JohanMalan

I think the HTA is slack enough, not a fan of the super slack trend. 2.6 tyres and a dropper post and you're sorted. As long as the chainstays are robust enough.

Yes, Racepace!

That was, hands down, the best Atta yet. The veld was amazing! Hardly saw anyone. Weather was great, -2C going out of town, but warmed up lekker. Please move the event to August!!

Perhaps the new Venom compound will have better puncture protection. I have just removed the previous Mezcal as a back tyre, 4 rock punctures in a month. The tread pattern was great and the outer compound nice and grippy, but it wore down very fast and unfortunately many punctures on familiar rocky terrain. Good weight and volume.

I'm interested in a spare hanger for the STF frame, anyone?

What Nick said!

In the year 2525...

I also prefer flat mtb bars, more confident in tech terrain and much simpler/cheaper. Carbon fork drops a good kg off the weight.

Yes! I have Str and stf as my 2 bikes, gen 2, 38 will fit on both.

The name is just too open to misinterpretation in South Africa. Product looks good.

I have their hubs in both Shimano for SS and xd configuration, for gears. I think you will be hard pressed to find a decent shimano hub for less than R800. They are also some of the most robust, with big pawls, I've seen. Highly recommended.

Berms and jumps, proper mtb.

Wow!! Richard has built some amazing new trails at Honingklip. A lot of effort has obviously gone into them and he's had help from professional trail builders. Proper, proper stuff. Awesome views over Botrivier lagoon. We measured just over 800m ascent in 28km. R50 day permit next to the brewery, Snapscan, easy. Lekker beer after the ride.

Day1 is going to be a fair bit tougher than usual. Make sure your Granny gears are working well! Enjoy!!

Get a new hub. I'd recommend rapide. Great hub, excellent service, very good price.

I have probably used a thousand plugs. Never use the reamer, or glue. This looks beautifully made, but I usually want to get to the plug ASAP, so screwing attachment is not ideal. A two sided tool, one small and one big, would be great, holes vary in size.

Hi Victor I owned 2 of the previous Str frames and now one of the new. 1. ST-R PLEASE, SS is Not fringe! It is great to have SS or geared option, and I often switch between the two. Perhaps add the option of a Boost slider to swop out, if that is needed. 2. Keep 29er, and yes 2.6 clearance would be great, pretty good on the new frame already. 3. HA of 68 is great. I think the current trend is getting too slack. The Cpt crowd like their trail bikes, but the rest of the country still want to do marathons. 68 degrees should be OK up to 130mm travel and still fine on 100mm fork. 4. frame sizes Small to XL, I have friends across this spectrum, all wanting 29er. 5. Up to 2.6 would be great but 2.4 is fine ( as is at present) 6. 30mm inner rim width ( 26 to 30 mm is , I think, the sweet spot) 7. Current pricing is awesome, stay below 8k. 8. Colours need work, raw with clear coat ( perhaps a nice colour contrast logo) would be my choice. Thanks for the personal interest!

Track below Summaridge( includes the whole blue and green routes, start of red and black) is basically destroyed, bridges burnt , trees over track, so that 1st part of the Hemel en aarde track is closed, for now. Track open from Summaridge into the valley, except parts through the horse farms ( bypassed aro young foals) Power is back on, Hermanus very much open .

Enduro?

Seat tube angle is actually 72.5 degrees Head tube angle is 69 degrees, which is pretty up to date with current trends for this type of bike. The BB drop is much lower than before and I find that it climbs and corners really well. The toptube is actually 7mm longer than than Spez Epic hardtail ( in L frame), the BB drop is 1mm lower and the HTA is 0.8 degrees slacker. It is obviously important to compare bikes of the same application type. What do you ride? No problem on our double black route, which is pretty steep. Super comfortable ride.

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The rims are slightly heavy( but not bad at all), so for the full built wheels to come in at that weight, the hubs must be pretty light. Great price! Well done Lyne!!

Can we enter on the day, late entries?

Welcome to my car!! Lots of his other tracks lyrics still running around in my head. I would love to get a hold of that album again.

A compressor does not always have a large volume of flow ,and very noisy, I gave mine to a friend and went back to a large volume floor pump. Bombs tend to congeal the slime. The garage is a dirty ride in the car away from my bikeshed. I think this is a fantastic idea esp on stage races or when touring. If you don't get it then maybe you have not done a large range of tyres on various rims