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Seems a new player has entered the market, maybe stepping on BikeHub's toes.
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.
I was gonna fix it, but the top tube is warped. It has some ripples near the headtube.
Same thing happened to my old Cannondale Scalpel. I cut a 3 or 4 cm piece of old seatpost, "bent" the crack open as far as needed and sleeved the piece of post in halfway. Welded it. Slid the frame over the pipe and welded it again. My dad took the bike over and has been using it for over 5 years.
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I got a voice note about this. One of them was stabbed 8 times. It was two "African" guys, because saying b...k is not deemed politically correct these days.
I'd love to hear how the Scots say his surname
Boornmin
The colour of crime makes an interesting read. But that’s not for here or now. Herrenstein and Murray indicated that crime is not a factor of race but intelligence.
I think Tuesday just became the new Friday.
Well, if IQ is an indicator of intelligence (or at least a building block of it), and we say that intelligence influences criminality, then Google the average Sub Saharan IQ. And if you want, Google the average IQ per race as well. Might make for some interesting reading. And again, its not me posting numbers, its online for everyone to see.
how is this still going?
The fact that threads like this keep going as long as they do sometimes make me feel that 'the powers that be' like watching this stuff from the sidelines in a somewhat vicarious fashion.
The incessant triggering that follows due to all the trolling ensures the clicks/refreshes roll in and pay the bills lol....
stop feeding the thing guys.
/closethread.
Yeah, it could have been wrapped up pages ago but then the...
...crowd entered the room.
Oh well... lets hope this tread dies before the new Friday controversial comes out in a few days.
You've made an untenable interpretation of the data, which undermines your argument.
Fact is, in SA, white folks historically and presently have higher income, better access to legal representation and are less likely to be convicted of charges. I've seen this first hand as a former prosecutor. Also, people in prison ≠ people convicted of crimes (i.e. people who receive fines and/or suspended sentences).
Which is why I said, there could be many reasons for the racial make-up of the prisons, the "haves" having better counsel etc. But I still don't think the difference in quality of counsel alone could explain the vast difference in numbers, surely?
Right, so flamesuit on, but anyway I don't really care. Facts don't care about anyone's feelings.
Lots of people are getting self righteous and insinuating that the OP is making a closet racist post by doubting a guy pushing a bike while committing the crime of being black. And, would you feel the same if you saw a white buy pushing a bike, etc etc.
Guys, lets look at the racial make-up of prison vs the racial make-up of South African as a whole.
Now my math ain't strong so if I'm off with this, feel free to correct.
Blacks make up 79.6% of prison population, and also coincidentally 80.2% of the country's population as a whole. Lets round that at 80% to make things easier for me.
So am I correct in saying that out of a 1000 people in prison, a random ringfence of people, 800 of them would be black and 16 of them would be white? Is my math on that right?
Now compare that to the population at a whole. Of 1000 non incarcerated people, 800 would be black and 84 would be white.
If my math is weak to begin with, then working out the "chances of landing in prison ratio" is even weaker, but does that not indicate that a black person is more likely to end up in prison compared to a white guy? Yes we can discuss the possible reasons behind it ranging from Apartheid to haves vs have nots, etc etc etc. There could be a whole bunch of causes which I'm not disputing, but I'm looking at the numbers.
So to swing all that back around... if a guy driving his car sees a black guy in blue overalls pushing a bike, whether its a Makro special or a Pinarello, and he sees white guy in a blue overall pushing the exact same bike, why does the guy in his car need to be guilt tripped and shamed for using, not prejudice, but applying simple maths and knowing the realities of South Africa to the situation? If he, in his mind went, "Chances are..." then would he be racist, or would be just be using sound reasoning?
Quite clear Nino gave that win to Lars for his help in closing Avencini down.
Frenchie's face was priceless.
F_k.
Sweaty palms.
Sorry, but that shock thing looks too much like a hond se dinges.
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.
Strava does it own thing with the data.. So youve added another dimension to the whole thing. That said... My tracks from my Garmin are spot on
What Garmin do you have?
Who looks at that kind of info, does it affect the actual data (distance / time / speed / elevation)?
I've seen DC Rainmaker do this in his tests, but unless you are trying to draw images (think of hearts
for your secret strava followers), why would you pay attention to this?
Well if your tracked route isn't accurate, your distance wouldn't be accurate. I don't train according to the mapped distance, but for example with a 100 miler run coming up for me... I don't want my watch telling me I'm at 155km when I'm on 145km because my watch isn't accurate.
I'm not impressed with the Garmin 30/35. From what I have seen, and I have a few friends with them, the tracking is pretty poor. It looks like you were running while badly hungover.
Here's my Amazfit Stratos compared to a friend's FR35 while running together. Zoomed into our run on Strava.
Eastern Cape Schools are great. Grey PE, Framesby, Kingswood and St Andrews an hour away. Saasveld just there....
Despite the wind and the unprettiness of PE, it is not the worst place to live.
Top class surf spots from Plett to J-Bay, In land you have the Baviaans area and koue bokkeveld. Addo round the corner.
Cost of living is WAY lower than the big cities and half as much as Cape Town.
Did I mention the surfing?
1. I wouldn't recommend Framesby. I was there years ago and left. And I was told by another ex classmate it got worse. And thats 20 years ago.
2) Unprettiness? WOT BRUV?
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All they need is to add a forum section and some classifieds, and we have competitors.