Reme Le Hane

I just connect my Garmin to the Wattbike, you can ANT+ pair the watch with the wattbike as a Speed/Cadence sensor. Bottom middle of the screen you will see in ID, look for that sensor, pair and all watt bike data comes to your watch. I was connected my Fennix 5 to both the bike and an external HR at the same time, not sure if all support that.

Picked up my shoes and finally after like 5 or 6 weeks on order Leatt decided it was time to grace SA with some stock.

She is a stunner hey, big ups mate, may she give many a happy mile...

Overgaaw wine estate for STBB4GOOD MTB Challenge. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo5_kcVhvqZ

Lolz... Next week I am planning on getting a pair of Freerider Pros

Isn't 300 the smallest goal they assign?

So whats your goal, I'm tryna do the math as I am assuming you had a race today, only way to make more than 300 points which is the minimum goal...

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According to a fellow runner I know, you don't even need to carry on. He also has an HR strap, he said he tested it more as a joke, pulled out a jump rope, got his HR up to 80% and took it off, sat down and had a beer. Still got his 300 points. There are down-sides to owning a fennix then, damned HR is perma attached, although I should test it one day and see what it does if I remove the watch from my arm.

I can edit all my garmin workouts too. Have edited a few, but those were either well after they had been sent to disco or ones that would not have counted anyway.

One of my favourite related quotes was from Dody on GMBN, "Only a rich man buys cheap tools", same applies for gear. As we say in SA "Goed koop goed koop, is duur koop".

At the end of the day, if you talking R1200 for a pair of skater shoes that "work well" then why not just bother spending the extra R800 on a pair of proper purpose designed shoes. MTB shoes will be warrantied against MTB related issues, I ride them for a month and the soles gone they will give me a new pair, skate shop will tell me to f*ck off. Sure, that is unlikely to happen, but I rather spend an extra R800 and know I am buying something for the correct purpose, will be covered if something does go wrong when used for the intended purpose than risk throwing away 1200 bucks on something apparently almost as good. I spent 40k on a bike, pedals are over a grand, my saddle is also over a grand, why start counting pennies on the foot ware. You spend a small fortune getting your bike perfect for you and then all of a sudden the shoes are too expensive. If you have shoes lying around that work, sure, but if you actively leave the house to go spend money then you may as well spend that money on the correct thing

I googled upside down, with the exceptions of a few 510s on sale, the 2f0 and 5ten are pretty much the same price give or take. I could only find 1 online store that listed Ion and they only carried the 1 clipless shoe.

Useful info, I don't expect these shoes to lat much longer anyway, they have 1000km of running on them already. They are also quite wide so there is a pretty decent overlap on the outside of the pedal. I have a pair of Scott Metrix here as well, as far as I can tell if I take the cleat off they should also work, and they very comfortable.

They look soo out of place against the black and red frame, but was a pretty good ride. Hanger told me at least to start, put on a pair of trainers until I fully commit and then a pair of 5tens. Fortunately I am a trail runner so have a pair of Saucony peregrines with a pretty broken body but dn tread left, so the useless for running but felt very stable on today's test ride. Have already moved the clip-less pedals to my older hard tail.

Fortunately giving up is not in my personality matrix, especially after spending a grand on pedals. Put the clips back on for like XC races, like k2c next year. Which is what first prompted me to order the flats, the manual going wrong while trying to learn to manual. Being clipped in, off your seat, front wheel off the floor and the bike falling left is not fun. Pondering if I need to add shin guards to the knee guards order...

Decide after 3 years, on and off of ridding it's well overdue to get into those basics, first bike came with clips and ridden that way ever since. To this day I can still not wheelie, bunny hop, manual or nolie. May or may not be true, but I feel it would be easier to learn on flats, and from what I have seen in many YouTube videos, clipless can lead to wrong form for some of those basics. Going to ride some unknown trails tomorrow, so will swap these out Sunday and work my way into a flat riding life. See how it goes...

I just went in and had 2, maybe it's still coming or maybe they have one of the worst apps ever made...

Simple, don't install the insure app. Don't get your driving tracked, don't get points for driving, don't get extra rewards for the driving points.

I would say relative to salary, 2 years ago earning less than half of what I do now it was expensive, now on the other hand I have 2 bikes hanging in my garage, 1 of which costs more than my motorbike. A lot of things surrounding it can still easily be considered pricey regardless of income, but at this point in my life its a lot less painful buying a R1000 shorts or a R2000 helmet, the later obviously being the more nb. lol Think it can also be considered a value aspect, if you really enjoy something you are more willing to spend money on it as regardless of the expense. So it becomes a perception of expense. When I got my new bike a few months ago I thought nothing of getting a Spark 930 for 38k down from 55k, pretty much everyone in my social circle thought I was off my rocker, for them it is an expense but for me its a way to have more fun on awesome trails and score a great deal on a great bike. By no means saying a 40k bike is cheap, but it was an amount of money I could justify as I knew it would have long standing value.

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Depends on how they tracking it, I know a good 12 or so years ago the machines were actually hooked up to the cards so your treadmill session and such logged automatically into the Vitality dashboard. Maybe they planning some rubbish like that, how they would track a lifting session however is another story, when I last used virgin, it was not for the treadmill

I got passed by at least 3 and did not bother me, but each to his own. Think motorbike is still a stretch, while it does contain a motor, you are still required to pedal, it cannot "drive" on it's own. At the same time, within in reason I would argue it is inclusion, there are people out there with physical disabilities that would be unable to MTB without the assist, pretty sure none of them passed me on the race, but still. The class B e-bikes can more easily be classified as a motorbike as it has a top speed of 45, cant recall if that was mph or kph, but either way in EU and USA to ride those you actually require a motorcycle licence. Those have not yet been shipped to SA, the class A we have tops out at 25, but **** on a course like that, you looking at some serious pro speeds. I can imagine the frustration for you though, being in batch C and getting passed by a rider who quite literally had a 20min time disadvantage on you. There are some races allowing them, it is strange that a CSA race did as CSA does not allow this and any even organiser hosting a CSA sanctioned event assumes any and ALL responsibility for the e-Bikes and any accidents that they may have/cause. Those are not covered by CSA insurance.

I grabbed myself a pair of Scott metrix which are also bloody nice.

Their car insurance was rubbish, but I have not yet found a better rate on the life insurance, but everyone's rating factors differ. I know a few who get good benefits from investments, but I have no intentions of getting an RA and that's the only discovery investment that has any vitality related benefits. I don't fly opfetn enough or plan far ahead enough to use flight booster. I get most of my benefits without trying, so I'm lucky that way. I looked into their credit card too, and compared with eBucks for me it's rubbish, way harder to get benefits and much higher costs.