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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. 😋

What a gem🤣 ^Parental discretion advised.

Heathen…Ninja Turtles is a documentary, you just didn't believe !

‘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.

You’re just annoyed because this circumvents your spoke fondling tendencies 😋

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… 🤷🏻‍♂️

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.

@Titan Racing Bikes, why no frame options? Would be keen to build up one of these in this colour 👀 (Skyrim ST)

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.

Also..R50k max on a ID number. More and you’ll need an import license

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.

Thats not Roxette…(anymore)

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.

Pics arent showing for me. But i saw those and i thought most of them were awesome. They have a late 80s/90s cool about them in the weird paint scemes. I’d rock a bike like that for sure. my forbidden is more blacked out than nightrider. Even the casette and chain…had to get it out of my system i guess, but i’m already bored with its blandness lol

Ugly on the inside too…not just skin deep

Had this exact issue on AXS and a GX lunar cassette that was used, but i wouldn't say done, maybe 2500km at most. Around mid cassette it was always faffing about. Exactly as you describe, had to drop two or three and go back up one to make it go where i wanted in a reasonable amount of time. AXS allows you to micro adjust gears and while that did help, it would be 3-4rides and it would just do it again. I had a new hanger in a box for that bike too and it didn't change it either. Anyway, i sold that AXS as i did not get on with the TV button clicker in the end. XT solved that issue on that specific bike for me. As mentioned, i also think the shimano stuff has a wider sweetspot when it comes setup. Thats why they tend to be set and forget. Minor variances dont affect them. My GX was so sensitive to L/H/B adjustments. Thats why you get a measuring tool with the thing and need a friend to get the thing set at sag lol. Maybe a slightly worn cassette contributed in the end…but i never got it as smooth as the XT setup ended up being. Also, make sure your cassette is properly torqued down. If it is slightly loose you could have slight variances in where the gears run vs where they are supposed to run. Tiny sure, but could be and its a free check. Other than that, if you are convinced your hanger has not taken a knock since it all used to work…maybe your cassette might be nearing its end in those specific cogs🤷🏻‍♂️

Get a box from a bikeshop. Most will give you one, Some will charge you R100 or so. Take the front wheel off, loosen bars, get it in there. Find a spot for the front wheel in there too. Alternatively ask n bikeshop to box it for you. It wont be free i guess. measure the box. (LxBxH) weigh the box. (technically this is irrelevant because the ‘volumetric weight’ will be more than the actual weight. But they want to know anyway. A massive bike box and a 20kg shoe box should cost the same to ship) https://portal.thecourierguy.co.za/shipments/new?quick_quote=true&t=1669974112 Get them to collect. It will be about R800 - R1000 ish for an option that takes a few days to a week between CT and GP. PS, you dont have to use CC. I’ve just used them before for this without issue.

Looks like a pic from one of the business sellers on here. Thats the MO. Likely no bike at all…just want to lure naive people to dodgy locations and rob/attack them.

Any frame with the rear triangle alluding to the squat of a dog taking a dump

Not an option unfortunatrly lol. Exibit A: the piggyback is in the way. And this is a coil. An X2 in there gives even less space.