Richard

Why so close to IM and Midlands ultra. Surely a Feb date would have been better. two weeks away from IM might be too close as most people would be tapering off for the big event

Hi, I will looking for am riding partners this Dec. Looking to do some road base training. Let me know if we could link up Richard

I notice according to the rules, any help from friends is disallowed, esp, getting food. As with drafting in EL, I notice lots of participants were getting lots of handout from the public, presumably family and friends. I need a fresh warm boerewors on each cycle lap, how can I pull this one off without offending the referee..my friends will erect a tent with braai no doubt.

Tried IDT, only used it twice..total boring, not to mention having to have a spare wheel. Spinning can be be better, again the gears are somewhat not reflective of reality..Always amaze myself how I can 10min standing on a spinning bike, and can hardly do 1min on a real bike, Personally I have a 1.5km gentle uphill in my area that i use, 6 times up and down gives a better work out that 90min on a spinning bike. Takes me 50min to do 6 laps..My philosophy is that uphills need training, flats and downhills will take care of themselves...I could be wrong in the eyes of purists

I am stunned...........utterly and adequate so......A lesson to wannabe cyclist with modest enough talent....Cheat so long as you do not win, then you won't be investigated..and you can have a descent career, if you can provide evidence against the perennial winner of cycle races..this will place in good stead, and probably even away from prosecution for your testimony is "priceless" I get the picture... Even dead former greats are no so immune, chances are they need to be dug up...INSANE this..never failed a single drug (s) test..NEVER

No doubt, the investigating officer will have something to work with.Just to be certain, I would give the guy a call, as an interested customer, find out how old is the bike, how much he is paying for insurance, if not insured, ask him if he has an original invoice as you wish to have it insured...from this discussion you can tell if he bought the bike from a thief, of if he is a thief himself.

Hi Did you come right with group...I live Midrand and plan to resume cycling in 4 weeks..target will be 150km per week..

Gumtree is the answer, I am not too sure if you save some time, certainly the energy expenditure is less with a wetsuit. I hope you are not considering an outlay of R40k on a proper TT bike to make up 4 minutes on your standad bike

100% agreed, to this day I refuse to buy a heart rate monitor, I average 28km/h during training and then up it by 4km/h during races, clearly my adrenalin must be on turbo during races. In short I listen to the body on race days, but match the pace setter on training days

On the contrary, I admit I am a poor looking hubber and henceforth am scared to cross paths with Hubbers, if I happen to have nice looking bike, whether mine, on loan, borowwed Vavi protested life style audits, I don't he's made much progress, if (rich) hubbers want to succeed where he's failed, I might consider voting for them, then again my income status might make my vote undesireable to those hubbers. Also, Yes I do have an eye for cheap things, 10 months, I noticed a CEO of one of the tv companies in the country riding an RC2000, aluminium frame nog al. What do we do there then.....Hubbers? I could stomach all this the fact he was in in a D group,and I went passed him on the 9th KM, riding all the way from the H group, now that got me frothing at the mouth.

Well if a farm supplies contaminated stock of cattle to a butcher, then a reasonable person ought to expect that few if not many of cows would test positive for the illegal drug ingested by one Senyor Contador..right? ( assuming that the right farm was inspected, containing a population of cattle from which a sampple stock was supplied to the said butcher, who then supplied Senyor Contador's chief chef with meat ) Apparently the bulls and cows in question are innocent of illegal drug taking, which makes Senyor Contador...(well not so innocent in the eyes of an impartial hubber like me) The mystery continues.....

Jammer hubbers, I missed all the Afrikaans version of your contribution, be that as it may, my take though is that, we can't forever live in the past, and sooner it's going to be unfashionable to blame everything on "apartheid", thus the nation needs to forge ahead, and so do the arts, culture sport, artifects, national symbols, flags etc, etc. We have made progress in some and less so perhaps on rewriting the history books. In other words what of the past do we embrace and carry forward, as we can't carry all the baggage with (HF Verwoed, Barend strydom etc, they belong in the past) What I am sensing and seeing is here is a lot of emotions, an little substance, the question is What contribution has Oom Paul done to the nation, if he is such an icon, then he deserves to be carried forward in to the future, so long as there is concensus among the citizens. Thus he ought to stand erect and watchful over the square If on the other hand, taking him forward does fokol in terms nation building, and there are more deserving icons and nation builders, past and present, then, jammer Oom can't stand erect forever, something gotta give. ANCYL are emotinal juggernauts, hellbent on getting airtime and promoting self interest at the expense of everyone, particulay anyone who dares to differ with them. I am yet to get an explantion why Oom Paul is suddenly undeserving to be looking over the square, other than Hani needs to be. No doubt we found it necessafy to have Beyers Naude acknowleged, as past historians (The Nats) were very selective and perhaps if sufficient reason is found...may be Oom need to go.

Idols is no different to Big Brother in they're pupularity shows finish and klaar. If you win well you're outright popular, not necessary the best singer.

Fellow Hubbers I notice most of us ride for fun and only ocasionally do races. I plan to do IM next year and hubbers recommend I get myself 50mm deep section wheels, I have no doubt other IM enthusiast are even considering investing in a full TT bike with all the bells and whistles. Rather than putting up the capital to purchase all these goodies for once event, would hubbers onsider renting if someone took all the trouble to facilitating this service i.e stock piling racing wheels, full bikes for travelling bikers (local or abroad) TT bars during IM season etc. If so instead of buying a R10,000 deep section wheel set how much would anyone pay to rent them for one race weekend instead of making a full purchase. Just a though, if we're comfortable with the idea of car rental, why not cycle rental?

..Not to mention running helps you rider faster uphill..by peeling off the weight and redcung your body fat % far quicker that cycling can. I notice sizeable weight loss running that I do with cycling...not comparing the two disciplines, I recommend running as a supplement to your cycling, as for loss of speed on the bike due to running, I'd argue perhaps at Elite level this might be a concern but as for an average hubber..RUN. It's cheaper, simpler, safer and SLOWER