The Guy in Pink

The important question for you is "Have you tried it and does it agree with you?" It you have not tried it in training don't risk your race.

Don't try anything that you do not usually have most days unless you fancy an uposet stomach. I usually have raw oats & Pronuto with milk. May just have a bit more on race day just before I leave the house, which would be ideally be about 1 1/2 hrs before the start.

Ive been running the Dry2 tubeless, on two sets. Given good service only changed them when the tread was well worn. Ive had zero sidewall cuts and the gunge sealed the thorns and a hoof nail without problems. I used them as I seldom go out into the forest when its wet as the ground is red clay and soon it packs so thick onto your tyres that the wheel cannot turn. So for dry road they were fine at at R 135.00 for a superlight a tubeless tyre they were a bargain.

I am sure that Louis Trichardt's award winning community paper the Zoutpansberger will give you plenty of coverage if you write a good report and send it to them. Send a story to the editor Andries van Zyl "Andries At zoutnet.co.za" Even better if you can hand over something to a home while you are there they will send someone around and put a photo of the handover in the paper.

There are several old people in the LTT old age homes who because of Home Affairs snafu's have not recieved their pensions which go to the cost of their keep. Any donations are welcolm to help with the shortfall.

Thanks for volunteering me lad! But as Frail said that problem was already sorted a bit earlier.

14 weeks is not a long time to train. It takes about 18 months of regular 4+ days a week riding to develop the muscles needed. Ride often , ride lots, and although the hills will never get any easier you will go up them faster

Any hill with a name is to be respected. That little bugger on the last stage is called "Otto's Hoogte" . I ridden it a few thousand times both ways over the last 25 years. It just does not get any easier.

1. R7500 X 0.154 + R 25 2. 5 to 15 days

Frail, I assume you are riding to the race and back again, as you have before. Why not detour via PE and pick up SirK? just a thought..

The local paper has a story on the effects of the race. http://www.zoutnet.co.za/details.asp?StoNum=9034

I understand you reluctance to name the shop now, but Once you have your bike back, (or if it mysteriously disappears from the shop over the week-end) please name and shame loudly.

This will probably do it for R 50 http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=19135

Bottom lx slx, xt , XTR top

On the road bike I calibrate by using the road chainage posts on a national road (Blue sign white writing every 200 metre) once I have set the diamenter to closest (2068 on 622 x 22) The posts are usually accurate to 1 metre but measure horizontal distance not slope distance so use a flat road. Use a 10 or 20 km piece of road.

And the Samie? was it edible?

Selle SLR XP or the best is a rolls.

Set your saddle a bit scew, with the front of the saddle pointing away from the short leg. This gives your short leg room to stretch and pushes the long leg back a bit. Former SA Road champ Martin Thomas used an scew saddle with great effect.

I had 24 trouble free oders from them. Very efficient. use parcel force postage.

Beers before a race is Ok but in about '70 I looked after our guys (Northern Wheelers CC) in SA Road champs at Potch. Derek Coetzee who had about 3 years fairly successful racing in France was dropped from the bunch at about 100km, I went back to see what he needed before leaving him to stay with our guys left in the bunch. It turned out that what he needed was 2 beers. 5km from the finish Derek was suddenly back in the bunch and finished SA Champs a credible 6th place. After the finish I discovered that he had been fed more beers by others after I had left him. We caculated that Derek had performed his remarkable comeback with 6 beers inside.

Hey Hardus has the Annika job gone sour? I need a training partner from the 14th @ tedibear anything down your way for him?

I fold it up small, wheels, discs, saddle, cranks, forks, and derailler come off, all tied eogether with a zillion cable ties and a bit of foam, with a rope handle. It ends up looking a bit like a folded wheel chair

I have never delared mine as the customns fellas are never about when I fly (around midnight) But each time there has been no problem walking back through customns with it. You can carry personal sports equipment back.

More interesting stuff, The power required to overcome wind resistance is proportional to the Cube of the windspeed. So to double the speed requires 8 times the power. Consider a 55kw Golf, it can almost do 160km/hr but for 320km/he you need a 450kw Ferrari.) What that means on a bike is that to go from 40 to 44km/hr requires 33% more power While to go from 40km/hr to 48km/hr needs 73% more power, (unless you can slip someone)

Your not wrong there. Half the guys on site here are English or Scottish. I understand the guys from Ghana far better than the British, and I am English by Birth. We have two scottish fellas, one from Edinbrugh the other from Glasgow here, two towns 60km apart - you would think they are from different planets, not neighbouring towns. The conversations on the radio keep me entertained all day.