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It's like it's scripted so that doowis has it easy. WTF, Bottas is the worlds greatest team mate.
5 minutes ago, Spinnekop said:In general...........speaking quantities....... looking around me at friends riding daily outside?
Not many battery packs. People hate them. They scratch your frame. Heavy. Crappy mounting. Cables everywhere.
Way, WAY more lights on bikes that has the battery and light as one unit.
Lyzene, Bontrager, Exposure etc.Just a thought............
And charging via usb like my edge and varia is also a bonus.
I still have an old style battery pack like you mention with the looooong cable and had to make plans to prevent scratching and try make it look nice at least. I am lucky that there is a plug point right were my bikes park so just leave the charger in the plug but I would prefer to just plug it into the pc.
Ok. Have a good weekend. Don't let it bother you.
4 hours ago, Eddy Gordo said:
Took my boys to the local park 2 weeks ago. Got onto one of these with them. Jeez I almost passed out and the 3 of them just kept going faster. Clearly I am getting old.
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I know nothing about these type of pedals being a roadie and all. So please excuse my ignorance, but what is this for?
36 minutes ago, Bateleur1 said:What is left of the aviation industry at the moment? Comair is battling from what I understand but they are servicing their aircraft with Lufthansa. SAA is pretty much a chicken and I do not see them flying soon even in limited capacity. Mango now going into business rescue. Where does Safair service their aircaft? They seem to be the only ones flying at the moment.
Comair has their maintenance split between us and Lufthansa. They started moving all their aircraft over to lufthansa, then were not happy and started bringing them back here.
Safair have their own maintenance guys.
Safair and Airlink are both flying plenty.
Sjoe MANGO going into Business Rescue is not good at all. I really hope I am wrong but I am not sure they will recover and fly again. I know too much unfortunately. In my last few days here I am swamped with work and it is all to do with returning the mangos back to the owners. Just now this morning I got asked to do another one that wasn't on the cards previously ????.
On 7/22/2021 at 8:40 AM, Rocket-Boy said:Yeah dont get the petrol one. I had a neighbor who had the 2.7 and a mate who had the 4.0 both were extremely sad about how expensive they were to run.
I have a 4.0 V6 navara, you very quickly forget about the fuel consumption when you put foot and hear the growl of the V6. It's also pretty quick for a bakkie.
15 hours ago, ouzo said:Have a look at any car ad, it’s always the top spec car advertised with the From price of the lowest spec version.
but, if you are advertising x version of y bike, and your ad states x version, then put the correct pic.
So that isn't the base model civic in your driveway?
On 7/19/2021 at 12:44 PM, Long Wheel Base said:Sooooooo if Wout wins or does well, then what excuse do all these okes have for pulling out the tour early?
I will be rooting for Wout in both disciplines and I think he will most certainly be the marked man, He will need to ride the RR very smart.
Soooooo, the podium were all TDF finishers and 2 of them were on the TDF podium and the other won the last 2 stages.
Who was the highest finisher that left TDF early to prepare?
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10 minutes ago, IceCreamMan said:Some footage of Seb cleaning up the stands long after the crowds had left. Good on him. Good to see humble guys.
Most ppl did take their garbage with them, good to see but obviously not all.
I saw that. Good for him. You won't see Lewis doing that and it's mos his home race. Class is permanent, Seb is class.
Sooooooo if Wout wins or does well, then what excuse do all these okes have for pulling out the tour early?
I will be rooting for Wout in both disciplines and I think he will most certainly be the marked man, He will need to ride the RR very smart.
13 hours ago, Mountain Bru said:Whats with all the kids on the podium? This might be an unpopular opinion, but I really don't think there should be kids up there. And as a sponsor, I'd be pissed if my guy, whose salary I pay so that he can be a billboard for my company, gets on the podium of the world's biggest bike race, and then covers up my brand with his kid.
Even this??
Hard to say anything bad about WVA though
Have you got kids?
My blood is still boiling after yesterday so I will sit on my fingers but I must say I have never sworn at that person so much in my life.
@IceCreamMan WOW man that must have been so cool. Thanks for all the pics. Glad you had decent weather.
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On 7/16/2021 at 1:12 PM, dirtypot said:What's the next thing on the horizon?
On 7/16/2021 at 9:26 PM, Spokey said:LWB
Good Luck with your new ventures. One of my brothers friends has also lost his job there after many years. In 1981 I did my one year as an “appie” at SAA Technical. I left and joined the hotel industry. In 1994 I started my flying training and bar one period of two years around 2007/8 where I worked freelance for only 12 months, I have managed to stay flying. Not without tough times however as with many in this industry. I consider myself incredibly fortunate to be on this new Global having also flown aircraft as ancient as the DC4 in my career.
I really wish you and your colleagues all the very best. With out you engineers us pilots would have nothing to break!Swing by Hoekwil for a beer and a chat if ever in the area (if I am home too!)
On 7/17/2021 at 8:43 AM, DJR said:LWB, I wish you all the best. I cannot imagine how tough the last few years must have been, but your attitude sounds brilliant and I'm sure you'll thrive.
On 7/17/2021 at 2:09 PM, PhilipV said:Let us know what it is please. If in any way we can help by being customers, let us know. I know I’m not the only one who will support you where we can.
I had a loooong message typed out but decided to delete most of it as it's not really aviation thread related.
Thanks Guys, really appreciate it.
So after our twins were born in 2018, my wife and I decided it's best she stops working to look after the 3 kids. Whilst we had to cut on certain "lekker" things we still lived comfortably on just my salary(I also have 3 rental properties as an extra income). The intention was for her to stay off work until the kids started primary school(twins will start Gr1 in 2025) and then get something small to keep herself busy. But that had to be moved forward to now. So she is working again which at the moment is making up the shortfall from my vastly reduced salary here. Then that allowed me to start taking all my leave and look into other ideas. My Dad retired from here(SAAT) in August 2018 and he has plenty work/jobs at his house that he is prepared to pay me to help with. Between him, my boet and myself we have about 10 unfinished car projects. We going to basically each keep one car and flog the rest but with that does come some work and fortunately some of the stuff has already paid some income and there is interest in some of the other stuff, especially the V8 parts. Then my uncle owns a E-Waste recycling company operating out of Ballito and he is wanting to get a branch up and running here in Joburg. I am going to probably take a small roll there with him dealing with the clients up here as he doesn't want to fly up here all the time himself or fly one of his current Durban employees up here. It's not 8 hours a day for 5 days a week worth of work so it will allow me to basically do multiple things at once and have some flexibility with the kids if my wife is busy.
I have a lot to be grateful for from SAAT, my Dad started here in 1977 after spending 2 years in the army. 42 years later he retired at 63, They were good to him. I started here as a contractor in August 2007 then in April 2008 I got a permanent contract and I can without even giving a seconds thought say that I was treated well. I have no regrets about applying for and getting a job at SAAT. I learnt a lot and enjoyed my time here.
If you want to chat more about the goings on here inside SAAT, DM me and we can exchange phone numbers and chat on whatsapp(for those of you that aren't already doing that) as I don't want to leave too much out here on a public forum.
27 minutes ago, Bateleur1 said:@Long Wheel Base I see Lufthansa is pulling 5 of their A340-600 back into service and going to refit the first class seats for routes to North America and Asia. I found that interresting.
How are things on your front and with SAA?
I have about 7 working days left here. 27th should be my last working day. Clearing out and all the paperwork that goes with it will take a few days but officially the 27th will be my last day. I have unfortunately had enough and have decided I want out. I am in the minority though for obvious reasons so there are a lot of people who don't want to go and will be forced to go in the very near future but I am opting to go. I can buy a top of the range S-WORKS with the back pay they owe from all the reduced/zero pay months we have had in the last 15 months so financially it's not wise for me to stay. This month will be 0 pay again as Comair are not flying and Mango didn't pay their employees last month so they have no money to pay our fees so the company(SAAT) has no income at all this month as SAA still isn't flying. I have 13 years service here and I have all the licenses for the components in my section so I am fairly high up on the salary grade but the package is still not great(1 week for every year, no sweetener, 1 month notice pay). Before tax I get just short of R400k.
Interesting about Lufthansa, those things are heavy on fuel. They can buy spares from us, we still got 6 here with extra engines. I remember seeing one of those 600s with all economy pax here once, it's A LOT of seats. The galleys and toilets were down in the cargo hold so it was literally seats from front to back.
1 minute ago, Long Wheel Base said:The rear wing looks weird and those hug shark fin fences on the front wing look dangerous but that shiny back of a CD colour scheme looks pretty cool. I would like to see one of the current cars next to the new one just to get an idea of the size. Giving me dimensions means nothing, I want to see it.
O and I am not a fan of the wheel covers, I do like the bigger wheel though.
Quali Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it at 19h00 or 20h00 our time? I am having a debate with a buddy around track time and daylight saving there at the moment. I haven't had a chance to check what time DSTV have it yet.
14 hours ago, BaGearA said:Juss the new car looks butt ugly ????
The rear wing looks weird and those hug shark fin fences on the front wing look dangerous but that shiny back of a CD colour scheme looks pretty cool. I would like to see one of the current cars next to the new one just to get an idea of the size. Giving me dimensions means nothing, I want to see it.
1 minute ago, Eldron said:I know it isn't Friday yet but I saw this pic and thought "this should be good for 4,500 pages of knob wanding on thehub".
That was a hard core 90s HT with no bar ends.
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Argh Seb been DQd. Didn't have enough fuel for the fia to take a sample. Doowis now gets 2nd.