They were just polite coz they knew Blijlevens would go ape shirt and challenge them to a stoush on the Champs Elysee.

Mind you, i think theres quite a few that would love to have a go at Julich.

Bludy hell! I haven't even left the country yet, and you guys are back to talking about nothing but bikes. Geez. I'm pretty sure cricket was on today...

pretty sure expat? You werent watching it. Well SA got smashed. Which is good because I dont like SA because of Tony Greig. Yes I hate a country because of one cricket commentator

Tony Greig is great. How great? He gives you a perfectly good reason to hate two countries.

you guys see this?

42 reasons why bikes are better than girlfriends

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=171416

yeh I dont think im that into biking as yet

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Anyone heard of Dacord bikes? probably 20 years old, comes with dura ace cranks, F&R derails, record hubs, mavic wheels, 105 brake levers, dia-compe brakes. weird mix.

Frame is called a Tallcio? lugged steel?

daccordi, yes. dacord, no. tallcio, no. Why do you ask? buying again?

Looks like we need to work Phil harder on Monday nights :D

Men 4000m Individual Pursuit

Qualification

1 Mark Jamieson (Tas) 4.24.965 (54.35 km/h)
2 Peter Dawson (WA) 4.27.711
3 Richard England (Vic) 4.28.045
4 Michael Ford (Vic) 4.29.860
5 Miles Olman (Qld) 4.29.881
6 Zakkari Dempster (Vic) 4.30.575
7 Robert Lyte (NSW) 4.31.459
8 Sean Finning (Vic) 4.31.616
9 Phillip Thuaux (NSW) 4.31.707
10 Ashley Hutchinson (Qld) 4.32.113
11 Stephen Wooldridge (NSW) 4.35.390
12 Matthew Goss (Tas) 4.39.800
13 Kyle Bateson (Qld) 4.44.883
14 Amirrudin Jamaludin (Mas) 4.57.446

Good time by Jamieson! Shame Phil couldn't replicate his recent 4:29 form to be in the hunt for a ride off. How's Dale going?

Got it on DVD. Well worth watching.

Basso's phone call with Lance about his mum's cancer is very touching.

No way....I'm sure that year they went out over the Westgate to the You Yangs etc.....was a really hot day. I'm sure Robbie put the front group into the hurt box on the way back over the bridge. Unless I'm having a brain fade?

Franks-ganistan.

One morning on the Hell Ride, we were coming back through Frankston and someoen had been capped outside the 21st Century.....you could see the sheet over the body and everything.

Lovely.

Dale was 18th in the IP. He's got a few more events to come.

nasty stuff...the Hell Ride is appropriately named then. :)

Thats the one. McEwen was still an amateur. He had a crook guts, took a dump out the freeway somewhere, got back on, then got in a break with Stevo and I think Serrano and beat them in the sprint. They did the last 40km or so at the gardens

full CCOMTB calendar is out, mixing it up with one night race and a 4 hour late in the year.

http://www.ccomtb.org.au/Calendar.html

Hey Ed , was the dvd purchased locally ?

Hey Climbo, what track bike do you ride? I really want to start riding the track, problem is I am 195 cm's and weigh around 95kg's. I can't find anything to fit.

Anyone suggest something? I looked a hillbrick's, but it's more or less $2k for a custom Zonal Alu frame.

this beauty...

http://www.bianchiusa.com/typo3temp/efcaac06fd.jpg

what dimensions are you looking for? it's not easy finiding a production track frame for your size.

Chrome track bikes are cool. You can check how your hair looks in the toptube while riding along. If I could grow hair I'd get one.

I ma not 100% sure really. Spoke to a guy I know on saturday's ride and he wasn't sure as he has been out of the track riding for too long. Not up on current theories. I have always put it off because I didn't want to buy another bike, as I could never borrow one to try it out.

May just have to do it and see what happens. I just want to avoid buying things and finding out they were a waste of money. I have until next summer though in reality, should be able to get a good frame then. Mate is currently working at Precision cycles down in the sutherland shire, starting his own wheel company and is a really good mechanic. I know he will help me out, but it won't be cheap like it want it to.

I think the Bianchi goes up to a 59cm? bit cramped for me

Meooooowwwww...

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Our other human headline is at it again :rolleyes: