manbearpig

Any suggestions for lights? Best value for money optimum battery life etc?

Fill your tyres with helium. It will make your bike lighter and when you get a puncture it will make a funny sound like a chipmunk and you can have a giggle about it.

Yes we got held up quite a lot after the join. It is a little frustrating but you can always find a way past. We do this for fun and any oke who is rude and impatient should just train harder so he arrives before the slower riders get there. I think its a nice excuse to get your heart rate down though!

If it wasn't broken in the first place why'd you try fix it? If the tyre tread is ok just top up the sealant through the valve with a syringe and pipe next time.

How very noble OPC, standing up of MBP, you're my favourite dutchman. Thank you Andy for pointing out the erroneous maths but therein lies the humour. Try google my names sake, i'm sure there is youtube footage of the pretender to the manbearpig throne.

I only listen to it when i ride with my mates so i dont have to listen to all the k@k they talk.

Ok lets end this debate right here. Manbearpig IS half man, half bear and ............half pig !! Click on the link and wallow in your ignorance. And remember, manbearpig will get you !!! Even if he has to take a shortcut to do it. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=manbearpig

Mine was about 3min out but i did "the shortcut" which saved about 3 min. Ironic?

Yusssis 94, you were about 200m behind me following me through the field. I was keeping an eye on you in case the vooitjie strond holding your bike together let go. When i stopped to take my jacket etc off you were 30secs behind me so dont try get all holier than thou. Actually theres a place in the cape where you should go ride. Its called "verneukspan".

Manbearpig is half man, half bear and yes, half pig. His bike is not cast iron it is pig iron. He is not a cheat he just followed the bike in front of him like a manbearsheep, just like the ****' behind him followed the MBP. The question is who was the first to take the shortcut? Bandit was squealing (like a normal pig) the most about it so i'm starting to think it was him!!

Whatever helps you sleep at night you one lap wonder. Now you've made me mad natrix.

18km/h on a flat sand road? I was going to say 40km/h on the back wheel.

Ok i'm one of the baddies who followed the bike in front of me and ended up doing the shortcut across the field. It seems there were a few dummies spat out after the race so I thought of doing an exercise to quantify the gain of the short cut. Finding the said place on google earth and using the measuring tools it seems that the shortcut saved 1.5km, give or take 10m or so. The road that made up the actual route was flat sand road with a 100m cut through some veld. It is perfectly reasonable to assume at that early stage of the race a fairly fit rider should be able to maintain at least 25km per hour (6.9m/sec) over that section. Some faster, some slower. Using this figure of 25km/h and some simple maths we can deduce that the nett gain would be around 3min30 sec. My finish time was 3h:02min so I'd be happy to admit a time of 3h.05min30secs. Unless I'm DQ'd of course...... Manbearpig has spoken.

Can't think of any tours won in the pyrenees. The Alps is where it starts.

Mmmmmm! baby back ribs....

A taxi broke down in the middle of Barry Hertzog drive yesterday 5pm. Instead of pushing the piece of sh!t out the way he just left it in the road to block the traffic and then he buggered off. He is the most hated (deservedly) person in JHB. He must die. Btw you never said we had to vent about about cycling stuff.

2x 45min spinning classes in a row does me no harm. I think....

Sounds a little fishy, maybe someone has greased his palm for the agency in your area. His reasons are not enough to withdraw the agency.

With that kind of pace you should call Contador, I hear he may have some loyalty problems with his current domestiques and may need serious back up in the Alps. And above all remember, "it's not about the bike".

Just a reminder though, it seems that bombs affect slime quite negatively. Once you've used a bomb best you replace it.

Dunno if i'm crazy but I've got an RP23 and when you flip the blue lever across it makes a HUGE difference. As close to lock as you can get. I'm only 80kg though. The 1,2,3 damper settings make a slight difference. I had the same problem that you describe and I took it to Morningside cycles. You can give them your shock and they send it away for service. You can either wait for a couple of weeks to get yours back or you can just pay for the service and get a replacement shock as a permanent swop.

Ja 94, hungry and angry is the same thing for MBP. It just p*issed me off so much on Sunday. Anyway i found a spot in the dip on tar road on the way back. I murdered a banana and strawberry muffins

Open letter to "Teaks Place" Dear Owners/managers, I had heard so much about your spot in the last month or so that I decided that even if my mates weren't keen I was gonna come check it out this last weekend. So on Sunday morning I rammed down some oats and left my place in Fourways area. I did a round about loop of about 40km to get to your gate. It was well after 9 when I got there and unfortunately the lady at the spaza shop informed me that the shop was not open yet so could not buy any kind of snack. "No problem" I thought, "i'll go do a loop of the farm and then buy something for the ride home" The ride started out pretty boring but kept getting better and better. It turned out to be a great 21km!! When got back to the spaza shop it was still closed. No one to be seen? Feeling like I could now eat the arse out of a dead skunk I decided to spoil myself and have one of your now"famous breakfasts" at the restaurant. It was 10.45am and your hostess chick told me "sorry breakfast closes at 11" and I was not going to be served. I explained to her that I had ridden from home and that I really needed anything, ANYTHING!!! to eat. When I told her the shop was closed she said she'd ask the other manager/owner to help me. He told her "the shop is closed because......." and then walked off?? With a shrug of her shoulders she turned away and started talking to another cyclist who was then complaining how the prices had increased dramatically since the previous week. Listening to the conversation I realised that you people are really only interested in ripping people off and using the gimmick of your bike trails to perpetuate your weekend thievery. My suggestion to you is to get a hostess who has at least ridden a bicycle before to run the show so that we the riders can at least get a bit of chit chat in before you mug us. In closing I really do think you suck and i'd rather smell the wafting sh*t and eat the grissled boerie rolls at northern farms then visit your place again. Yours sincerely, MANBEARPIG