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The Clubs hosting the annual fun ride this weekend. It takes you throught the Tygerberg Hills nature reserve. Awesome ride and views. See u there

Lets try this again. Look at the blue arrow for the link into the route from Klip rug. The yellow arrow is the see-saw. Hillcrest is all about the pain on the way up and all about the smiles on the way down

look at the pic in the attached file. The link is by the blue arrow. Thisn is an old map of the HillCrest and Contermans route prior to Kliprug been built. This link does not work sorry see the post below hillcrest.htm

Ride a MTB off-road. No lights no cars no worries.

It comes out 400m before the split were the the two downhill single tracks are on top of the hill were the see-saw is. Hope this helps.

Thank goodness the frame size will not fit her. And remember once you give a present you can not take it back She has sinced asked why I did not convince her to get a soft tail.

Dear Princess Hannah First of all you want a guy to do what, talk about it. Lets get to the honesty part I was honest enough to show the wiff the post when I got home. Most of the people on the hub are guys and the understand were I am coming from in relation to this topic. The topic was started tongue in cheek and should be read in that vein. I am proud of my wife for the fact that she is putting the hard work in to start mtbing and more importantly aI am glad that she enjoys the sport. It is a great activity that we can do together when the time allows or baby sitters allows.

This is the wiff! What a load of bollocks! My husband was told time and again, "You don't have to stay with me, you can ride as fast as you like, and I'll meet you at the finish". I don't expect him to even practise with me or to enter race's together. In fact my first race I did was with my brother-in-law who was more on my fitness level. The only thing I asked was to show me a new route every now and again. So in short - Do not believe everything hubby has to say!

Dude I am the pool cleaner. I have a Bussiness called Pool Doctor.

It works like a bomb with XT front derailer.

We are both members of the club. I got her the Membership at the same time when I bought the bike. She has ridden Majik and Meerendal quiet a few times. I always show her a new route and then leave her to her own devices with her mates. We enjoy riding together, well most of the time. It great that she can see the reason why I love MTBing. She now understands a bit more

Well I was feeling rather brave after supper so I showed this thread to my wife and guess what no complaints. She was rather interested to read some of the replies and smiled as she read them. As the say alls well that ends well.

I have a big moral dilemma. My wife has recently started cycling which is great. However she now wants to do the fun rides etc also great but here is the catch she wants me to do them with her. We did the Buffet Olives festival 25km ride together. I was promised many noddy points for doing the ride together. However as I am a tad fitter than her on the bike I was riding with her and not showing any signs of exertion much to the wife’s annoyance. I even had the middle finger displayed in my general direction. I did warn the wife that the ride was 14km of hills then 11km of downhill with very little flat sections. True to form she bitched like a girl. I tried my best to encourage her I stopped to help some youngsters fix a broken chain and give them my chain link. I even had to install it for them. I was glad to help them but at the same told them to get some spares and be prepared next time. After helping the youngsters I started to shunt it to catch up to my wife who had gone ahead of me. Well I never caught her as she seems to enjoy the down hills and is not a powder puff fairy when it comes to single track and down hills. She finished 9th out of about 45 ladies. I was hugely proud of her . And yes she did beat me. Now the question is how much do I encourage her? Am I expected to do all the fun rides with her and in her distance capabilities? Who gets to baby sit the kids on the Sunday am ride time and who gets to ride.

With a view like that most guys would get it up, I mean get up

I suppose it depends on the bike shop. But I would have thought they would have given you the cleats as well. The Pedals come packaged with the cleats so go back and ask them.

Grip shift all the way. No issues with slipping.

If you go on the right side of jonkers from the gate. Take the jeep track up to the hairpin bend were the hiking trail starts that most us us ride down. If you look up you will see the block house. From the jeep track there is a nasty uphill single track. Carry on along the single track untill you hit the pines. You will know you are there when you see the first switch back that is almost impossiable to ride. After this the fun starts

I am talking about the switch back trail above the Quary. you might be taking anout the one below it. It has only been completed in the past few months. If it is the same one then resepect to the girlfriend . Look in the pic posted by Morewoodmad. You can see a scare in the lands scape on the left hand side just into the pine trees. The new single track starts here.

Did you take any video of the route. I know you have a helmet cam

Got up bright and early on Sunday in great anticipation. We were going to Jonkershoek, one of my favourite MTB areas. We were the first guys in the parking lot. We debated what route to follow and it was a hard choice as there are so many brilliant options to take. We chose to turn left behind the tea house and head up the reverse way to the top of Canary. Along this route you can drop down into the old downhill course. We have nick named this route little Switzerland as the track and scenery remind a mate of ours of the Alps. As we hit Canary we started to play, its about 4 km of technical, rocky yet flowing downhill single track. The entire time you are under the pines. G-Man was on a mission to play and he certainly did. We were in awe as even with dodgy soft rear brakes we still could not catch him. When we hit the bottom we were again left with various choices of were to go. We headed up past the dam into the avenue of oak trees. Here we found the middle single track that is in the base of the valley. The route was incredibly scenic as the area was awash with flowers. I described the track as rocky and tight. Well both of my mates found out how tight it was the hard way, they kissed the ground. No blood only bruised egos. The route did not disappoint as it was challenging yet highly enjoyable. We then headed up towards the block house it was at this point that one of the guys said "do I have to, can’t I just meet you at the other side." Well as all good mates would have down we encouraged him whilst he showed us his middle finger yet dutifully followed us up a Bitch of a climb from the jeep track to the base of the block house. After a short time we took a well deserved break refreshing ourselves in a cold mountain stream. Bodies and camelback refreshed we continued to one of the scariest switch backs yet. I have yet to see anyone even attempt to ride this monster. From the back of the quarry we hit a flowing single track that is again under a canopy of pines. This has got to be one of the most fun filled single tracks around as it is fast with scary yet rideable switch backs, jumps and all the other good stuff. This single track links in perfectly with the existing single track on the right side of the valley closest to the tea house. We arrived at the parking lot grinning like idiots have done an enjoyable 30km ride. Jonkers is a great place to ride as it offers a technical yet rewarding ride. There are loads of options jeep track, single track, rocky, flowing routes and very little sand.

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About the only neat thing I can do. Wife bitches about my cupboard, then I reply I have to look at it and its MY cupboard

Its never happenned to me. The twist action is not that sensative. It is a delibrate twist.

Heys Guys and Gals I ride with grip shift and seem to be in the minority. I feel they offer you a more instant gear change as well as offering more trim on the front derailer. If grip shifts are still avaliable when I need to replace mine down the line then I doubt I will be going back to trigger type shifters. Whats your feeling on them.

Got My Baby @ the end of August and loving it. Morewood Zula all the way