MintSauce

Thanks for the help guys. Will give them a call this morning. Much appreciated!

I'm not there. I'm in CPT. How close is the one at Dunkeld? What's it called?

Can anyone please recommend a bikeshop in that area? I'm in Cape Town and need something taken care of today. Thanks!

I was, funnily enough, quite dissapointed with Follow Me. Coming from the guys that made up The Collective(less one member), I felt it slipped away from the originality that The Collective movies brought to action movies and became more of the 'just guys doing big stunts' crowd. I got a bit bored with that at the end :-)

And wrt the timing, the ticket said 7pm start, but the website clearly stated 7pm for 8:30pm screening

Just to clarify, the food is for sale and not sponsored as was the case with the Follow Me screening last year. Have to say that I was blown away by the movie. If you didn't enjoy it then you just don't have an appreciation for brilliant cinematography and editing. No offence intended btw. To each his own. I felt the trailers and fillers were all relevant and highly enjoyable. R65 was a bargain IMHO.

Saw this bike recently. Trying to figure out what it is. It's wearing Bianchi stickers, but I'm not sure that's correct. The bike is made from steel aero-shaped tubing including aero seatpost. The headset is a Tange Aero as well. Any ideas whether this is actually a Bianchi?

I believe I said "Tried earlier tonight to pay and after logging in there's no option anywhere to do so."

We received an email on Thursday confirming acceptance into the adventure. Tried earlier tonight to pay and after logging in there's no option anywhere to do so. Am I missing something? Entry status says 'Waiting List'. Is this normal for people that have supposedly been accepted? Help please!

I'm looking for an old Shimano 600 or Dura Ace groupset, if anyone knows of anything or has one lying around. MUST be downtube shifters, 8spd and in the case of 600/Ultegra can be either the tri-colour or earlier silver group. Wheels not essential. Thanks!

I'm in need of a seatpost. Looking for a 26.8mm. While I wouldn't mind a nice old school Campy unit, anything will do right now. Let me know if anyone has anything. Thanks.

And just as a matter of interest, how's this for clearance?

I doubt she'd be too keen. Besides, how is she going to cook my dinner down there? Crank is a Zeus Pista 165mm, fitted with a 42th ring off a similar vintage Zeus road crank I have.

I'm no good with a camera so the pic doesn't do it justice, but thought I'd update anyway. Still need to get a nice seatpost and polish up the frame a little. This thing makes me so happy. The girlfriend doesn't appreciate me sitting in the lounge staring at it, so I've moved it to the garage. Might stick a bed in here....what more does a guy need?

Stumbled across this beauty on Friday. Made my week. I think late sixties or early seventies Pogliaghi Pista in chrome. Can't wait to get it built up so I can ride it!

Beautiful. Been lusting after one of those Colnago frames with the straight fork. One day *sigh*

That's probably got more to do with speed than the wetness of the course. I was muddier than any of my friends who rode the XC course. As we were leaving, after the finish of the sub-vets race at 1pm, two funriders finished(4hrs for 35km) and they were the cleanest people we saw all day. Having said that, I don't doubt that the XC course was properly soggy. It was already bad when we rode it Saturday and percentage-wise probably wetter than the funride. I guess the funride route just seemed worse to me because in my mind the fairly short XC course just doesn't seem as bad as the sheer amount of mud we dealt with in 35km. But as stated before, I enjoyed it. I love the way the bike behaves and gets all skittish in the wet and relish the challenge of hitting technical sections at speed and then trying to stay upright. Lots of heart-in-mouth moments :-)

Agreed it would have been nice, but seeing as the organizers do these events for love and not money, I think they need all the support they can get. With that in mind, the lack of a bikewash is a non-issue to me personally. Bud, I rode this and of the 35km route about 25km was through sloppy mud....I kid you not!

There was a large dam and a fairly decent stream right at the start. Either that or wash it when you get home. It's not the organizer's responsibility to keep your bike clean. Does your mother still pack your lunch for you? Muddy as hell but I had loads of fun.

My Chris King hubs are 6 or 7 years old. Can't remember anymore. They're still on the original bearings. The sealed bearings themselves are serviceable. The wheels have been serviced 3 times in that time. Combine that with the ringdrive mechanism(as opposed to ratchet and pawl) in the freewheel and you have a set of hubs that will last you 20 years.

Yes it is prudent. Yes it is cheaper. You could also do it a month in advance and you'll be just fine. Fact. Bye.

The fact is that a town built to deal with millions of skiers every year is not going to be stretched by a few thousand riders. The annual figures for bike riders are dwarfed by the ski-figures. I was there during Crankworx, which is by far the busiest time in the biking season. My accommodation venue was half-full and the lift lines were like 20mins. And then you just stay up in the Garbanzo zone on the top half of the mountain where it's quieter. My point was simply that your claim of having to book a year in advance is overly dramatized. Nonetheless, thanks for the sarcasm.

Campy vs Shimano...?

Apparently they can also make you pregnant. True story. It would be interesting to see a comparison. I think it would do well. While it could win I don't think it will be the cause of a win. To me personally, neither is faster. It's more about a slightly different feel to the rider in certain conditions. I should clarify to the other peeps on this thread that I like 29ers but as long as I'm too poor to afford more than one bike, it will likely always be a 26er. My point is just that all the marketing BS combined with all these wet-dreaming, know-nothings(a marketing man's golden egg) and the misinterpreted facts about 29ers that they gush at the trailhead make me want to vomit. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BIKE(that's one thing LA wasn't lying about) Do you mean to say that the trails overseas would automatically be uni-directional? If you are, you are wrong. In the bikeparks they're all uni-directional. In fact, there are signs saying "Do not ride uphill. Park privileges will be revoked" However, on every single trail outside the park the trails are multi-directional and IMBA rules apply. I.O.W, uphill rider has right of way. Don't even try not stopping and just squeezing by an uphill rider while descending cos you'll get an earful. Tokai is not a bikepark, simply a network of trails in a specific area. But let's not get off-topic....just thought I'd clarify since you brought it up And you really don't need to book a year in advance, not even if you wanted to go during Crankworx

Build courses that are more suited to 29ers? What a load of crap. Perhaps the large proportion of riders in this country(be it 26er, 29er, 96er whatever) should stop throwing money at their problems(ie not winning the middle distance at the local funride ) and just ride their bloody bikes