Mamil

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I made a movie

Exactly those feelings. I watch the stream of speeding cars in the haze of the morning traffic and think about all the riders who have been killed and the 12k annual road deaths... How is this normal?.

Just a note of appreciation for the guys at www.180by2.co.za who absorbed the cost of a design flaw in a 360 camera and mount combination that Insta360 said was not part of the warranty but which was clearly the result of an incorrectly specced mount. Not the first time these guys have delivered great service and customer relations with me and I heartily recommend them.

A while back and prompted by one of the threads here about this I did some reading of academic papers on effects of clothing colour and reflectivity on incidence of "accidents" - I saved all the articles somewhere on a drive but as I recall there were several studies showing a reduction on incidence of accidents for certain brighter colours BUT those studies had methodological weaknesses and were contradicted by other studies - the evidence for effectiveness of colour / hi vis clothing choice is equivocal at best. There is a lot of research suggesting the strongest variables contributing to crashes is driver attention / pattern recognition and information processing and that several contextual variables mediate that. Also - the strongest cyclist side variable that we have control over is reflectors and lights on moving parts of the bike and body - pedals - legs - ankles. Interestingly safety products that do this are scarce. Edit - Also if natural selection really did select out arrogance the world would be a lot better place. I don't see it happening frankly - it looks to me that arrogance and self aggrandizement rule the world at present.

Sure you're just an oke like the rest of us muddling along trying to figure out what's the best way of not getting run over by a drunken BMW driver / lawless taxi / impatient myCiti bus / yummy mummy on a cell phone or in my case, how not to rip the seams of my overpriced bib-shorts as I haul them over my fat @ss, BUT .... By virtue of your position, your opinions carry more weight than my fat @ass and most of the other @sses on this forum

Maybe - on the other hand he hasn't sold his right to ride in the public space unharassed - he's paid for his performance on the bike and his endorsement of products - I don't think there's an implicit contract that we buy the sub from the corporates running the show and therefore we own access to his personal space when in public.

I'm a huge Ving fan - I like that he's quiet and somewhat shy, strikes me as an extreme introvert. When he waited for pog on that TdF stage a couple of years back it impressed me a lot, I doubt he was dicing this amateur - more likely he just wanted to be left alone and crashed because he was anxiously trying to get away. The rider I fanboy about is Mohoric - strikes me as a genuine guy.

Wannabe streetfighter sees a champion boxer and squares up to him.

So disappointed to be missing this due to a family commitment. Next year I will be there

With all due respect to your arse -- 9kmph up chappies is f@#@ing slow

I guarantee you're smaller than this 96,3kg (this morning's weigh in) mamil

Gear Change in Green Point is also renting bikes out.

As discussed elsewhere - the only semi viable route is from Milnerton market, through Paarden island (NOT ON THE CYCLE PATH) but on the service road alongside the main drag. Through Koeberg interchange and through to woodstock. It isn't safe but it is the most viable route at present

I would say that riding a bicycle has made you a better driver who understands the road and the conditions better and has humanised the situation thereby making you patient and considerate. Attributes that our road death stats show us are sorely lacking

Reminds me of some of the comments from south African motorists on news reports of the death this thread pertains to. Those articles featured a selfie lifted from his social media and some commenters saw fit to comment on the illegality of the picture. This conversation was closed down on the other thread because it couldn't be contained.

Are you always this rigid?

Strongly disagree

https://www.news24.com/opinions/columnists/opinion-cape-towns-cyclist-heaven-tag-under-lethal-threat-how-many-more-must-die-20260118-1080 Worth amplifying and commenting

For sure - still burns me that they made that new road, redid the existing stretch of Liesbee parkway, audited the traffic there, saw that it is the ONLY viable route into town for bicycles and was (is) heavily used by cyclists and did SFA to accommodate NMT. I rant internally like the old man I am every time I see it.

I've done that in reverse a few times riding back towards town - sometimes after gravel ride out to Darling - not my favourite section at all but as you say, at least legal

Jack Black (Jacques Swart) at Gravel and Tours should be able to help https://gravelandtour.co.za/product/profile-design-aero-tri-bar-accessories-risers-for-aerobars/

Just a note that cycling on N7 isn't legal - we all do it, myself included if I'm roadying that way - not legal but certainly as safe as other roads, maybe more so. To go on a bit about the gravel - if you have a gravel bike then you can take the Botterberg pad left at the far side of the N7 and from there the whole of the network to the north opens up - so that's Old Malmesbury Road as mentioned , 12km along there's a gravel connector through to the R302 - from there to Eenzaamheid ... I'll proselytize anyone into this kind of riding.

Cycle path in the south easter counts double on the way to town - half on the way back

Im not a local but the cycle path to milnerton will give you that distance. The r27 is out of the question. But if i were a resident i would get gravel bike because a short ride puts you on the gravel and farm roads to the north.