100Tours

My personal favourite - eMTB races are exempt from the no electronic bike rule who woulda thunk it

Piggs Peak Maguga Dam Lodge Hawane Resort Brett and Leslie are still a good contact as above - they'll be done with the 2018 version of the Frontier in a week or so.

Those panaracers don't look to have enough knobs on them (for cornering). Ritchey megabits look like a good option though.

yes the marshals told me I wasn't the first GG to fall out. I had a few snakebite punctures in the first 13 k's and ran out of tubes. limped home after tying knots in my last tube to ride back. Poor preparation - I had not had those tyres out on the dirt before - and poor tyre choice on my part. I was on Conti cyclocross race tyres - the sidewalls are too thin and they don't support tubeless fitment (so they are basically pointless). Back next year with something more substantial.

It's an old one, but #ukheatwave doesn't seem to be letting up.

On Road bikes Day 1 we rode from Houghton Estate to Reitz (about 220km), but you have to go early so you can get over the R59 to VDB before the cops get up . Rationale was that If you're riding from Johannesburg to Durban then you shouldn't start in Vanderbijlpark. Day 2 was Reitz to Kestell via Clarens and the Golden Gate park (about 170km). Really nice ride this part. Day 3 was Kestell to Bergville. 120km easy day Day 4 Bergville to PMB along the midlands meander. As a road ride I enjoyed it. did it again the next year.

I've gone through a similar process with my wife over the last 4-and-a-bit years, 1. We started on a tandem. great way to ride a long way together at first, and it helped set her expectations that a 100km ride isn't all that far 2. She needs both fitness and skills - indoor power training helped a lot for fitness, and as you get fitter the skills are easier to master. 3. MTB skills courses are really useful and confidence building, also really helpful to have this coached by someone who isn't personally involved 4. We are going to do some riding on track to get better at bike handling - road downhills are the most challenging right now.

I'm still waiting for the pic of the SAffer ex-pat who kept mowing his lawn while that volcano blew up.

Might be old news (and this might get deleted for unsavoury language, sorry mods - I'm just saying what he said :-D), but apparently the Warner-de Kok argument that started it all went as follows: Warner: Kok, Kok, de Kok, What sort of a C**k are you that even you're even called Kok? Quentin: Look the only C**k you should be worrying about is the one Sonny Boy slipped into your wife... and that's how the fight started. Points for Quentin - Warner was just being abusive, and then he complains about being beaten on wit.

What is that clamp for?

High direct chain guide from CSixx. Light, simple, just big enough to work with an oval ring on my Pyga. I find that my 1x10 setup works great until I ride in very muddy conditions. In thick mud the chain stiffens up, and then jumps off the front ring when in low gears. This solves the problem.

The wife's Pyga - 120/650. Great little bike and very confidence inspiring for her.

Sheldon Brown's conclusion is that crank length doesn't make a lot of difference, but the clearance issue could be a real issue. Note that increasing your crank length may require you to change your gearing and to drop your seat height (and potentially handlebar height too). As I remember, with a shorter crank you can achieve a higher cadence (so a higher top end speed if you can put the power down). Shorter cranks require less leg 'lift' over the top of the pedal stroke, so you will notice that more work will be required from your hip flexors with the longer crank, and potentially more stress on your behind with long cranks due to the increased range of leg motion. A longer crank may help you put out more power (but slower cadence), but if you're not already a strong climber or you don't spend a lot of time in the big blade then it's not going to do much for you. At 2m tall you may find some advantage from getting an extra cm of range between top and bottom of the pedal stroke. But if you're spinning out on shorter cranks, longer cranks may be a step backwards (slower cadence and more saddle bounce). Thinking aloud it would be interesting to find out the longest crank length for which you could maintain a cadence of 100 for example - if you couldn't get that cadence then the crank would perhaps be too long. I do use different length cranks on my tandem, and making this change was a good move. 172.5 in the front and 165 on the back. This is to get our achievable cadence ranges aligned (my wife can match my cadence when she is using shorter cranks).

Joburg city this evening. Not a supermoon in sight.

I'm looking for a 29.6 seatpost for a roadbike. doesn't need to be particularly long - 300/330mm will work. Anyone have one lying around.

Hey ASG - how about proving number collection for the race that isn't during office hours? I would enter except there is no way I can get to 4-ways (or Centurion) on a weekday between 9am and 5pm..

No number collection outside of business hours.. That seems a little unfair on people who work don't you think.

I have a 26" fork if interested - drop me a line.

should be able to help you out - drop me a line

I have a ragley stubbing stem lying around. pretty sure it's 40mm. do you like black and green?

Before I throw them away... 3x 180mm centrelock rotors Shimano 9s MTB drivetrain components - 2 long cage rear derailleurs - various chainrings (MTB - 4 bolt) (46t / 42 t / 24t / 22t) - a couple of new 9s chains 4 pairs of no-name brand brake pads for Avid brakes a 115mm race face fork for a 26" wheel

Threadless headsets have been the standard for MTB for the past maybe 15 years(?) The old standard was a threaded headset, but nowadays you can only fit those on retro singlespeeds. The constraint that you have is that some of the new forks are tapered. This means the bottom headset race is wider than the upper race, and it accepts a tapered fork. AFAIK all the top forks are still available in straight cut models, so good news is you're ok with your threadless set.

guess not..?

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Go second hand - you'll get a much better bike..