The Guy in Pink

Obviously they are not going to try and compete with the best. When Volksie bring out a new modle they don't try to compete with Lamborgine they go up against Toyota

Quote=Big H]I wunder if the uffer company even shows a profit.... Campag has been around 70+ years, no doubt they have had to make a profit now and again to still be in business !

Just who would get the job of cleaning that cob web?

I thought that smoking in the workplace or any public place was against the law. I tend to get stroppy now and tell people to stub it out. A sports organisation like CSA should have no tolerance with smoking and with law breakers. The CEO should uphold the law of the land.

I wore my HRM while donating blood about 2 years back. My heart decided I was bleeding to death and began shutting down the system. It got to about 30BPM.

Back to the topic "The guys here not maybe too sexually charged...?" Thats's the way guys are: It's part of being a guy. They are no degrees to it. Guys are: The words "maybe and too" do not compute in this the topic header. Try working as an expat 25 flying hours from home and read the topic header during month 3 of your tour to see how little sense it makes to me. Aaaarh! Two more weeks before R & R

Quote Kranswurm Does not matter.No reason you can't find some killer single track and work out a beaut route.Watch out for the snakes,spiders and other nasty creepy crawly's that live in your neck of the woods Off road can be a problem. We live on a tidal swamp with clay 30 metre deep, At full moon like now any area that is not poldered is flooded at high tide. I get stuck in my gumboots on site, and bulldozers with swamp tracks battle. There are no tracks into the jungle, as it is totally impenatrable , so its made roads or nothing.

A few years ago we had a Koningkriek ( Parktown prawn) plague in the Soutpansberg. We had a club race on the Airforce base road, but it was impossible to ride in a bunch because we had to keep swerving to avoid them. Their sharp bits punctured tyres and our bikes ended up covered in revolting goo.

Big H, I see plenty of snakes every time I ride - fortunately squashed. I saw a sloth (alive) crossing the road very slowly. I am on a mountain bike with knobblies, but to-day with about 25km of motorpace thrown in my average was 36km/hr. (Moutain bike is a stupid term here - we have absolutely flat roads. not even a 3 metre rise in 35km. )

I managed to fall this morning. I Picked up a truck and motorpaced from town out on the Paramaribo road to where I turn off at about halfway, Turned off the dry concrete paving road onto a smooth and wet tar road. Got two bloody knees to show, but managed to motorpace a motor bike the last 7kmback into town. Good Ride !The Guy in Pink2006-11-07 04:45:14

Nickerie, Suriname I found this fella riding his bike in town

Suriname is the smallest country in South America, on the Alantic ocean 5 degrees north of the equator. The small country has an even smaller population of only 435 000 persons and Niewe Nickerie is the second biggest town with 40 000 inhabitants. The Official language is Dutch, with English widely spoken as many people are from the nearby Carribeans and Guyana. The people come in every colour imaginable. As a background this is from the CIA world Fact Book https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ns.html <?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Ethnic groups: Hindustani (also known locally as "East Indians"; their ancestors emigrated from northern <?:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Indiaon> in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole (mixed white and black) 31%, Javanese 15%, "Maroons" (their African ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves and escaped to the interior) 10%, Amerindian 2%, Chinese 2%, white 1%, other 2%

<?:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Niewe Nickerie, Surinameon>, SA.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Sometime I think it?s as if I have died and woken up in Bicycle heaven Imagine a town with narrow crowded streets, where Motor Cars, Motor Bikes , Bicycles and Pedestrians all share the road, and the Bicycles and Pedrestrians have the right of way! Here motorists wait for bicycles and give them plenty of room. 50% of the school kids go to school by bike, Guys take their Girls out by bike. And many adults do their shopping by bike It is possible to ride a bike and maintain one?s dignity. The speed limit is 50km /Hour in town and it is almost never broken. That speed limit is a joy as on my morning ride I often manage to motor pace a truck , bus or motor bike. The only downside in this cyclists paradise is the total lack of hills. On my 35km morning circuit I never get higher than 4 metre above see level!

86km/hr down the Soutpansberg at 3am with only a weak moon and the white line to guide me. It was 3 hours before it was light enough to check the Max speed on my computer. However the interesing apart is going thru the tunnels at the bottom on the mountain. The term "focusing on the light at the end of the tunnel" takes on a whole new meaning when it's starlight you are focusing on.

ORCA, Sign up at our offices in Soekramsingh Str. Nw Nickerie. The Pay is SRD850.00 per month. Knowledge Dutch preferable, but Afrikaans acceptable. Big H You will not believe it the the fundies are having trouble getting those Mozambiquean immigrants to breed. Thank Goodness for that as I am having trouble trying to build their habitats in the swamp as it keeps raining in the "Dry"season.

Niewe Nickerie, Suriname, S.A. Wednesday 1st Nov. What a pleasure to live and work in a bicycle orientated society! I sit down with my 43 year old college educated secretary and draw up a list of office supplies needed. When she is unsure of the English descriptions I use, I explain in Afrikaans and she understands immediately. We do an estimate of the cost , I give her the money and ask her to get the stuff. I do not sugguest how she gets into town to get it. Next moment she hops on her bicycle parked outside the office with all the other bikes and in about 45 minutes she is back from the 8km round trip with the stuff. As she gets in I tell her about the stuff I forgot to put on the list, and with a smile she is on her bike again back into town!

Dirt Rider, The 140 Mozambiqueans are king prawns, so they are on a six month reproductive cycle! The other inhabitants of Moz are striving to match them.

Big H I see I am a member already. The first 140 Mozambiqueans arrived to do duty on our project here in Suriname last week, after a 20 hour flight via Florida USA and are currently in quarintine. Those 140 are expected to produce about 100million offspring .