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I'm on episode 4, also enjoying it. I thought it was a similar idea to 'The Last Kingdom'... Not as good as that series though... Haven't tried Vikings yet, must try that...

Race-ism is a serious problem in SA!!

This looks like fun for those of us in Cape Town - free spin on a Royal Enfield anyone? https://www.facebook.com/1210844572306352/posts/3407640729293381/ Edit: website link doesn't seem to show on the post? Ride a Royal Enfield for free!Kick-off your weekend with an iconic Royal Enfield experience! We invite all motorcycle enthusiasts to join us on a Saturday morning coffee ride.We will take you on a short but beautiful morning ride (if weather permits) through town, passing Table Mountain and along the curvy coastal road towards Oudekraal where we will stop for a coffee & chat.After our coffee break, we will head back along Camps Bay & Sea Point, and where you can enjoy the rest of your Saturday at the Neighbourgoods Market with a sumptuous lunch, live music and drinks!- - - - - - - -WHERE | WHEN | HOW - The details!Grab a first coffee and meet us at our RETZA pop-up shop at 9am @ the Neighbourgoods Market at the Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock. After getting an intro to your bike & signing an indemnity form, we are ready to take off!All you need to bring is your valid motorcycle license and a big smile! We provide helmets & jackets, but feel free to bring your own gear!--> We love to spread happiness hence the Royal Enfield, petrol & coffee are included in your experience!- - - - - - - -HOW: we have limited spots available on first come, first serve basis! Drop us a message at info@retza.co.za or WhatsApp us at 073 787 0071 to reserve your slot.*The ride might be cancelled in case of bad weather or at the discretion of the RETZA team. Cancellations will be announced on our social media pages, and if you've registered for the ride, we will inform you personally.

Zone 7 is looking nice! Haven't been there for years since I sold my KTM back in 2012... Man, I miss that bike!!

Good question... My experience: My boy's previous bike was a hand-me-down pink 12" bike from his sister. I got him riding that without training wheels, but it was a dog of a bike. Heavy, back pedal brakes etc - it wasn't easy to ride. So super-keen cyclist dad then ran out and bought him the Muna, which I knew was too big for him, but wanted it waiting for him when he grew a bit more (he is very short for a 6 year old). I probably should have hidden the bike away, because of course he was super excited to have a 'big' bike in cool blue and orange colours and he didn't want to ride the pink 12" again. But because it was too big for him he had to have training wheels on it, and so regressed in the balance department but he still had fun riding the bike. Fortunately during lockdown he had a growth spurt and I was able to get him riding without training wheels again... And I finally got his 9 year old sister riding (she hadn't been keen at all until now, but now she loves it!) and we got an old bike for my wife so we can now go for family bike rides... Good luck getting your boy riding, there is nothing better than seeing the kids developing a love for the same things we're passionate about!

Check out the Muna range of bikes. Secondhand is the way to go. I got a 16" for around R900 I think on Gumtree last year for my boy. He loves the bike! There is something about the geometry that just suits him and he is looks really comfortable and balanced on it. Build quality is good too...

Public Service Announcement: It's Thursday - if you need some dop to go with your tjops this weekend, you need to buy it today! (I got caught out last week! Well, I was ok as I still had some beers, but l forgot to get the Mrs her favourite tipple... )

Anniversary dinner that has been cooking slowly all afternoon... the plus side of working from home during lock down. Down side is trying to work with the smell of pork being smoked! [emoji38]

Lol, many years ago I did a brief stint doing overland safari's in Zim, Bots and Namibia... On one trip we had vegetarians... Decent meat = easy to find Decent veggies = not so easy to find!

I remember them being called "Screamers"... There's one a suitcase with all my old cars in at my mom's house that gets hauled out when we visit that my kids love to play with. And one of those pop cycles... Although the pull thingy and rider are long since lost/broken/misplaced...

Some retro Technic Lego fun with my son yesterday afternoon... The basic helicopter idea is from an old Lego ideas book... Then fitted a motor. Then a few mods to add in some aesthetic detailing... Because all Lego models are cooler with guns and missiles!

Honda did some awesome two tone colour schemes on their bikes back in the 80's!! I got handed down (or appropriated, depending on who you ask ) my dad's CBX550 from him in the mid 90's. Loved that bike... PS... On the off chance someone here has one of these or knows someone who does - I still have the Haynes workshop manual somewhere - Free to a good home if anyone wants it...

Is anyone else trying to work from home, but is suffering from serious withdrawal because you have to work but in the background all you can hear is the sound of Lego in plastic containers being searched through as Lego sets are being built by the kids and you'd actually love to go join them??

Think you're right... Wasn't it in BikeSA magazine? Ah yes, good ol BikeSA! Now there's a trip down memory lane... I think it was under R2 a copy when I was 16, it had the magazine print cover with the news print type paper inside... wasted many hours drooling over the bikes in that!!

Took a walk up Lion's Head on Wednesday evening... (Samsung S10e)

I see it's still available... https://www.takealot.com/test-match-cricket/PLID55544543 Was thinking of getting it for my kids for Christmas...

Who didn't have a Nova helmet? (and then a bit later a Lafe)

Lol, I know that feeling... When I was 16 my dad bought me a knackered AE. Engine ran ok and I had to fix up all the electrics and body work etc... (Also not licensed, but my dad owned a motor workshop and so I used his trade plates... ) Later, I got to rebuild the top end and put in a new piston and rings. Unfortunately, probably should have done the bottom end as well... Shortly after that, the roller bearings decided to disintegrate and bits made their way up the transfer ports and embedded themselves in the top of the piston, barrel and head... So then I was phoning around local bike shops looking for parts and the one place said they had a whole bike, but an AR! I was so stoked! But when I went to go see it, it was an AE... Anyway... That lasted me till I was 18 (and moved on to the next knackered bike my dad had bought me that we'd been fixing up - a Kawa Z200)

Situational joke I think... It's mocking people from the suburb of Strandfontein, who make sure other people know they are not from neighbouring Mitchell's Plain, for behaving like elitist white people... Or something along those lines according to my coloured colleagues...

We lived in Gabs in 88 & 89, I was 12/13 at the time... I remember going to school one day and one of the other kids said to me, "Your friends visited last night!" after one of the attacks. A couple of days later my friends and I rode our bikes passed one of the houses that had been attacked... The BDF had roadblocks in and out of every town. The soldiers were generally friendly although every now and then you'd get a grumpy soldier who wanted to see what was in your car. (But I'm sure it helped that our cars were re-registered with local plates...) I was in Botswana again in 99 and took a wrong turn in Francistown I think it was and turned in towards an army base and found myself staring down the barrel of a rifle!

So, at last I can say "Here's my Cannondale!": Got loaned this in March to train and ride the Sani2C and then got offered it at a crazy price and have just made the final payment, so it's now all mine! Love this bike to bits! I was riding a GT Zaskar Sport before this so it's a slight step up on what I had...

Just a heads up, Takealot are having a sale on sporting goods - including Camelbaks…

I've had the First Ascent one for about 6 months... Been happy with it, my previous one was a basic Sportsman's Warehouse one that, to be fair, served me very well for years. I tend to over pack (it's the whole Scout moto, "Be Prepared" thing... ) and there's enough space in the First Ascent one to fit in a spare tube, bomb, tools, cellphone, keys etc and a lightweight windbreaker...

Nice!! Enjoy! I was watching the Redbull Romaniacs on Saturday, thinking to myself how much I missed my KTM... And then watching the likes of Graham Jarvis struggling and remembering how much I struggled on way less technical stuff, I was like, "Umm, maybe not so much..."

Padlock idea is the way to go. And since your bike is attached to it fit the sturdiest padlock you can (and make sure, if your insurance is one of those that stipulates the thickness of bike cable you need etc etc, that they are happy with it...) I fitted a padlock to my removable towbar, even though my bike rack doesn't attached to it. Figured the sheer weight in scrap would make it desirable to the shopping trolley brigade to steal if the opportunity presented itself...