dave303e

There is literally an article on a top SA news site telling motorists not to bother putting toothpaste or tomato sauce in their petrol to improve fuel economy. So lets not test the extent of human stupidity...

Sometimes you just got to believe and commit. Watch out, next you will be looking at other things and going how hard can it be? In our previous house I built the entire kitchen as well. Same thing- a couple of youtube videos. I bought a dirt cheap table saw from adendorff and made a more consistent fence set up. It was a lot better than expected. Infact the cupboard carcasses being so straight made the floor's lack of level look so bad- thankfully we had planned to use some adjustable legs from gelmar. DIY home made concrete counter tops were also dead easy to make and worked out cheaper than the most basic melamine countertop. We then had a cupboard door place in PTA wrap some doors which made it look professional and it was also well priced. I had a laugh at a youtube video I was watching on the trainer yesterday. The guy spoke about owning a mill and a lathe as being dangerous. He said once you have the workshop you walk into home depot, look at the taps(faucets) and think they look cr....p and you can make better. Then all of a sudden you are pulling all nighters and are suddenly a tap making expert. He reckons it is a slippery slope to start on.

Between vacuum pump, lawn mower, generator, motorbike and chainsaw have been filling the same 3 petrol cans up at multiple petrol stations for years and it is usually an immeasurable difference in volume. Massive price difference but if they fill it to the line it is always the same volume, or so close I can't tell the difference. I wouldn't be surprised if a no name petrol station might be fiddling the numbers. Surely any franchise petrol station would risk losing franchise rights and no doubt risk license to sell petrol. This is not a relative sizing exercise like a burger or fries where shrinkflation is easy to hide. It is exact. Flip we have our milk tanks inspected and check for level so that dipsticks are accurate regularly. Surely the franchise would question it if they delivered 1000l of fuel and the station sold 1100l of fuel?

And the problem with that is? exactly

At least none of the above are so narcissistic that they posting photos of themselves on social media with a goat trying to hint at people to refer to them as the goat.

I was also doing some measurements with the old 'eyechrometer'. I wonder if he went with the dropper with 100mm travel. And had the seat post not all the way down in the frame. It might just give the clearance required?

Interesting question actually, had to google it. It is supposedly actually originating from Mohammed Ali. I am however 100% like you- someone says the goat and it is Carmichael that springs to mind every time. Also you can't have a GOAT in team sports, pointless exercise. Much like comparing DH, XC and freeride in one go.

That crazy truck mechanic can pedal a bike. He was at the 2014 Trans Hajar mtb stage race and was pretty quick.

Pointless exercise comparing riders from different disciplines. Need- XC, DH, Freeride etc. Brandon Semenuk?

That is fair enough, we actually do the same. 90% of the time it is the tailgate pad and then if we need the space we have a few older racks to choose from. I have a lot of short pool noodle sections with short straps we just put in the places to stop damage. The hollow pool noodles wrap around bars and seat posts really well. Because it is only for the odd longer trip then we don't mind spending more time protecting bikes from each other.

Must say I was rather impressed with the build on that separate battery pack set up. I am sure with some 3d printing and more work he could have made it work. As for the ASX nay sayers, don't judge it till you have ridden it long term. I was skeptical about it, but a few months of riding with GX AXS and I don't think I will go back to a cable shifter.

If you are not too concerned about losing some space in the bin, then a tailgate pad rack is an amazing thing for the price. As mentioned above. R1300 for the rack, a few straps and you can easily get 4 bikes on there all clear of each other

Silk Road kicks off in a few hours. The usual bike p...rn - https://bikepacking.com/bikes/2022-silk-road-mountain-race-rigs/?fbclid=IwAR0TKC9AK-vKkBXIqG_xe48N7JM2fupQ24ZJQaHEEueAEMRo9zXPr_v8XpY tracking - https://srmr2022.maprogress.com/

Fair enough there are pesticides poisoning water in both. But the reality is that one is a far cry from the other in a lot of ways... The greenhoused area is nearly double the size of Gauteng. Something like 33000 tons of plastic waste produced in a year, mostly dumped into the sea. Workers literally dying in greenhouses due to the poison. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/10/16/consumers-are-not-aware-we-are-slaves-inside-the-greenhouses https://www.foodunfolded.com/article/the-environmental-impacts-of-greenhouse-agriculture-in-almeria-spain

When you have those quads and build those bikes, no one questions a pink bike or hot pants. That previous 8kg dual sus Scott was a bit less polarizing, but you don't have to like the new Scott build to see it is a machine with some epic details and as he discussed, slightly heavier but a few more modern features

you should be using Squirrel nut butter anyway so no loss

I will take frozen 18 month apples of a farm in the Cape over what is happening in the EU. The demand for fruit and veg year round has lead to the 'sea of plastic' in Almeira Spain. Illegal immigrants brought across to work in horrid conditions. Groundwater polluted by pesticides and now salt water leaching. Tons of plastic running into the sea. Just go onto google maps and look at the satellite imagery around Almeira. You will be astonished. So an apple out the freezer grown in the Cape is a welcome thought in my mind Africa has very different shopping tendencies to SA. SA retailers have learned a few hard lessons in a few places. Sudan has an informal market that is 90 000 square meters.

Ya o-ring and X-ring chains are the bees knees on a dirtbike, and still somehow cheaper than a lot of bicycle chains You get X-ring chains which are a little less friction, but there is still considerable friction. I think for a commuter bike it would be awesome though just in terms of less maintenance

I have seen children sent to the the store next door to buy plastic bags for 50c while the parents shop at ww. The Ladies at the pharmacy tills laughed at how often it happens.

Those R6,49 shopping bags are worth crying over when you have forgotten reusable ones... There is one place where the whole made in the same factory is true- KTM, Husqvarna and Gas Gas mx and off road motorcycles, but there is no real price difference anyway

Titan RS Cypher pro- Carbon, GX AXS, my medium is a shade under 12kg with pedals all for R80k... We took a farm dog to live with us in town for a year or 2 when we were still in Randburg, she used to turn her nose up at long life milk. As long as your flat white is not ruined by someone adding almond juice or soya juice in your coffee. Note the term juice- milk from mammary glands, juice from flavourants. Ya it is convenience you are paying for like I said, fair enough as well, people gotta eat along the way. Our costs went up around R20k a week with the recent blip in petrol costs. I am very glad I am a data scientist living on a farm and not a farmer. Specialized is not always a great market related price if you look at the example I give above. It is a good one, but there are a lot more competitive options in the mid range.

I was thinking about this earlier. What I think might be happening is that there is a race to build geo data in general. With all these other map platforms everyone want's the most complete base map gallery. It is mission critical to a lot of the SAAS geo platforms and mobile apps. What the data scientists are very good at- is a little digital scraping, and pulling as much data out of everywhere into a big mess and then refining it from there. I have done it successfully before. When it comes to making maps gps tracks are best to scrape because they carry a lot of depth in the data. If 100 bikes cycled along there then you can be certain there is a track, same for walking and driving etc. It often works better in places where the satellite imagery is not great or for minor paths that may not be clear enough to spot in satellite imagery etc. You also have speed and a last used so you can discard old tracks that are unused and verify often used tracks. You can also gather a condition by the speed travelled along the track. I suspect this might have been what is happening in the OSM map above. Running this process at large scale will always have something that is not perfect popping up. Look at google's building footprints that were automatically created. Lots of hay bales classed as huts. Just a small error in a ridiculously massive dataset.

Milk off the farm is R5,20/litre. Which includes all the cream(which is skimmed off and sold at R120/Litre) So you paying a premium for a brand name, some packaging and some convenience in both of those pictures.

Standard spanners get shorter as they get smaller(same with normal allen keys), so you have less force when tightening smaller bolts and more for bigger bolts. Socket sets are usually where people start stripping bolts, because now you have the leverage of a size 32 spanner on a size 10 nut or something along those lines. Multitools are worse for bikes as often you see someone unfolding the tools on the opposite end to tighten something. Take a standard spanner and tighten it with one finger, you will be surprised how close you can get. Less is often more. For me it is a joke- the Parktool flare nut wrench does not mention in the instructional document or in the video how to adjust your torque wrench setting to account for the extra leverage tool adds. So I would love to know how many think they are tightening they fasteners over tight thinking they are dead on... https://www.parktool.com/assets/doc/product/MWF-3_instructions.pdf https://www.tekton.com/blog/how-to-accurately-use-a-torque-wrench-with-a-crowfoot-wrench

I mean, hop a wall in a suburb to ride your bike across the back yard to the road behind. Security, police, neighborhood watch, residents association- they will all lose their minds it will be groot turds... But that same home owner wouldn't think much about checking if it is a private road or private property when cutting across a field on their bike a lot of the time. Dropping a gu sachet, leaving an empty bomb etc along the way. Our workers love cyclists leaving punctured tubes along the railway line. On the gun topic- in town you don't think twice when you hear a police siren in the suburbs, but you panic when you hear gunshots. Out in the sticks you don't even wake up for gunshots, but you panic if there are police sirens. Our neighbor probably drops a grand a month on 9mm ammo just when the shadows move funny in his veggie patch at night.