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Agreed the thread has been hi jacked (partially by myself).

Thanks for that. Also trying to get the info together for having them refund me R4000 per water restrictive meter - I have been told that they cannot pass the cost on as the meter is not on my property. Anyone know anything about this? Next minute you will be expected to pay for the street light bulb that go outside your house. I would prefer them to remove the street lights personally.

I also have a problem on not having a flat rate if the City has installed a water restrictive meter at a property. The city has installed these meter in the past months has at 3 of my rental properties and they are automatically set for 4 people per house. All these house have more that 4 - so application have been done to increase the amount of L for the house. If people have been force to work to the restrictive amount surely this should be done at a flat rate? Once the water has been use in for the day the water meter stops water from flowing till about 04H00 the next morning - for those who wanted to know how these water meters work.

The problem come in when they start trying to charge you for the water you have harvested off your roof or filtered from well point etc. Similar to when Eskom tries and charges you for installing solar system at home and Petrol SA tries to charge you for your electric car charged from the sun! Problem for Gov is the end user makes plans and when Gov have sorted their S*$T out and worked out how they / Gov can keep up with demand - the end user are far fewer.

Is that not is call supply and demand pricing structure - works for business for many years. No different to an AVO costing say R20 in Dec and when in season only cost R4. If you cant afford an Avo at R20 don't buy it - likewise if you cannot afford water use way less or leave the city back to a place where there is water - kind of following on from my theme of the city infrastructure no been able to accommodate the number of people living in Cape Town. Personally I do think the price structure of water should depend on how old your house is / or how long you lived in Cape Town - if 100 years old house should not be change more, if it is a 1 year old - pay the premium. Kind of what the medical insurance industry does to old people wanting to join a medical aid scheme late in life. But probably to complex to find a fair solution for all! Time to book those back to back Med cruise for April and May - it maybe cheaper than buying water in Cape Town!

Or possible Dam usage is just very high (too many people) compared to what they were designed for. There is also an argument that the fruit / veg farms are doing so well and a lot of produce is been exported so yes we are kind of via fruit / wine exports exporting our water! Possibly the Vaal dam is 100% full not only because of good rain but many people have relocated to the Cape - so the DA running a good province - may be a partial cause of this crisis. The water security falls under National government and not Provincial government so ... quite a complex's political situation even if water should not be politicized!

If Cape Town cant afford visitors - how the hell can Cape Town afford new housing development while water has not been secure for the housing that has been developed over the past 15 years? A number of family and friend of mine returned to CPT over Xmas and in our area Southern subs - they could not help but say how green it looks for drought. Maybe the rain has been a bit less but has it been that much less or was the infrastructure designed for a far smaller CPT population. It would not supersize me at all if the population of Cape Town has more than doubled since the last dam was built!

I drive an electric car and although I never break the speed limit what wrong with accelerating had? I must admit I hardly ever decelerate hard waist batteries. Been a cyclist I have learn to anticipate whats happening 5 cars ahead of me - and always am very aware of all my surrounding. Have they consider different cars for driving styles - hey the accelerating is one of the "Pro / Fun" in having the electric car!

Last year they added point at the beginning of the year and when "your time of year came up" they added some more bonus point. But who know what they doing this year! that's the problem when you change programs so dramatically it breads an element of mistrust.

Its not only that for me - its them not sticking to what they have placed in writing in terms of assisting me with Activity days. The discount structure is naturally important and having had enough point for 18 months to reach private club - but not been with them for 2 years, then for them to just change the goal post and as an individual member making it almost impossible for me to reach 750 point on the new system without taking other products from them - is just not cricket and possibly extortion!

I have asked my broker for the CEO of Multipliers email address - I want to give him a chance to explain his new program - already in my mind I need to fund a new medical insurer. There new program at best is very frustrating and the App does not work for safe days! I was given in writing a consultant would call me in 24 hours which is now past a day back and still no word. Momentum multiplier has dropped the ball from what I can see.

Last year is was 180 or 200! I am finding this new program a whole lot of BS. I realize they have T & C but with all due respect to Momentum to change the program so dramatically is not sport man like. They into sports sponsorship they should understand each game has rules and yes there are tweaks to rules of games but they changed the whole game!

I hope some senior people at Momentum / Mutiplier are reading this track. In the mean time I think its time to start looking at new service provider. Liberty made a similar mistake 2 years back when they drop your "own your life rewards program" - I dropped them the within the same month. I speak with my cash. Now Momentum / Mutiplier are making similar mistakes. Possible time to speak with my cash again and move on.

My comment on entry in reference to Pure Savage comment on trying to organize in Southern Suburbs: "I tried organizing an event in the SS last year, the cost would have been more than double a CTCT entry if they even allowed you on the roads. So many road works at the moment." I would be quite happy if at least 2 events did take place in Jan or Feb before the cycle tour, even if 50% of the entry came from the "PPA / Cape Town cycle tour" coffers. Even if it was red hill laps 3 or 4 time or route of what was last the Cycle lab event / Roller coaster (maybe red hill instead of the Military road). Many years ago we even had an event the sent all the way though the nature reserve to the point and back think started basically where the Noordhoek shopping center is.

Nope - but given the track it has followed over the past 3 years - it would not surprise me in the least if it should stop completely in the next 10 years - to me that is "much longer."

What is wrong with some proceed from the Cape Town cycle tour, should it exist much longer, directly going into financially assisting other road cycling events in the area - keeping the sport alive on a whole number of levels? Thus allowing the entry to be more realistic for smaller events? But in tun these smaller events aid in keeping the Cape Town cycle tour alive!

Just had my medical assessment done this morning and I been penalized for my cholesterol been below 4.11 - when was having a low cholesterol bad? Also got emailed the new brochure - after asking for points for an AIDs test like last year - sorry not this year. Had to send this to my broker: "As a single member am I even able to get enough point for private club this year -750? New brochure attached. On time in July I qualify but they made the point system very different and weight more towards how many products you have with them and how long you have had them and not your own wellness. Seems a bit unreasonable."

Not sure if the bigger / biggest race (Cape Town Cycle tour) is surviving. I personnel feel a big part of the problem is the lack of supporting events to this event on roads this event uses. Instead of cycle tour fund be reinvested into Road funride in the Southern subs they have been used elsewhere. I suspect if there were cycling event, like in the past, going past informal settlement it would to the residence seem like the Norm and not the exception - no big deal / protest. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg! Expense as you have listed could well be funded by cycle tour profits! PPA is (meant to be) a non profit organization.

Maybe they contact me - lets wait and see: Desmolene Welcome to Momentum chat support, how can we help. peter Hi I downloaded the momentum app - and have trued to activate safe days - but I dont think it is working? tried I use an Iphone 6 Desmolene Good day Peter. You may try to delete the app and down load it again as the safe days app will only be available on the latest version. peter I only downloaded the app 2 days ago Desmolene Ensure the field says “Uninstall” and not “Update”, if it states “Update” please update the App peter It does not come up on the Privacy and the Location services under with all the app that are allowed to share My locaton. Desmolene Kindly contact our technical support on 0861 110 220 for assistance. peter I have a very small cell ph contract and don't have much data and phoning these number are not free. This is your app and now I must spend my time money / minutes etc to make the thing work. Is this really fair? I gave my number when I started this chat - please get them to contact me. Desmolene I will send an email request and an agent should contact you within 24 hours. peter thank you. have a good dayDelivered Desmolene You are welcome. Enjoy your day further.

We seem to have the same problem!

Is anyone else have trouble getting the safe days to activate on the new Momentum app? I downloaded it about 2 days ago but on my Iphone 6 under Privacy then Location Services and share my Location a number of apps are listed but Momentum is not one. Anyone know how to fix this?

There is WP champs but unfortunately the Vets cat is 20 years i.e. 30 (29) - 49. Been at the tall end of that cat not much hope!

4! That's HALF of what we use to have basically just in February not so many years back.

Having done many funrides and National championships over the past 35 years. Currently I tend to only do funride where I know there will be good traffic control - 99er in Cape Town in the past has had good traffic control (often same weekend as National champs). National Champs has been a bit f a hit and miss over the past number of years - Durban was great. Thus I tend to ride Killarny (motor race circuit) and track - but a 1 hour event require not nearly as many miles of training compared to a 110km close road lap round the Peninsula.

Out of a 100 (100%), what are the chances we get to ride the route we entered on the day? I personally think its less than 50% - if I am wrong I should start training a bit more! But unfortunately like most thing we will only know the actual answer when its too late (to train).