Sassafras for mine.

Hey secondplace, this thread has your name all over it.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...61#post3682461

It was nice work. The elbow obscures my fat stomach.

Skyhigh was always a favourite for parking... oh, sorry, wrong sort of parking :D

Depends on what you want to do. Sassafras is pretty central, but if I drive, (only when I'm running late for a training ride) I park at The Basin... use the 1/20 to warm your legs up and you're ready to go by the time you get to Sassafras .
Lots of people park in Belgrave too. You gonna do that loop?

Did 80km of hills yesterday. Couldn't believe how many people were up here - 1/20 was like Bourke St... some didn't even make it to the top! :eek: ...passed some bloke in full Fassa kit zig-zagging up the wall - never seen that before... poor bugger wasn't even 1/2 way... doubt if he made it.

Probably Allessandro Petacchi. Those Italian sprinters hate climbing.

Bastid! :D

You know it was an inspired choice as I got two seasons of 'current WC' out of one jersey!!! :)

:D :D

I was riding my home made crit curcuit yesterday for only 60km. Not sure the locals were all that impressed with my riding nor did they know they were driving on my crit curcuit and that I was racing an imaginary peleton lol :p

Yep, plenty of people park at the Basin carpark & start on the 1/20. Done that meslef when I wanted to do some hill repeats & no have to ride home.

I was one of the punters going up the 1/20 yesterday. :) Passed a couple of your clubbies going the other way just before I got there (just before 8am). Went up and over down thru Kalorama then turned right at Montrose & went out to some steep street that starts with "E" (I think) & ended up in Mooroolbark. 70kms for me.

One of them was me. Only 2 of us yesterday cos the others were all at Donna.
We met up about 1/2 way up the 1/20 and rode down to The Basin to see if any of the others were coming... waited 10 minutes and went up again... went through Kallista to Emerald and came back through Monbulk/Olinda. Did you have your BBN gear on?

:D
There's a great training circuit just near the both of us that noone else seems to have picked up on...

oh oh where where?? :D

My current one is pretty good - I even get a crowd of coffee sippers at my start finish line lol :p

Nah, stealth kit yesterday. The EVCC boys I saw were at the 2nd roundabout away from the base of the 1/20 (IIRC correctly). I didn't think it was you or I would have called out. I almost got my sub 20min time too..:D

thanks.

Are you guys talking about the little shopping-strip car park at the Basin?

I assume the popular time up in the hills yesterday was before 12pm? :)

I'll definitely do that loop one day

Yep. We meet up at the top shop Sundee mornings.
...and Yep. We were up there from 8 'till 11.
Too many tourists after lunchtime.

Can anyone please confirm if they saw any TV coverage of the Aus Road Cycling Titles on commerical TV or ABC/SBS? I didnt see it get mentioned once on ch9/abc.

Am I the only one that thinks this is a complete and utter disater for the sport?

Does anyone else care about this?

Not quite.:p

I certainly don't, but I'm an American.:D Just bored is all, and you blokes are the only ones still up in the world.

Cheers!:D

No.

Yes.

Yes.

You are a such a talker M ;)

Oi! Take your seppo ass elsewhere...:p

j/k!!

Hey serendipper dont you owe me a tome or two? I expect immense profundity...

TV was there. Farked if I know which station, probably SBS. Liggett was there. Bastard ate the last of the good hamburgers off me barbie.

You get used to the lack of interest from the media after a while. Getting good coverage is atypical, not typical. The media don't really seem to understand how big the sport is in Europe. You're lucky its not 1986. If you were lucky you found the result in the paper. If not it was someone you knew in Europe phoning results through or a three month wait for the cycling magazines.

I'm not fat, I'm just a whole lot of big cuddly man.

I thought you might be big- boned :roflmao:

Yeah, I want some Cheesey Poofs