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Doesn't this always push your weekly goal up to 1200 directly?

Like Blokman already answered, absolutely only tar, but the climbs can be gruesomely nice. if you want to train climbing power, its great, but technical climbing over rocks and stuff, not relevant to sbr unfortunately. I always go alone and find the downhill totally fine as long as I don't do erratic things like speed outside of my confidence zone or sit on the top tube on a turn with some loose sand. If you can ride a bike and know simple things like be cautious over loose sand/gravel, then riding alone at sbr is perfectly safe - I'm more cautious over the baboons!

With or without, I'd be happy to have a carbon rim to build something artsy with! I'll send a PM

Just a bump - anyone has ANY broken carbon wheels I can play with that would otherwise go to the rubbish bin?

Preceding your post with "friday thread" and then asking for "meaningful dialogue" and "slander of medical aid" is extremely contradictory. You can either have a friday thread or a meaningful dialogue, not both! If you use vitality to it's max, its worthwhile, if not, vitality are difficult people to deal with and super slow in responding. my 2c

I'm trying to figure out vitality's device booster & sportsman cash back nonsense but the "benefit guide" references labels in the table which aren't described elsewhere and I'm making no progress. Would someone please be so kind as to yes/no these following statements? - To a single member, Discovery will pay at most R2000 lump sum of device booster, based off of the item's sale price (i.e. it needs to be at least R8000 to make up 25% that is the R2000) - The first month cash back, assuming all requirements are met, is the R2000 lump sum above - The following months cash back will be R4000 scattered over 24 months until the device booster duration comes to an end. (does the device need to be minimum R10 000??) - If I can buy the same device somewhere for R6000 where Sportsmans would've asked R8000, I effectively already saved the maximum amount I would "get back" from vitality incentives, excluding the monthly cash back portions of the remainder R4000. I cannot actually find a page to activate said device booster and to check if there is an "activation fee" that would make the R2000 even less worthwhile/relevant. https://www.discovery.co.za/vitality/device-booster returns a 500 error, I can't find any link in the app, even after clicking every option available. https://www.sportsmanswarehouse.co.za/expert-advice/article/discovery-vitality-device-booster says "open the app, select the Device Booster Benefit" but I've not found any such option anywhere. I'm asking all of this because I want to give my current watch to a family member to encourage them to exercise, and get the fenix 5s+ or 735xt for shorter triathlons for myself (with future power meter possibilities!)

Slightly random, but if anyone has a broken 700c carbon front rim/wheel, I'd gladly pick it up. It's for a diy project. edit: rear wheel would work just as well.

Great and worthy cause to donate to!

What results do you get if you picked off her phone? If it's good - your phone and my phone and a few other phones have the low score bugs

This sounds correct. I also recall an email stating flight booster is being discontinued somewhere in July, but once-off discounts still apply.

Not the question, but that's not how flu shots work! Always worth going for the flu shot for a more versatile immune system

Please read my post again and pay attention that nowhere did I even mention TomTom devices nor compare them to garmin. All I'm getting is you, a seemingly zealous garmin fanboy, saw a chance to exaggerate what I said, jump to conclusions. I'm well aware of the devices on the market and agree that easily 3 or 4 out of 5 replacement options are likely to be taken up by garmin, but if you're in the business of making money, that still isn't good enough. As for the bolded part, far as I'm aware, Garmin, like all other product sales companies, are in the business of making money. So your question over why Garmin would care is a no brainer - you can never have enough marketing and sales promotions. SInce you love examples so much, look at what Coca Cola does. So what if you think garmin is better than tomtom, polar, fitbit, huawei, suunto, whatever, the fact that they simply exist and some even growing, is physical proof that the competition is strong. Complacency can easily damage or end a company.

and as usual, garmin SA doing sweet blue bugger all instead of jumping on this opportunity to boost marketing and trade-in promotions. Or perhaps Discovery placed some red tape preventing them from doing such things due to device booster arrangements?

Mr Mayhem, just curious, am I right to assume that there are no repercussions for discovery clients that cancel vitality as long as they don't have things like life policies, but only medical aid? I'm guessing yes, but don't know for sure. I'm starting to think Discovery wins mostly when a person signs up for vitality. They keep taking the same medical aid premiums, in spite of a presumably healthier member. In return the member gets some discounts that they have to juggle and work for most of the time. May as well just pay the medical aid price and stick vitality to them if you're not doing it for gym/devices etc?

I'm not sure which one did the trick - at first I uploaded that half A5 size dis chem invoice thing that gets stapled to everything that looks like a box, along with the receipt, then separetely a photo of the box with the sticker on. I'm sorry, unfortunately I'm not sure which one did the trick. My guess would be the first one, since that is a printout of stored computer information.

I purchased mine from the dis chem dispensary, took it home to apply diy, went onto the app and submitted a points claim and uploaded the required image, received the points 2-3 days later.

I've literally said the exact same thing on this thread a while ago It was supposed to be a source of education more, imo. Nothing wrong with "enjoying the banter" like you said, but I hope you take some of this serious and learn from it. If you grow as a person and rider, I may just end up following your stuff again.

Your suggestion is literally the opposite of what the Everesting website calls for - to preferably find new hills and not copy hills already conquered. Sure it doesn't mean someone can't go through all the trouble to fly there, but its not "in the spirit of everesting". pointless trolling hey

this ^^^ had me thinking this ^^^

I'm pretty sure the words you're thinking of is for daily Aussie use and not simple slang... I was sick Monday-Wednesday and could've had so much reading material minus the nonsense posts for points of course. Still, good to be warned of the ever present scammers, liers, unethical traders, deceitful traders, etc. lurking on the bikehub. Throttle, may I ask what your next planned move is (if you don't mind giving it away)? Laying charges? Small claims court? Write off and move on?

Fascinating... thank you Buff! I'm impressed by the result on the seat as well

I have a great appreciation for quality restoration work and yours seem to fit the bill. If you don't mind me asking, what do you use to clean/sexify the smaller intricate metal parts?

Finally a post without attitude and profanity - I could actually read all of that without cringing too much. The bolded part highlights weak victim blaming though. A lot of extreme crimes can be validated with that same irrational reasoning. I don't support <insert illegal activity here>, but I understand why people do <insert illegal activity here> and have no problem with that. Regardless, I will be working on my motorbike sunday and perhaps shooting the air rifle a bit - perhaps I'll think of your attempt and maybe just smile. Good luck and I look forward to seeing numbers!

not sure if I'm late to answer, but ASG is still very active and there's a great bunch of people to help at the ASG Store in Olympus, Pretoria. They are definitely growing, at least around that region.

Besides the overseas VAT mentioned already, i would personally describe aramex and aramex global shopper as being just as pathetic as skynet apparently is - aramex doesn't respond to most queries (I'll give them a 5-10% response rate), their products are usually but not always accurately depicted in tracking, they often request the same customs clearance documents numerous times and they have on a few occasions missed delivery deadlines anyway. In spite of also explicitly asking this for EVERY order, I've never had them deliver anything to me personally, I always have to check tracking and find whoever signed for the parcel at reception myself. Working with aramex is a miserable endeavour.