Duane_Bosch

It's not my core focus but I have done e-commerce implementations for more than one company. They ABSOLUTELY DO cherry pick/ filter/ moderate/ review / (whatever term one wants to use) the customer feedback that you see on the website. The nature of humans is that they only open their mouths when they have a complaint. So most reviews would be negative. Loads of negative reviews equals no sales. FWIW the best cycling garment I've ever owned is a ciovita wind breaker thing. Cheap as chips. lasted forever and did it's job. It's recently been retired and replaced by an asics equivalent

Reality check time. ALL webstores moderate their reviews and feedback. It would be financial suicide not to. The only one in SA where you're likely to get anything approaching honest reviews is Takealot. Because the stuff they're selling is on consignment so they don't really care which brand of 400 lumen light you buy. Just so long as you buy it from them.

Watching that video made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Guess I'm a bad person.

Anyways back on topic. Carrying whilst riding. On my roadie. No. Can't conceal and most of the time I'm concentrating on not having a heart attack so I doubt I'd react in time. Pepper spray for the fake feel good but let's be honest the oke is getting the bike. On the MTB the areas I ride tend to be pretty safe. I could possibly run some sort of chest rig but I see mostly downsides. Also I think most places like Jonkers are gun free zones anyway. So that's also a no. On Zwift I've often wanted to kill the little cartoon me. Does that count?

For the first time ever a lefty makes sense. 😁

I've recently started the process. Done the tests. Done the shoot. Competency is in progress. Regarding carrying whilst riding I think that would be a big no for me. Concealment is an issue and if you can conceal in a backpack or maybe a chest rig then getting to the weapon in a timeous fashion when the need arises is probably impossible. When my wife and I run it's with a Malinois tethered to my waist. Handling him and a firearm would also be an impossibility. To all the folk that are "anti gun" I have some bad news for you. If you pay ADT or some such company for alarm monitoring and armed response then you are not anti gun. You are merely outsourcing the responsibility of having a gun to an armed response company.

I've flown Turkish IIRC I paid $90 each way. Below is the current link on their website. https://www.turkishairlines.com/en-int/any-questions/sports-equipment/special-charges/

At the price point you really are spoilt for choice. I've got a pair of cheap as chips Volkano ones that I picked up from Clicks for R399. The sounds is average at best but they do the job. I use them for teams meeting etc https://www.takealot.com/volkano-pisces-series-2-0-true-wireless-earphones/PLID94933910?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw26KxBhBDEiwAu6KXt31vt6SRQ5VSe9EiMCBS8VHzs3GGv3BtGhw3jHtYzVWMarm3eIuKchoC6H4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds My wife has a pair of Jabra Elite 4 which she has on all day long in meetings all of the time. She also uses them on the trainer. The Elite 2's are in your price range. The thing that's nice about them is they come with different sizes of the little rubbers so you can customize the fit. https://www.takealot.com/jabra-elite-2-true-wireless-in-ear-earbuds-with-mic/PLID73020655?colour_variant=Navy

We use mywoosh because...... Free Download some youtubes. Tee them up and off you go. I download cos the bandwidth is less than optimal in my garage where the trainer is. There's a tv in there and the laptop gets set up next to the tv. Youtubes on the TV My wife puts a music playlist on her phone.

Roadie routes in Milan Ah gahdammit now you've got me looking at riding routes in Italy again!

The choice between renting or own bike is highly personal and very dependent on riding time, convenience and of course budget. My wife and I have done 3 roadie trips to Europe. Morzine France - Own bikes Monte Grappa Italy - Own bikes Mallorca Spain - Rentals Mallorca was a revelation. We'll never take our own road bikes again. The convenience of not having to lug massive bike boxes around and just showing up at the shop with pedals and a saddle made is so worthwhile for us. We took our measurements along and the shop was happy to set the bikes up to our requirements. Also no stressing whether your bike will actually show up and the condition it will be in when you get there. Not taking our own bikes also allowed us to spend 2 days in Paris on the way back. I can't imagine lugging 2 bike boxes from Orly airport through the Paris metro to get to our accommodation and then from there to CDG on the way out. Nightmare! Not taking your own bike also allows you to make use of more direct routings on airlines that would normally charge you a kings ransom to fly your bike rather than routing via Dubai, Qatar, Abu Dhabi. My thoughts. Rent. Mountain bike trip to the Alps you take your own bike coz there you have personal setups around suspension. ** Just some advice on the riding itself. If you're planning to ride for say 5 days. PROPERLY plan 7-9 routes that you want to ride and get them onto your gps. Plan to do your hard or highlight ride early before you are worn out and tired. Also if weather is a factor you can then plan around that too. If you're going with wifey and you're hitting a hard day make sure she understands EXACTLY how much vert and km's she is going to be doing. You don't want to be 3/4 of the way up Monte Grappa when she decides it's time to go home. Been there!

If you have a big enough set of onions you can go around the Isle of man TT course at 130+MPH on it.

Down the beach

You can see and hear that they can't ride coz of the way they change lines through the corners and the acceleration, deceleration through the corners. (Not claiming to be a hidden Valentino)

THAAT's what it is. I was going to say it looks like a Suzuki SV 650. Most certainly not a superbike.

General comment. This time of year SUCKS on the roads as a cyclist. After Argus. Heaven. As a former owner of a superbike. Chappies is a K@K road on those bikes. It's too tight and the corners tighten up on themselves so you're always on the brakes and never using the bike. It's also over so quickly. I can't understand why guys on superbikes want to ride on it. Hopefully the guy that was hit is going to be ok. I have to say Twatter really does bring out the worst in people. WOW! But in a really bad way.

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Genius!!!!!!

As much as it galls me to agree with this point I do. Somewhat. If you apply the OODA loop to a bikejacking scenario the crim is WELL ahead of you by the time you are even aware of the threat. They've observed, orientated, decided and they are busy acting. It's unlikely that you are going to be able to deploy a firearm in time to ward off the attack. In a home invasion scenario hopefully your alarm is on and your doors are locked which will give you a few seconds to catch up. Add to that the fact that you can only legally use a firearm in self defense if your LIFE is threatened. Maybe you could argue that having a brick thrown at you is life threatening. I don't know. Concealment is also an issue. Our law states that you must conceal your firearm. Riding with a firearm with a visible silhouette is probably illegal and could possibly make you a target. Riding with it in a backpack is a waste of time IMO.

I've got one of those pepper ball launchers with a bunch of pepper balls I've been itching to use.....

Yes. And if you use Empire you miss the mayhem around the SPAR too.

Ok I got that well wrong.

Thanks for your dedication. My daughter and I helped the young lady on scene and took her home. I decided I was gonna be rambo and trail the perp into IY with my trailing dog. My dog took scent from the cyclist and headed in the direction he went. I got 30m in there. Shat myself and turned around. I won't be doing that again.

Some good news to this story. The bike was recovered yesterday by SAPS and a suspect arrested. From what I understand it's not the actual perp but a middle man/trader. I made contact with the cyclist involved and she in turn got hold of SAPS.

The little circle is where the attack happened. The arrows are the route the perp took into IY. The arrows end where I came to my senses and realized I was unarmed with no flankers headed for ****. To re iterate. Don't ride past IY under any circumstances. Rather go Empire and onto Valley road. from my understanding there have been at least 3 incidence of this nature on that stretch of road in the last 2 days. It's literally 50m from a police station and there are cctv cams covering that bit of road. These okes don't give a funk