The Saint

Could not have said it better myself Delgado. Mamba the point is that if you are breaking the rules you have no leg to stand on end of story. Should the cyclists be obeying all the rules and regulations then I would say you have a point. In this case unfortunately you don't. Going all balls to the wall will only put us in more of a bad light than we already are and I can guarantee you there will be no compromise from park officials. It's plain and simple really - obey the rules and there will not be a problem!!

What's an etter? Direct translation would be another name for a cat

Lol probably not. I would also not consider purchasing a telescope from any hobby shop or department store. They are generally low quality and cause the user immense disappointment when viewing the skies.

Fan here is a photo for you which I took two weeks ago using my Orion 10" Dob Telescope and a simple point and shoot Kodak Easy Share Digital Camera The red and blue hue that you see around the moon is caused by the suns reflection of red and blue light off the earths atmosphere. The fuzzyness in front of the moon are clouds passing by at around 40km/ph. You have my permission to use it as your desktop background http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o318/Muxster/100_0644.jpg

Fan make yourself a pinhole projector and you can take a photo that way rather than looking down the eye piece with a telephoto lense on 300x magnification See here for instructions on how to make this easy little device http://weirdsciencekids.com/Pinholeprojector.html

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There will be a solar eclipse on Monday 26th January. About 35% coverage in Johannesburg and about 80% in Cape Town. Starts from around 7am and will end at about 9am. Remember DO NOT view this with the naked eye or with your sunglasses on as you WILL cause permanent damage to your eyes. Get a pair of eclipse glasses from you local planitarium at about 6 bucks or wear your welder goggles. Enjoy Muxie

Turtle, I am actually on the parks side on this one. Why the hell must they go through a whole administrative nightmare just because some wanker cannot obey a no entry sign. Enough of this ****, cyclists already disobey just about every rule on the road and in most cases are far worse than the taxis they complain about. I am all for a no tolence policy at the Park - take those that transgress and throw them out - ban them for life!!

Turtle the problem with confronting them is that there is no authority or ramifications behind the confrontation and the chances of that person just telling you to f off are high. A total ban from the park would be first prize but how do you manage that? A hefty fine from the parks board might be the answer to the casual riders and a no throughfair at the gate of the road at which they are transgressing and make them ride back up the bloody hill and do the additional 12 km's aswell. The other problem they have there are that very inexperienced riders are going there and falling badly. I am not sure if the parks board is covered for this type of incident insurance wise and the first lawsuit laid against them will certainly bring an end to our cycling pleasure there. What people need to realize is that his place is a NATURE RESERVE and is all about CONSERVATION and when they start messing with that they are not going to get to stick around there for a long time.

Right so arriving to a long que of cars parked outside the Suikerbos Rand gate on Saturday morning we are confronted by a guy wanting us to sign a petition to get the gates opened earlier. Fair enough. On talking to him we find out that the powers at be want to stop cyclists from going into Suikerbos because the bird watchers are complaining that cyclists scare the birds away and cyclists in general are not obeying the rules of the park. Ok so anyways we sign the petition contemplating the fact that this guy is giving in a petition by people who are almost in the banned list demanding that the gates get opened earlier in the morning therby affording them more opportunity to disobey the rules of the park - not logical but anyways. So taking note of this our cycle begins and low and behold on finishing the ride I obeserved 5 riders 4 Mountain bikers 1 Road Biker comming down the wrong way. Jow Louw went up the hill to pick up one of our guys waiting at the top and had to dodge another 2 cyclists comming down the wrong way and at the top of the hill observed another 1 turning down the the no entry road. So we had 8 people disobeying the rules of the park in the space of about 10 minutes. I would not like to hazard a guesss as to home many there were throughout the day. We are our own worst enemies. How can we blame the park officials for wanting to get rid of us when there is this blatant disregard for the park rules by what I can only term as these f#ckwits who are too lazy or too unfit to ride the 12 Km's required to complete the course properly. I am of the opinion that only season ticket holders should be allowed to ride in the park and any transgression of the rules should result in the season ticket being revoked and that person banned from riding in the park. I am increasinly getting tierd of these fly by nights comming in to the park and stuffing it up for the regulars who abide by the rules. I will be staying at the park next weekend and will try to meet with the park officials to come to some sort of an agreement to keep cyclists there, but an agreement that is going to ensure that cyclists stick to the rules and if they don't they can go back to the Lido routes or go ride on the f'ing N1 highway for all I care.

Herewith a photo of the friendly little star causing all your problems

Yes the idea is not to get burnt however as shown people do forget to apply sunblock at times. We are just filling that void in the market. The cream will not only be used for Sunburn but can also be used for a multitude of other applications as it contains a natural antibiotic. Can't say to much more about it but will fill yuo guys in on the details once we have finished with the Government and its beauracratic cr@p

Watch this space!!! Currently testing a product which will help you with those red areas for when you have forgotten your sunblock amongst a whole range of other things. I have been the test subject on may occasions going out to get sunburnt on purpose and the stuff works like a charm. No peeling and no soreness the next morning.

Patents, Copy Right and Trademark are part of Intellectual Property not requirements. Anyways I would imagine his intention is to dispose of the plastic packets in a refuse bag like we all should do.

I believe it is comming down to around R7.20 next month - given inflation over the last 3 years it sounds about right. But 10 cents difference on the up when it comes to this means huge bucks in somebodies back pocket. MuXmAn2008-11-24 06:04:44

I might add that given the above you are indirectly doing them a BIG favour.

Put it this way Speed Devil. The stoker is normally the one who is least experienced therefore there is a learning curve. Farting and snotting in your stokers face is just pure incentive for them to get better and to aspire to one day becomming a pilot.

In the case of Question 1 make sure that it is so good that the shammy cream shows on the outside of your pants - speak to Delgado on this one for tips

B in both cases

Tankman a few of us had the same problems a few months back. We managed to get them sorted out very quickly by Jason Theunissen at Avnic Trading. I upgraded to the 705 and have not had any problems since.

Vodacom - Vodacom

I thought they live inside my TV!!!! Sorry dude didn't mean to make you cry and of course you are aware that we learnt yesterday that Santa is dead.

One tip I can give you is emphasize that there are kids around. They tend to action things far quicker when children are involved as opposed to adults.

EWEP tell us is she perhaps Dr Quinn medicine woman? If she is do you relaize that she has her own TV show. MuXmAn2008-11-21 08:14:58