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I have had a few of those moments in my life

Another couple of milj thrown into the bin. This is not like its costing two 50 litre tins Dulux weatherguard.

That would be the wise thing to do. They will cost cheaper to run.

I hated an auto gearbox. When I bought my Passat in 2011 I actually already ordered the manual but still wanted to testdrive one and the only one on the floor was auto (DSG). Took that thing for spin and I very almost changed the order to a auto. The fact that you have 7 gears to pick from and to switch to manual triptronic was awesome.

When you say planes have left already, does that mean going back to leasing companies?

One of the more interresting reads on the hub today thanks.

How will that effect a tour in Italy?

The soul also needs training

I remember watching the Red Arrows at the '95 Airshow at Waterkloof AFB. As much as it was the most exciting performance I have ever witnessed and I am gratefull for seeing it, at the same time I had those Ramstein images stuck in my head the whole time of that display.

Then there is always this one ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhWaKFQHLbs

This one was also pretty impressive.

Reminds me when I did basics in the Air Force at Hoedspruit. The one day I went to the medics at Drakensig for x-rays. While we were waiting for our transport back, a F1 came to do a practice for the sportsday the comming weekend. So we got to see the pilot do all his stunts over Drakensig. That was pretty awesome. Turns out we were the only one to see the display as at the sports day the F1 took off from Hoedspruit and as it approached Drakensig it had a bird strike and the pilot lost its engine. We did not immediately knew of the bird strike and only found out about it later. We just saw the F1 gliding over our heads turning back towards the Air base and we could still see it on final to the runway but then the aircraft lost too much speed and went down. At that distance we could not see the pilot ejecting (well we did not see the parachute) and a couple of seconds later the smoke coming up. Some seriously worried PF friends and family all of a sudden. Luckily the pilot did eject and was unharmed.

That is a very old Nokia. You might be able to charge it and it might just still work

And hoping not to have turbulunce

A bit of turbulence is almost normal for me but there are two flights that stand out for me. I was on a SA Airlink Jetstream 41 from Upington to Johannesburg. About twenty minutes after takeoff we hit quite a bit of weather with lighting and all around us. We shook around quite a bit and that continued for the majority of the flight and we only got to smooth weather minutes before landing in Joburg. The funny thing was there was this big guy sitting a few seats in front of me who you could see was not in his comfort zone at all. The pilot flying was a lady and she put us down on the runway pretty hard. So as we taxi to the terminal he phones his wife to come and get him from the airport. He said to her. "We just crashed at Joburg. It was a woman who flew the plane. From tommorow you will not drive my bakkie again" The second flight was on Airbus A319 from Durban to Joburg. The pilot mentioned just before takeoff that we will be getting some bad weather on the second half of the flight. So we took off from Durban and it was rather cool to see how bank left and right quite a bit through the clouds on our climb out from Durban. The cabin crew quite quickly started server the drinks and snacks but the were halfway through serving while we were climbing still when all of the sudden the captain got on the pa system with only the words "Cabin crew be seated immediatly". The still motored with those trolleys back to the galley and they just had time to secure everything in the galley when we got shaken pretty badly. It was like a big rotweiler got hold of the plane and shook us around like a toy. The crew were holding on like crazy in the back and cups were flying around in the cabin from everybody who did not hold on to their stuff. It went like that for a couple of minutes before it got a bit less bumpy. Oh and I always keep my belt on as well and tought my children as well that those belts stay on.

Completely forgot about that name until you mentioned it now. Agree, that was a very toxic forum.

Prior to theHub the primary Forum was the Supercycling forum which was hosted/moderated by Cyclelab. But there were some very heated debates especially in the days with the rivalry between Winningtime and champion chip and various other politics and quite often Cyclelab was also involved with the politics and members often got gagged. So somewhere between these fights theBikehub came into being (Mat can give more info on this) and there was pretty much a mass exodus from Supercycling to bikeHub and after that Supercycling was pretty dead as far as I can remember.

A bit bizarre ... https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2020/05/07/person-hit-plane-killed-austin-airport-runway-officials-say/3093811001/

BigH had a few accounts. Couchpatato was also one if I remember correctly.

The reality is that from a marketing perspektive, the Tour de France is the biggest showcase. With the current cash crisis in sport it would propably make sense to attract sponsors and make sure it does not clash with other events.

This is very important to remember and also a good indicator of your current level of fitness. On a HR based training program when you do intervals, you should notice (depending on your condition when the training program started) that when you do interval, your HR will take x amount of time to go down after the interval but towards the end of the training program that x value will come down quite a bit. I remember doing a HR based training program many years ago of Polar. For the most of the 12 or 16 week program my recovery of my HR would take about 70 - 90 seconds to drop down to a certain level. The week before the 94,7 that I was training for, the recovery was at about 35 seconds. Did a 2:36 94,7 that year.

Please don't say it like that. You make me feel old now.

This might be a local production that I would actually like to see ... https://www.channel24.co.za/Movies/Reviews/griekwastad-20200504-2

I have seen a C17 at Cape Town Int before.