The Guy in Pink

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 . . . .

It was listening to a small Irish Priest try explain the working of the Holy Trinity to a group of us 15 years old school boys on the steps of the playing fields that first caused my doubts about Christianity. Being Irish his explanations were no doubt more convoluted than they needed to be , but I left him thinking , “This cannot be right – God cannot be so complicated.” I took another 40 years before those doubts became convictions. I now think that the Buddha got it right 2500 years ago when he refused to answer the Question - Is there a God? for two reasons. . His first reason was that it is not possible from our own experience and rational thought and without reference to other people or their writings, to reach a definite conclusion to the question, so trying to answer the question will only result in dissatisfaction . His second reason was that for a moral man the answer is irrelevant : A Moral man will lead his life no differently in the presence or absence of a god.

Grumps, The problem comes when some people (such as the fella in the first post of this thread) take things very literally and then tell others what to do with their time and how to observe the day. I lived in Sasolburg in the OFS at a time when fishing on a Sunday was a criminal offence on Sunday in the OFS. People would fish on the South Bank of the Vaal on Saturday and cross over the river to fish in the Transvaal on the North Bank of the Vaal on Sunday. Total nonsense but it was law.

Up your budget at bit and look at the FSA XC 500 http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=35689 They are a bit heavy ( Not grossly) but absolutely bombproof or of course Crank brothers XC Colbalt

4 is about 3 too many for my small brain to get around, so I'll stick to that.

There is nothing to create, the four dimensions of space are infinite. Infinity is is not just a large number , there is no begining and not end to infinity. ... now think about the fourth dimension, time.

....or they were Naked because we had evolved to run in a hot climate - out-running antelope by chasing them all day and never allowing them to rest and cool down by panting until they overheated and were forced to stop. - Thus we have more sweat glands than any other animal and no fur. But we love wandering about and we wandered to far from the hot dry shannavah and naked don't work in the snow to well, so we learned to cover up and keep warm.

Ok ... the eternal, all powerful, omnipotent, omnipresent etc .. who has been around for millions of billions of years needs to rest for 24 hours .. makes sense.

It's an authentic couch

That's because 186bpm is not your max. Use whatever the Max you have ever seen on the Heartrate monitor plus 5 beats and a ride to that. No harm will befall you.

My rather battered favourite:

The Rolls, I have been riding them and the identical Selle San Marco predecessors since the early 1970's . I use them on the MTB and road. I have tried others but the backside is too well panel beaten to the rolls shape.