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Cycle Lab offer a great store-to-store service. I used it from Joburg to Cape Town.

There's a guy on the Hub who 3d prints them. I bought one and it worked really well. Lemme see if I can find his details. Found it: marshace

I've managed to time a trip to Europe to coincide with the Zurich Marathon in April. Not cheap at CHF129 entry fee... around R 2,600. But it does include a t-shirt...🤣

I'm starting to get p-ed off with Garmin!! On 15 July, they sent the following alert: Garmin has identified an issue with the NEO Bike Plus trainer that can cause overheating or in rare circumstances, fire. Use the following instructions in the service alert below to update your software, and then do not use the external power supply. Since then I've queried multiple times with Garmin SA. Response has been underwhelming to say the least: Thank you for contacting Product Support. Apologies for for the issue experienced. Currently we are still awaiting further feedback from engineering / testing. As son as they have feedback you will be notified of the way forward. Hope you have a good day, The unit works, but only under it's own internal power. So when you stop pedalling it switches off plus two of the features (USB charging ports and road feel) don't work. The unit is 9 months old. Anyone else with the same trainer?

I ran a marathon last weekend with one of the SiSu gels and two Gu's for the caffeine. I like the low flavour of the SiSu and the convenience of the flip top is a win for me. Lots of small doses make it easier to consume.

Pirates is an incredible club. They have an amazing vibe with lots of runs every week and all sorts of paces. Try a Tuesday TT. 5:45 start. I started running there to have a catch up with an old mate. Next thing I was a member and running Two Oceans in the skull and crossbones. DM me if you want a contact name.

Chain catcher

Perhaps another perspective of the homeless issue might be useful... Watch it. Don't watch it... Use it. Don't use it...

Thanks all. Once again, the Hub does its thing! Appreciate it.

If your better half was just starting to ride, where in CT would you take them for the first couple of outings? Somewhere that she can get comfortable on the bike and not be scared off by traffic or technical stuff.

I ordered the Sisu drink. They delivered within 72 hours. Used it today on a training run. Just the drink to fuel an easy 2 hour run. I mixed it with 8 scoops so about 80 grams of carbs. Not too sweet and I felt really good. This will be my drink of choice for a while. And, it’s relatively well priced.

I've just ordered some of this to try.

The Duracell batteries have a special coating to prevent kids from putting them in their mouths. Check the packaging and buy those without the baby icon on the card. For some reason it makes the batteries work intermittently in Garmin HRMs.

I absolutely love my Simple Sam. I picked her up on the Hub.