lost frog

I've had a set-up with cyclefit 2 times (MTB) and I was each time pleased by the result and professional attitude. I would recommend it.

Can't say anything about other clubs as I am a JMBC member. You can join the club for any sunday morning ride as a guest (R30 fee). No obligation of joining the club, you can try a few times and decide if you like it. Good variety of rides. 4 groups to suit your speed/fitness/skills. Calendar on the website: http://www.jmbc.org.za

Hi guys, I got myself a spinning bike for home training (that's gonna be my only option soon because a baby's on it's way...). I got some training DVDs (real life videos of popular training rides) but I found out that I can do a much better workout simply watching a movie ... Any tips for visual supports that keeps you enternained and push you through the training session? thanks for you feedback.

Hi, a common calculation for max heart rate is MaxHR = 220 - age. But it can vary from one guy to an other. That would give a value of 192 for you ( you're 28 correct?). So you've reached 186 on a hill? 95% of your max HR, that seems highly possible and it looks that there's nothing to worry about. I bought a heart rate monitor a few month ago and I'm still learning to use it. You'll learn soon what Max heart rate you can reach and how long you can keep on riding at a certain heart rate without killing yourself.

If I were you I would sell the trek for maybe, R3000, and then spend the R10000 on a good 2nd hand bargain, you should be able to find something very decent that would be a HUGE upgrade, even a full suspension one...

Personnally I ride a mountain king 2.2 front. It's fast rolling and grippy, perfect for marathons, and works well in wet/muddy conditions as well.

Hi guys, After a a transport incident, my brand new trek mtb has got a very ugly scratch (the size of a R5 coin) on the side of the top tube. Has anybody had to deal with a paint job before? any specialised company to recommend (JHB area)? Thanks for your help.

Check your saddle position as well. When the pedals are horizontal, your knee cap (knee in front) must be on a vertical line above the pedal axis. This position is supposed to be the more efficient.

desperate bump as weekend is coming...

Hi, Just had a bad experience on the hub. The guy sells a saddle on the hub and leaves his cellphone number, I call him as fast as I can, he tells me the saddle is still for sale, we agree to meet at his work place the following day to make the deal, he gives me the adress and everything. Then a few hours later I receive a SMS: " Sorry I have sold the saddle to a friend". Come on hubbers, please behave when you sell something on the hub. When you agree to sell something to somebody, just stick to it, otherwise it gets really annoying...

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Hi guys, I will be in Parys this weekend and I would be keen to join some local Mtbers for a ride. I'm training for the Sabie experience at the moment so i'm looking for for a medium/fast pace long ride (+50kms), the more hills the better, but any nice ride will do! I've heard about a " Parys MTB club", anyone has heard about them? Please answer or PM me. Thanks

And what's happening if on a "a easy sunday afternoon ride (off-road, slow pace, well within my technical ability and on trails that I know by heart)" , a dog suddenly jumps out of nowhere and surprises you without your helmet and you unfortunately crash? my point: you'll never know when you actually need your helmet boet!

It just happenned suddenly one day? It happenned to me once, the bike shop had changed the free wheel body and "overtightened" the cones that keep the whole assembly together. For your problem, it looks like your free wheel body or the bearings are dead and offers some resistance, that's why you only notice it pedalling backwards.

Hi there, It happened to my riding partner as well. Tried 32GI on a race day as he had forgotten his cytomax at home and started taking a lot of gels...it seems he spent one of his worst day on the saddle. The main advantage of 32GI is to provide a sustained energy without the spike and drop effect of a "high GI" product. Having a high GI gel at the same time as 32GI will spike your blood sugar then drop and it's possible to "hit the wall". I've been using 32GI for one month and I have to said I achieved some of my best results ever, so it works for me, but I race only on that + low GI snacks if needed. Now, think about that: on a 3 hours, race, I burn around 3000 Cal, and have two bottles of 32GI (378 Cal). The rest of the energy is provided by breakfast, previous day pasta dinner etc...so to me:, nutrition before the race is far more important than energy drink...