The expat cyclist

Then they could only be from die Oos Rand.

Lite beer: same alcohol content, lower calories. Light beer: lower alcohol content, same calories.

The only thing that takes longer than 15min to braai, is chicken.The rule with chicken is, when you think it is done, give it 5 more minutes.

T-bone with some veg...(chicken and wors)

Listen, I need to settle something here... We are talking about the good Souf Efrikan braai here! So why on some of the comments do okes refer to "cooking" the meat? If you braai, you braai. You dont braai and then cook. Tsk.

Maybe it is just me but at one point braaing for other people was truely intimidating. Especially for my wife's family; she has 3 brothers who braai almost every friggen night. And being the city slicker amongst them, I really felt uncomfortable around them. I guess it is ok if people would say I suck as a cyclist but I really did not want to be the guy that can't braai; that is just me. Anyway, I guess I knew I was in the clear with my inlaws when my father in law lets me braai when we visit.

Damn man. That is truly nice!

Ja that is entirely another topic. Not a fan of destroying the meat with sauces. Or at least things like rump, t-bone etc I enjoy without any funny sauces. Chicken, pork and the odd skaap tjoppie can get away with some other type of saucy thing.

It doesn't have to. We eat, and then gooi some wood in that steel boma things and we snack on poeding and other sweet stuff and talk crap.

It's Monday. I am outside doing what South Africans do best: I braai. Now I'm sure we all have our braai rules. I have a simple one: If I invite you for a braai, we are going to braai. Not one of those drinking brandy and gooing more hout on the fire BS till 23:00. We braai and have a few doppies inbetween but at some point before 19:00, we will eat. I hate those braais where the meat never make it to the braai.

This.

I tell you what; I'm sick of crashing my bike. Went down really hard yesterday. Really sick of falling.

Even the race itself has a finishing time...sho...

And right here my chain broke. Fixed it and carried on.

Ok fine, I'll enter.

The reckon he could have avoided it more...like slowing down and letting JZ have his spot...pft...yeah right. Luckily it did not matter in the end.

Oh crap. That means I have to keep training for this for another week...

Very pretty... But flat pedals on a race machine? Olrite then.

I was of the radar for a bit...and then I have to come across this. No man. Rip TW.

Does it not feel like this thread poses more questions than answers?

Accepted.

WHAT? So the original buyer sold the bike for R23.5k - no rip off. But if the re-seller sells it for R32.5k (Willing buyer, willing seller) it is a rip off? Huh??? EDIT: Oh and I do agree that when "feelings/emotion" is brought into economics, it is no longer economics. It is called remorse.

You know what is sad? Say you are out bargain hunting and you come across a BMC for R23.5k. You as a frequent buyer and expert in the prices of bikes immediately spot this as a bargain - something sold below market value. Since we are talking ethics, would it then not be the ethical thing to do and say to the seller: You know what, this bike is actually worth R32.5k. So let me do the ethical thing and buy it from you for the higher price? In my point above you as the buyer is ripping the seller off knowingly - but it is ok because it suits you. So how do you argue ethics one way but not the other? You said blatantly excessive profit: The price of anything is worth what the buyer is willing to pay for it and not what the seller asks for it. If the price you ask is to high and no one ever buys what you are selling, then you were never planning on selling it anyway. This is not ethics, it plain economics.

I know, it is a radical concept...

Yeah I don't get it. Was anyone looking to buy a BMC for R23.5k? No? So what the problem is? So what? Now he's got R23.5k tied up. Who's problem/risk is that? Surely not yours. It is simple really: if you think R23.5k is a bargain and you have the funds and it is what you are looking for, you will buy it. The current owner now carries the risk of getting someone to buy the same bike that is now more expensive. Simple econimcs state if the demand is not there, the price will drop eventually. I mean for flowers sake, the pre owned car market works 100% the same. If you are going to buy the bike then buy it. If not, then what the hell bru?