Yeah, that happened to a friend of ours, during the aforementioned heat and questionable air quality! HE got the bright idea to go for a long ride with a friend of his and spent the next two days coughing up his lungs.

Chris I wonder if perhaps Oz is the skin cancer capital of the world because of the ethnic makeup. A large amoung of Aussies (and Kiwis) are of welsh, irish, scottish and english descent- fair skinned! Even after all those generations living in that climate, you can't change your genetic makeup! Sometimes I wonder about that when I see Stuart O'Grady who's fair and freckly- he must have to shmear on the sunscreen like crazy.