How old are you again Odin?

Careful how you answer that Odin, saccy's from the countreeee. You can hear the banjo in the background every time he posts. ;)

Had a fun ride in today.

One of the Peleton lads caught up with me on the top of Pymble Hill, said g'day and that was about it. I split two lanes of stopped traffic and plowed on ahead. Didn't see him again until he blasted past me on the crest of a little hill at near 60kmh behind a semi! Sonofabeech. No way I was gonna catch him after that. Maybe I shouldn't have worn the club kit today :lol:

Plink
Plang
Plunk :p

Jock, Climbo, Pshaw etc, are you doing any of the ATTA time trials at Calga this year? im hoping to get out to some, maybee in a month or so, would be nice to have somone familiar out there as well.

maybe, depends on dates, the road races are much better though, come up for those instead.

They're trying to drum up business by running a mini 'tour' arrangement where you ride your guts out at the Crits and then scurry up the hill to do a time trial at Calga. Can't see it being too popular. :rolleyes:

not huge on the idea of crit racing ATM, and i need to get my bunch riding skills up before doing a road race i think. definatley somthing id like to have a look at and somthing ill be wanting to do more of next year. hence why a time trial was appealing as it requires me so slog my guts out for 25 odd kays, whilsnt not worrying about banging hadlebars.

road races start in April, that's the one I meant. If you can ride a dirt crit, you can ride a pack race at Calga, there is only one 180 degree turn, the rest is straight road with rolling hills, dead easy !! You'll also get a good feel for the course before you do a TT over it by doing the road races at a much easier pace first.

no, espcially when everyone knows who the good TT'ers are, and if you win the crit you only get something like a 12 sec bonus - whoopee !

WTF?

I just wanted to know how old Odin was because he seems to be just starting out racing but is flying up the grades. If he's a moderately old farker like myself then it might not be to late for me to get into it and do okay.

jocks not the springest of chickens ( i hope he doesnt mind me saying that!) not that hes old fart material either and he seems to be ripping it up on the race circuit, esp track. from memory he hasnt been back it it for longer than 2 - 3 years?

Steady sacman, just being an annoying flea (I learn everything i know from my 6yo son) :D

Been back into it for bang on 2 years HDT, not that I was ever really 'into it' in the first place. Has been fun so far...

Nah, that alright. I just didn't get the connection between my post and your reply. Being from the ****rey I guess I'm just a bit sloooow. ;)

And yeah, I know jocks old. But I just passed him off as a freak, so I thought I'd get some info from a normal mortal. ;)

The big 40 at the end of this year saccy.
I'm not flying up the grades though, that was my 4th race in D. I did one in C to start off with to see if my legs would fall orf.
They didn't, but I have bugger all pack experience, so I'm in D to fix that.

Never raced road before but I've raced BMX, MotoX, Karts and Road m'cycles so I have experience in competitive environments if nothing else.

Don't worry, I'm from the ****ry too :)

Bloodtests came back, turns out I have a re-occurence of Glandular Fever :(
At least it explains why I have been feeling like crap for months.
Docs advice..continue to exercise just dont push it...

Still a sprightly young lad then Odin. Surely your history of racing bmx and perhaps motocross would help get some legs under you. Crickets been my main competitive pursuit so I don't think that would cross over so well. Still there's only one way to see how I'll go...

And all the best fellas are. ;) (stupid filter ;) )

Have to stop pashing all the dirty girls then. ;)

(No insult intended to your missus. :eek: )

Bloody heck willie, it aint glandular fever. Anyone holding down a 9-5er + doing friggin painting all night for weeks on end + racing without nuf training would feel like crap. Take a holiday or summint

Jaysus pshaw, you gotta start taking it easy, man. Ya can't ride when ya dead, ya know.

Completely off-topic : Does anyone have any freight connections? I'm at my wits' end here yet again. Yet again trying to ship a box from the US that's just slightly too big to go via USPS, and yet again FedEx or anyone else I ask is giving me ****ing ludacrous prices.....like, USD375 to ship ****ing 8kgs.

Patty? Anyone? Help? :cry:

I'm confused now, when did we ever have a topic? I thought this thread was just the aimless ramblings of middle-aged men practicing for their future life in the despairing world of senility :)

My bad... thats the Safety and Advocacy threads! :lol:


[edit]esp. the "living car free" thread

Yep, I'll take a break when the baby arrives :eek:
I need to get into a training/working routine.

what about us younger blokes jock?