yeah, nice, hey!!

Apparently other brands such as Assos are just as good, but I'm too 'tight' to spend big bucks on bloody lycra. :p

My Kennedy bibs cost me 70 bucks, and they're plenty comfy!!

The Giramondo's only cost me $75... bit of a bargain, and they have a nice "Eastern" down each leg ;)
:D

:rolleyes:

cool.

Online? got a link?

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Eastern


:D

I live in the capital, Hartford. It's not bad ... it's big enough that I have plenty of pubs within walking distance... and it's a great location ... I can be on the slopes in VT in 2 hours, in a pub in Boston in 1.5 or in NYC in 2 and I am 4 hours from the White Mountains in New Hampshire for some decent hiking... but it's number 7 in the country for violent crime ... am looking forward to getting back home though, I am pretty much over being cold...

My wife is well keen on Sydney, we spend time there everytime we're home but this will be her first time living outside America ...

We found Australia to be a bit too expensive as far as the cost of living. A great holiday destination when the AU$ cost me US$.47. My wife lived in Newcastle for nearly 40 years before she decided it was time to move on.

A note about the weather - it was in the 30s when we left Oz, and it's about the same here. :D

That's my wife's complaint and major concern, from cars, to electronics to clothes ... I keep telling her that there is more to it than that, you can't put a price on quality of life and it's definitely going to be better weather, better beaches, a more laid back lifestyle and a tonne of really good friends that I am looking forward to hanging out with...

We will try it for a few years and if it doesn't work out we can always come back. I have a feeling she's going to love it though.

Poopy, I hope she's ok with the heat and humidity. As far as quality of life, Australia did not afford us the lifestyle I had here. If you have the ability to earn a lot, Australia can be a comfortable place, but neither my wife nor myself made enough money to make it easy on us. Good luck, whatever you do.

Living in the major centres in NSW, Particularly Sydney, is the most expensive way to exist here. There are plenty of cheaper alternatives which offer better quality lifestyle options in other states. Sydney is actually one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in and not really that laid back.

I liked Newcastle, but the housing affordability/employment opportunity ratio was pretty messed up.

We missed out on the house I mentioned earlier, but I'm able to get a loan for whatever we need. Guess I'll work on getting a job first.

Seems like it was the pommy track team was racing at hefferon last tue night and they have been hanging around racing again last night in Sutherland.

Then as you are looking at houses you think back to that insurance ad that went,
"Why is it that the houses have the best sheds have the worst kitchens?"

They loan out unlimited amounts of money to people with no job sitting on their arse playing Playstation and getting welfare? Man, that is the land of opportunity. I'll be over in a jiffy! :D

Um, this house has Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox and a Gamecube. And I play none of them. What I do have is really good credit, and they figure that I'll make the payment somehow. But I'll save the extra 1.75% interest and get a job first.

this really good credit how do I achieve that? So I can move to the states borrow heaps of money and then sit around playing xbox 360 :D

Go Mariners !!! :)

So you didn't take off from over there before because everyone wanted to break your legs for owning them money? ;)

Hell finish to Tour of Cal "The medical team has already run out of supplies already and have to go back to headquarters and stock up."

Started with a crash on the first lap

+1

Life as I know it is officially over: my kids have discovered weekend sport. Bugger. Might have to divorce them so cycling isn't interrupted.

another weekend, another MTB race picked up a 3rd in D grade. close call, totaly blew up after the climb on the 2nd lap and it was like riding the vomitron from there on in! happy enough though, off to ourimbah for a run at that this weekend.

one question is to be asked though, normally after i race / ride im really hungry. yesterday i wasnt hungry at all, and infact when i had somthing to eat it made me feel worse. is that a bi product of lactic acid build up in the stomach?

Good to see Cipo make an appearance in the closing ceremony at the Winter Olympics!

Lactic acid forms in the blood supply, if I remember correctly, so I doubt it's that.

The body is just weird sometimes I reckon. Sometimes you can go into something under hydrated and hungry and ride like a god, and other times you think you have everything right and you ride like poo.

All I try and do is hydrate before, during and especially after, and try to be in a good space mentally. Seems to work 80% of the time.

I'll be up there this weekend, going slow training for the 100km.
Climbo, you free?

So quit the whingin and give us the crit report? ;)