Duane_Bosch

Love Love Love it! I have to go to the TT at least once in my life.

It's disappointing to me that people that are into bikes are not commenting on the TT........

From my experience the sandpit airlines are best to fly with a bike. But like I said renting a roadie in Europe is best. You should be able to get a 105 equipped carbon bike for around 30 Euro a day depending on where you are and you'll get it cheaper if you book for a longer time.

I've flown Turkish before and I paid $90 each way for a bike. There is no way to escape it. Speaking sweetly to the check in lady will not work. My advice. Rent a bike there. My wife and I went to Mallorca in 2019 and we rented bikes there. Irrespective of airline I'll NEVER take my own road bike to Europe again. It was such a painless experience. Renting is much much much more convenient. You book the bike online, take your helmet, shoes, gps and saddle if you're picky and it's done. No hassles with oversize luggage. No stressing about your bike not arriving. No stressing that some over zealous baggage handler is doing to destroy your pride and joy. My other half and I are flying Turkish to Andalucía in September and we're renting bikes. For the record. We're spending 2 days in Istanbul on the way there because the price differential between doing the stop over and going to Malaga in one hit was 8k. Each.

YES! Rory Kirk taking the W at the dirt masters in Winterberg

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.