BenReaper

On saterday afternoon after work got a chance to break away and go riding,.It was extremely hot,so I had to cut my ride short on account of to little water and ended up with 27km and 630m of climbing.

Did a short ride after work on friday with my son,his getting fast and wreckless on the rough stuff lately.

Nice bike,are you going to change those Nobby Nic's to Onza tyres?

Not sure if this belongs here,but I had the privalage of meeting this beauty a couple of weeks ago.

Did my first singlespeed run for 2016 on wednesday,had some welcome cool overcast weather after the past few weeks of very high temperatures.My ride took me past a farm dam where two young men were fishing.I stopped to chat for a while and was lucky enough to witness one of them catching this beauty.

Enjoy it,I believe one could say you earned it.[emoji106]

Lekker man!I was there over the last 2 weekends,you should also look at riding the Flower Valley trail and you could go out on the district roads to and around Baardskeerdersbos,some nice climbing with beautifull scenery around there.

I decided to start the new year off with a bang,so on Friday morning I left home,Worcester, at about 03:00 and set off,in the dark, for Gansbay. I was counting on getting breakfast at McDonalds,but they were closed,so I set off on a empty stomach.The sky was overcast,so it was a nice cool run untill around Botriver when the clouds opened up and the sun came out in full force. As I passed Hawsten and went round the foot of the mounten to Vermont the wind picked up and hit me head on,managed to reach Hermanus with a tired body,sore leggs and a hungry stomach.I decided to abandon the final 40km and my wife came to pic me up in Hermanus.

You guys are going soft,when I was a youth everyday was so Hot and we use to walk 15km to school barefoot on a gravel road in the blazing heat.......Except for the winters,then it would be 2foot deep snow we had to conquar,barefoot for 15km.[emoji48] [emoji23] [emoji4]

As ʼn man se gat jeuk moet jy hom krap.[emoji4] Enjoy youre new 'Canadien Bullet Train'.......for the next 6months.[emoji23]

Yesterday I had to come home for the week,so I had the wife drop me halfway between Gansbay and Worcester at the T-junction where the R43 and the N2 meet.Proceded to cycle home from there,didnt take many photos as it was a hot afternoon.I had to stop to take a pic of this though.

Visited the Hemel-en-Aarde trails on Saturday and did a mix of the black and red route.This route has some stunning views,here we passed the lookout point above Hermanus.

Did a lekker ride with some nice climbing and great views in the Gansbay area today.

Welcome to the BikeHub sethm87,those Axis A70 are really good starter bikes,they are selling like 'soetkoek' right now.Its a very capable little bike and if you get more serious about cycling you can easily upgrade it or sell it and buy something else.Enjoy it and may you have many happy miles on yours bike.

Sorry to hear,what a k@k thing to happen,especialy this time of the year.Heal up soon.

As they say,all good things come with time and a bit of patience.

Havent been on the BikeHub much lately,this is the first I've seen or heard of youre crash.Hope it wasnt to big and painfull,and hope youre recovery is speedy.Sounds like you should give the road bike some attention.

Also running the Vittoria Barzo/Saguaro combo on my XTC,works much better for me than the previous Schwalbe RoRo/RaRa combo. Will however not give very high mileage with a mix of tar and off-road use.For high mileage I havent found a better tyre than the Maxxis Crossmark,wich unfortunately give very little grip in any sand,loose gravel or wet conditions.

None of my usual riding buddy's pitched so I went for a solo ride and decided to go big(ish).Rode to Villiersdorp and back on a backroad.A broken seatpostclamp bolt saw me struggling with keeping the seat up on the way bac and I ended up with very sore knee's.[emoji20]

I put my 60mm stem from my singlespeed on this afternoon,will test it over the weekend to see how it feels.

Hey NicNacDH,looks like you went 'bombef@k'.[emoji106]

Just need to get a shorter stem now,my 100mm one seems to be a bit long.Will see how it handles this weekend.

The courier dropped of some parts from Rapidé earlier today for my next SS build.The Big Ass 780mm handlebar is for my current steed,and looking good if I might say so myself.

Would like to take a long high intensity ride,and then get on the bike and go for a trail ride.[emoji48]