Mamil

ha ha - I'm talking about the trails at !Khwa ttu Nature Reserve outside Yzerfontein and wondering if they are the same as the fossil park trails mentioned - that and thumbs too big for this stupid virtual keyboard.

Is this the trail at !kwa thu? Ornis tjere another one?

Absolutely correct.

Patronising

The illegal immigrant idea raises its head in this discussion because as the level of dysfunction in a society increases and as the rules that govern reasonable behaviour disintegrate, groups of people require an out group to provide a simple explanatory model as to why this is happening and a way of addressing the crisis. "The reason things are bad is that tjere are too many of those people here. The solutions is to eliminate those people so that order can be restored". This process has repeated itself in innumerable historical contexts and is currently playing itself out on a global scale with catastrophic consequences and with worse to come. In our country, the labelling of people and groups of people as illegal has a recent and devastating history and so imo should be dealt with sensitivity. In all cases from previous war Germany, to present day USA, to the right wing rhetoric emerging in Europe as well as inntje topic under discussion here (road safety with particular reference to vulnerable road users) the problems are the result of complex interaction between structural, economic and political issues and are largely unresolvable from within the systems that spawn them. Hence the need for "an other". It is one of the darkest and most dangerous aspects of our nature. It also, paradoxically, if you follow the worktop yuval harari and others is one of the social mechanisms we use to unite groups in pursuit of collective endeavour. Edit. I ÷/÷× hate cell phone keyboards

Im all in favour of law and order but how many of us remember when the set of all things illegal included inter alia having sex with someone from a different race group, quoting Nelson Mandela .... Illegal immigration is too complex a topic for this discussion. Worth noting of the 682 cars that passed me on today's ride, my first half peninsula loop since the most recent fatality here in CT, the only close.pass was from one-of the descendents of the first wave of illegal immigrants to our shores.

If it's like that rainy one a few years back I seriously might just settle in at the race village with a bottle of Obies and supply of boerie rolls

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2026-04-28-the-most-vulnerable-road-users-are-the-least-protected-that-must-change/?dm_source=blocks-list-item&dm_medium=card-link&dm_campaign=inform PPA having something useful to to say

That's horrible!!

I did the 200 miler in 2024 and would like to do it again this year but it doesn't seem to be on offer

Ah right. OK scratch that OP

What's your youtube channel

Im 190 and ride an xl trek mtb so at 193 you are probably on tthe right bike size. It is worth getting a bikefit donenif you feel uneasynon the bike. An radically improve tje experience and stave off injury too. As another thing to check.... When you are on tthe bike how far into the travel of your fork do you go? There should be a rubber ring on the stanchion you can use to check how much the fork compresses when you are riding. If a little noodle down tje road and back is.compressing the fork by more than about 20 to 30 percent then put more air in tthe fork. Think the marlin has an air fork?

Please stop using chat GPT to write blurb ... race looks tempting though

I recently sold a car to we ..... cars - it was completely buggered - (minor fender bender issues, torn leather upholstery AND a fault in the central control box which intermittently discharged the battery and which only the agents could fix for 40k.) Car 15 years old, book value of 80K. I disclosed every single fault to them in detail, would have taken X for the car, was offered 1.5 times X which I took and converted into (another) bicycle. I would sell to we......cars again but there is not a snowball's chance I would buy from them. PS: If they offer you a 15 year old Honda at a cheap price .... don't.

Also massive changes in traffic management (discouraging cars) and cycling infrastructure in Paris I read

"While it is not sustainable .... ", makes me chuckle, a somewhat bitter chuckle, more irony laced growl than a laugh.

Don't mind a bit of shameless self promotion - this is the latest vid

Thanks - Ja that's a good idea - I suppose I've ridden those roads so often I just take it as read. Drone is a DJI Neo 2 which is a truly miraculous piece of tech

When I grow up I want to be like @capediver

Excellent advice. I see thise kids often. Gave one of them a choob a while back. I remember thinking he looked terrified of me. Hope the ppa can do something here. Please let us know

One day when I'm big

That really does look like a medical issue - a sudden veering to the left, no effort to correct, no brake light. Doesn't look like he registered the sudden change of direction at all.

You mean one of those rear view mirrors i see some other mamils have on their handlebars. So you can see just how fast the mofo in his Q12 or x19 or whatever is coming up behind?

Also no sticker and a bunch of snaps .... most of which leave me thinking "Who's that hoary old hill giant". I joked the other day that as a young person I didn't think I was particularly good looking / borderline ugly. Now in my late middle age, and actually do look like a worn our tennis ball, I walk around feeling pretty confident about my physical appearance and I look at pictures of the younger man I was and think "Wow you looked fantastic". Life is full of these quirks.