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Milosh

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  1. From experience the kids grow out of their bikes very fast , I would not sweat the perfect decision as you will get another chance at bike choices in the not to distant future.
  2. I think the issue here is that those path have being in use for the last 5 years that I know of , and while the land owner or new land owner is fully entitled to change change their mind about allowing traffic , the spike may well be an over zealous way of getting the message across. one would also think a sign is easier to make than a spike.
  3. ICEID - is a local owner managed business , the sort we should all support , a quality product that is unlikely to go awol in an accident like , activity watches , garmins and phones. Mine lives in my "Ride Box" , and goes on with gloves , glasses and helmet for every ride. Pepper spray , A ziplock for phone with rennie's and coffee cash live here to ???? https://iceid.co.za/#!/about I am not associated with them in any way other than buying for me and my family and have received mailing list promo codes
  4. Hi Mike , I need a LHS side xt / xtr shaft , what do you want for it ?
  5. Better than sneak a look at lady pro pages
  6. Whats you address ?
  7. Early weekday Morning Rides are good for soul !!
  8. This assumes you are in a position to exercise warranty after any failure under heavy usage.
  9. In the 2018 Sani Race, they took your bikes as we crossed the line and took them to bike wash and bike park once clean. Than only you can fetch your bike as it's number matches your armband. We had to fetch clean bike and take to mechanic , who was good but expensive insurance as nothing went wrong.
  10. I was aware of the various cutoff at points and finish line at 17h00 as these were clearly published in the route description, the 7hr was in the fine print that I was only directed to when querying. ( anyone who read all the terms and conditions can throw the first stone ;-) ) I was aware of 17h00 as it was published clearly and we crawled home within that. Also the 94'7 , Sani2c , berg'nBish all have cutoffs and are in place as the course needs to close but do allow an earlier starter to have a bad day, mechanical and still get a finish with the tail of the field and come back the next day or keep his streak going. Yes, it is a fine print rule! but people who crossed the line after us got a finish so it really does leave a bad taste.
  11. Thank you guys , will drop them a line
  12. So forgive a quick rant I have loved the Capecycle tour the last two years and did 2019 with my young son, seeing the guys with multiple tours on their backs get us motivated. We did it on hardtail mountain bikes with nobblies and had a hard ride with wind and rain but toughed it out to finish in 7:21 within the cutoff proper vasbyt stuff Now I am told that as we did not do it in 7 hrs it is a DNF. I have got around all the other moans and groans about the event, wind or no wind, water or no water, event prices, goodie bags, seeding , bike transport cost, flight costs etc all bla bla bla and taken in my stride but this I cant and doubt I will be spending money on this again.
  13. Correct the swat box in frame is raised and will not take this
  14. This kind of sums it up :-)
  15. Hi Guys Looking at riding Breedts nek this coming weekend , and looking for info on condition particularly the far side down to the farm stall. BTW - The stall was closed on visit to mountain sanctuary on 13/01/2019 , Locked up and benches also gone so looks long term.
  16. Where are you hoping to ride from to ? my car commute is opposite ie : up the M1 , four ways to centurion
  17. Commute through Sylvia's pass ? NICE !!!
  18. Although i don't do it often as due to distance Twice as long as drive but half as stressful It gets some training in Puts me in a great mood
  19. Update on commute Ok so leaving car at office was no problem I am not fit enough so did a work from home day and rode back a day later 2 x 32+ km rides by wednesday is a good feeling Somehow the commuting is harder mileage as is part of a bigger dayMondays are tough days in office to do a 32km ride afterwards is tough I cannot eat enough Running flashing lights front and back is a good idea its pretty cool overtaking traffic ;-) You develop a sixth sense as to which drivers will look you in the eye an pull out in front of you anyway
  20. I am keen for commuting as a way of getting some training in , on a bad day traffic is about an hour by car, so commuting will achieve that and improve mood compared to traffic However my commute is 36 km one way so 72 km per day , which I have done a few times kills me when you add a full days work in and is to much at current fitness levels. ( i have done little since trans eeek) There are lot's of pavement and Jeep track , even some technical single track , some pavement hopping and about 40% road but fairly quite or with decent yellow lines so not excuses. There is a gym at office , so shower facilities but you may not use lockers outside of workout similar to Vigin Active.Also there is no real safe bike storage, albeit parking is in a single tenant secured office park. So having followed and read this whole thread , I plan on driving to work , with bike on rack , leave car there with bag of clothes in and ride homethan ride back the next morning leaving bike locked to rack on car and take bag to gym and than office. Update: I did this on monday and road full on into a highveld thunderstorm. A head wind all the way home and got soaked through.Lots of fun in the puddlesSingle track in the gloom.Luckily i put lights on front and back for the gloomA few tweaks got the route down to 32km.Interesting how road works are in your favorA robot out is easier to cross than when it is working.You can strategically ride on either pavement depending on next turn. Jeep track on servitude has being created by taxi'sTaxi are more more courteous than othersSome cars simply do not see a 6'4" cyclist in neon windbreaker and a flashing light !!! to be repeated !!
  21. Edit - removed my poor joke
  22. I have done a few from Fourways -> kyalami -> Midrand -> centurion It took a while to work out the best route by bike and where to be on pavement , how to get across certain intersections etc https://www.strava.com/routes/4634982 It is a bit long for a commute at current fitness levels however. More truthfully it is hard to get some work done between two >30km commutes I pondering with the idea of leaving a car with clothes , Gym bag etc at office and doing one way home in the afternoon , than back to office the next day and repeat
  23. Awesome - my kind off girl , next year i will be faster and get her number !
  24. Some serious OCD and/or basic training coming through in bike alignment
  25. Good on you for saying something , but taking a South African to task seldom goes well !
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