Eugene Brown

If all else fails, use a Dremel tool to cut off the outer race, then the inner race. I'm assuming the bearing is cheaper than that bolt set!

Thanks man, I figured it out from Vitality's page, basically log in to PolarFlow from Vitality, Polar sends you an e-mail ïnvitation", you then log in to the actual PolarFlow site and accept the invitation. Sorted!

I bought my missus a Polar 450 bike computer, and was wondering if anybody has a "Vitality link for dummies" guide on how to link the Polar to Vitality's website. Had a look last night, but could not see anything jumping out at me from the PolarFlow website. Thanks in advance!

Yip, it's not difficult at all, just need everyone's buy-in!

I'm 4000 points short of gold, with myself, missus and 19yo daughter. 30000 fitness points for me, all online assessments/smokers declaration for fam-damily, fitness/dietician/vitality health check for me and missus. Easy visit to optometrist for me and missus for glaucoma screening and we're there. Let's see how it goes next year when the fitness points allocations change (or not)

Bliksem, you got your money's worth out of those tyres

I had the flu vaccine on Thursday. I was seeing the doctor for a throat that felt like it had been sanded with 220 grit sandpaper and a fever that left me sweating like hell Doctor said it was "acute sinusitis" and will clear soon. So far so good for the flu vaccine, I haven't felt any flu symptoms coming on yet, so I'm hoping this will be the year where I don't get flu The 1000 Vitality points are a (slight) bonus too!

You need the personal interface, Cape Town is too far away! But yes, unfortunately you have to constantly evaluate what your broker does for you, and weigh it up against what you have to do for the broker.........

Thanks for clearing that up!

Just to check a possible typo on Vitality's points, do adults each score 2000 points once a year for a dental check-up, or is it only for kids under 18? Vitality guide says both, my broker says kids only.

I'm up to the 30000 points cap for being active. 1) Am I right in saying that no more races on the schedule, etc will contribute to my personal fitness points? 2) What is the easiest way for me to "transfer" my Garmin Edge 500 to my wife, so she can now use HRM -based points to help our overall family Vitality points? (With my recent experiences, it was really painful just to get mine to work, here's hoping it's easier to transfer the machine)

After spending a moer of a lot of time on the phone with Discovery's Vitality "help agents" and visiting the lovely individuals on 3 occasions, my GC is now talking to the Vitality page, and my activities (with their points) from January until now have been manually uploaded . This was after I had seriously considered stopping all attempts at "living the Vitality system" despite the really serious (and quite large) financial implications for my pay-backs against my life insurance! I'm now sitting at 23700 points for activities on the bike for the year from only 19 rides, including 1 x Modders Night Race, USN #2 and Serengeti, as well as 1 very social ride with a mate and our wives on most Sundays (babbelas permitting). Am I right in saying that the fitness activity points are capped at 30000 per year? If so, then the goals are definitely very achievable, as I haven't killed myself riding, but I have definitely made a committed effort to spend more quality, HR-based, training time on the bike. I would've expected myself to achieve, and the "awards" programme to make the rules so that the points allocation is achievable (with reasonable commitment, etc). by September/October, and not in March. If I was running Vitality, I would've liked to have seen it structured that way, that's for sure. Much as I hate to say it, I think Discovery, with their Vitality program, are left with absolutely no choice but to change the points allocation, as it has definitely been very easy for me to almost max my points out already, and I'm sure for most of the other people who put some effort in too......

My feelings exactly! Rather than getting people to waste tons of time on administering and de-bugging the achievement of the Vitality objectives (not to mention the huge investments Discovery must of made into creating the Vitality "life"), why not let the physically active members undergo fitness tests 3 times a year, or whatever, and reward them for p[rogress with discounts on medical aid and life insurance premiums? Imagine the manure that's going to fly in the USA when Discovery has launched Vitality fully there, and they come up with sudden and dramatic changes from their initial offering!

Found the cause of my problem after another 45 minute telephone call with the bunch of wonderful individuals at Discovery's Vitality centre!!! My Vitality profile has Garmin Connect enabled, but it is not "seeing" any information from GC. That explains why I cannot find anywhere to de-link Vitality on the GC page. To make it worse, the only way to remove GC from Vitality (so you can hopefully re-load and fix it) is to de-link Vitality on your GC profile. Now some IT propeller head is working on it, hoping for Monday to be fixed. F@#$kn frustrating, to say the least

Can you PLEASE send me a screen-shot of where this de-link knoppietjie sits within GC. I cannot find it anywhere.

I have a Windows-based phone, and there is no App available for Windows phones (or that I can find anyway!)

Try as I may, I cannot get Vitality to pull my ride data through from Garmin Connect. Spent hours on the phone, a visit to their office in Sandton (where they didn't have internet connection to the PC's in their help centre!!!!!), promised it would be sorted, phoned again, gotten reference numbers, blah blah blah. This is the problem with living the Vitality life for me: when it works, it's great, but when there's a glitch, you are so badly screwed by their incompetence/system failings that it's enough motivation to stop all their programs entirely

Subscribed and entered!

I fitted 2.1's as my Conti's 2.2/2.3 (not exactly sure) were hitting the sides of the triangle below 25PSI. I'll try a bit lower in the front and see, thanks for your input.

In December I got myself a pair of AC Wide Lightning rims, and have fitted Maxxis Crossmark UST tyres. On the tyre sidewall it says 30-60PSI inflation pressure. I weigh 105kgs, and was wondering how low can you go on the tyre pressure without burping. I've gone down to 25 front and rear, and the rear feels like it's starting to fold at that pressure, so back to 30 on rear. Has anyone tried below 25 on the front, and how was it?

My lid only popped off once when I had an out-of-control ditch crossing, and the back wheel ripped the bottle out!

Last night at Modderfontein Awesome!

Did you crash it Sir Crash-a-Lot?