Duane_Bosch

I've been following this quite closely and my takeaway from this is it's probably a lot less hassle, a lot less work and a lot more lucrative to just get an honest job and applying yourself to that.

Ja I used to bounce between Zwift, Rouvy and Sufferfest. I would just line up my subscriptions so I don't pay for 2 in the same month. As a general comment. I REALLY wish Zwift or Mywoosh would just put all of the B roads on Mallorca into a map. That place is a cyclists paradise.

Zwift allows you 25km free a month so you can smash out test there once a month?

*Monolog alert! Of the 2 I'd go for option 3 which is Mywoosh. It is a bit resource intensive so you do need a bit of a good device to run it off. It's best feature is that it's free. IMO Of the 2 Zwift is better as a training tool whereas Rouvy is cool if you want to "ride" some routes you've ridden before or plan to ride in the future. As an overall experience Zwift is better. You have to bear the following in mind tho. 1. Mywoosh is free so I'd go for that over Rouvy or Zwift 2. Most of them have a free week or 2 so you can sample before committing 3. You aren't married to any of them so you can bounce between them if you get bored with whichever. However! Nothing is going to change the fact that you are pushing pedals and going nowhere so maybe do the following. Assuming you're running it on a laptop. 1. Get a semi dedicated training space going 2. Get a good fan. Preferably one with a remote so you can warm up a bit and then switch it on. Or put the fan on up front but wear a t shirt while you warm up and shed that. You don't need to spend 6k on the Wahoo one 3. Get a 2nd monitor and play youtubes or netflix or whatever on there to make the misery bearable. 4. Get onto a training program and just bash that out. 5. Get some sort of desk to hold your displays at eye level. There are many cheap options you don't have to spend thousands on the wahoo one 6. Get some earbud headphones so your family doesn't have to hear your youtubes while you are sweating 7. If you can get a cheapie training bike that lives on the trainer permanently. 8. Get a cheap yoga mat to collect the sweat. 9. You'll need a heart rate monitor.

I can't really get into specifics but I'm part of an other group doing a completely different activity. The people that do this are good good people who spend hours and hours practicing and spend big thousands on gear so that one day when called upon they might be able to save a life or give peace to a loved one. Last week I notice a familiar name on the group. Turns out this POS was trying to get involved and had already sold some tracking device to one of the members. I got hold of the people who run the whole thing and he's been removed. Scum.

As far as I know Bryton is no longer distributed in SA so if you do have issues there is no backup. For a more budget friendly gps I'd get one of those XOSS units. They are brought in by omnico.

I live in HB so can confirm. 26th Dec 2023 I helped a a cyclist who'd been liberated of her bike by a guy who hit her on the back of her head with a steel pipe. You DO NOT want to be riding past IY on a bicycle. Apart from the ever present risk of taking a steel pipe to the back of your head there's also an almost permanent river of poo flowing down the road. @Ed345 Kalk bay is a great spot to do some road riding from. Just keep an eye on windy/windguru coz Kalk Bay is very protected and just around the corner in fishhoek it can be blowing a gale.

I wonder where you'd base yourself as an XC pro? Loads of roadies and triathletes base themselves in Girona and the DH/Enduro guys seem to gravitate to Morz and Schladming area. The wifey and I are planning to head to Girona in June.

Yissie. I really feel for these young guns chasing their dreams.

Training river crossings. Some dogs are fine with it some not so much. My guy is in the second group so we have to train them.

Some scenes from training. This time inside a school. ID'ing on a closed door then searching in the school passages for the perp.

Recently I bought a cheapo DH bike. It used to be a mates bike. I bought it from him in 2019, took it to France and then sold it on my return. It's an Intense M9 in the old CRC metalic blue. Anyway I recently bought the bike "back" for a frankly silly R6500. The brakes were horrible so they were immediately replaced with 2nd hand Magura MT05's. Those were ok but not stellar. Then the mate who sold the Magura's to me told me about this Shigura hack. I love the super light feel of a Shimano lever so this felt like a bit of an idea. I procured a set of SLX levers from Woodstock Cycle Works and they mated the shimano levers to the magura calipers. I did a hellsend shuttle day with the new setup last week and the brakes feel AMAZING! Nils reckons the shimano lever pushes more fluid than the Magura one hence the immense power. IMO this is a highly recommended hack if you've got maguras and you want a little more power.

I think this is good advice. A nice shiny brand new bike. What could be better? The Merida's look well priced on there.

I'd rather have the endorsement of the devil himself.

@LizMTB Maybe take a look at spivi. It's a spinning app that's got online classes and is more geared towards spinning. I've tried it using my smart trainer. It doesn't adjust the tension on the trainer but in a spinning class you would adjust the flywheel manually anyway so it's very much a spinning app. Also you can get 2nd hand smart spinning bikes that are more fit for purpose. whereas trying to pair a spin bike with mywoosh is probably not such a good fit. If you want to use mywoosh then I'd rather get a 2nd hand wheel off trainer and a cheapo 2nd hand bike. You should be able to source a 2nd hand trainer and a cheap hard tail MTB for under your 10k budget in the classifieds. You're going to have to have a phone, tablet or laptop with a decent internet connection to run the app. Just my 2c.