TheJ

All they need is to add a forum section and some classifieds, and we have competitors.

Seems a new player has entered the market, maybe stepping on BikeHub's toes. https://www.news24.com/ride24/news/ride24-new-lifestyle-site-for-cycling-enthusiasts-launches-in-sa-20201210

Someone put a lot of thought into this business idea, but just not enough. They ended with a "sure we can do that", where they should have ended with a... "but should we do that". Sorry guys. Pass.

https://theconversation.com/why-it-could-be-dangerous-to-exercise-with-a-face-mask-on-140277

Many years ago I bought my wife a set of (new) Mavic track wheels, the Eclipse model of memory serves, from CWC. It arrived with clear tyre lever marks on the rim, a sliiiight buckle in one of the wheels and scratched decals on the one hub. They insisted the wheels were new, but agreed to send me a few "free" track sprockets as compensation (essentially an admission of guilt in my eyes). Nice.

If your bike has internal cable routing and sleeves that the cables run through, don't be smart and pull them out. Can't recall why I did. Especially not the night before a race. Had to remove fork and BB to get the bloody thing back in. And... it was my wife's bike. Eventually got to bed like 2am.

Boornmin

TR or not TR. If its kevlar/folding bead, you can make them tubeless. Most tyres are fine but some have paper thin sidewalls (like Schwalbe Furious Fred), and they are also fine if you are willing to risk it and know you'll be able to pick your lines well in rocky areas. Put it like this... since tubeless first hit the market I have NEVER used a "real" tubeless tyre, never ever. And it has ever only backfired on me once. I've always used regular tyres with folding bead (not wire bead) and just pick the ruggedness of the tyre based on how I know the course will be.

Eish. Well, I'm not buying another watch just to be able to get Vitality points. It will have to wait until this watch dies.

Well that's what I needed to find out, but not what I hoped to hear. Yes, it does have a comment at the bottom saying the workout is from SyncMyTracks. Are you aware of any application I can push a workout to that Vitality will accept? SyncMyTracks can push to a variety of applications web and mobile.

1) This data will show up in SHealth as exercises. 2) I am not currently on Vitality. I will sign up if this "hack" works, but basically need a month's "demo" on it. 3) My watch isn't supported, but a GPX file is a GPX file... Yeah it might have a few custom tags, but still.

Do you suspect so, or know this from experience?

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Shamelessly advertising my shoes here... Unfortunately have to sell my Altra Olympus 3.0 trail running shoes. Paid R2100 for them a month ago and did exactly 1 run/walk in them of 7.2km. I hoped that the size would work but turned out that they are 1 size too small for me. They are UK11. I'd like to get R1700.

What kind of mileage are you guys doing? I'm prepping for the Addo 100 Miler. Doing minimum 400km a month.

My local trailpark sells Kefir gingerbeer. Absolutely love the stuff. Expensive, I think R24 for 500ml, but so worth it. Had a super tough trail run there on the weekend. Didn't look after my electrolytes and dehydrated about 6km from the end. The gingerbeer is all I could think of. By that night I had downed over 3 liters of the stuff. With the dehydration also came severe nausea and vomiting. I rate the kefir cultures along with the ginger (widely believed to help with nausea) goes a LONG way to settle the stomach again.

Have you gotten your hands on some dagga oil yet?

Anyone out there doing the Addo 100 Miler?

Surprised the Trans Gender thread didn't make it into the stats...

That's barely a drop!

Yesterday I felt like looking up some photos of Burry Stander, and re-read a few news articles that followed his death. In the one article, who did they speak to for some inside info? Barry McCallum. Felt pretty unreal. https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/cyclists-wife-cradled-him-at-scene-1447719

Liberals...

Couldn't make out... was he on an ebike?

Personally, I am not religious. There have been over 4000 different Gods and religions during the age of man on earth. At best I find it arrogant that people assume or even insist that their pick from those 4000... is the "right" one. More often than not, their choice was often made on their behalf by their parents when they were young and impressionable. Each religion claims to worship the one true deity. As Matt Dillahunty said... they can't all be RIGHT... but, they can all be WRONG. For instance... doctor fixes a kid injured in an accident. Parents go "Thank G*d!". Firstly... doctor thinks... um yeah... I did that. I studied 10 years to get these skills. Its insulting and disrespecting the doctors skill and commitment. Secondly... the Doctor might be Hindu... or Muslim... he doesn't bow to the deity of the happy parents. So how does that work then? People with illnesses sometimes heal in ways that science can't yet explain. People then implement the "God of the gaps" fallacy (Google it) to explain what they can't yet grasp. Basically... injecting religion into the gaps of our understanding. Religion is the safety blanket that adults wrap themselves in when accepting that sometimes life is unfair is too difficult. Its easier to just switch your brain off and accept "the plan". So my dude... I'm not gonna pray for you (studies actually show that prayer actually had a negative impact as you feel pressure to improve because you know people are praying, putting more stress on you). What I am gonna do is hope as hard as I can that you can kick this things butt. Fight fight fight!