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

From Cycling News
"A new attack goes with Jens Voigt (CSC), Robbie McEwen (Davitamon), Florent Brard (Caisse d'Epargne), Tom Boonen (Quick.Step), Magnus Backstedt (Liquigas) and a number of others - 14 in total. They have 8 seconds."

Loks like you were right about Robbie and the intermediates...?

Doh, where is the recall button, the first sprint is at 76Km!

Arrgh! It's that French git cooking something unspeakable again. What is wrong with SBS, do they really think the audience of the TdF is watching for the cooking tips? :crash:

Arrgh! It's that French git cooking something unspeakable again. What is wrong with SBS, do they really think the audience of the TdF is watching for the cooking tips? :crash:
*snacks on a snail
Arent you enjoying Gabrielle? From she who can whip up a goats cheese tart ;)

*snacks on a snail
Arent you enjoying Gabrielle? From she who can whip up a goats cheese tart ;)

I am an ardent fan of cooking programs, but I'm watching the TdF coverage for the cycling - everything has it's place and the totally lame cooking segment does not belong.

Forget the goat's cheese tart, we just had buttermilk panna cotta accompanied by stewed rhubarb for dessert. :D

I am an ardent fan of cooking programs, but I'm watching the TdF coverage for the cycling - everything has it's place and the totally lame cooking segment does not belong.

Forget the goat's cheese tart, we just had buttermilk panna cotta accompanied by stewed rhubarb for dessert. :D
*Droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooools
Thats ridiculous! Panna Cotta is my favourite dessert, and adding in stewed rhubarb is just plain nasty!
Did you make the pannacotta? recipe?

*Droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooools
Thats ridiculous! Panna Cotta is my favourite dessert, and adding in stewed rhubarb is just plain nasty!
Did you make the pannacotta? recipe?

Of course I made it! Doesn't everyone? ;)

Recipe is on the BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/buttermilkcreamwithr_81983.shtml)

I didn't do the rose petals obviously, since now is not the right time of year and I didn't make the shortbread either. I used two sachets of powdered gelatine since leaf gelatine is impossible to find at Tuggerah.

It got the two thumbs up from hubby, who is also very fond of rhubarb. :D

I might have to hire that dvd out

bit-torrent..

You live up here too?

yeah its kinda cool up here now ive taken up cycling...its not quite simon gerrans territory but its hilly enough!!!

It got the two thumbs up from hubby, who is also very fond of rhubarb. :D
Thanks....I will give this a go on the weekend!
FWIW, I planted a rhubarb patch in the garden right near the boundary and the guy who put our fence up figured it was some kind of weed and "fenced" it into our neighbours garden :(

gees y'all are really tough on us seppos.
Remember that we made the world safe for democracy
and will dominate your European bike race (only one though)
retribution for your gaulist leftist politics, non?.

I've heard that Levi had a case of diarreaha or summat, and
that was why he totally sucked at the TT.
Not making excuses, only reporting.

The chicken, the teeth and Menchov sure took a page
out of the postal/disco book of old, ride em till they
drop and then launch. Kudo's to Boogard, didn't think he
had it in him on that kind of climb. One of my Dutch friends
says that the dutch press are saying that was the best riding
he has ever done, and wonder why he hasn't done that before
( better living through chemistry?).

back to listening to Eurosport. . .

marty

Thanks....I will give this a go on the weekend!
FWIW, I planted a rhubarb patch in the garden right near the boundary and the guy who put our fence up figured it was some kind of weed and "fenced" it into our neighbours garden :(

:roflmao:
Central Coast tradesmen - ya gotta love 'em!

A hint if you are using powdered gelating in the recipe - I used about 2 tablespoons of boiling water to dissolve the gelatine before adding it to the cream. I will be interested to hear the result.

gees y'all are really tough on us seppos.
Remember that we made the world safe for democracy
and will dominate your European bike race (only one though)
retribution for your gaulist leftist politics, non?.

I've heard that Levi had a case of diarreaha or summat, and
that was why he totally sucked at the TT.
Not making excuses, only reporting.

The chicken, the teeth and Menchov sure took a page
out of the postal/disco book of old, ride em till they
drop and then launch. Kudo's to Boogard, didn't think he
had it in him on that kind of climb. One of my Dutch friends
says that the dutch press are saying that was the best riding
he has ever done, and wonder why he hasn't done that before
( better living through chemistry?).

back to listening to Eurosport. . .

marty

....listening to Eurosport??...c'mon marty, lash out on a telly!......Here tell you seppo's have 961 channels devoted to cycling 24/7.....oh, sorry, that was last year when lance was still alive. :D

I think Paul Sherwen can stop explaining his "virtual placings" now...for about the third time in 10 mins:rolleyes:

telly? at work? surely you jest?

Did you know that OLN stands for Only Lance Network? and they are changing the
name now that LA has retired? I kid you not.
There really aren't 961 channels of Lance (and there were not quite that
many last year), 24 are devoted to bull riding and rodeo, 57 fishing channels.
BBC, SKY, CNN (damn I can't get CNNI), 372 channels of porn lite, one to watch
murder call reruns, one food network and the rest are either in some slavic tongue
or are cartoon networks (this includes all the MTV clones).

I think Paul Sherwen can stop explaining his "virtual placings" now...for about the third time in 10 mins:rolleyes:

I'm about over the 'Floyd - mennenite made good' stories too!

Mennonite.

mennenite is someone who uses this:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00098P0VM.01-A3JHT1U3QMO9EG._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63266925_.jpg

Mennonite.

mennenite is someone who uses this:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00098P0VM.01-A3JHT1U3QMO9EG._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V63266925_.jpg


:roflmao: I'll blame Paul's pronouncation!

thats funny.
I just told that girl
I was tired and emotional too

bit-torrent..

hire DVD for $5 and copy it.
or download it.

Well hiring it and copying it would take less time than downloading it, I get all the extras and its better quality.
The only downside is that you gotta return the dvd.

didcha all read this:

Indeed, stage 12 started fast and furious, with many break moves initiated, but soon destroyed by a raging bunch. One early jump included Robbie McEwen and Tom Boonen, who was plagued by light stomach troubles since yesterday. Boonen didn't appreciate the riding of his Australian rival in the break, saying it annihilated the escapists's chances.
"Everybody was ready to work in that break to make it succeed," said the world champion, who later got his revenge on McEwen by winning the bunch sprint. "McEwen disturbed the flow by constantly coming up to the front and bringing down the rhythm. He was to one who ruined our break. I thought it was ridiculous."

from cycling news. http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/tour06/?id=results/tour0612

Boonen is such a whinger.

yeah its kinda cool up here now ive taken up cycling...its not quite simon gerrans territory but its hilly enough!!!
Where abouts are you? I'm in Belgrave South... nice cos the tourists don't get out this way. :)

Boonen is such a whinger.

Boonen is entitled to say whatever he likes. Robbie probably didn't want to have to contest the intermediates against someone like Boonen on top of busting a valve to keep a break away from the main bunch. Good tactics to shut it down I reckon.

Boonen is entitled to say whatever he likes. Robbie probably didn't want to have to contest the intermediates against someone like Boonen on top of busting a valve to keep a break away from the main bunch. Good tactics to shut it down I reckon.

like jah.
Why didnt Boonen do something on the road instead of whinge about it later?

Jaysus! Thought Rob Arnold was gonna go the grope on Tommo in their interview :eek: .
Glad they chose to interview some soccer commentator just as the coverage crossed to a Landis interview :rolleyes:

So I'm guessing nobody wants my recipe for French Onion Soup then?

:lol:

So I'm guessing nobody wants my recipe for French Onion Soup then?

:lol:

(Sigh)...might as well, there'll be no riding in this bloody weather....Dry all week, then raining on the weeekend?....It's a conspiracy I tells ya....a conspiracy!

do you see my 'considered' response about the group tosser rides? :p

Some of the group rides are detailed here:
http://www.skcc.com.au/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=30



interesting you bring up st kilda cc...i looked around for a club to join and they seemed to be the most professional (well in terms of websites lol) and so i enquired about memebership....didnt even get a reply...nothing...which i think is fairly pathetic (sorry to anyone on these boards who might be a member).

ive been left feeling emotionally abused and neglected :rolleyes: :p :D

Where abouts are you? I'm in Belgrave South... nice cos the tourists don't get out this way. :)

lol yeah im sort of up puffing billy way too

St Kilda CC is all about even tans and coffee...:D ;)

(Sigh)...might as well, there'll be no riding in this bloody weather....Dry all week, then raining on the weeekend?....It's a conspiracy I tells ya....a conspiracy!

Yep, it sux the big one. Almost tempted to go and play in the mud on the mtb - but it's nice & warm inside so maybe not:)

Is it snowing up in the hills today? Odin? Existence?

St Kilda CC is all about even tans and coffee...:D ;)

i will have my revenge :D :fight:

Yep, it sux the big one. Almost tempted to go and play in the mud on the mtb - but it's nice & warm inside so maybe not:)

Is it snowing up in the hills today? Odin? Existence?

not in my neck of the woods...

skcc is also a long way from you ex. blackburn would be closer I reckon. They do a mix of road, track & crits.
Carnegie/Caulfield is big in numbers & big into all forms of racing too.

Worse kind of weather: the pressure system hardly moving, and just rotating in the one the spot :(

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDE00902.loop.shtml

For those of us dependent on rainwater tanks, this is wonderful weather. :D

Looks like we will get a chance to test our rain jackets if we decide to go out tomorrow. :(

so.....who else got the "refrain from calling seppo's, seppo's", PM from Koffee. I'm considering a response

so.....who else got the "refrain from calling seppo's, seppo's", PM from Koffee. I'm considering a response


why bother it ain't like you have a review process. The best you can hope for by replying is that you get told not to call 'em seppos again.

I wonder if we can get the word blipped.

so.....who else got the "refrain from calling seppo's, seppo's", PM from Koffee. I'm considering a response

Nope, but then you tend to use the word outside this thread, and if I recall (was it in the Tour de France subforum?) someone actually took exception to the use of the word.

I reckon if you confined your use of the word to TAT, no-one would give a rat's.

(Sigh)...might as well, there'll be no riding in this bloody weather....Dry all week, then raining on the weeekend?....It's a conspiracy I tells ya....a conspiracy!
Ya Girly Man!!! I rode 76K's this morning in the driving rain...Couldn't feel my toes from Mordy on the way down. Very happy with the SL's too!!:)

so.....who else got the "refrain from calling seppo's, seppo's", PM from Koffee. I'm considering a response

Guess you'll just have to refer to them by some other label as opposed to using a benign Australian colloquialism. "Over-sensitive bastards" seems to fit. OSB's for short.

Whatdya reckon Marty, Brian?

i hate israel...there you go i said it.:mad:

i hate israel...there you go i said it.:mad:


haha, thats now my sig. thanks

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Is it snowing up in the hills today? Odin? Existence?
Nope.
It was bloody freezing in Olinda on Wednesday though... my feet bypassed going numb and started to feel like they were burning... hurt like hell.

i hate israel...there you go i said it.:mad:


...you're not allowed to say that here....cos the Seppo's (whoops) I mean "the over sensitive American Liberators of all that is good, especially if there's a quid in it for them", like Israel......therefore, you are not entitled to an opinion where it doesn't match that of the certain mods on this forum...so there...so hate Israel all you like.....just don't acll 'em Seppos D:

...you're not allowed to say that here....cos the Seppo's (whoops) I mean "the over sensitive American Liberators of all that is good, especially if there's a quid in it for them", like Israel......therefore, you are not entitled to an opinion where it doesn't match that of the certain mods on this forum...so there...so hate Israel all you like.....just don't acll 'em Seppos D:


I smell a revolution coming on.
Where as the French when you need them.

Maybe we should adopt a social forum style. Al la digg. www.digg.com Check out how the comments work.

... but you took your new stuff out in this weather????!!!!

That's what a 2nd (or third......or fourth) bike is for :)

Yep, but it got lot's of TLC when I got back. Got a full clean, dry off and WD40 followed by lot's of hugs:D

...WD40...

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

doesnt WD40 wash crap back into bearings?

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

doesnt WD40 wash crap back into bearings?

Depends what the mods think! :D

Israel and America are fighting the good fight for you and me! *cough* w@nkers *cough*

It reminds me of the hippy saying from when I was a nipper - Fighting for peace is like ****ing for virginity!

Israel and America are fighting the good fight for you and me! *cough* w@nkers *cough*

It reminds me of the hippy saying from when I was a nipper - Fighting for peace is like ****ing for virginity!

+1

Has anyone seen Brian? Or have the mennonites drowned him in a vat of 80's aftershave?