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Probably true Dr. Sir unless you’re a lefty argument moot. 😅

Me too. I also wont let anyone else come near my bikes with one. At Around the Pot last year I stood in line to get a rinse. Saw mr bike washer pressure wash the decals/bike wrap off some guy’s custom painted mtb haha

I have a karcher but i couldnt be bothered to get it out, set it up, just to clean a bicycle, and as mentioned by someone already, everything that needs electricity these days is a damn schlep. (I’m looking at you too my stupid AXS) Ive also come to realise over the years that people ‘overwash’ their crap to the point of washing the paint off just to have a shiny bike at the trailhead haha. Get over it, its not in a showroom, it will get dirty hen you use it😅 I still wash my bikes….once in a blue moon, with a bucket, some rags and a brush…maybe some soap. But I honestly dont get the full muckoff treatment after EVERY ride. I always use microfiber and paper towels to clean suspension seals and stanchions after a particularly dirty ride, but the rest….meh. A quick wipe and lube does just fine.

@Matt and co… out of interest and a legit question: So since this post is clearly from a recruitment company, who will directly benefit from a referral fee from potentially soliciting through this website….should this not be listed in classifieds and the ‘seller’ registered as a business?

Congrats on pushing through. I presumed you must have fallen or something because i was so dainty down armageddon, i even stopped and had a look where i fell last time (good excuse to rest legs haha), and i thought there it s no chance you finished behind me on that stage unless you bought some real estate somewhere. Glad you made it through.

Fun day, thanks to organizers. Rode badly, didn't die this time, had a jol.

And to match dads new toy…

I want a @Hairytransmission on my bikes… ….master derail’er haha. I have derailment envy it’s so good.

Sunday is on the way to turn out the perfect day for a jonkers ride. Sunny but cool, not too much wind. Lekker.

Still good, in fact the prediction improved a bit with the monday weather coming a bit later. We should be ready to go for Sunday. My gut tells me though that upper Iron Monkey might get closed if it rains too much today. Lots of loose soil turn mudpits up there. Also, the upper contours get messy with heavy rain.

So….either someone’s taking the piss (100% likely), or Summit Bikes are just plain legends (also 100% true) still crazy expensive, but grab it while its hot if you are looking, and save yourself 13….yes R13k!!!! that clearly demonstrates how we get shafted by some local stores imo. Edit: this other store i wont even name….

there’s our gap… At this stage it looks like we’ll catch the tail-end of a sunny Saturday and Sunday. Lets hope the rain stays away until monday as per the current weather prediction.

You missed it. 😋

Wives are cheap compared to bikes in my experience😅

Clearly the answer is a single speed road bike😅

@droo has a medium in stock too😎

You were giving my new hardtail a few looks on saturday…so you dobt seem to have an issue with my plaashek bikes, next time you can have a go, just ask

If I chopped about 30cm off my legs yes….

Yes yes, but I was talking about the less used hardtail for plonking around the neighbourhood.

Or….bring it to me and i’ll do a single speed conversion for you and tou can stop worrying about gears and ratios because you’ll always be in the wrong gear anyway. We can do 32-20 ratio on yours. Like a nice mid cassette ratio. Where you live during the week is perfect SS territory. Not too hilly. And a SS bike is arguably the fastest way to build fitness. And they are just fun!

See thats the difference between a real armchair cyclist and one you bump into at the trails at any given day haha. The one talks and cares about strava stalking and the other is busy riding, enjoying his bike with friends. my strava prolly says I only push my bike out the garage and back every week🤣

“There are only 3 sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering. The rest are merely games” - Ernest Hemingway that metric puts mountain biking pretty high up the list😁

I grew up in PTA..riding a bike everywhere, from moreleta…to the university, to menlyn to the CBD. Ive rode to Delmas when I was about 16 (girls😅) I rode via klapperkop, fountains circle into town. We used to ride to and from school in pitch black and cold weather, sometimes 10/11pm at night when there were things on at school. And then not how….via delmas road, through a velt in the pitch black haha. I lived about 14km from school. I rode to centurion via fountains circle ( friends…and girls😅) This was between 1996 and 2001. Between 2004 and 2010 I used to do similar rides to and from university between pta east and tuks. But it was already feeling dodge around the lynwood extremities as you got closer to nelmapius etc. We moved to CT in 2014. I can wholeheartedly say…that i wouldn't ride a bike (feeling safe) in any of those areas anymore. The places that get called out in the WC are areas very similar to most those places in pta. You are correct in your statement. As with anything, you need to be more vigilant in certain areas than others…but people still ride there. Some of the places people get attacked, noted on this thread, and places it happens in the WC….I can only shake my head and think ‘rookies’, or ‘what the hell are they thinking’. #streetsmarts You are correct in your assessment of the private farms around here, i feel safe around here….its the reason I also don't ride on the road anymore really. Same for all the trailheads around the cape. And they are busy most times of the day. ive never seen anyone on any of the farms and thought….hmmm, what are they doing here. Hell the farmers will shoot mtb’rs after dark haha.

Welcome to Cape Town @Kiwi more awesome bike brands in the mother city - yes please! 🤘🤘🤘

Should be a cross-trail-network-epic👀 linking up all the goodies.