Me rida my bicycle Posted June 24, 2020 Share The perfect perfect day for a ride! Worked little later yesterday to finish up and to be able to ride today! Frosty, Pikey, Duane_Bosch and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyronLab Posted June 25, 2020 Share Had a business trip to Kathu for a few days, decided to make lemonade and take my bike along, super glad I did! Managed to get two sunset rides in (which is weird to me as I always ride in the mornings). Have you ever flown over something or some place and though "I'd really rike to ride there one day"? Well I did, and you should. Even though the "view" and subsequent planned photo was a bit of a let-down (a solar panel farm is much less sci-fi and much more industrial than my internal optimist envisioned), it was awesome to actually take the time and make the effort and do something outside of your comfort zone just for fun. Now that I've done some proper sinkplaatpad with the Hulkbuster I'm even more driven to try the Munga out (initally the Grit this year at least). Look, not exactly the most technically challenging riding or any elevation to speak of, but there's something about the arid red landscape, absolute silence, clear skies and infinite view that's alluring. Zatopek, DJR, SwissVan and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted June 25, 2020 Share Brunchtime Zatopek, BenReaper, capediver and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveno7 Posted June 25, 2020 Share odd cycling week....little power....but good to do a bit of single track etc....local trails can be a bit tech at times....but it was very enjoyable in places.. Redrush, Zatopek, DJR and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capediver Posted June 25, 2020 Share Sampling the local pavé Zatopek, Pikey, TyronLab and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ouzo Posted June 25, 2020 Share no where, not even to work. Have been experiencing some knee pain off the bike over the last few weeks, was mainly going up stairs that I felt it, but this week it is alot more often and its going up and down stairs, and then during yesterdays commute it was hurting on the bike, something its not done before. Since my commute takes me over a 5%avg climb that takes me around 4 minutes to climb that opportunity to take it easy is not there, so I've parked the bike for a few days to give the knee some rest. Frosty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotSoBigBen Posted June 25, 2020 Share 'New' bike day... The 'new' old green at Thaba is pretty cool, a couple of nice changes and additions! Cause I know a guy I have that cool cover for the FD mount spot... Pikey, SwissVan, daveno7 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJR Posted June 25, 2020 Share Sampling the local pavé Constantia Neck to Newlands on the gravel bike is pretty adventurous. capediver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSG Posted June 25, 2020 Share Had a business trip to Kathu for a few days, decided to make lemonade and take my bike along, super glad I did! Managed to get two sunset rides in (which is weird to me as I always ride in the mornings). Have you ever flown over something or some place and though "I'd really rike to ride there one day"? Well I did, and you should. Even though the "view" and subsequent planned photo was a bit of a let-down (a solar panel farm is much less sci-fi and much more industrial than my internal optimist envisioned), it was awesome to actually take the time and make the effort and do something outside of your comfort zone just for fun. 20200622_172047-01.jpg 20200622_172153-01.jpg Now that I've done some proper sinkplaatpad with the Hulkbuster I'm even more driven to try the Munga out (initally the Grit this year at least). Look, not exactly the most technically challenging riding or any elevation to speak of, but there's something about the arid red landscape, absolute silence, clear skies and infinite view that's alluring. 20200622_171107-01.jpg 20200622_171538-01.jpgAre you running +size tyres or is it just the photo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyronLab Posted June 26, 2020 Share Are you running +size tyres or is it just the photo? Yup, those are 29x3.0 monsters. They're handling exactly the way I wanted them too, but a little more polarizing than I thought they would be. I.e, they're even better on the dirt than I expected them to be (those tiny knobs grip soos 'n drol op 'n wol kombers), but they're also worse on tar than I expected them to be. I can compensate for the bad tar performance by upping the pressure a bit, but that compromises the dirt performance, so i just ride off road more BSG, Calton, Redrush and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTBeer Posted June 26, 2020 Share any of you clever CT guys know if offices are open to renew Activity Cards? Kirstenbosch or Tokai? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capediver Posted June 26, 2020 Share Constantia Neck to Newlands on the gravel bike is pretty adventurous. It wasn't horrible!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A610kmr09bI DJR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozzie NL Posted June 26, 2020 Share Had a business trip to Kathu for a few days, decided to make lemonade and take my bike along, super glad I did! Managed to get two sunset rides in (which is weird to me as I always ride in the mornings). Have you ever flown over something or some place and though "I'd really rike to ride there one day"? Well I did, and you should. Even though the "view" and subsequent planned photo was a bit of a let-down (a solar panel farm is much less sci-fi and much more industrial than my internal optimist envisioned), it was awesome to actually take the time and make the effort and do something outside of your comfort zone just for fun. 20200622_172047-01.jpg 20200622_172153-01.jpg Now that I've done some proper sinkplaatpad with the Hulkbuster I'm even more driven to try the Munga out (initally the Grit this year at least). Look, not exactly the most technically challenging riding or any elevation to speak of, but there's something about the arid red landscape, absolute silence, clear skies and infinite view that's alluring. 20200622_171107-01.jpg 20200622_171538-01.jpgLet me guess....in mining supplies??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beattbox Posted June 26, 2020 Share any of you clever CT guys know if offices are open to renew Activity Cards? Kirstenbosch or Tokai?Tokai office is still closed until next month. Not sure about Kirstenbosch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyronLab Posted June 26, 2020 Share Let me guess....in mining supplies??? I'm not quite sure why you'd go there if not for work... For a mine... If you aren't there to supply the mine, you're supplying a supplier of the mine. For those that haven't had the pleasure of experiencing the sprawling metropolis of Kathu yet, below gives some scale. Blue is the entirety of the town of Kathu (including golf course), green is just the one mine that it's there for. Look, its an impressively large hole in the ground, and they dig 70% iron content iron ore out there (the actual rock looks like cast iron). Edited June 26, 2020 by TyronLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTBeer Posted June 26, 2020 Share Tokai office is still closed until next month. Not sure about Kirstenbosch.I heard something about a 3 month extension if your card expires during lockdown. Do you know anything about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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