ABrooks

Stellenbosch: Ride In, Vida Cafe, Häzz for all your coffee needs, not in any particular order just places I tend to frequent.

That was my idea, but based on the advice received here I am going to save up a bit and shop around for a better second-hand grinder. Are there coffee specific sites where I can look of perhaps a facebook page I can follow where people buy and sell coffee specific products.

I have a kenwood espresso machine. It uses a pressurized portafilter, it is a simmilar machine to a Saeco Poemia. Sometimes I would get a good shot from it depending on the grind of the beans. All coffee shops use a different grind so it is sort of a gamble what I'm going to get if I try out a new shop.

I knew coffee machines and grinders were expensive, I had no idea it was so expensive. For the time being, I am going to continue to buy beans and have it ground by the coffee shop. In the meantime, I am going to save up for a decent second-hand grinder.

Thanks for the input. I will look around a bit for a used grinder to see what I can find. Any tips on what I should be looking out for?

I want to buy an inexpensive grinder to use with my espresso machine. I used to grind the beans at the shops where I bought the beans, sometimes it would be too coarse and other times too fine so I would want to grind it myself. I saw the grinder below and was wondering if this would do the job or would I be wasting my money?

Had the same experience as you, I always thought my shorts were fine until I bought a pair of bibs for longer rides. I only ride with bibs now, the shorts just feels too loose to fit comfortably.

Saw one this afternoon, looked painful as hell and dust everwhere!! Kudos to the riders on Saturday for navigating down safely.

I didn't know that, I never see them around and just sort of assumed that they aren't available here.

I noticed on Saturday quite a few DT Swiss forks being used and even some high-end Suntour forks, why aren't these available in South Africa? Surely these forks would be good for getting more competitive prices on forks.

Some Pictures I took of the Woman's and Men's Elite Races.

So we should be able to pick up some great deals in the Classifieds on Scott Spark's with everyone jumping ship to Spez... The races were epic though!! wish we had more of these type of events.

Quite a few people ahead of the previous men's record, conditions must be perfect this year.

Thanks just checking.

Been dot watching non-stop, but I do have a question. What happens when some of the tags are transparent, I've seen this happen a few times?

Can we perhaps get some names to know which dots to look out for, followed this thread and the race from last year. Good excuse not to work at the office. Good luck to everyone participating, massive respect to even attempting this.

Daily deal on camelbaks on Takealot https://sport.takealot.com/sport-camelbak-classic-2-5-litre-blue-black/PLID44772022

I have a set of 3x8 shifters, there are some other bits as well. If you are interested, just send me a pm.

Thank you for the input. Will have a look at all the options you mentioned.

I want to venture a bit into some macro photography, what would be the most inexpensive method to do this? how good is macro filters? Is it at all possible to get some used manual focus macro lenses? Certainly this would cost less than a macro lens. I have a canon crop sensor dslr (700d)