bobbejaan

"The trail that Rob had taken us to was named Jungle Fever which seemed appropriate given that a whole troop of baboons decided to take a break, from whatever it is baboons get up to, and chill on one of the long tabletops" Hah hah boons.. The big ones like to chill on the long treetops... some of the smaller ones even like to throw rocks on the trails... in protest at all the meld vragmotors and trekkers... i haven't been on the trailpark myself yet, just passed by it a few times... excellent location on the route of some of the most popular garden route marathon races... and if you're feeling adventurous, there are little trails all the way up/down the passes heading to george or rheenendaal, its a great place to train your climbing skills. dankie, looks like you guys had a good time

no camping... right.

thanks for your thoughts so far people. what about camping?

http://www.the36one.co.za/ what is the word on this event? I haven't done a race of this scale before. pricey race for a solo rider. any tips?

If i was starting a trend it'd be 'Cycling Store Robbery Tours' because exhorbitant retail mark up must one day be avenged! something tells me its not as bad in CT though.

Lets say i'm looking to buy maintainance tools. which shop would have these available?

just passing through, have a few hours to kill and know my way around CT, wasn't there a good one near salt river?

hey, which are the best bicycle shops in Cape Town? passing through Cape Town next week, would be nice to take a look.

cool, so all I need to buy is a shimano cassette remover, bonus.

pawls! right, thanks. pawls are what i'm referring to as 'clips' and you've defined the problem i was trying to explain so we understand each other exactly. the wheel is a DT-swiss something or other, can't remember took the stickers off. more importantly, the hub is a Deore XT FH-M756, so the freewheel body must be something in the fh-m750 -> fh-m760 range. You see, I've had this exact same problem before using another shimano hub/freewheel on an older wheel and back then i replaced the freewheel but used the same cassette i'm using on my current rear wheel and now this problem has recurred causing me to suspect the cassette which is a Sram PG-970 9 speed cassette. but, you know it took a while to rear (no pun intended) its ugly head again because this rear wheel has done like 1500km give or take on this cassette. so did the cassette damage the pawls, or is it just mud?

you lost me there. what are 'pawls' ?

must be dust/mud/water damage then, seeing as the problem only cropped up since that week of rain we had last month, seems one of the clips inside the freehub isn't connecting to the freehub outer body... makes it **** to pedal when you lose half of the power on each stroke.

i'm sure its possible as i've been riding like that for months... its just going pear shaped on me now... R250-350 for a new free hub is one thing but a new casette is another.

nooo, no pics i'm afraid i'd have to take the casette off and then the freehub apart. but it seems only one of the 2 sets of 'clips' inside the freehub is connecting and i'm trying to find out if its caused by the 9speed sram casette i'm using on a deore XT free hub... so i can exact repair / replacement costs...

hi there, bit of a noob question : if a road casette is fastened to a mtb casette body is there a chance the road casette will damage the mtb casette body internals? not immediately, mind you... over time.