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What a great start to the 2014 Cycling Season. Lights by Linea is very proud to announce the next series, of our Criterium Races, Roll up, Roll up and come experience thrilling, fast cycling at the fabulous Polkadraai Circuit in the vineyard hills of Stellenbosch. Hero Challenge 2014 Criterium Street Racing 25 January,15 February,22 February & 2 March 2014 Cat1: 90 minutes plus 1 Lap. Start Time 16h15 -all elite riders -prizes for top 5 -Yellow, green and white jerseys Cat 2: 60 minutes plus 1 Lap. Start Time 15h00. -prizes for open (top 3) -prizes for vets (top 3) -prizes for masters(top3) -prizes for women (top 3) Cat 3: 30 minutes plus 1 Lap. Start Time 14h00. -prizes for U12 (top 3) -prizes for U14 (top 3) -prizes for U16 (top 3) Prize break down. Cat 1: R1500.00, R1000, R750, R300, R200 Trophies for 1st/2nd & 3rd Cat2: open, vets, masters, U12/14/16 – medals Cat2: women R400, R200, R100 Trophies for 1st/2nd&3rd Elite only 2 Hotspots per 90 min of R500.00 each. Leaders Jerseys. Cat 1: Yellow, Green, White. Cat 2: Yellow x 4 (open, vets, masters & ladies) Cat 3: NA Medals 3 x gold, 3 x silver, 3 x bronze per event for cat 2 & 3 Registration. From 11h00 - 30 min before each event, at the Polkadraai Farmstall. Numbers will be issued at the event. Prize Giving: To be held 15 min after each category. Cash prizes will be paid via EFT Points system and Jersey competitions - yellow jersey for points to top 10 accumulated for GC. -white jersey for best U23 -Green jersey for Best Sprinter. Overall Prizes. -MVA Most Valuable Athlete for the overall Criterium Racer R5 000 -white and green overall winners will receive R1000 each -most aggressive rider for the series will receive R750 Parking Provision for Parking has been made in the car park of Polkadraai and Bein Wine Farm These events are CSA Sanctioned and will operate under the rules of the UCI Wayne Roberts Managing Director Lights by Linea(PTY)Ltd

Polkadraai Circuit for the 1st Round of the HERO Challenge. Registration from 11h00. Cat 3 start 14h00-40min, Cat 2 start 15h00-60min & Cat 1 Pilots start 16h15-90min. Don't miss the biggest cycle racing event to hit Cape Town in Years. Come and support Kia Diepriver and Trek Bicycles

In defense of Cox - he does have a full time job - then he does part time photos for wedding etc - even worked New years day! He probably puts in more work time than 95% of Huber's do! He just chooses to sleep less so he can train! Should probably rename that account to wannabe "Pro Cyclist Raymond Cox." As for longer races in 2 weeks time even us Vets need o race 144km at SA road champs - so it would be nice to see some longer races in the WP - considering the Elite / U23 are racing 180km at SA road champs. Its not quite the same, finishing a 110km funride then the Lights by Linea team going out for an extra 40km straight after the finish as a race of 160km. It almost was when we got the Phone call to say league prize giving was starting earlier and we raced back!

I will ask Darren how he let the thing go when I se him latter! He has told me but cannot remeber.

Been a roadie - I say just do what Darren Lil does!!!

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Brad WON! Thanks for the votes everyone counted!

Update - 5 hours left too vote and less than 100 vote separate all 5. Brad still in 2nd spot!

Brad McCreadieHelp Brad livelikeapro- #votebrad1st Voting closes 12noon AEST people. Thank you for all your support. Not long to go and still just a few votes behind! Please help get me over the line by inviting your friends to this and sharing the voting link via email/FB etc.

Just a few days left to vote - 2 get SA (you know what I mean) into no. 1

Well in season - so I expect somewhere here / Southern hemisphere and that's on both labels!

Or been ripped off over the Xmas season - as I stated at P n P at the end of last week they were also R30 - or maybe WW may have woken up to this and decided to be a bit more competitive! But up or down a overnight price change of 100% is huge - headline news currently is the 2.5% to 3 % fuel price increase!

I have no problem with price changes esp with fruit as it's seasonal (or not available) but this is an overnight change of 100% - that cannot be explained but seasons, petrol price increase Rand / dollar exchange rate, supply and demand or any other such Macro economical explanation. Likewise I noticed how "lays" chips often seem to go up over weekend esp round the 25th of the month at my Local super market. Why - well people tend to do "last minute" braai etc over weekend! We all know in RSA we like some packeted chips as starts so the super markets just bump it up for this reason over the weekend. The 25th - well thats pay day and families do big shops normally the 1st weekend after pay day and guess what the local supermarket know this so why not just bump all the prices up a little, make an extra 20% profit that weekend! Over the years I have noticed this as a single person "10 item" daily shopper about 300 days of the year! But on this occasion Woolworth's - Busted!!!

Tonight the fuel price increase by I think something like 30c a L and the current price is about R12.00 I don't have the exact number but close enough - WOW 2.5% increase! Already on my cycle this morning I noticed fuel station fuller than normal. My point is regardless of the date been 1 day apart - it is very rare to see a rice change by 100% overnight. The expiry date validates the overnight price change. So either you were ripped off or you going to be ripped off! These are both marked prices not special prices! The only reason why I looked at the watermelon prices was I was at WW and PnP price when I bought last was R30.00 about 4 days ago, so I was expect to pay up o R40.00 at WW but the 1st price I saw was the R59.99 then noticed 1 at R29.99 and investigated! I completely understand some retailer marking down food on the sell by date 2 hours before closing of the store - that make complete business sense to reduce wastage!

But on the same shelf at the same time - with 100% increase - is this not just taking the piss? Looks like I a cycle wholesaler will need to double my Group set prices so I can just afford food (just kidding)! I always felt bad in price increase as the rand went south, now I ask myself why?

Yes I did and she had no explanation!

Woolworth watermelon today cost R29.99 and tomorrow the same size will cost R59.99. Thats a 100% increase - pity they perishables, but has SA now reached what Zimbabwe had a few year ago Hyper food inflation? The fact they leave this on the shelf for the customers too see - thats not very discreet - are they proud to be ripping their consumers off?

Brad currently in 2nd place - so thanks for all the support and those who have not voted please do!

Nope it's Gareth - brother!!!

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Brad McCreadie a Rondebosch Boys' High School pupil now 35 and working as Chiropractor in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia "Hi everyone, I have just been told I am in the final 5 of a nation-wide competition to live like a pro cyclist for a year. Please vote for me by clicking on this link http://civs.cs.corne...ee7b1757ee393f4 and follow prompts. No personal details will be used for any marketing. Please share with everyone you know and help me live the dream! Thank you all for your support, I really appreciate it. Brad"

Jay Leno, made a comment a few weeks back on his talk show about how the Britt's have developed Genetic modification - yet the still have skew teeth! So what is Genetic modification and how would it improve sport - well 1 example is if you have a "fat gene" you can now have this modified to a "thin gene" and lose all the excess weight - and anybody who has lost a few KG will realize how this help's in cycle sports performance! Would Genetic modification be call doping - WADA / UCI / SKY?

Nope I don't think you right I was in the team that came 4th or 5th last year and we were about 4th or 5th last to leave!