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  1. Fat Boab
    So if Caroline Wostmann is fit, who's your money on?
  2. Fat Boab
    Keep us posted....
  3. Fat Boab
    Roof rack - and garage. Oh dear. The future is not bright......
  4. Fat Boab
    It's a circle. Ponder this for a second, if you knew nothing about how you're meant to drive/ride a circle, with appropriate signals, I defy you to watch a circle for 10 mins and determine the rule set from the behaviour on display! Shameful really....
  5. Fat Boab
    Sadly not just whilst during commuting..... I think it reinforces the inability of the cage drivers to judge the room that we take up and require. Answers on a postcard.......
  6. Fat Boab
    Welcome. Re viewing Classifieds. Best option is to head to the bottom of the page, Info>Support, and log a query.
  7. Fat Boab
    Maybe post a query on time-sourcing over on the Tri thread? Nothing like hearing how other people manage to squeeze in training twice a day to realise how much you don't want to can do it!
  8. Fat Boab
    Welcome! Re Delmas - 2 approaches, depending on what you're after. 1. search the Forums using Delmas as a keyword. 2: you can start a new topic under the Forum>Riding>Group Rides, or Routes & Trails categories. Enjoy.
  9. Fat Boab
    ....a day seated behind the desk sounds in order?
  10. Fat Boab
    I did a bit of searching on google scholar to find evidence of impact of a. lights on safety, b. strobe vs steady front/rear lights. Brief snips of findings are below as are the links if you want more: 1. "The incidence rate, including all recorded bicycle accidents with personal injury to the participating cyclist, is 19% lower for cyclists with permanent running lights mounted..." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457512002606 2. "The presence of a bicycle light, whether static or flashing, did not enhance the conspicuity of the bicyclist." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457511002752 3. "Currently available bicycle tail-lights and head lights were evaluated in a field experiment in which the distances at which stationary cyclists could be detected was measured. In general, tail-lights performed well, especially a flashing tail-light which was detected at long distances against a complex background. Head lights performed poorly." (This study is from 1998 so may have used dated lighting?). https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_242945_38 4. A lit search report on pedestrian and cyclist visibility. It's a bit long.... http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003438.pub2/epdf Will keep looking and update as an when I have time.....
  11. Fat Boab
    Firstly, nice to have you still with us. Secondly, interesting that you believe in a strobe front light. My 'belief' is a strobe front light is distracting for a driver and they consequently suffer from poor depth perception, hence I always ride with a steady front light. I wonder if there's been any formal study looking at this?
  12. Fat Boab
    www.sportsmanswarehouse.co.za have an online shop, and they sell lots of BBB stuff. Maybe they can help?
  13. Fat Boab
    6 quarts.....of course.
  14. Fat Boab

    Give it a TRI

    Fat Boab replied to Beesrib's topic in Multisport

    If you're new to this 2-wheeled game - a presumption, so excuse me - then you won't be familiar with the Rules (http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/). The relevant one here follows (be safe out there....): Rule #23 // Tuck only after reaching Escape Velocity.You may only employ the aerodynamic tuck after you have spun out your 53 x 11; the tuck is to be engaged only when your legs can no longer keep up. Your legs make you go fast, and trying to keep your fat ass out of the wind only serves to keep you from slowing down once you reach escape velocity. Thus, the tuck is only to be employed to prevent you slowing down when your legs have wrung the top end out of your block. Tucking prematurely while descending is the antithesis of Casually Deliberate. For more on riding fast downhill see Rule #64 and Rule #85.
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    Give it a TRI

    Fat Boab replied to Beesrib's topic in Multisport

    True story! And then apply rule #23......
  16. Fat Boab
    There are occasionally ST extenders for sale here in the classifieds. Alternatively try and find a BBB stockist. I'm sure I've seen them in Sportsmans warehouse and they have an online shop? Is importing from CRC or Bike24 out of the question for you? Re a steeper stem, there are calculators on the web which let you play with differing sizes and they give you changes in rise and stack etc. It's only really basic trig if you're comfortable with that? Or maybe this is still available? https://www.olx.co.za/item/steering-tube-extender-iid-1008290331
  17. Fat Boab

    Give it a TRI

    Fat Boab replied to Beesrib's topic in Multisport

    Even on the downhills? Eg From the Lindley circle down to the bridge, and then up to Valverde on the left?
  18. Fat Boab
    Have to agree. Have you ever taken part in a cycle event which doesn't have start pens? I did one earlier this year which was an open road event. Common sense would tell you that the start group should line up, at the very least in the LH lane of the road, and if you arrived late, you'd join the back? Not for lots of people, who either went to the front in the RH road lane, or created a wedge back from the start line in the RH lane. Not a racing snake amongst them, and factoring in the event wasn't timed, why would they adopt that approach? Selfish, self-centred with no regard for their safety or others.....baffling.
  19. Fat Boab
    Measure for measure: red wine has more calories, carbohydrates and sugar than, say, a Castle Lite. Red wine (150 ml): 125 kcal, 3.8g CHO, 0.91 g sugar. Castle Lite (340 ml): 101 kcal, 2 g CHO, 1.8 g sugar.
  20. Fat Boab
    Totally agree with GrahamS2. Castle lite (340ml serving): 101 kcal, 2 g CHO consisting of 1.8 g sugar. So crudely, to accumulate 2 kg fat (+/- 14000 kcals), you'd need to 140 Castle Lites over the weekend.....
  21. Fat Boab
    The calorie content of beer comes largely from the ethanol and residual carbohydrates. Of the latter, simple 'sugars' such as mono-, di- and tri-saccharides should have been fermented out, leaving small quantities of more complex and non-fermentable poly- and oligo-saccharides. Are these still an issue w.r.t diet in a zero-alcohol (abv% < 0.05%) beer?
  22. Fat Boab
    Why? Do expand?
  23. Fat Boab
    Perfect marketing. It's a bit like saying you use the same paint kit as Van Gogh, so your effort is as good as his was. As for tastes exactly the same....I see a triangular taste test coming on....if I could bring myself to buy a Castle Zero.
  24. Fat Boab
    Cunning disguised SAB offerings - both using Castle branding in it's name and promotion? Yip, that's a cunning disguise......
  25. Fat Boab
    Congrats!
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