The Guy in Pink

The changes in the exchange rate always leaves me with mixed feelings. 20% of my pay is caculated in US$ but paid in rands, so I have a bit of an increase coming this month. Lucky for me also I bought my Forex for the next trip to the DRC a few weeks ago so paid about R7/$ But I do buy a lot of stuff from CRC and other overseas shops, so the exchange rate will affect me soon there.

No No, You have to arrive at the conclusion after carefull examination of the alternatives using logic and reason. But know this : If compelling factual and scientific evidence was produced proving the existance of a god, those who arrived at their conclusions rationally would immediately change their view. That is the nature of rational and scientific thought - zero attachment to views.

TNT1’s posts that you refer to are NOT about religion, rather they are about opposite of religion , reason and rational thought.

The caption on that picture could get you banned for life from this thread. Don't let TNT1 see it.

Exactly, my parcel with both Race & Mountain King will reach home a few days before I do.

Mountain King USt tyres are in fact in stock at CRC. Why not use them?

Do not accept any of my words on faith, Believing them just because I said them. Be like an analyst buying gold, who cuts, burns, And critically examines his product for authenticity. Only accept what passes the test By proving useful and beneficial in your life. "Rely on the teaching, not on the person; Rely on the meaning, not on the words; Rely on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary mind." "Do not believe a spiritual teaching just because: it is repeatedly recited, it is written in a scripture, it was handed from guru to disciple, everyone around you believes it, it has supernatural qualities, it fits my beliefs anyway, it sounds rational to me, it is taught by a respectable person, it was said to be the truth by the teacher, one must defend it or fight for it. However, only when it agrees with your experience and reason, and when it is conducive to the good and gain of oneself and all others, then one should accept the teachings, and live up to them." "If you were to follow the Dharma purely out of love for me or because you respect me, I would not accept you as disciple. But if you follow the Dharma because you have yourself experienced its truth, because you understand and act accordingly – only under these conditions have you the right to call yourself a disciple of the Exalted One." "My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation." The Buddha

I bought Chain ring and cranks set it new from Basil ( Deale and Huth ) in about '68 or '69 The 28 spoke hub was for a set of road wheels , bought in much the same years, For the track bike use the 32 spoke. The 40spoke rear and 32 front was a standard combo for the track. Make sure that you have the lock nut for the rear hub, otherwise the cog will screw off when you try to back pedal to stop - then there is no stopping.

These days most of my riding is in the dark. Mountain Forest single track at night is awesome

Hell Mark! Thats a real bummer. To hell with the Idiots. I'm home in two weeks and fit enough to begin serious training. Charge your batteries and lets ride the thing anyway - in the dark!

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The Zoutpansberger ran a story last week on page 16, the back page. The story can be viewed on www.zoutnet.co.za but you have to register to load the PDF version.

I take it that Mathematics is not a strong point amoungst Australian gun owners then?

A brahmin once asked The Blessed One: "Are you a God?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a saint?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "Are you a magician?" "No, brahmin" said The Blessed One. "What are you then?" "I am awake."

I got 2 of each sort cause cycling makes you both randy and doff. I had been cycling fairly seriously for 12 years when we had the 1st boy and about 22 years when we had the 2nd boy.

I've not sent money from SA - only from West Africa, but you give Western Union the money, details of the recipient and a password for the recipient. Once it is sent you tell the person what the password is and they go to their nearest Weston Union office and collect the cash.

It should be on www.zoutnet.co.za sometime Monday. If its not on the featured news articles it will be on the PDF version of the paper. I will send a link sometime Monday.

Read this Thursday edition of Zoutpansberger to-day: Cyclist David Kleynhans (FRAIL) who cycled from Cape Town and back to ride the Kremetart on the 4th June has donated R 5000.00 to our local old aged home. The donation was the proceeds of the money he raised from his ride. He raised the money mainly from fellow cyclists on the cycling forum “ The Hub” His 4000km ride was completed in 17 days and included only one day off the bike, the day before the Kremetart, when he set up a table at the Mall during the cyclists Kremetart race registration and solicited donations from the public and registering cyclists. David (FRAIL) averaged 250km a day during his trip, and his shortest day’s travel was the 175km Kremetart cycle race itself. His longest day in the saddle was 370km when he rode almost throughout the night as well as the day between Bloemfontein and Ventersdorp, after he pushed on beyond his planned stop at Potchefstroom. During his trip he was accommodated by cycling families along the was and be spend the week-end of the Kremetart with a cycling family of Louis Trichardt . His donation was made on Monday (1st August) after he had finally collected on all the pledges of support made during his trip.

We have plenty of high walls and steep slopes for the Kamakazie types. One tried something in a ADT this morning:

GTracing posted his container workshop last week. Here is another use for containers. This is a view of our operators camp, there are more of these units out of site, providing accommodation for 120 guys.

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I use the magnets that come in the headphones airlines dish out. (KLM gave me about I set a month for two years) They are round and just the right diameter to fit into the pedal axel recess on the crank. They fit nicely in with a touch of prattley's goo.

Time and again the passion for understanding has led to the illusion that man is able to comprehend the objective world rationally by pure thought without any empirical foundations—in short, by metaphysics. —Albert Einstein By becoming attached to names and forms, not realizing that they have no more basis than the activities of the mind itself, error arises and the way to emancipation is blocked. —Buddha The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. —Sir Arthur Eddington Although not really existing, things still appear. From their own side, however, (such things) are void by nature. These void appearances to not actually exist . . . They have no foundation, no support, no beginning, middle, or end. —Longchenpa The atoms or the elementary particles . . . form a world of potentialities rather than one of things or facts. —Werner Heisenberg In Buddhist Emptiness there is no time, no space, no becoming, no thing-ness; it is what makes all things possible; it is a zero full of infinite possibilities, it is a void of inexhaustible contents. —D. T. Suzuki According to general relativity, the concept of space detached from any physical content does not exist. —Albert Einstein If there is only empty space, with no suns or planets in it, then space loses its substantiality. —Buddha Truth is what stands the test of experience. —Albert Einstein The real meaning of the Dharma . . . must be directly experienced. —Siddha Nagarjuna ▼

This thread is not really for serious subjects, and I think your posts, though no doubt well intended, do not really fit with the theme. Open your own thread and post your stuff there. As Dangle pointed out, you are going to peeve people a tad here.

Isaiah and Icarus had the same idea it seems.