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1 minute ago, droo said:
Split the foam tube and tape it back together over the cable while feeding it in through the cable port.
You're welcome.
if you selling the bike soon then some expanding spray foam does the job as well apparently
3 hours ago, ChrisF said:
Rebuilt the "Green Bike" 2 weeks ago.
MAN !!!! The front tyre would NOT seat ....
I re-did the rim tape twice. Double layered.
Eventually gerry-rigged a setup whereby I had a straight pipe from the compressor to the valve.
After all this agrivation the rear tyre slipped on like a glove.
At least now I have a "jig" to get more air quicker to those troublesome tyres ... Saturday's jobbie went silk smooth, no chance to use my new toys ....
if you put a ratchet strap around the circumference of the tyre it limits the tyre expansion a lot and then from there the tyre inflates sideways first pushing the beads outwards. This often helps get tricky tyres to seat. There are youtube videos how.
1 hour ago, Shebeen said:no plans for 2025 just yet...
not much. I am aware of that being necessary and did make use of the school track when it was marked up for two sessions where I pushed myself towards puking. I should probably do that again before moaning.
but I'm talking about running for 10-15km over the same sort of routes. my average speed is not really dropping (anecdotally!)
might be worth adding in a session or 2. Coach has me on at least 2 sessions a week of fartleg, intervals or a sustained tempo effort, the rest is pretty much recovering between those and longer runs really.
1 minute ago, Robbie Stewart said:This has GOT to be my pet peeve. I am absolutely frustrated when I am approaching well left of where normal people cycle, only to be forced into the road because a runner is on my side of the road and refuses to move to let me past.
If people insist on running on the wrong side of the road then they should consider the cyclist who they expect to either stop or veer into traffic so that they can be given the courtesy of being a chop, I mean pass.
. . . I dislike running. I will stop now.
It is actually a world wide accepted and recommended practice to run against traffic. In certain parts of the world(lots of the states) it is actually a law to run against traffic. So you must get over yourself, same way cars must get over themselves when it comes to bikes and wait for a safe spot to pass.
Runners should be on a sidewalk if there is one, otherwise they must be moving on the edge of the road towards oncoming traffic.
2 minutes ago, Shebeen said:I suppose we have different goals for Comrades. If you've only comitted for the entry and can get that subbed out, then why not? It will always be there next year.
Personally I just want to be a part of it, finish and only then concerned with the time/medal.
Really not sure if I will do a second one, not even thinking about that now.
It would be different for me if I was regularly doing marathons/ultras and then added this onto that sort of schedule. The last marathon I did was in 2011 (when i was early 30s), and I've only now joined an actual running club. It is almost like everything is new, I am seriously wondering if I will ever get some sort of speed back. Despite doing more actual road running than ever, I don't appear to be going quicker week by week. Realise that's not the actual goal but feel like it should be happening (should actually go look at strava to work it out first with figures).
1: I am glad one of us has still got the 1 and done mindset. I have lined up a faster qualifying with a 4 month build to target a better qualifying for next year's race. This is evidently a masochists wet dream event.
2: How much speed work have you been doing? My garmin race predictor and average pace is dropping week by week this year.
8 minutes ago, Vetplant said:Other Friend of mine at work(Who has completed multiple IMSA's) mentioned that it fails on two criteria:
-Doesn't meet the minimum elevation gain requirement
-Start/Finish is not with the required distance from each other(Something like 400m maximum). This specifically put in place to prevent a point-to-point marathon.
I tried to verify by looking at whatever source I can find listing "Comrades Qualifying Races" and the race is not listed on a single one of those websites...
Thus my concern
I think those criteria are for world records, kaapsehoop also fails to meet the criteria as well but is a qualifier.
15 minutes ago, peepeekaitjie said:What is the fit like on these? I have been a UK 10 my whole life in every brand I have tried but unfortunately, the last pair of shoes I ordered online, from a brand I have had a few fairs from, feel a little snug.
Slightly narrower toe box than the previous version but seems pretty true fit in my opinion.
On 2/14/2024 at 9:20 AM, Shebeen said:
well with no way of testing at comrades due to the lab being suspended. I guess we may see some big records broken.
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2 hours ago, ScottCM said:Shot in the dark here, does anyone know where in SA I can get a pair of Alphafly 1 not the 2 in woman UK size 8 or 8.5 or 9?
Edit: It doesn't have to be in SA, my sister whom they are for is in SA but I can ship it to her from anywhere.
Tough one, was in the Nike store in Menlyn the other day and took they only had like 4 pairs of Vaporfly's left. I ordered pegasus trail shoes online in Jan and they were shipped from the Netherlands somehow.
8 hours ago, tjommies3 said:My marathon didn't go well yesterday. I am now convinced that I'm not ready to try my luck at Comrades. It's not easy doing a flyer in the first half and then crawling the rest of the way. I was so relaxed, so full of energy, so motivated. I even had a warmup session with Gerda Steyn, I guess that a number of things contributed to my body saying enough is enough and with that, I'm waiting for the substitution window to open. I'm gonna continue trying to strengthen my body and stick to half marathons for now. Amazingly, all the pain I felt yesterday had nothing to with my ITB injury. Anyway, that's my story.
Honestly, drop your silver goal and go learn the race, get a comfortable(slower) finish under your belt, then another good year of training on the legs and you will send that silver finish comfortably. Look at guys like Jim walmsley, it took him a few attempts at Western states to win, but when he did the record dropped. Then he moved to France and after a few attempts at UTMB he learned a lot and when he eventually won it the record dropped again.
I also had the one and done mindset but I have realised it is too big event to have a perfect race in 1 attempt. Get a finish, learn the race, learn yourself and you will smash it the following year...
Unfortunately it is ridiculously tough to remove from fabric.
When I blew my tyre off the rim with the bike in the back of my car. It was a really painful exercise to clean. The leather seats and plastic dash etc were ok, but the carpets were a nightmare. I used an industrial carpet cleaner for 2 weekends and eventually resorted prepsol to try get it out the carpets. When I sold the car a year later it had aftermarket carpet inserts and still had stains in places. Even the guys who cleaned it when it got serviced at the agents couldn't get it all out.
Chalk it up to school fees and now you have a good set of idt pants...
I find it sad that after his license was suspended they still had to tell him not to drive as well.
The only reason I recommend the monitor mount bracket is because it changed my work from home set up in a bid way. I also run 1 landscape and 1 portrait monitor for map and then code/table/word data and it allowed for a normal matching monitor to mount in portrait view.
Aesthetically it is just a beam up the back of the desk, I actually have a wooden shelf as well, but just to hold my desk holster and store random stuff like axs battery charger.
But that shelf of yours looks good
2 minutes ago, The Ouzo said:I have no medical knowledge, I was advised by someone that it helps and for me at least it has helped.
My wife would tell me in the morning that I was cycling in my sleep again, but the worst part was that the twitches would come just as the body is relaxing right before you fall asleep, that would keep me awake and I just was not getting a good nights sleep.
I have that some days, kick yourself awake as you are passing out. But I also kick away all not regularly. The wife is ok with the twitches, but after big races I am sent to sleep on a rubber sheet in the spare room because I have hellish night sweats after big efforts
16 hours ago, The Ouzo said:everybody is different.
i take slow mag daily, it helps with muscle twitches when I'm trying to sleep, but before that I took Repleni Mag.
First time I took it I spent the entire night up and down to the toilet emptying the bladder. I tried it again 6 months later and it worked fine, then about 1 month after that it started to irritate the bowels.
So far slo mag has been constant.
Everybody's body is different.
for me, the times I've cramped have always been when I've done efforts the body is not used to, the fitter I've gotten the easier its become to back off and spin through the spasm.
But I seem to recall an article/YT vid a few months back where it was said that doctors have not been able to pin point the exact cause of why people cramp and others dont.
Interesting that it helps with the muscle twitches while sleeping, I have kicked the jack russel out of bed by mistake with random muscles twitches all the time. The wife says she knows when I have passed out by the legs kicking randomly antics. Will maybe try slowmag again and see if it helps.
That is the real truth is that there are so many things that could cause cramps and in each person it is very different. Same goes for stomach issues, each stomach is different. So what works for others way not work for you as well. You need to try a lot of different things.
8 hours ago, Wayne Potgieter said:I am keen top print a monitor shelf for my home office setup. I can find heaps of brackets and stands, but all of them require some form of wooden shelf to be inserted. (see this for the general idea - Not my file, just sharing for information purposes - all credit to original author)
https://www.printables.com/model/56729-honeycomb-monitor-stand/comments
Now, This got me wondering about whether it is possible to print the actual shelf using PLA and have it modular? So lets say a shelf that has some form of interconnector puzzle like ends so you can attach two or three shelf pieces together to increase the length and glue them. Would that even be strong enough to hold up a wide monitor?
I have seen a setup with a conveyor belt for printing bed. Means you can then increment with the 4th axis and print long long parts on a small bed. That way you could print a long honeycomb structure.
https://www.hackster.io/news/learn-how-to-add-a-conveyor-belt-to-your-3d-printer-2f9bd2c2b960
My 2c though is to get a proper monitor bracket like a North Bayou, clears up rout desk, gets the monitors up where your neck hurts less ad tidies up cables.
I have just retired a Led lensor SEO7r after 5 years of racing. It has done 3 expedition races, a hundred miler and about 20 24-36hour AR's. I would highly recommend, what was nice is that it has a rechargeable battery that you can take out and put AAA's in the place. So day to day you are not killing the environment churning through AAA's but when you need to just change on the move you can revert to AAA's. The lamp is actually still in perfect shape, the strap is just totally kaput.
I have no ultra's other than comrades on the to do list this year, so the mrs got me a NEO1R from led lensor. It is not great for more than 3 hours on full brightness. but as a day to day running headlamp it is brilliant, light, comfortable and just enough light to run. Unfortunately the battery life is not ready for a full night of running and you can't just change battery.
An alternative and actually a really good one- use your bicycle headlight. I have a head strap for my Ryder Orion 800, long cable puts the battery in the top of the back pack. On it's lowest setting you get major run time and better lumens than most headlamps on mid/low settings.
I haven't been to tranquilitas in 2 years, but the trails were mint there last time. Lovely flowing sections, tough technical climbs and a lovely ridgeline section round to the dirt road.
We usually go there to rock climb, but I think they are more catering to the mtb scene nowadays.
Still arguably one of the best rock climbing spots in SA...
I got hit from behind by a BMW 1200 GS last year, the crash bar hit the rear derailleur, battery cover took the impact and was found a good 20m from the crash. Derailleur, battery, dropout and everything survived perfectly. I was like 50km into a 260km race so it was really not ideal. I think that little bit of protection is better than nothing, but I also think the clutch system will take the impact anyway and protect a lot.
I was thinking this might be a good one for a 3d printed part.
I forgot to put mine back on for one of the biggest rides/races I did last year, really not such an issue
Stuff you learn(t) the hard way by being your own mechanic
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