Mamil

IT is rough for sure - pavement riding when you on the interchange and once on my way back from an ultra training ride on a Sunday evening just at dusk a guy made a move - I was lucky cos I spotted his intent early and my bunny hop off the pavement was possible because there were no cars and my light fortuitously dazzled him and I got away. That having been said I think it might be safer than the alternatives but sill interested in what those who commute it regularly say.

I don't commute that direction but have been avoiding marine drive as a workaround route for some time now - interested to hear other's experience of it - if I'm riding out that way I take my chances at the koeberg interchange and take the long way around. Gotta chuckle at the city sending me an endless stream of invitations to comment on their traffic management plan etc etc all the while for years now the solution is right under their noses.

Your "DIY retard" made me chuckle - I walked into the bike shop the other day and the guy said "BAck so soon - you been playing with the wrenches again" cos I'm always walking in there and asking them to fix something I've F443ed up.

I was thinking ooh yes ... then I realised I'm now 56 so I'm not eligible - I wonder if there's a 56 to 60 SA record

... new bike day is when?

Manufacturer says 100 percent it will fit

It is that ja.. But If am ever run down like so any of us have been I want anyone who knew me and any hubber who feels so inclined to use the footage to have the perp prosecuted and punished and his fate publicised.

Every morning I stand on the corner of Liesbeek parkway waiting to cross on my 2km gravel bike commute to my work space and marvel at how the lunacy that is the motor car's dominance is normal. To me one the things tht riding is, is an act of resistance. I hope to all the powers that I am not one of the innumerable lives that the cars claim in car accidents, pedestrian fatalities and cycling tragedies but I'm not willing to give it up. That having been said, I train indoors more than I used to - partly because of time but a long outdoor bike ride, on road, gravel or mountain is an essential ingrediant of the good life for me

@JbrI have the RTL715 - IT works BUT - even recording at 1080P it needs good light to capture a numberplate - in lower light conditions like dawn and dusk it's capture of images crisp enough to see the registration is hit and miss, trending towards the miss side. There used to be a traffic department web page a couple of years back where you could upload images and video of infringements - I did so 3 or 4 times using gopro and dashcam footage and got zero response from that. I find it very discouraging. I also share your experience that things are getting worse on the road - the "There was a car coming the other way" is the ubiquitous response and incredulity when you point out that the correct thing to do in those circs is NOT TO OVERTAKE until it's safe. I use the camera even though it's flawed. One idea I've had is to appeal to all owners to upload clips of dangerous driving and to edit them together into a reel of potential disaster and send it to the PPA or something because ... well it feels like we ought to be able to do something. I suspect though that, despite the stream of pie-in-the-sky policy documents produced by people who I'm pretty sure haven't ridden a bike or caught a train in decades that emanate from the city, we are f2rting against the proverbial thunder of the internal combustion engine's dominance of public space. Aluta continua muthafookas

Ah love you oom @ChrisF... teach me to skim read. Many thanks!

Does anyone have one of these karooracks - - if so - can you tell me length of the beam that extends from the 50mm port - specifically - does it extend far enough out from the chassis to clear the spare tyre on a 5 door Jimny

Informal probes via friends showed city appetite for this was low. Of course we can have an aeroplane trailing a banner for a strip joint / brothel and online gambling over the city. That's completely in order and copaesthetic. Meanwhile they release another pie in the sky transport demand strategy that looks like it was pumped out by chat gpt2

I think these numbers might have had something to do with it

How many start groups are thereat the one tonner on Sunday I'm nowhere near fit enough to join where I'm seeded so looking at doing ti gently in one of the late groups - anyone know how far down the alphabet it goes this year?

Damn ja... Forgot how expensive it is

Erm ... am I the only one (not in the race) who thinks, hmmm, interesting, could be lekker.... ... maybe next year

So what would we all be willing to pay for that 400k pogi bike?

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I use assorted magic chamois cream

Meet halfway ja!

I LOVE that!

An update - the surplus funds will today be paid to Danilo's widow (Danilo was the mechanic at Olympic who died in Claremont after being "doored" into the path of traffic). The Olympic guys, who have also collected money for her, tells me she is in Mozambique and our modest contribution is enough to pay for 2 months of groceries, so it made a (small) difference. Good job and thanks for mobilising us and all the work and organisation this took @Zebra

I bat good? I cycle good? I swim good? Actually I swim quite bad. factually though it is all patently untrue as I'm distinctly ... well, average. I don't cycle bold, I cycle bald ...

The First ascent advert on the landing page tells me I'll only perform as good as I feel. So in the interests of keeping things honest and perhaps lively 'cos the hub is flat as a pancake without the controversies that animate heated internet trolling and argument, I'd like to point out that we don't perform "good". Good is the adjective - the adverb is "well" but then the advert doesn't work so.... We will just bend the language. "You'll only perform as well as you feel". Which is cr@p anyway 'cos when I'm gasping for air and my legs are burning I don't feel good or well. Standards people. It reminds me of the food lover's market in Claremont that used to feature TS Eliot's line "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons" in their windows to advertise cappuccino completely ignorant that the line actually refers to the stale ennui of a man at middle age. Which might be what's motivating this post ... except I'm older than middle age. I'll have another coffee. All good and well

Unfortunately not. A lot depends on your definition of decent and what kind of riding you want to do but you should probably budget a little more than that. I saw a second hand Trek marlin (a very entry level hard tail mtb) for 7k the other day.