Can you for the sake of clarity and imparting some of your knowledge….also post which exact engine oil products/weights work for lower leg services ? Saying Magnatec works is like saying water is good for cleaning.😅
My experience with CSA clowns at events is this:
they pitch up, tell you not to use bad language and to wear your helmet when on your bike, or else….
Then you never see them again. Easy money from all us who are forced to pay their day license fees lol. Never mind people who actually pay for licences to race bicycles.
Events with features like you mention should usually be clearly marked with A and B lines to mitigate these risks and allow people to ride within their abilities. Even DH races do this. This is done by the event organisers as far as i am aware and not CSA though?
I don't know the ins and outs. @DieselnDust could likely share more insights.
The redshift ones are nice. Been using my combo since 2019 ish. I have the stem and post on a bike. You don't really perceive it moving either so wont be disconcerting, and wont feel different to a rigid stem or post either. What you notice though is that it takes the edge of anything you ride over. You feel stones, holes things as usual but its alot more dampened. I’ve described the feel of the stem/post combo on here before as being similar to riding like a rigid mtb but with 2.6+ rubber at lower pressures. Theres an airy compliance to it. I would buy them again.
Not completely true, although lower rotational mass will get rolling faster, higher mass will keep that speed easier. If you can find that place where you arent loosing too much momentum in, over or around things, heavier wheels might actually help purely because its harder to slow down a heavier spinning thing and its centrifugal force.
These days a properly strong carbon wheelset for gravity riding is chosen more for feel than weight anyway. They basically weigh the same. Same with big hitting carbon bike frames. Ive had steel bikes lighter than my plastic bike lol. They feel different though.
Nice.
Hope whomever pressed charges? AND are willing to go the distance. Otherwise these moegoes just get released after a day or two. Cops couldnt be bothered.
hey jy!
Slow week at the office?
Gaan neem nog prentjies van die goed wat mense in hulle gat op druk, dis baie meer interessant!
Plus, julle klomp kos way te veel om tyd te mors op hierdie k@k. 😋
‘Normal’ Sram XX1 12 speed. Used it on the 12 speed shimano before this. Wasnt sure it will work since the link-glide cogs are wider at their base. Spacing also wider. I’ve always used 12 speed chains on normal 11speed though so wanted to check first. Didn't just want to buy new 11speed, especially since this high pivot bike takes more than a standard length chain and im already down the cost of two XX1’s haha. Turns out it works perfect.
Bar feel/preference is a thing!
after trying OneUp’s 35mm carbon bars, which are ovalised between the stem clamp area and grips for flex….its hard liking anything else, even the Burgtec’s on my other bike
Merlin has them all, but for some reason dont want to ship them here ( just the bars).
Any other Rental products are fine for some reason. Ive asked before and they said it’s due to weird packaging. I dont know, ask again.
https://www.merlincycles.com/search?w=Renthal
Between a few shops here in Cape Town. Evo bikes also has it listed. Just ask about stock. I was lucky to get the mech and shifter at -50% off. You get the LG600 casette locally. But thats a bit heavy. The latest one is the black LG700 casette with most of the gears on an alloy carrier. I got that abroad. Merlin. About 100g more than a SLX hg+ cassette.
so far i have been super impressed. The shifting is so solid and smooth - even compared to hg+. I have not noticed the slightly slower shifting speed at all. As mentioned, it just climbs off in a very specific spot on the gear like Transmission.
super happy with it.
If I ever needed to go, i bet you’d likely be the one in the grass doing the shooting yes.
i’d likely be the one with the cushy bus driver/cooking/desk job back home being kept from the front lines because the government invested in my subsided tertiary education.
We all have our value i guess…
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This. Why i wouldn't ride with someone if i knew they were carrying a weapon.
You can do you, but then go do it on your own imo. Don't put me in a possibly compromising position.
I have first hand experience / knowledge of someone who also carried, walked home from work one afternoon, tried to deescalate an attempted mugging, and died on the sidewalk, killed with his own gun.
no thanks.
Their bikes are/were deffo a marmite thing…but there’s no denying that the way those things were manufactured was astonishing…
CNC’ing a block of alloy into a frame…unadulterated awesomeness.
For the sake of clarity to whomever is reading…Duties and VAT+ admin fees are 2 seperate things though. Yes for the most part you can assume anything unassembled/bicycle part related draws no duties from that side. Theres that whole 1000 page doc you have there for reference. You WILL still pay 15% Vat + a clearance fee (10% ish) if you use a clearsnce agent or the courier does it for you. You could go stand in line at OR thambo yourself though. I always just work on thumbsuck ~ 25% on top of whatever you paid and thats usually what it is landed (excl shipping)
Sorry yes, as
sorry yes, as @Frosty mentioned, x3 in a calendar year.
so you could do 3x in dec24 and 3x in jan25 and it would be fine (if you didnt want to bring in anything else the rest of the year. Unfortunately these days even R50k wont bring in a full bike worth the effort. The shipping alone will be about R3k+ and then about the + 25% as noted above. Plenty to buy locally in that range. A R50k frame though…might make more sense.
Nobody said that. Just that they are more forgiving when it comes to minor misalignments, cable stretch, bent whatevermabobs. Yes, at a certain point neither systems will work right. That point is just a bit further with shimano. Call it what you want. I guess its the same reason their chains are more efficient and quiet, they build in that slop lol. (Yes sram chains last longer) Having owned and set up both systems plenty of times, i know this to be fact. Sram b-screw is as sensitive as a non-binary vegan at a bush braai.
Let the testing begin i guess. Hefty claims of durability from shimano for linkglide compared to 12speed HG+. Also slightly heavier in the cassette department (100g) but its on a 16kg enduro bike so meh.
It kind of shifts like transmission in the way its ‘pre-programmed’ to climb off in specific parts and therefore also slightly slower, like transmission. It doesn't just drop a chain instantly like normal 12speed systems - which chews up a cassette. All happens nice and civil. None of that shift shock —- grrrr CLANK! Also paired it with steel idler gears on the high pivot.
Woohoooo! I’m an 11spd peasant again!
ps: yes, thats s 12spd csixx cage. Exact fit as the normal 12spd xt.
