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Jehosefat

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  1. ^ second method is a bit iffy with metric rulers though. 24 rivets should be 304.8mm and you should replace if the measurement is more than 306.3mm (for 0.5% stretch, but 306.4 is the conversion of 12 1/16")
  2. Personally I've always found it to be very optimistic. My 5 and 10km PBs are slower than the Garmin predicted times and after both of those efforts I was completely done. Basically lay down and curled up in the fetal position and tried not to vomit so I could not have gone much faster yet I was still 2 - 3 minutes slower than the predicted times.
  3. Just because you expect something to last for a certain amount of time does not mean that it will. Everything will fail at some point and even the same items will not fail at the same time, some will fail early and others will last for ages. If any of your appliances/gadgets etc. fail outside of the warrantee period the manufacturer is very unlikely to replace or repair it for free. So why are you picking on Garmin specifically here? Never had any other item that you bought fail?
  4. As I recall the 242 and 243 are basically the same but the 243 has better oil resistance.
  5. I did a bike tour a bit south of there in September last year and the roads were very corrugated with a lot of thick sand. Two of the okes on the tour had gravel bikes and they kakked off hard. If the gravel roads for the race are anything like the others in the Tankwa I would definitely recommend a dual suss over a gravel bike.
  6. CSA are just determined to shoot themselves in the foot at every opportunity. Been like this for years
  7. About 2 years ago, when I just started dating my fiance and she'd just started riding, we went on a road ride around the cradle. Her on her road bike and me on my enduro bike because she said she wasn't very fit yet. My enduro bike has DHR IIs front and back. We averaged 23km/h and my heart rate averaged 161. Two weeks later I took my other bike which had Ikons front and back. Same route, averaged 22km/h but my average HR was only 127. Now granted the other bike is a bit lighter but it's not that much lighter so the vast majority of that difference must be the tyres. To add a bit of context, my enduro bike is a Canyon Strive so it has on-the-fly adjustable geometry that makes the geometry very similar to the Scott Spark that is my other bike (when in the Climb position) as well as firming up the rear shock and reducing the travel at the back to 130mm. So it's doubtful that the geometry or suspension played much of a role either.
  8. Correct, the frame and geometry have stayed the same. They've only updated the frame and geometry recently (2022 models).
  9. Easiest is to book your bike with one of the companies that ship it down. You drop it off with them the week before somewhere up in Joburg. Then you collect it at the start the day before or the morning of the race and drop it off with them again at the finish. And collect it back up in Joburg a week later. I've used Elliott for the last few CTCTs and have no complaints and zero hassles.
  10. Early bird "special" entries are open for next year. R625 does not feel like a special price to me... ????
  11. Or you can just have a rapid antigen test. Takes 15 minutes.
  12. I do love it when the English lose. At anything.
  13. How do you figure that? If you were climbing at less than 25km/h at any time on your non-e-bike then being on an e-bike will up your average speed because you can hold basically the same speed on the downs and flats on either bike.
  14. Yeah, at the speeds these guys do 0.1s is usually about 1m at the finish line so 300mm sounds about right for that time gap.
  15. The 2 vs 4 pot doesn't matter either. As far as I am aware the Shimano 2 and 4 pot calipers use the same levers (at least Deore, SLX and XT do, not sure about Saint).
  16. Did my first 30 minute ride 32 days after the first symptoms but then I struggled, only managed 1 - 2 short, easy rides a week because at some point during most rides my heart rate would just shoot up for no reason and I'd stop the ride and take a few days off before trying again. Managed to start doing more consistent training about about 3-4 weeks after that and only got back to full training about a month after that (which was only a few weeks ago). Fitness and FTP are still way down on where I was before I caught the bug.
  17. Issue is that the vaccine does not appear to significantly inhibit transmission of COVID but rather prevents serious illness. (e.g. Israel has one of the highest vaccination rates but in the last few weeks also had one of the highest per-capita infection rates as well).
  18. Apparently Morris made himself unavailable for selection ????‍♂️
  19. What about all the "flying objects" that never made it out of prototype stage? XB-70 Valkyrie comes to mind. Only 2 built, both had serious in flight incidents with 1 crashing and killing all aboard. 50% f**ked rate. Edit: I see the crash only killed 2 of 3 crew members.
  20. I'm pretty sure you have to use ERG mode to do a ramp test properly...
  21. Thanks for the responses all. Looks like I should go for a compressor and a HVLP or LVLP spray gun... at some point in the future when I have money again.
  22. Wine rack build complete ???? Now to try and fill it. Also, for future reference, trying to stain it using a paintbrush after assembly was a nightmare. Need to get a compressor and spray gun or find some better method. Any recommendations?
  23. Yeah, I'm in Joburg. I'm told its a lovebird ????‍♂️ We have about 6 of them that frequent our garden.
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