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  1. Woofie

    Tubes

    Sorry, not for me mate. Throw tube away after every puncture is not worth it. Also I have heard that latex tubes often dont go down gracefully like a slow butel puncture does. (Latex will tear like a balloon under pressure) BANG and you on the rim trying to stay upright. No thanks. And you are sticking them in your MTB? Dude. Tubeless.
  2. Woofie

    Tubes

    Personally I had a heart attack when tubes jumped from R20 to R50 overnight. So for me even R40 sounds too much for something that I need to sometimes just chuck away.
  3. Woofie

    Tubes

    Didnt you used to preach about how nice and small the expensive ones are in your pocket?
  4. Woofie

    Tubes

    There was a writeup here the other day. Im too lazy to do a search. But basically you can reduce your rolling resistance by up to 10% kind of thing. Then JB came in and burst our massive over excited bubble and he said when you look at the bigger picture and you add everything up, you are only saving 0.025 percent or something stupid. So maybe over 100km you will be a few seconds faster. If you have the money spare, buy them because they are also smaller in your back pocket. But if you are tight for cash, stick to the big old heavies.
  5. Yep. Ill do anything to keep my cycling shoes alive. For price of those babies, I want to get some extended life from them. Brakes my heart to see how messed up the carbon is underneath. But I suppose I could recover it with epoxy if I wanted to.
  6. True, I those poor buggers always seem to get all the bad stuff first.
  7. your chainrings are the same size, so you will be fine there. Just a new chain and cassette + shifters. Are you staying on the same layout in front 2 or 3 chainrings as before?
  8. Try ride a bit faster mate. 0.001 is track standing. And I still cant do that after 4 years of riding.
  9. Well said Kev. I missed that one! Couldnt of said it better.
  10. Whats the superbowl?
  11. Woofie

    Tubbies

    Hundreds! Your sludge is most likely gone hard inside of the inner tube/valve. If you can remove the valve, do so and you will need to clear the blockage if it isnt the valve core itself that is blocked. I stopped using sealent on my road bike in the past when I used to struggle motherless to get them to pump up. One day I just couldnt get it to inflate at all, it was proper stuck. Taking the pump hose off the valve I noticed that the whole thing was turning. As in the whole valve could turn freely in circles. The bugger had broken off the tube at some stage and the sealent which was blocking it up the whole time sealed the hole 100% I didnt even loose pressure at the thing was still rock hard, maybe 7 bars. So to deflate it I needed to puncture my tire a few times to get the air out.
  12. I would never be able to afford it
  13. Haha! Sweet. Which gives me a awesome idea Marius. Lets start a awesome huge road race, get it to be a argus qualifier. Get everything sponsored to us. And charge a nice 300 smackers. We will make millions man Ya, there will be some cheesy remarks on that HUB thing, but hey, nothing that a wad of cash in your pocket cant sooth!
  14. The thing that drives me crazy is that google tries to reformat the hub each time I open the mobile page on my phone. Then I have to load the page scroll for ages to get to the bottom of the screen to click on view page directly. What a pain. But Admin, after I get past the google nail in my side, the mobile version is really cool!
  15. Dont worry CC, I dont want to spend that kind of money either. Now with a family to look after and another one in the bun I need to seriously re-asses what I am spending my money on. Agree with Marius, the argus is special and no matter what it costs there will always be a sentiment to do it. You are getting full road closure there and if you make use of the snack stops and free massages etc you are actually getting a pretty sweet deal. I am keen to booze cruise it this year to suck up every bit of enjoyment that I can get from being out there. But over priced normal local races, even if they do count towards a argus seeding it is still wrong.
  16. Well what ever happens it will probably be the aussies that go first... The poor bastards, first floods, then cyclone, now the place is burning down again.
  17. 100% If these people supposedly found proof from the bible when the world is going to end then they are contridicting what the bible says with the above verse. Because Jesus obviously knows the whole bible (hey even satan does) he would then know the date too hense making the above verse wrong. So ya! There is certain signs that will tell us better when we could expect him to return. Some things I rememeber He will only return when everyone has heard about him and had a choice wether to serve him or not. The world is quite evangenlised, but there is still groups of people in the "dark" Places like europe is becoming the new mission field where modern generations are now growing up without any religous inputs. They talk about one currency for the world, we can already see it in the euro. The israelites will return to their country. Peace in the middle east (possibly brought along by the anti-christ?) Mark of the beast (but I am not sure if this would come into place before or after the rapture. Current speculation is that the mark will be some kind of access tag within your skin to contain your identity and to do away with cash totally. Without cash, no cash in transit crimes etc. Also no "black-market trade" as all transactions will need to go through one system. Hense big brother will know everything about you then. We have all heard about the mark being on the forehead or arm. Well they have determined to keep a access tag alive in the body you need obtimal temperature ranges and those locations are "apparantly" always constant. No single event I listed above will signal his immediate return, but God did give us a few clues as to when we could expect them. Over the past years christians have been jumping up and down - repent, repent the end is near. We may never see the rapture, it may only happen in 1000 years. No one knows. But if you see many of the above signs all happening at once, then you can start to worry (if you dont know where you are going )
  18. Far too much And after the mention of stopping for food along the route, it is like a magnet drawing me in. Come join us. It will be a nice ride. Afterall, I may need some strong chaps to push my scone filled belly over suikerbossie
  19. Haha! I was just thinking, Take out a moerse loan and max out the credit cards in the month before, buy a sick bike and do a awesome holiday, because hey, the next month you wont have to pay any of it back
  20. Wow, that is pretty awesome. Must be nice to travel. I imagine it must be tiring though. You can pack me in your suitcase sometime so you have a training buddy there Not sure if 99er is in the summer league. Not doing it this season. Was a stuff up though, because if I knew about the new cat 3 I would have kept my form up in december and I would have gone for it then. The reason I decided to only try the spring league was because it was flatter. But even in that the top SV are monsters and even the rollers become monsters at that speed. Anyway, some day I will do it again, but this year I need to save save save.
  21. Wow, when do you sleep man? Hang on, what you doing in the states? mmm, actually I remember something about you travelling alot. What do you do man? Just joined my club this morning. No league ride tomorrow, so half the group was league riders. Well, It was interesting! But I am still alive. Phoned desmond last night and told him if I am there I am there. He mustnt wait. I got barely managed to get up at 6 this morning, I would have never have managed 4am to go with them. Just so tired! Need more sleep.
  22. I think I am going to keep you up then. Still busy trying to catch up with my form that I lost in december. Enjoy the ride, I am going to probably just go with the club, but I was hoping for something longer though. Maybe I will ride a bit with you guys and then back and do the club ride. Thats maybe a nice idea. Will give you a ring.
  23. Are you going alone? You dont want to join up with the other guys and do 99er route? PM me your number. Not sooo keen on riding out wellington way, but if the attendance is good, then it will be nice, otherwise chappies sounds nice
  24. Sweet.... Are those real...
  25. May join the guys for the 99er route. Anyone else keen? mmm......
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