The Guy in Pink

Heck, if I used the formula in the first link I would hafta stop riding once my feet were clipped in as I would already be above his range. At that sort of heartrate I would not raise a sweat, and would not enjoy my excercise. Nope looks like nonsense.

Your bank converts the charge immediately to Rands, at the going rate . You may recieve an SMS from you bank about 10 seconds after clicking "Buy" if you normally get one when using the card, with the Rand value You will pay Vat on the cost + 10% ( ie vat of about 15.4% instead of 14%) You it comes by post you will pay R30.00 admin fee, and pay it all at the post office when collecting you frame. If you get it by courier the courier may have a different admin fee.

The race organiser confirmed the 9th June 2012 is that date. He also has good news about sponsorship for the event which will be announced soon ....

It will either be first or second Saturday in June. I e-mailed the guy who will most likely be organiser this year with the link to this thread.

I Tried to order cycling stuff from them , but if you don't have a USA address they don't supply.

and now for something different: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whJvNNdQlTI

Tresham’s Triangular Lodge. In 1593, the date he later put on the Lodge, Sir Thomas Tresham took the firm intention to build a monument to the Holy Trinity in the grounds of Rushton Hall, northwest of Kettering. Work started on the Triangular Lodge the following year. It was originally known as the Warryners Lodge, presumably because the rabbit keeper lived there. It is thought to be the oddest building of its period in the country as its overriding premise is “three”. It has three sides measuring 33ft - each with three gables; three storeys; three triangular windows; and three times three gargoyles. The exterior is littered with trefoils, the family symbol displayed, of course, in threes. Biblical quotations – three of them - are carried on as a frieze along the outside walls with each text consisting of, wait for it, 33 letters. Sir Thomas had served 15 years in prison for his Catholicism and the building was a public reflection of his faith. Tresham’s son was executed as one of the Gunpowder Plotters and his head put on a stake.

From The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_personality/16303729.stm Another Rave story here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/cycling/8975987/Mark-Cavendishs-victory-in-the-BBC-Sports-Personality-of-the-Year-takes-cycling-to-a-new-level-says-Dave-Brailsford.htm He has twenty TDF stage wins so far and has years of riding left in his legs.

Only part of my salary is caculated in $, and to-morrow hafta buy $1000.00 to have some spending money when I go back to work in January

Only part of my salary is caculated in $, and to-morrow hafta buy $1000.00 to have some spending money when I go back to work in January

Oh Eccentric One ! This is Frail , the only check up he needs is with a head doctor. Any guy who rides 2000km week and does not lose a bit of weight needs to see a doctor. We are talking about the guy who when he rode the Kremetart in June actually had a bit rest day that Saturday, because at 175km the Kremetart was the easiest day by about 100km he had in the week before and the week after the Kremetart. (and all the 4000km he did in those two weeks was on a 1970's retro bike!) Nope, if Frail is keeping his weight down at 75kg he is doing just fine.

I'm on leave and making the most of being home. I ride most days when I am at work but I ride alone and although the area where I'm working (Eastern DRC) is extremely mountainous there are no trees and no rideable paths and trails. The Kremetart has a magic formula. A planning discussion will be held this week end for 2012.

Come and ride the Kremetart in June and stay at the Schoemansdal Veld School. It's Ideal accommadation for teams, and Stage 3 finishes there. The Headman on the Veldschool is a Mountain Bike Fundi who knows these mountains like the back of his hand. He lays out some very intersting courses for the Kermetart MTB races on the Sunday after the Kremetart.

I finished off the day yesterday with another ride in the forest, this time with Hardus as a partner. We took a different route and much of the descent was single track through indigenious bush. It was late by the time we hit the singletrack so it was dark and we needed our lights to see the track. Start time : 17h30 Distance 21.5km Time 1h39 Total ascent 577m This forest has so many paths , although I have ridden in it many times I still find new routes. The beauty on it is I can be in the forest within 5 minutes from leaving home.

Nope Hanglip. It looks like a hanging lower lip. We rode up to it and around the back of it this morning

This morning’s ride : Start 4:52 Am, distance 24.9 Km, Duration 1 hr 53min, Total ascent 676 metre , some nice single-track through indigenous forest, the rest jeep track ( Apart from home to the forest gate 2.5km). On the entire route in the forest we saw no one else. That was a good start to the day.

Turnover = $137million pa

I love that stair climbing bit, just fantastic. I have been trying to find a High Defination version of her dancing without success.

Those Air horns are a great way of communicating on a MTB. On Wednesday night there were three of us with them in Roodeval Forest, and it helped keep the group intact and on the right track.

That can only be the guys from the Zoutpansberg. There were three in the team with Air Horns .

I got my frame from Total Cycling as CRC did not have. I have used Cinelli bars and stems since I started racing (I got my first Giri de Italia bars in about 1970) so when I was putting the Kinesis to-gether the Bars were a must. The Bars are comfortable in every position , and the hands to-gether climbing position is magic. As I had the bars the saddle pin was needed to match the Frame and bars. The bars just look so good on the bike.

My Black Bike has a Kinesis Racelight KR810 frame, Campag Record groupset, Campag Zonda wheels and Campag pedals. The Bars are Cinelli Ram 2 as is the Saddle Pin. The Saddle is a SLR XP

If you are religious you will most likely be of that faith that your community adheres to, So if you were born in Arabia you will be a Muslim, or from most of India a Hindu, from Spain a Catholic or Northern Ireland a protestant. If you originated in Tibet you will be a Buddhist who believes in re-incarnation, whereas a western Buddhist will not have any belief. All of the faithful will tell you they have strong evidence to support their often conflicting beliefs. The Bible is a collection of works written by men who were often describing events that took place generations earlier. They lived in a highly superstitious age when almost all events were ascribed to the gods. Most natural events were seen as miracles. (In our more rational age miracles don’t happen anymore) Over the years the Bible has been much modified and edited mainly for political reasons, two such notable events were in about 70BC in Alexandria and 327AD by the a Roman dictator who removed all reference to the total destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70AD. I do not have any belief in an after-life, as I know from my own experience and observation that all things are impermanent. I see change about me every minute of the day. Death is inevitable and while it may be comforting to belief that you may somehow escape the fate of every living organism on this planet, the evidence is against it. The result of this realisation is saviour every moment of this life. We are burying in the next hour an old lady (98) of the town who is described in our paper to-day as a “ legend in her own right” Someone said to me yrsterday “How can she be buried from a church - she did not believe?” I replied that a funeral service is not for the deceased, it is for the living, and if her friends will get comfort for a church service they have the right to the comfort.

Yep well, whatever floats your boat .. I just get more satisfaction from rational thought than from irrational belief.

I seems that he said something different to everyone though . . . .