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This was my favorite cap, my bad on leaving it lying around

Yup, with sites such as You Tube on the interwebs and that Blue Park Tool book everything is covered.

Johann Bornman from Yellow Saddle used to do courses, not sure if he still does.

Never thought that if you do road riding on the road with a MTB you need to go tubeless, will make a plan this weekend

Very decent lady actually.

Eish would not have started thread if i knew it was going to be dragged out. She did not complain about not been helped , when I asked her about the ride and she told me about it it was i who was surprised no one assisted (after initially telling her how friendly and helpful cyclists are, my bad) She had all the right tool's and spares so no need to have been out of pocket, this post was about offering to help, not a free handout. But typical HUB it gets turned into mush.

Lol, even tubeless you can pick up problems as i experienced the weekend, but that's a different story

Ah Slowpoke you a good lady, and more than capable when it comes to self help. And a stickler for obeying road rules

If you do go flat out don't forget to strava .

Also when taking and replacing a drink, don't show everyone in the group by waving the bottle around. I always chirp, no thanks I have my own.

Think quite a few of the "men" posting here would have had a problem removing the tire, it was a tight fit plus some slime from the tube had escaped and formed a seal so better they did not stop to assist as they likely would have embarrassed themselves, Fitted with easier to remove tires now. All's good, done and dusted, would have preferred a rave but rant over.

Why are you planning on only doing 70km. Regards what to take on the bike try taking an energy drink but one you know you will be OK with and have trained with, don't try anything new on race day. In the race there are also WP with water, coke and energade/powerade along the route. For 100km races i start off with 2 weetbix biscuits and a slice of toast about 2 hours prior then i take 1 bottle energy drink and 1 bottle water, a banana and and energy bar or jelly babies during the race.

Thanks. i think this was covered in the first few pages

Suddenly makes sense and will explain it. she's not blonde.

Heard a female cyclist came down quite hard yesterday, get well soon.

Being prepared and able is one thing, sure whether female or even male you need to be be capable, but tubes fail, valves are faulty, pumps can break so even if you want to hold onto your one tube in case you yourself have an issue at least inquire if the rider is OK or offer to phone someone in case the you cannot/don't want to do. She did have her cell phone and had already made the call but riders passing don't know this. Hence the topic header, where have all the real men gone.

Done one better, iv'e replace the tires with ones that are easier to get off the rim now

She was not alone, she was with her mentally disabled son who's also a graded Muay Thai expert so she's certainly safe, being from Benoni its close by i'll introduce you and you can tell him.

I get what you saying, in my time iv'e given out plenty tubes, bombs etc, some times the person will ask how do they contact me to replace and i tell them pass it on but there have been other times they just go their merry way without saying anything. I still have an expensive multi tool which someone lent me during a race when my crank came off, we agreed to meet at the end so i can give it back but i could not find him. I did post on the Hub at the time hoping he would come forward but nothing to date.

She had Tyre levers Spare tube Pump Multi Function tool kit Cell Phone Pretty much everything you need to go for short +/- 20km road ride.

I have given her the theory of it, but she battled to get the tire off the rim, had she been able to i have no doubt she would have been able to fix it herself.

So yesterday while i was battling the koppies round Irene a friend who iv'e recently introduced to cycling decided to go for a cycle, riding along Atlas road towards Bonearo Park she gets a flat, iv'e given her the theory of changing a tube and i had made sure she had all the requirements, but she struggled with it in practice, do you think 1 of the cyclist (MTB and road) that passed her offered to help, nil, not one. She eventually had to walk quite a distance to the garage and call someone to fetch her.

Went to Rietvlei today, did few laps of green and yellow route. Trails were in excellent condition and well marked.

I also keen to know about 4 way stops, when approaching a busy (or not) 4 way stop in a group, do you stop single file and go through 1 by 1 or go through as a group. A group in excess of 10 will hold up traffic quite a bit as 1 car goes, 1 cyclist goes, 1 car goes, 1 cyclist goes BUT this is the right legal way to do it and motorist will fully understand.

Are there any stats available broken down into car, truck, cyclists etc. I'm keen to see how many cyclists are involved in accidents of this nature.