WOFT

Hey Onetime. Nice photos. Ja, it was a great day of riding. Everything was nice and damp cool. Good to meet you and fat...? (His name is deceptive though). See you on the trails!

Well, the 2 Germans were at the bike park. They've been (bi)cycling from Cape Town to Mozambique for the past couple of months, and are now in Cape Town for another week or so before flying home. The other riders are local cape towners.

We'll be riding the 26km. Nope. It is a fixie, set in 1:1 gearing ratio ie: no gearing. What that means for us, is that to brake or slow down, we need to apply backpressure whilst we pedal. I am running a brake on my 29er, but it is used as a drag brake to take some pressure off the knees on the long downhills. I don't use it to stop suddenly, as I would faceplant painfully JReggae doesn't run a brake at all.

Does one really need a reason?

Correct. on my 24inch Muni (in the photo), I am running a 3inch wide tire at a low pressure. That helps a bit. Most of the impact is absorbed by bending the knees (I am not sitting on the seat in that jump), and rolling out of the drop. Ruan has a much more difficult task in the first photo, as he is landing on a flat surface.

Ruan, that is damn BIG! But come now, enough of this skate-park nonsense. Find yourself a mountain... WOFT2009-02-22 11:57:30