A rock garden, literally.

I've got some nasty spots that might benefit from a similar treatment. Pics yes please.

Against the dodgers, I hope.

Mountain biking with the girls

https://i.imgur.com/F2VRGv0.jpg

Artsy!

Segue-ing... we went to a bicycle film night last night, and it was fantastic! 13 films of various lengths with some really beautiful stuff in there. The reason why the picture above sparked this post was that one of the films was about a guy riding single-speed MTB in a 24-hour race and they had timelapse scene of bike lights criss-crossing the ridge that formed part of the course. It was just gorgeous.

Equally up there was a short film about a photographer (also the film narrator) who published a book on the sub-cultures in cycling in London. Some truly fantastic images.

Then there were the guys on tall bikes riding fire trails!! And with touring luggage on board! And even with a second rider on the "bottom floor", so to speak.

I was amazed at the evening. Machka booked it thinking it might be worthwhile, but we wouldn't have been surprised if it had been danky alt-stuff. But it was broad, hugely entertaining and captivating, and worth every cent of the admission prices of $25 a head.

The presentation was created by a New Zealand group, and will be touring only Tasmania, Canberra and Victoria. The curation was top-notch, and we are already looking forward to next year's.

A whole rock yard. After the spring rains and a bit of summer sun we had a jungle back there. Plants literally chest-high and had to pay some people to just get it cleared. Not doing that again - rocks and trees. Maybe some cacti, too.

In my case, the rock is for building foundations for the raised garden I mentioned last week. Excavate to bedrock, which is frequently very near or on the surface, and build your foundations with rock. Our whole house was built by this method. In modern times, they go with block above the stone. We're thow-backs.

Good morning!

Makes me miss coasting.

Speaking of miss, anyone know what happened to @unfiltered dregs?

Good morning to you. Is the sun up yet?

Any minute now. Sadly, I must skip club ride and go work. Hope to sneak in a short one later.

How's the yard?

Fify. Let's focus on the important things, here.

Lots to do. But I have all winter to do it. No rush for the next six months. I plan to ride tomorrow.

Just saw this and thought with all of the talk on carbon wheels lately, that I’d post it. Of course, not everyone is in to Campy and tubular...

2015-2017 Campagnolo Bora One 50 Carbon Tubular Wheelset Dark [WH15-BOTFR1DK] - $999.00 Velomine.com : Worldwide Bicycle Shop, fixed gear track bike wheelsets campagnolo super record vintage bike

So I woke up 90 minutes ago and couldn’t get back to to sleep. Gonna be a long day.

You may wish to take some melatonin at your desired bedtime, it may help with resetting your clock. In the meantime, can you go for a run before the excitement starts?

I used to do the melatonin but managed to get off of it. I’ve been good until this trip, and I think it’s just the excitement. Y’all may not remember me waking up at 3-4 for all my races back in the day.

And no time for a run; 4:00 was the target time to get up. Need to be down at the site at 5:00. I did get in 43 miles in the last five days and will get to 50+ tomorrow. And today may be over ten miles of walking anyway.

Understood. It's already after 4AM your time now anyway. You may wish to try the Melatonin your first few nights back home, I think it's pretty weak sauce for serious insomnia but actually pretty good for jet lag/resetting your clock. YMMV.

Sad news. Remember the patient who went to Italy 2 years ago and gave me a piece of the banner from the Giro and went again last year and gave me a Giro jersey? He just passed away. He was one of my favorite patients.

That's a smoking deal on some sweet wheels. 1265g.

Sad.

Yeah, he was a good guy. He did have a good life, but was only 64.

Sigh.

:(:hug:

Better to undersleep than oversleep.

https://m.youtube.com/results?q=sein...marathon&sm=12

That's gold, Jerry. GOLD!

That is sad. Simple little things like he did for you will last you lifetime. You're right, he did live a good life.