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You beat me to it! https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/102559-hope-technology/page__p__1388808__fromsearch__1?do=findComment&comment=1388808 Every since I lived in the UK, I have had a bit of a Hope fetish. Have BB, headset, spacers, seat clamp, skewers and hubs. Next is Tech X2 brakes & rotors...

Almost!

Ibis Mojo SL-R launch From Singletrack Magazine

Team RECM is Malcom Lange's new mountain bike team with Neil Macdonald and Waylon Woolcock. The pic is from the team launch earlier this week.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/2011/04/hope-technology-a-photo-tour/

Team RECM's Niner Air 9 Carbon

Here is a pretty good deal if its your size

From Cycle Factory GIANT 2011TCR ADV SL R48,700 TCR ADVANCED 1 R25,250 TCR ADVANCED 1 WOMENS R25,250 TCR COMPOSITE 1 R19,500 TCR COMPOSITE 2 R15,000 TCR2 R8,500

Nice! That's an, Umm, interesting colours scheme you have got going there... Are you partly sponsored by Nick Nacks ?

Now that this year's Sani2C is in May and hopefully out of the rainy season, what tyres are to be recommended? I have a Maxxis Monorail/Cross mark combo or Conti Mountain King/Race King combo Riders in the area -opinions ?

Perhaps your shifters had arthritis. Like my gran - she can tell when its going to rain by how sore he knee is.

Taperer steerer for tapered head tube. Chris King inset Mixed taper headset. Giant tapered headtube

Better to be slow and accurate than fast and wrong. Measure twice, cut once.

blicksem! I missed it! I want one!

Any Specialized dealer should be able to have the shocks and bearings serviced, same as any other Specialized bike in SA. You just wont have any warrantee on the frame in SA (that applies to most things that are imported).

What brand is the frame?

From what I understood from speaking to somebody there the other day, they aren't finished with the base line, which is a combination of this year's Argus, the 94.7 and the 2008 Argus.

From 2009

Woo Hoo! Went up one group

Ja, those last 30 KM with those 3 hills! Make sure you have some bullets left for those - they are not to be underestimated...

The Giant's tapered headtube, QR15 & Pressfit bearings appeal to me. But pick the one with the geometry best suited to you.

You are right! This thread is VERY discriminatory!

It's about 1800m climbing (ascent) A training program very much depends on your goal (5:30 vs 9:00 ?)

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I saw one of these in Tokai yesterday. With Industry 9/ZTR wheels and Sram XO. A thing of beauty.