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Visma's team is arguably stronger than the one they took to the tour, apart from the leader. I have not checked the profile of the race. With the final stage being a TT, I thought he might be up to it but did not realise the amount of climbing in total. What is that figures for interest sake?

It is great to see him regain his form. DO you think he might fancy going for a Top 10 finish?

For some reason Meintjies struggles in the first week of a grand tour. Not sure why that might be but you usually see him at the back of the peloton looking like his hanging on for his life. Does not matter if the road is going uphill or flat. He has a strange way of racing.

I forgot about Dad bod completely. So we have 3 Pro Tour riders at the moment. That 2015 period was it part of the MTN Q team?

This year at the Giro

Ja nee kyk. At the moment I am not even trying to climb up the stairs. Doing all of my training at zone 2 or below to try and build up some fitness before doing any hard efforts. Every time I push it into the red I get ill a few days later. Been about a month now without any issues.

Happy with Indievelo at the moment, also I try and do rides longer than that when I do ride.

Even the Non HD version does not want to work on any of laptops I have. Graphics card is not good enough. I will revisit Mywhoosh once Indievelo starts charging, I do not ride enough to justify paying R440 for maybe 1 or 2 rides a month.

I have not done a group ride on it yet so cannot comment but maybe drop them an email, this might be an easy fix.

The CO2 work for me, I do not own a bike shop, so no need for a expensive air compressor for the 1 or two times a year that I have to seat my tyres.

Interesting, I assume that was before his music career took off?

Don't waste your time on Mywhoosh, Indievelo is a far simpler setup with way less hardware specs requirements and does exactly what Swift does and a bit more.

Until MyWhoosh do not sort out the hardware requirements it will be hard to see them get a better following. I have tried it on two decent Laptops and my Iphone. Laptops could not even download what they call the "friendlier" version. Iphone graphics is horrible and the airplay did not want to cast to a tv. I have tried all three of them recently and Indievelo has given me the most realistic experience and I will be sticking to it.

I agree, nothing wrong with that move. It looked worse than it was.

The French like their protests, I wonder if we will see one for that maneuver from Pidcock. The guy is a great bike rider but I simply cannot stand him.

Pidcock is a excellent bike rider. To close that 40second gap the way he did. Insane. Well done Alan! what a ride!!!

Titcock punctured

This sounds like our government. Matric pass rate is too low, okay let's reduce the pass mark to 30%. Minister of basic education "we are happy to announce that the Matric pass rate for this year is up by 20%. The criteria was set in the beginning of the year, why did they not complain then, I can tell you why, they did not expect that CSA will stick to their rules and bend it for them as GM managed to secure us 7 spots. This reactive complaining is a really poor character trade. Instead of being pro active and trying to sort the issue out with CSA at the beginning of the year.

Santam.

The results for Rory, Stefan and Theo this year. All did some of the UCI events, non managed to make it past the qualifying round

Do you mind elaborating on what happened? I am not familiar with the story.

Listened to some of the clip provided, I find it very strange that the rider wants to use his own money to go to world champs but cannot use that same money to get to one of the UCI events to earn the required points. Instead of earning his slot at worlds they are riding on the coattails of GM to secure qualification. He also stated that neither of them will win the worlds but want to use it to gain experience as there is less competition at worlds.

IT was a "steal" Specialized stumpjumper hardtail carbon with XT components, bought it from a friend of mine that upgraded to a dual suspension. So I insured it for replacement value and not retail value. Got a quote from specialized at the time for the bike for insurance purposes. and that was the amount that it was insured for. That is why I think the OP might have an issue as there is no equal replacement for the bike in question, 26er Raleigh etc. Replacement value will probably be that of a Raleigh that you buy at macro or something.

Good luck with this, from my experience with insurance. You will have a very tough time. I bought a second hand bike (10k) a couple of years ago, had it insured for replacement value R30k the day before I went for a ride. Went to groenkloof and did a ride with a friend. Got back home and stored the bike in the garage. The garage was not connected to the house and only my bikes were stored there. The next weekend I wanted to go for a ride again, got dressed and when I opened the garage the bike was gone. The accusations from the insurance companies investigating officer was that I insured the bike after it had been stolen etc etc. was one of the worse experiences I ever had, they even threatened to do a polygraph test to determine if I was lying. They contacted my friend and grilled him as well regarding when we rode and what I was wearing and how did the bike look etc. etc. Luckily I had the ride recorded on my watch and also managed to find the slip when paying at Groenkloof. They also refused to pay the cash out directly to me and instead paid it to a bike shop that stocked the same kind of bike. Seeing as it is such a old bike I highly doubt that any insurance company will agree to such a high insurance value.

When last have you done a proper bike setup?