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Got in touch and got sorted. What a lovely oke. Thank you so much for the recommendation.

Thank you - I'll try him now

Folks After a recent health issue, I am required to have a stent put into an artery and will be unable to train in any serious way for a month or so (April) , which is a ball ache as I am travelling over for Berg and Bush in early June. As a result, the only way that I can see myself being in a good place for the event is to use an e-bike. I think I may already know the answer, but does anyone know of a business that rents out decent e-bikes in Gauteng or KZN? Thanks in advance

I've had a 540 for a couple of months now. Upgraded from a 530. Love it, except for the buttons seeming to "protrude" a bit more or something. Whatever it is, I find myself pushing buttons unintentionally quite often. I'm sure I'll adjust but it is a ball ache at the moment.

This thread feels like the old days. Ive had discs on my road bike since 2019 and not had a day's trouble with them. Living in Northern Ireland, I ride in inclement weather almost as much as I do in dry weather (maybe an exaggeration but it feels like that sometimes lol) and haven't had any warping or problems yet.

Thanks for sharing. I was curious as I have done something similar whilst prepping for Berg & Bush and will take some lessons from your experience. A couple of weeks ago I set up a coach personality in ChatGPT in a similar way to you, although haven't been as consistent with uploading my rides as you. I would still prefer a human coach but this has allowed me to dip in and out at any times with questions etc and, as my only goal is to finish and not be broken, I can't justify the cost this year of a Coach. Interestingly, I have access to all of the major AI platforms paid options through work so I put the same instructions into the latest versions of Claude and Gemini and got quite different guidance and programming from each of them. I didn't want to explore too much on them as they are supposed to be for work only but it did make me think about the differences.

Hi @PietervS. Found this thread and wondering how this project went?

RIP - so sad.

I’ve tried to rent bikes in SA a few times as an alternative to carting a bike over with me every year, with very little success. Seems to be a non-viable market, especially in KZN. I also tried Gauteng last year but didn’t receive any responses to my queries.

😜- of course they launch a redesign just after I bought mine.

So sad. RIP

I got my new giant anthem partly paid through the scheme. 2024 model discounted from 5k to 3.6k. I paid 1200 and got a voucher for 2400. As a 45% taxpayer, the bike will end up costing me about 2500 all in. Next year I’ll use the scheme to upgrade components to DI2.

I think that the cycle2work scheme is a big contributor to bike shops staying open over here. When the gov took away the max spend per bike, a lot of folks took advantage of getting higher priced bikes and paying them off over 12 months from salary pre-tax. I know a couple of dealers who are kept busy with cycle2work vouchers

Stunning Bike - Congrats