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Could anybody advise on a good broker for all insurance purposes, including bicycles and sport devices?

I'm currently trying to get an old Formula The One brakeset working. I serviced the rear brake and it works gorgeously, but the front brake isn't budging, despite disassembly and cleaning. Does anyone perhaps have another brake like this or the seals that typically go around the sealing screws and pots?

It was most likely the yamawhaaa okies... I'm on a ktm, but wouldn't mind that new electric harley!

I came here to read opinions on whether forum users believe the 2nd hand market to be stronger or weaker as a buyer. I left with my daily dose of people fighting with each other and not sticking to the topic. As for my input, I just repaired my bike and called it a day. Happy Friday everyone🚴‍♀️⏪

Hi fellow bike riders I've been doing the learner's roulette for the past few years because I couldn't get a license booking for the most part. Reckon I'd like to get the test done now, but not sure where a "reliable" testing station is, either around edenvale jhb or equestria pta. Way back I drove out of gauteng to do my driving license. I'll probably do the test on my current 690 duke, as it is quite light, nimble, and I'm used to it! Any advice on which testing stations to keep an eye on for online booking slots?

For the record, all the articles online have misspelled the location. It is Disselboom avenue, not Disselbon: https://goo.gl/maps/NzwB4hNDpFHE66gp6 It appears as though the hijackers were released, but that's just what I read form these same crappy copy paste articles. I cycle that area and would like to know it is purged from the scum.

Hi Bikehubbers, I'm doing a personal little case study and I've looked at some threads here and didn't see quite a similar topic. I've contacted some repairers before, but to my knowledge, I only know of 3 carbon repairers in Gauteng. I'm finding the choice of repairers to be very limited, thus no competition on pricing from my findings. I've contacted Carbon Bike Repair in Jhb, but got no response, I've contacted Macarbi Rowshop in Jhb South. I've contacted Cycledelic in Benoni. I've contacted Carbon Ninja (Greame) in KZN. My findings indicate repairs to vary significantly. One place will have high repairs and high resprays, while others may have low repairs and high resprays or high repairs and low resprays, while another may do repairs but no resprays. When repairing a R100k frame, high cost and high respray is expected, but what about Jan, Rap and his mate Willie, who rides a 10k or 20k, or even 40k Carbon frame, where a +- 10k repair is worth 25-100% of the actual frame value. I know many people wouldn't touch a repaired carbon frame - that's fine, you do you. I have and am happy to do it again, but of course wouldn't sell one without full disclosure. Otherwise, I'd appreciate it if any of you would add your opinion on various matters such as cost vs quality, necessity for resprays (as opposed to repairs only), levels of service quality you received, or even another reliable carbon repairer not on this list (Gauteng and beyond)?

My experience too. Try to find a high end 26er frame and they are either in the high end 29er price range, or non existant. As for low to maybe almost mid range 26ers, not so rare!

I just read through 11 pages hoping for a just ending... I'll stay tuned as I'm sure it'll come. Good luck, OP

The friendliness, price and sincerity is what got me hooked on Coimbra years ago. I'd say just keep it real with customers, no bs'ery, no foot foot stories, just plain good service, support for the oddball and don't rip people a new one. It is near my so I'll probably pop by some time. Care to share the address if that is allowed?

Being a customer of both - garmin has always disappointed in terms of price, service and support speed/quality. spez has always been good, free diagnostics and minor repairs at a concept store, with quick response and good service. Of my all time 4 garmin devices, only 1 has not given issues yet. In my case the product failure rate has been 75%. Thats unreasonably high for something not readily repairable and charged at the prices they charge. Where there is garmin bashing, I'll always come to the party as they've always disappointed. Sure, a reduced replacement fee is nice, but I've had 2 instances where buying a brand new garmin product on special elsewhere was cheaper than the replacement fee they quoted. It is utterly detestable. To OP - I like that you're eager to fight this. At the very least it should inform garmin (assuming there as a manager with the understanding) to have a look at their service and maybe, just maybe, improve their service to the rest of the country.

No issue with a note10 and fenix. Sounds very inconvenient, good luck having the issue disappear hopefully

my $0.02 Garmin probably has the product with best features and a price tag to match. Excellent workmanship, a dud here or there, just hope you never have to deal with head office or aftersales. I had a sigma cadence sensor for nearly a decade. it has fallen off and taken heavy beatings, always worked well. It only stopped working after going through the washing machine.

So long story short, the issue stemmed from me contacting the seller via whatsapp and not the chat. Regardless, I sent them a message afterwards and when they replied, I could rate them. They claimed to have been unable to rate the entire time, so cannot vouch for that, but admin did mention they should have an option to mark me as the seller.

Until you encounter a bunch of THOSE taxi's and realise it was folly to ever consider. Getting complacent with taxi's will end up in an accident. Never worth the time engaging with an angry fool in a car that you'll likely never see again (unless its a clown in your neighbourhood or whatever). Cynical perhaps, but efficient. Besides, if you stop to fight, your hr drops and that just undermines your own efforts!