Australia - New Zealand - The Aussie thread. . . part cinq.

Touche ;)

I thought it was spelt with a D :p

So what are they worth?


I'm thinking of splashing out for the latest SSL's or the ES's if the budget permits....so I might be talked into parting with my SSC's (03's the originals)...rarely trained on...very good nick, shimano splined,....I could be talked into it for $550? (+ shipping)

I'm thinking of splashing out for the latest SSL's or the ES's if the budget permits....so I might be talked into parting with my SSC's (03's the originals)...rarely trained on...very good nick, shimano splined,....I could be talked into it for $550? (+ shipping)
So if i picked up a set of 05 SLs with a dura ace 10 speed cassette for $300....?

So nostrodamus, what's gonna happen tonite? Kloden? Rassmussen? Evans?

Don't think this stage suits the true climbers, more someone like vinny.... or .... EKIMOV

So if i picked up a set of 05 SLs with a dura ace 10 speed cassette for $300....?


....you wouldn't want mine!!!...the cassette alone is worth $180 new...you've done well there....either that or you've mugged some bloke!

So nostrodamus, what's gonna happen tonite? Kloden? Rassmussen? Evans?

Don't think this stage suits the true climbers, more someone like vinny.... or .... EKIMOV
nostrildamus predicts a medium sized group will take time from the main bunch, expect to see cadel, kloden, hincapie, popo, landis etc all up there....
Landis to lose time when the action heats up.
Kloden to be strong but wilt in the last ITT.

your thoughts?

....you wouldn't want mine!!!...the cassette alone is worth $180 new...you've done well there....either that or you've mugged some bloke!
*rubs baseball bat :D
A mate got them even cheaper and doesnt want them, he also doesnt want to profit greatly...

*rubs baseball bat :D
A mate got them even cheaper and doesnt want them, he also doesnt want to profit greatly...


ahh, what are mates for!!....one of mine sold me an EH Holden many years back......."barely run in".....bastard ***** itself about 10 minutes after I picked it up....never seen so much oil in one place....fair dinkum, JR Ewing woulda wanted to build a derrick on the spot on the road...........

nice buy Pshaw. i picked my elites new still in plastic for $500, but i think youve trumped me there!

Anyone else staying up tonight?
And how FREAKIN fast is Robbie?

nice buy Pshaw. i picked my elites new still in plastic for $500, but i think youve trumped me there!
Thanks, think your name is in todays paper GR?
Want me to keep it for the grandkids? Nice win....

I'm thinking of splashing out for the latest SSL's or the ES's if the budget permits....so I might be talked into parting with my SSC's (03's the originals)...rarely trained on...very good nick, shimano splined,....I could be talked into it for $550? (+ shipping)

Mine are the 03 SSC's as well. But with Campy. Checked out the latest SSL's with the red bling spoke the other day. Look pretty nice but for the same cash you could get some pretty sweet hand built puppies as thylo was saying....

Oh yeah...good get, pshaw - that's a killer Scottish deal :D

Hitchy, Soul-Kozak hubs with IRD Cadence rims and DT Supercomp spokes weigh in at about 1300g depending on how they're laced. I'd happily crash a set into you, if that's any indication :D

I can get Zipp404's for 2k Aussie if I can freight consolidate them. (ie: Ship them from overseas with other heavier stuff.)

I have to admit, if I could get them, I'd also be pimping Rolf Prima wheels. They are the kings of the prebuilt wheel world. Why they don't kill the Ksyrium farce is a complete mystery to me.

looks like Mayo will be coming home in the 'autobus' with the sprinters....what is it with Spanish climbers?, they promise so much, but rarely deliver (heras & the odd Vuelta accepted)

Maybe he hasn't been able to see his doctor...

......I have to admit, if I could get them, I'd also be pimping Rolf Prima wheels. They are the kings of the prebuilt wheel world. Why they don't kill the Ksyrium farce is a complete mystery to me.

My brother had some Rolfs a few years back & had no end of dramas with them. Weren't Primas tho...I think they were vectors or summit like that. Ended up trading them for some hand built Mavic rim/chorus hub jobs.

Sounds like Rolf might have got better since then.

Honchar' s going of the back too...Looked like he was pushing something like 39/25....& it gets steeper the last couple o' k's before the summit.

Hitchy, Soul-Kozak hubs with IRD Cadence rims and DT Supercomp spokes weigh in at about 1300g depending on how they're laced. I'd happily crash a set into you, if that's any indication :D

I can get Zipp404's for 2k Aussie if I can freight consolidate them. (ie: Ship them from overseas with other heavier stuff.)

I have to admit, if I could get them, I'd also be pimping Rolf Prima wheels. They are the kings of the prebuilt wheel world. Why they don't kill the Ksyrium farce is a complete mystery to me.

Tiger,

so can you source these?.....good & strong?....1300gm clinchers?.....how many spondoolies is this gunna cost me?

Thanks, think your name is in todays paper GR?
Want me to keep it for the grandkids? Nice win....

really? ya keep it if you can ? want to mail it to me at work?

any idea what the gap back to 2nd was? can get a straight answer and theres no result posted yet :(

howdy there little buckaroos. . . .
I was thinking its probably time to kill this thread (well put it into
suspended animation) and start "THE AUSSIE THREAD part 5"

what say ye gentlepersons?

howdy there little buckaroos. . . .
I was thinking its probably time to kill this thread (well put it into
suspended animation) and start "THE AUSSIE THREAD part 5"

what say ye gentlepersons?

Oh the pain...

It's not there marty. You mean we get to vote on it this time? :)

Go part 5 I say.

I finally got the nod from the insurance company - YAY! Market value on my old bike (2002 aluminium GT with ultegra) is $1800, plus new lid and tights, I'm going to collect just under $2100. That leaves me about $500 short on the new bike and stack hat, but that's OK as I picked up a near new full carbon and ultegra bike that retails for $5000 for $2500.

Good work on the tool recovery bbw, and nice effort with the rewards.

thread 5, for sure !

How about waiting until the posts hit 10,000? Nice round number that. :)

Still got the same body fat % as when you were racing?


Errr....not quite.

Back on the airwaves after having my spinal column pumped full of cortisone on Tuesday. Feel a million bucks now!!

howdy there little buckaroos. . . .
I was thinking its probably time to kill this thread (well put it into
suspended animation) and start "THE AUSSIE THREAD part 5"

what say ye gentlepersons?

As long as it's better than Police Acedemy 5 or Rocky 5, no worries.

cortisone. Nasty business that. What'd you do, something exciting like herniated disc?

:o
Doh!

Hey Ed, what are you benching?


With spot....~300 for reps.

No spotter....~275-280

cortisone. Nasty business that. What'd you do, something exciting like herniated disc?


spot on.

How about waiting until the posts hit 10,000? Nice round number that. :)


lets see that would take us to 500 (give or take) pages?
I'm just thinking this might load a bit faster, and lord knows we could use a
bit of speed round here.
I'll move the last 50 or so messages to the new thread for continuity's sake
(is there continuity here?)

and yes, it's your forum you do get a vote (just no polls).

marty

Ok,
I've moved about 4 pages from the previous thread, if there is any content
that needs to be here let me know and I'll merge it in
(just send me post numbers from old thread).

cortisone. Nasty business that. What'd you do, something exciting like herniated disc?

mate of mine a cortisone shot for a wrecked knee. cartalidge was totaly gone and he needed an artificial knee put in but wanted to do his 2nd dan grading 1st.... ouchies.

Errr....not quite.

Back on the airwaves after having my spinal column pumped full of cortisone on Tuesday. Feel a million bucks now!!eeewww....nough said please!

Errr....not quite.

Back on the airwaves after having my spinal column pumped full of cortisone on Tuesday. Feel a million bucks now!!

that's what it'd cost here. . . . :rolleyes:
do you guys have "socialized medicine" like Britian and Canada?
lucky sods.

So ya reckon Noike will knock us up some commemorative clobber with '5' on it?
Come to think of it, there's prolly still a shedfull of it out back of a sweatshop somewhere

I was just forced to have a gander at the neighbourhood while the front door to the hovel was locked. BF's quite extensive isn't it?

With spot....~300 for reps.

No spotter....~275-280

:eek: No lightweight carbon bars for your bike then - you'll have to put track sprinters bars on it!

Hope the back fixes up properly too.

No friggin wonder you have a herniated disk :eek:

I'm surprised your muscles haven't squeezed your innards out through your bellybutton too with those weights.

that's what it'd cost here. . . . :rolleyes:
do you guys have "socialized medicine" like Britian and Canada?
lucky sods.

I don't really know what systems the Brits and the Maples have, but over here I think anyone can get specialist treatment of sorts under the public health system, but the waiting lists are so long you might be dead first. Having private health insurance allows you to jump the queue and pick and chose services/doctors more - i think.

Happy to be corrected by someone who actually knows tho :) I am fortunate enough so far not to have had much other than basic dealings with the medical system....touch wood.

I don't really know what systems the Brits and the Maples have, but over here I think anyone can get specialist treatment of sorts under the public health system, but the waiting lists are so long you might be dead first. Having private health insurance allows you to jump the queue and pick and chose services/doctors more - i think.

Happy to be corrected by someone who actually knows tho :) I am fortunate enough so far not to have had much other than basic dealings with the medical system....touch wood.

The system is broadly speaking, similar in all 3 countries (very broadly speaking). You will get very good specialist treatment here in the public system and if you need urgent review, you can queue jump even as a public patient. Where things fall apart is with the so-called "elective" procedures, where waiting lists in the public system have blown out to ridiculous proportions. That's where private insurance comes in handy.

Of course, a properly funded and staffed public system would do away with most of the waiting lists but that is the stuff of fantasy these days. (and let's not get onto the subject of doctor and nursing shortages which are a worldwide problem)

I was just forced to have a gander at the neighbourhood while the front door to the hovel was locked. BF's quite extensive isn't it?

Yeah, and some of us even go and play in their backyards once in a while. :D

If you are ever in the mood for a laugh, the "Living Car Free" and "Advocacy and Safety" forums are always full of assorted weirdos and high on entertainment value.

Happy to be corrected by someone who actually knows tho :)

Kinda.
The Australian system is a blend of the US system and the British system. We allow private insurance and private working doctors and at the same time have a public health system much like the British. We do not have practices that are owned and run by the private insurers, that the US does have (HBOs I think they call them?)

We have long queues in the public system and the private system isn't going too well either. Since the private system can't really discriminate on customers (charging more for the unhealthy customers) and having a public system where the healthy go (why have insurance if you aren't gonna get sick and there is a system that will look after the worst injuries?) the private system has a tradgedy of the commons problem.

Hope that helps

even Cadel agrees with me that the climbing stages in this years Tour is pathetic !!

"I'm looking forward to the Pyrenees. I've always preferred them to the Alps. It's just a shame we don't have more days here"

With spot....~300 for reps.

No spotter....~275-280
300 pound club hey! Good work!
I maxed at 250 as 1RMax which wasnt too bad fot a skiny geek!

The guy I trained with was <70kgs and is benching 360 :eek:

Kewl, we're up to Part 5 now. Isn't it amazing what people who are too stupid to use instant messaging can achieve :beer:

Hitchy, if you or anyone else is after any parts, e-mail me. Trying to keep the hardcore product pimping off the boards or lotek will smack my bot-bot.

We still have to make you that Tephra Ti at some stage. Let us know when you get sick of the Look. :D

That frame's quite nice, but I couldn't order one as it has some other bugger's name on it :p

The guy I trained with was <70kgs and is benching 360 :eek:


That's strong.

George Gregan is freakishly powerful....can squat 400lbs. Tiger Woods can bench 300 as well.

Here's a list of costs so far (that I can remember) not including what I can claim back from Medicare...


-4 weeks of chiro, twice a week at $35 a pop. X-rays were free, though. Back crooked as a dog's back leg.
-CT scan $380
-MRI scan $540
-initial neurosurgeon consultation $175
-tracton kit for home ~$150
-epidural during yet another CT scan (so he doesn't jab the wrong bit, I spose) $760. I collapsed on Monday, stayed on the living room floor for 3 hours before Icould try and stand up...so the epi was brought forward.
-drugs out of this world....valium, Prednisolone, Tramal, Mersyndol Forte, Norflex. No idea what I've spent on those.


Feel good now, though! Might be time to get back on the bike!

No friggin wonder you have a herniated disk :eek:

I'm surprised your muscles haven't squeezed your innards out through your bellybutton too with those weights.

Neuro put the films up on his light-panel thingy and said "weightlifter's back" in about 10 seconds. I got the distinct impression he'd seen it all before.

We still have to make you that Tephra Ti at some stage. Let us know when you get sick of the Look. :D

provided i can afford it, my next bike purchase will be a Tephra Ti.... I have allready started preparing Mrs HDT for the potential bill....

. . . Trying to keep the hardcore product pimping off the boards or lotek will smack my bot-bot.


Only if you bear a striking resemblence to Suzie Wilks. . .