gawd first time as a novocastrian I have been called a city folk!

You should'v put the hose on them

Well compared to Bathurst, its huge!

If it wasnt for Mt. Panorama, Bathurst would be even smaller!

Hey, i bet theres some good riding on the mountain!

Mate, I hate to break it to you but if you live in Newie you are a city dweller. It may not be a large city but it is still a city. You have reticulated water, a sewerage system, public transport and shops within a 5 minute drive if you choose to use them. And finally you have weirdos doing strange things in public toilets.

Try tank water, water pumps, septic system, no public transport, 35 minute drive at 100 km/hr to the nearest shops and then you can say you ain't no city slicker.

And there sure ain't no funny stuff like you saw out in the country - that's why we have sheep.

Bugger. First club RR of the season today which was at a new location that they said we'd give a try to see how it'd go.
Each lap was 8km of hilly terrain, the first of which was right orf the start... and the mercury was heading past 33.
I decided to sit on the guys that are always up front in crits. Wrong! They're not climbers.
Managed to miss the jump of a 5 man breakaway and, worked with another bloke to slowly pull them in. Someone binned it about 50 metres ahead, 3 blokes were helping him and gave me the job of alerting race control and getting a neck brace... 4km of nasty hills away... hammered it so hard, I almost chucked.
Spent about 5 minutes at race control helping get the car sorted. I was knackered, had used up all of my water on the first bloody lap and decided that I'd had enough... my grade were way orf in the distance and I felt like crap. Didn't take long before others, and I mean lots of others, had the same idea. I reckon out of 80 riders, 20 actually finished. There were blokes practically falling over from dizziness, others with the chills... a mate did this race as his first ever race and had to ride the white line in the middle of the road to keep focussed. He kept stopping each lap but they kept telling him that he was in 3rd, then 2nd and sent him out again and again.
Bah! I hate hot weather.

lol, plenty of weirdos everywhere though

bummer. I'm totally crap in the heat. Back in the old I never raced if it was over 25/26/27, and every summer I reckon it takes me a month to acclimatise

yeah, it's a big piss-off, especially as a cyclist who drinks too much coffe and is often stuck in the middle of nowhere needing a slash.

What really pisses me off is how selfish it is!! Dunnies are a public utility, but if a particular dunny becomes a pooofta hangout, that dunny can no longer be used by by ~95% of the population for its intended purpose!! And, as Sacco said, it's even worse when it's a family area.

anyone watching cycling central? Anyone got any more info on these tubeless wheels?

Yeah, I'm usually OK 'till about 30/31... then it all starts to fall apart.
Only having one cage/bottle on the bike was a silly mistake.

Went out this morning and hammered myself in the hills for 2 hrs to get over feeling like such a dickhead yesterday. Feeling much better now

We had a 1hr40+2 enduro/RR thingy today. On the last lap, 4 guys jumped on the back of C grade up the back straight and got a good 20m break and went on to win the places. Apparently that's ok although I thought sucking off a higher grade was illegal.
Just another way to loose a freekin race.

I thought gaining advantage from any other grade was grounds fer disqualification...
I was working with another bloke to pull in the break yesterday, we caught a pair of C graders (at the crest of a hill) and for a brief time all 4 of us drafted down the hill... then one of the C graders (who was behind me) pipes up with "you're not allowed to sit on his wheel"
I apologised, but fer feck's sake I was just after a rest... I had to drag my brakes to stay behind him, hardly gaining advantage.

So we promptly dropped them

ROFLMAO x 10000

Work of art berny, and everyone else let it go thru to the keeper...

Apparently it's ok on the last lap for some bizzar reason. I was so pissed I didn't stay for the preso or the outcome of my protest which I had been told would fail.

Nice

We had a very technical start to our race today. One lap of neutral then it was like the end of the race, hard surges, little breaks, guys not wanting to pull a turn coz they were hanging on for grim death, bastards like me being negative and shutting breaks down, etc. It was like a game of chess where you were playing 5 different games at once. In the end there was so little cooperation that the average pace got pretty slow.

B Grade were a different story with several guys committing to hard, sustained attacks after we lapped them. As a result we kept getting tangled up with them (and other grades along the way!). Went neutral at one point to let their bunch stay in the chase of a break but they sat up... right next to us!!!!! Morons. Went neutral again when they got the bell lap and they gave us a serve for being too slow. Funny guys.

sure.

and its OK for me to have lations with my 1st cousin too.

What I'm trying to figure out is, did Saccy get George Michael's autograph, or not?

Have you guys seen the new Toyota Icebox?

raced sport ( cgrade ) up at ourimbah and am embarrased ot say i got a 3rd. not embarased cause it wasnt a higher place, but because all i did was roll around all day, finished the race and was like, is that it?sstill had at least another lap left in me took it way too easy

that place just kicks you in the assos technicly these days, the new section is really good, but there are 1 or 2 bits i cant ride ( read: don want to risk broken collar bone )

oh well, i have till may to get angry about it! in the meantime, does anyone know a good front MTB tyre that is raceable ( i.e will roll) and brovides some grip ) running the crossmakrs that came on the bikee and they were a bit of a let down yesterday

excellent work !! C is 2 laps? The new bit where, near the end of the lap at the bottom of the hill?

What do you mean you cant ride it? You're gonna have to move to Bathhurst as the toilet attendant
C'mon HD, didnt you read about the OTB comp a couple of months back?


I forgot you were up here, I was at Ourimbah riding the trails (not xc course) from 0600. Doh!

How long before idiot coaches (all sports, esp football codes) get the message that this is not OK...

https://www.thecouriermail.news.com.a...E23218,00.html

No athlete should be allowed to continue in that condition: if it was bad enough she could quite easily have died. And that the media has portrayed the athlete as some sort of 'hero' doesn't help at all either.

mmmm, nice.

Can you send a few cricket pointers G.W.'s way, I'm sure he'll need then next time he gets a cricket bat in his hand.

Apparently it should be illegal in Bathurst

ROFLMAO