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I hope she manages to recover after a few drips. I mean 2 days delay is not the end of the world at this stage in the bigger picture. I must say it has brought my mind back to the old tripper canoeing camelbaks. A primitive bladder which was a used drip bag that you back filled through the tube. A few times I have ended up in fetal position knowing there is still hours of racing still to go and I have thought life would be so much easier to just chuck a drip in to make it to the finish. It takes a lot to get back up and go forward when you reach that stage. Hope she manages to come right soon

I honestly think these things are all a bit delicate, just given the components and then on top of them, often without realising we totally abuse them. They are delicate electrical boards and components interacting with mechanical items. Work from home showed me homes are not kind on electronics. I clean my laptop weekly, but when you get a remote working team to come into the office for the first time in a few weeks. Look closely at those laptops. You will be disgusted.... I know my environment is worse than most(farm), but I now take the covers off the trainer every few months and clean out all the dust and stuff. If you have pets you will no doubt have hair in there as well. My dog loves sleeping next to the trainer. Some people leave them plugged in 24/7 as well. Then you have a domestic slopping a mop around an expensive electric item that sits on the floor because you sweat puddles. You also sweat onto the trainer unit, spill water fling lube etc etc. I had a friend using a chain cleaner with paraffin on a wahoo kickr, needless to say there will be no surprise if it croaks it. Regarding the power and surges. We are on 3 phase direct from eskom, the number of surges or times a single phase is down is actually scary. Never mind during load shedding... The other thing- before 12000km even a land cruiser needs a service. No one seems to think a trainer with spinning wheels and bearings need a service.

The only reason I am saying this is because I get heavy handed with lube on the trainer bike(matt black) and because it is so stable on the wahoo I often spin out the crank when lubing up, which flings squirt/smooth. So I have these same marks all over the bike. I also had a bottle of powerbar leak the other day when the fizzy tab made pressure and bottle leaks look very different. I will go take some photos just now. Remember it could have been standing next to someone else lubing a chain who flung it your way as well.

Guys, it is not 32GI. It is chain lube. Go look at your wahoo, you will have similar spots, go look at any motorbike, same thing. Whether it is off your bike or someone else's, it is chain lube that has been flung off the chain. Any degreaser will work.

send some pics here, you might have some takers, between me, my old man, BIL and his friend we might take some stuff. Also condolences to you and your family, good luck with the whole process, realised my post was crude earlier. Always forget how emotionally tough it is sorting someone's loved possessions.

That is chain lube that has flung off when lubing up or pedaling too fast before the lube has dried. My guess is squirt or smoove? Dab some gleen green or petrol on a cloth and wipe it off...

My old man bought someone's entire workshop a few months back, similar thing. Seller advertised- must take entire contents, cash up front, garage must be empty that day. So you can maybe do similar on a woodworking FB group. Value is a tough one though, chisels and saws and planers and stuff can have huge value, especially the well kept older stuff. Another option would be to have an auctioneer come and sort the tools out for you and auction them off. It will just leave you with all the wood offcuts and some smaller stuff to deal with.

You know what is scary, you can buy a Husqvarna, electric balance bike for less. Not a no name brand electric bike, a Husqvarna. https://www.husqvarna-motorcycles.com/en-za/models/electric-balancebikes/husqvarna-12edrive.html

Can someone point out to COJ, that delta is a greenbelt not a protected area. Rather they should have a good look at Diepsloot, where they have just approved a formal housing development in a protected area, alongside the sewer works, informal settlement and other developments there. They throwing stones in glass houses here

smells like a witch hunt to me... Florence Bloom isn't even listed as a protected area in the protected areas register.

There are a lot of white labelled tools out of China. I mean other than the country specific plugs and a few minor cosmetic details, they are often the same thing.

easy and straight forward in theory... But you will likely need a suspect's name/handle to get someone to sign a warrant, but you need the information from strava to get the name/handle. They will likely not abuse 30 people's right to privacy to catch one person. So while they may share an individual's data for legal reasons if there is enough merit, you probably need to ID that person first. Chicken and Egg stories...

You can quickly hear and feel when you hit rocks and then we stop and break it with a pick or Hex rod. But thankfully our soil is really good, we have the odd seam of coal at around 70cm, but the Auger handles it with ease. If it were rocky I wouldn't even bother.

Contrary to popular belief, companies collecting large amounts of tracking data will never release it for legal purposes. I have dealt with and purchased a lot of mass cellphone tracking data before and the suppliers made us sign contracts allowing us to use it for only for retail research purposes, no law or government enforcement, not even allowed to use the data for projects for government. You just need to go read up on X mode social to know they will not just sell your data anymore. They will sell products derived from your data at a level where it is anonymous and for very refined purposes (where to place a petrol station/mall) Yes with enough digging in Strava you can potentially identify the guy and get a name. But then you need other evidence to prove it was him. I would reach out to anyonje who may have a camera, dashcam footage or anything in that area. He likely parked somewhere in the area

Ireland, Iceland, New Zealand, Greenland and Antarctica... your choices are slim to avoid snakes.

Honestly, Puff adders are dangerous because you don't see them. They are really really invisible if they have settled into a spot to hunt. Basking in the open they are easier to spot, like on the road in the video, but on a small trail when they are waiting for a small mammal to channel through, good luck spotting them. There have been studies and checks where they reckon that a mature snake hunting will let you step on it and it will not strike. I am not going to test the theory, but I do think it may be true. I nearly stepped on one while running near loskop dam. I stopped 2 steps later to turn and examine it, the thing was so relaxed and calm it kind of ambled away without a care in the world. A lot of the stats around them being the most deadly snake in Africa are also skewed because they are so widely distributed and common. Other than that if you spot them early enough they are one of the easier snakes to deal with IMO. They are short buggers and while they strike fast they don't have a huge strike radius, so you don't need to get that far away from them to be fairly safe. If you have a good eye on the path you will have enough time to react and give it enough space for both of you to be very safe. We moved one out the garden the other day. The dogs found it and were about to pack it(working terriers not pets) when we heard the hiss and reacted. But really they are fairly easy to handle, use a pole hook to pop it into a big drum, poured it out the drum down by the railway where the cable thieves like stripping cable.

Its a good thing you got an air compressor, looks like that morewood could do with a little sky in it's front round... Jokes aside though they are super useful things to have around. One of those begrudging purchases often but very useful. I like what you did with that filing cabinet, really makes it look good, you can quite easily add those smaller wall mounted storage bins to the side as well now

We had a rather large electric fence put in to keep the big ladies(dairy moo's) safe at night. The guy came with an adendorff petrol powered auger. Our dirt is lovely and soft and that thing worked such a treat I am off to buy one now as well. If you are doing fencing regularly and it is not too rocky, I can highly recommend one. The auger bit also makes a neat hole not too wide so you need minimal concrete to fill it around a pole. Very efficient.

I get your point to an extent, but the reality is that the evolution of e-bikes has had to move towards the dh/enduro setups and a lot of that is because of weight and ease of sourcing existing products. Rims needed to be stronger for the weight so you up the rim and tyre widths/weight. Then you have added unsprung weight so you go to an enduro fork for a bit more beef/less flex etc. Enduro forks are usually 140-160mm so it is cheaper to source an already available enduro option and so the knock on effect goes. An e-bike engineer also doesn't care about adding extra weight in wheels and suspension because you have the motor to power them back up. I have seen that video, it was quite a long time ago though. Pretty pointless comparison to be honest. I seem to remember above the tree line in the open Knight was ahead because he could actually use the engine. Once it got technical in the forests it was game over. Final nail in the coffin was the motorbike being too heavy for the wooden berm/wall rides so he had to avoid them while Atherton flew through. But it is even more pointless because that motorbike bike has won races like Erzberg Rodeo, no DH bike would even qualify in the top 500 to even be allowed start the harescramble, even if it did, no human on earth would ride a downhill bike up the first hills, you would have to carry it up. It doesn't mean a DH bike is a POS, it just means it was not designed for that type of racing, the same way an enduro motorbike was not designed for Fort William DH... Horses for courses.

Those forks and brakes and tyres are to compensate for the added weight. I can tell you right now on a 120kg Honda CRF with 3000mm suspension up front and much better brakes and tyres. You need to really let it hang out to keep up with a pro on an XC bike on a tight and twisty rocky descent. Anyone who has ridden lead motorbike when there is proper singletrack knows that you need to build a slight gap before it gets too tight/technical. The added weight really does hamper performance so they are compensating for that weight by upping the suspension and brakes. Also bear in mind your average e-bike rider is probably not the 55kg elite athlete, so added brakes and suspension is usually a good idea anyway...

my 2c about all events starting to have lower and lower numbers- It is all about the routes. Boring same old same old road routes, mtb races are not doing much better either. Trailseeker is a variation on similar routes for the last 5-10years now. There was a road race using the R104 a few months ago, honestly I would pay entry fees not to ride that road. 1 is is just boring, 2 it is dangerous at the best of times in a car, never mind when you are the 100th cyclist to irritate the driver along the way. You can be certain if those event numbers dropped the organiser would ask why, even though it should be dead obvious. I have honestly been more inclined to look at gravel events, mainly because they are a lot newer and there are routes that are not your everyday routes, or a retread of the same route for the last 5 years. We have a beautiful country with so many potentially epic routes(pun intended). But the reality is, with costs increasing all round, I pick and choose events a lot more than just racing anything and everything. It better be something new or something spectacular for me to be interested and I think a lot are on similar thoughts...

I have been running early mornings the last few weeks, being rural means my runs see a lot more wildlife than usual. Bumped into jackal a few times the last few weeks, they are getting more and more comfortable with me as well, been awesome to see. Thankfully in our area because it is dirt roads there is little traffic and the animals are generally off the road on their own safely. I do stop to move chameleons though and usher the odd snake back to cover.

Give this man a bells, for making a plan and still keeping the hope alive. Many would be broken after that... and also, Kamaaan Benky!!!!

Think this one will answer which you should own/buy if you want

ya but do you even make money if you don't convince the market to buy stupidly short stems and then follow it up with steering dampers to correct for the newly introduced twitchiness?