Cyclewizz

The problem has been there for a long time but Shimano just decided to ignore it - until now Because they were forced to sort it out now !!

For the Endurance option you need to a achieve the following 60min at 70%-79% - 300 points 90min at 70%-79% - 450 points 120min at 70%-79% - 600 points 180min at 60%-69% - 600 points There's some other in-between options. What I normally aim for is a 3hrs ride on a Saturday & Sunday and that gives 1200 points - Weekly goal completed !!

Don't have a choice but to use the PO. I did once order a bicycle light which came with a battery and that arrived via courier (came from Turkey) and was also here within 2 or 3 weeks. Would be great if AliExpress had to use Buffalo like Shein do but they haven't got there yet. Personally I've seen better service from PO this year, seems that closing majority of the branches has slightly help with processing packages

I've ordered hundred's of items over the years. Here and there an item got lost, mainly because of the SA Post Office but AliExpress refunded me. Earlier this year I order some stuff and collected it from the Post Office 2 weeks later - thought the world was coming to an end. The next order took 4 weeks but some have take 2 - 3 months - mainly because of the Post Office.

Well done on achieving 399 weeks !!!! I'm also somewhere in the 300+ weeks streak, they even spoiled me with a T-Shirt last year. I've been on the Endurance version where I need to get 1200 points to reach my goal, been like that for a good few years now.

IMO - Wattbike was great when it came out but these days IDT have ERG mode and that is 1 of the best inventions ever making the Wattbike somewhat outdated. If you need the motivation and commitment from a class environment then rather stay with the Wattbike studio if you are able to motivate yourself and have the discipline to train then a Smart Trainer is definitely the way to go.

Got to agree with you here, the asking prices are crazy (IMO). Notice that majority of it doesn't sell, 4 weeks go buy and the ad gets re-posted. The well priced stuff (carbon rim brake with 10spd) for like R9k sell within a week or 2. The interest rates have also had an effect on affordability, maybe the high end new market is different. Being in Winter the market also normally slows down but come Spring and with even more interest rate hikes on the way and the Rand tumbling there's probably going to be a breaking point.

Well when Schumi was at Ferrari it was even more boring, there was really no point in watching. Hamilton dominated for 7 or 8 years. Formula 1 seems to have always been this way. The team that has the best car just runs away with it. Happy for Alonso, he's flying the "toppie" flag high at the moment, hope he can continue until the end of the season.

Guess that you aren't a Red Bull fan ???

Back in the day when Navworld did the warranty exchanges it was awesome. Walk in with a faulty Garmin unit, they would test it in front of you and if it was faulty they'd offer you a replacement or upgrade, you paid and walked out with a new unit. When Garmin started doing their own replacements it wasn't too bad, quotes would take about 1hr. Unfortunately these days it's a disaster. They went from having excellent after sales service to terrible after sales service which is rather sad.

I've had so many Garmin's over the years that can't probably remember all of them. Had 2 watches fail on me and they were replaced. The Garmin Edge is probably bullet proof, however I think the worst unit is the Garmin 820, don't know anybody that has had 1 that didn't end up sending it back to Garmin at some stage, the screen is terrible and ends up getting lines across it. Still think the Edge 500 and the 800 are the rock solid units, still know people using these units today. Will be like cellphones, just can't keep up and the prices just increase also don't use all the fancy new features.

Can't even remember when last I did the Emperor's race. The one year there was lost of crazy stuff happening in some of the intersections so I decided to skip it after that and haven't been back. Also had some friends that crashed there so now I just stay away completely from that race. But just remember that I'm soft so rather ask somebody else's opinion

Stays in the same place where it normally is. You'll have to buy a mount and an electronic card (timing chip) then use cable ties to make it nice and tight onto the seat post.

Racetec no longer times 94.7 and last year the seeding at the 94.7 was like they drew your name out of a lucky packet. I applied for a re-seeding last year and they did nothing, however some of my friends were re-seeded. Racetec isn't has big as when when you were racing, some races have adapted the same system that 94.7 uses (a card that goes on your seat post like a racing number) Your best bet would probably be to do those races at the beginning of Spring (like Race 4 Victory) and submit that result to get re-seeded at 94.7. I think Emperor's is still coming up, that would also probably help. 94.7 have always done their own seeding but now since the new organizers took over it's a bit more of a lucky packet.

Thanks for this post Tried it out this morning and it works well I just need to get a bigger screen, the phone is a bit small

This timing company's format is terrible. There's also lots of irrelevant times, saw some guy with a time of 46min for the 97km route.

Good Luck to ALL Wishing everybody a safe & awesome RACE / RIDE

That's because you climb faster than a mountain goat !!! Can't even ask you for a push because these idiots reseeded me and then left my number the same Must say this year the organizers have really F%$#ED everything up and it's with low entry numbers, imagine if 20k people had entered.

They reseeded me and when I fetched my number I was still in F, so the reseeding was a waste of time. Scanned my timing board and it still belongs to me but yes the shirt number is different. Looking for your name is a complete mission, everything is mixed up, eventually found mine though. The expo was nothing exciting. Just spoke to the TechnoGym guys and asked if their new fancy bikes will be going into Virgin Actives and the guy said that VA have already bought 69 units with a bigger purchase planned for 2023. Showed me what you can do on that bike.

Gee that sucks. Numbers seriously down compared to 2019 Suppose you'll have to build them up again

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Is there no seeding for this race ? Batch just says Open Seeded

Oh I got F for FAT

Seedings are being sent out via email What does everybody's seeding look like ??

Still can't find an excellent deal on an Ultegra 11 speed groupset (2nd hand) so the boom isn't over. Lots of items selling in the classifieds within hours, so people still have money. Later we'll hear by how much interest rates will increase, needs to be minimum of 75 basis points but should probably be 100 basis points. good if you have money in the bank, bad if you have lots of bad debt. Hopefully in a few months there'll be some deals around