Sharkie 2

They are selling the new 2011 road bicycles,will have aluminium and carbon options

Scott is going to rock the market this year and with the bicycles and models they are importing you can see they put thought into what works for SA. The whole range looks awesome and the top range bicycles are mout watering, they are going to be priced to kill

Probike not bringing the Genius to SA only duals will be Sparks,29er only hardtails as well, scale 50 and 70 only bikes that have landed so far

You can see who is the true cyclists and people with values responding here, luckily Lance never attacked like this otherwise he would definitely be branded for this as well as he is a supposed doper

He was suppose to wait its an unwritten rule in cycling....bad sportmanship

They are compatible with each other

The licensing fee is to see how many registered cycling participants our country has because goverment base their funding towards a sport based on registered numbers at a national sporting body. Cycling is curently a level c sport we can easily get to level a where rugby and soccer is. Unfortunately you need to be part of a club to be licensed but that is a UCI regulation

Dis Afrika nou vir jou, kamer lyk heel goed

If your LBS can service it have them give you a quote otherwise send your fork to Ruan at Spokeworx he is situated in Midrand

Funny you mention that it will kill jobs but you don't think about the jobs lost locally because of the purchases on CRC it goes both ways this debate will continue to go on and on until verdict is served.I refuse to purchase anything from them purely because I have loyalty from my bike shop and have a relationship with them.

Thanks Jaco you at least see the point, bicycle shops don't do million rand turn overs and rental space is expensive. Still most people replying don't understand CRC supplies the world so their purchases are huge, for those that say the motorcycle and car industry has small profits....my whole family is in the car industry their mark ups are the same as the cycling industry

Its got nothing to do with their health its got to do with volumes our suppliers are limited to be able to purchase, our active cyclists in our country compaired to them is obviously lower because we are a smaller country.

What has happened to innocent until proven guilty? Plus just remember our local suppliers can't compete with the amount of purchases CRC does to be able to offer those prices. I read an interesting statistic the other day on the internet, Texas sells more Trek bicycles in one month than we do in the whole of SA in a year, and the whole of Africa represents a mere 1% of GT's global sales

Hubbers at the end of the day LBS's are a business and in business your idea is to make a profit, heck the bike industry has some of the lowest mark ups in the retail industry, the food industry has alot higher mark up go check by how much food prices go up each year. All the other industries also have to be checked in my opinion

I can guarantee you that was one big sale that went through, no ways a bicycle shop will do sales like that everyday. 80/20 principle my friend

Ok so a shop does a R200000 turnover with an average mark-up 0f 35% that gives them a profit of R70 000. They then still have to pay salaries, say its R25000(for four employees)which is ridiculous. Rental for 200 square metre shop at R160 per square works out to R32000.00 again below market. Add operational costs to that for water, lights, telephone,internet, insurance etc. +- R5000. So that leaves R8000 profit or salary for the owner to survive on. For an average bicycle shop with start up costs of R1 000 000 its really a bad return on investment with allot of risks.

It can on a dual suspension

170mm on small and some medium bikes but generally from medium onwards its 175mm

Common place for these frames to crack

I prefer the Schwalbe but Maxis is good value for money

About R4000 on various things

Where can I purchase one of these boards? http://www.mtncycling.co.za/News/TopNewsItemsPerCommission.aspx?cname=Number%20Boards or at race registration where they use SAS Thanks

Where can I purchase one of these boards?

Must I buy my own SAS board or are you refering to the Spectrumsport boards we normally receive?

Do they use spectrumsport results for seeding?