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Sbloomer

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  1. Curious Why would you make statement like that?
  2. Ok, so with Level 3 imminent, what is going to happen with the Tygerberg Trails?
  3. That's why I scan every invoice for everything worth insuring, or have in writing about or photographs of stuff I have bought second hand. It also helps when you forget about stuff you should have claimed for. I had my garage raided and luckily the insurance paid out for everything I claimed for, until I needed that hugely expensive Torque Wrench, when working on my car, or that set of router bits (and forgot to claim for) But I hear you. the OP makes me laugh
  4. Oh the horror, I hear you say. You don't have tubeless? The struggle is real I don't know if it is weeks of lockdown that have resulted in massive amounts of dubbeltjies being thrown into the roads but my kids have suddenly managed to get huge numbers of punctures while out doing their short rides while mom is doing her running. This was from my son's bike in a 6km ride and they all swear he only rode on the road or near the gutter. Both my son and daughter have loads of slime in their tyres but I'm still having to try deal with flats after almost every ride, although my daughter's bike (with Maxxis) seems less vulnerable than my son's (with Rocket Ron). Is there a better anti-flat solution than slime? Or am I going to have to fit tyre liners? Or go with better much more substantial tyres, which I don't want to do given the scarcity of decent tyres in 26" and 24" I've also had to deal with these thorns on my gravel bike (but luckily only one flat) and they are far more numerous in the road than I can recall
  5. We don't even know if we will be allowed to cycle from Friday anyway
  6. I also note that all the 100+ km this year (including the CTCT) are carrying a penalty of 15 points... Edit: That's on racetec, not on PPA
  7. I submitted mine manually the day of the race. Points were awarded by Monday afternoon
  8. More chance of having your rectum blocked by jellyfish than getting corona there. Damnitall. I wanted to go ride there on Sunday with the kids.
  9. My cars lights are on permanently (ok not when it’s parked in my garage) but I think cyclists should have the same. Hi-vis gear and eyeball melting lights at all times.
  10. According to the the powers, they have no record of my 1991 ride. It was my first Argus and my only sub-3:30. I have photos of me on route. Still bummed about it.
  11. I ride the same. On the CTCT I got a number of comments on the “interesting tyres” Not that well known in CT it seems
  12. I’m in the very last second of that video, behind the one tandem. I heard you tell us there’s a sea out there [emoji23][emoji23]
  13. I went the self build route, but it's not a true gravel bike (is there such a thing?). Basically a relatively lightweight Alu frame, carbon forks, and carbone just about everything else, with 45 FARR tyres and 2x10 MTB gearing. What I like about it is the oodles of room I have for climbing gearing. I noticed on Sunday when the guys on roadbikes ran out of gears up something like Smits, I still had plenty available. The bummer is that peddling beyond 45km/h is beyond me, and the roadbikes catch up again on the flats. Conclusion, I need to run bigger chainrings for road, and MOST gravel rides. The bugger is (and I didn't think about this) is the availability of these chainrings in SA for my crank, and they cost a fortune if you can find them. If I did the exercise again, I would think much more carefully about cranks and compatibility with larger chainrings (or just bought one of the FARR frame kits).
  14. I note with sadness someone passed away just after he finished (presumably a heart attachk). Seems at least one every year. Very sad.
  15. Has anyone ridden into, or through the West Coast NP? We've had issues going into Cape Point NR, where the people at the gate did not seem to understand what we needed to pay, and whether a wild card was relevant, or whether there was a day/weekend permit and, and and... Google seems to suggest only normal park entry fees or wildcard is required. I'd like to do some cycling / bird watching around the lagoon, but I don't want my arm broken by some pesky game ranger.
  16. Speaking of tjops, I was in 4B, which with the Cycling Safety Group. To be part of this you had to commit to wearing your cycling safety garb. I was amazed at the number of people who pitched up wearing nothing of the sort, and when they were given cycling safety bibs to wear, they had ditched the bibs, either in the chute, or somewhere on the route. I suppose it takes all sorts to make the world go round, but it was disappointing to me to see those people flicking a middle finger to cycling awareness, for a seeding that was better than they possibly could have achieved on their own. Otherwise it was great ride for me, shaving over an hour off last year's time, and I feel I'm back on track to hopefully a sub-4 next year.
  17. I keep my iPhone attached to a small powerbank, and keeps going for about 10 hours. I use the phone as a cycle computer.
  18. I use Strava Beacon, but that requires a summit subscription
  19. Does anyone know how long it takes racetec to fix results? My results don’t appear and I logged a query submitting my garmin data to them on Sunday. Nothing doing.
  20. Yes. I have another 4 months or so to make it work
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