pic jock?

Bah, your too young kotter

The track cycling has been awesome to watch. Is there anyone Ryan Bayley can't run into the ground?

Changing the subject slightly... had my first actual road race today (as opposed to all the crits I've been doing) Damn good fun, 50km of rolling hills. Ended in a bunch sprint (uphill/headwind). I jumped about 5 secs too late, was pulling in 1st and 2nd and got 3rd by a tyre.
Yeehaaw!!

had to laugh at Bayley, he said Kersten has a habit of "pulling stuff" like that. No pulling punches there from the big KFC.

lol, yuck old(er) women

while we are on track cycling (sorry odin) whats a scratch race? (its on tonight)

No worries Gabe.
Noun 1. scratch race - a race in which all contestant start from scratch (on equal terms)

from the Comm Games site:
click me, click me

The guy's a machine. I watched him in person at the DGV and I couldn't believe anyone could generate that much power.
Didn't you just love the way he 'looked' at his opponent in the sprint as he rode passed him on the line, and after giving him 20m.

Oh man, don't you guys just love ebay descriptions?

I love how they try to cover up what is a **** guitar by using poor grammar and not bothering to mention the make and model

I love what they do with the english language around that part of the world.
Ever been to Engrish ?

Ive heard of it, but I see enough of it on the web, without having to go to a site thats dedicated to it.

But Im having a look now

speaking of guitars, anyone know anyone that wants to purchase a JCM 800 100w marshall to fund my cycling addiction?

did the penrose 8 hour tosday, i counted 2 broken arms / collar bones among the carnage. i myself did my patented endo - to tree headplant. was a bit scary as i thought i had broken my hand at the time. got smashed in the results too im not sold on the enduro format and i think id rather do a more traditional XC race, it favours my strengths a lot more.

track cycling looks more appealing by the day... really looking forward to racing road at the end of april

OTB with tree headplant... OUTSTANDING!!!!! (much applause....)


I'l give you $20 for your JCM. But only because they're my initials, not because that pile of stinking american marketing is actually any good. In fact it rates all the way down there alongside F F F F ender

Fender still make some nice stuff, just gotta keep away from the mexican stuff. I would very much like to own a 60's fender -if i was a guitarist

HDTVKSS - well at least you didnt break your hand

pfft. fenders all suck.

next you will be saying hendrix sucks

Meh I like fender guitars.

A lot of the Mex stuff is pretty good actually, just like a lot of the US stuff is crap. With Fenders, you just have to pick the individual guitar. They are very inconsistent.

I haven't posted for a while, so i thought I'd bette give it another go....

I dunno what possessed me to even contemplate starting a ride under the midday sun. It was hot enough to abandon all plans of participating in, watching, or even thinking about cycling. But i'd missed my race this morning due to trainee commissaire duties so I needed some solid bike time.

Anyway, I jumped on the gitane and headed from Maitland down towards Newcastle (sorry Kotter, not enuf time to arrange a ride, next time). Norwester failed me at Beresfield, about 10km into the 35km journey, so plugged away into the seabreeze which got stronger the closer I got to the coast. When I reached the foreshore my speed dropped below 30 and stayed that way until I got past Nobbys.

With warm gogo juice and water there was only one thing to do... top up with cold water at Newey Beach, home of Expat's infamous Vodafone Beach Volleyball Pervchicks. They weren't on display today, but there was plenty of other eye candy on display due to the heat.

There was so much to take in, what could one do? So I stayed a while and checked out the scenery. It was like a voyage of discover, with scantily clad young women running this way and that with superb tans and heaving chests. There were other young ladies peeling their outer garb in the most seductive manner, the head down-arse up arrangement with knees together so as to effect a disturbingly erotic removal of pants/skirts. It was a sea of hornbags all doing their thing for humanity...

And then it dawned on me that I'd best head back to Maitland. The seabreeze carried me pleasantly back to Beresfield, whereupon I was ceremoniously dumped into a stinking hot norwester for the final 10kms. And not a beachbabe in sight...

No, I'll be saying Hendrix is dead

Jock - Marshall is Engish, invented by a drummer infact. I have 2 japanese strats, one vintage reisue and a 80's metal bohemoth. i like them both. but i do quite like my maton mastersound. may get rid of that for a eppi les paul in black n gold mmmmm les paul. my last les paul got stolen

how can you say that? dont you know he moved to mexico with Elvis, Buddy Holly, JFK and the fat kid from hey dad and is now rocking out the local tequila establishments?

Marshalls don't sound as good as the american hype makes them out to be. And Fender just suck. They have "the worst" action on the planet, the fretboard is waaay too wide ( and I have large hands), they sound like someone stole their testicles, and they so boring that ppl actually prefer to watch lawn bowls than gaze upon their styleless form.

Four fargin strikes... they're out!

I'm not really up with all the new gear, but I'd say Marshalls are probably overrated by today's standards. Some of the Bad Cats and the new Boogies are farking AMAZING, but they cost gazillions!! One of the best sounds I ever heard was from a guy using a 5150, but I think they only had 3 channels.

Here's my old beast, which is nearly as old as I am. Only cost me $700 in 1989!! I think Jimi Hendrix once pissed on it!!



I gave up trying to get a good sound out of it, so I had the preamp bypassed, bought a JMP1 preamp, then obviously just used the power stage of the head. Sounds good enough.

I never liked Fenders either, and I wondered what all the hype was about when I first started going to guitar shops. I know some of the new ones are more like Charvels than Charvels, but 'real' Strats have a too curved fretboard, the necks and bridges are too wide, the 1st knob is too close to the 1st string, and they usually sound crap, even with a Hotrails in there!!! And what's with the whole 25.5" scale length??!! I've never heard a good argument for it!! Don't even get me started on Telecasters....what a hunk of hard-to-play junk they are. But, you've gotta give old Leo credit for designing the bolt-on neck and a body that hasn't been changed in 50 years. The last I heard was that there's still a bit of debat over who exactly invented to solid body

I use to be an '80s/Vai guy, so I was right into U.S. Charvels and Jacksons. I've got an 'itzabitza' 1982-ish Strat headstock San Dimas Charvel (i would happily sell it for the right bike), a 1986 Texas bolt-on Jackson custom, and a crap Ibanez RG something that I used to take to hillbilly gigs. I bought the San Dimas off Jack Jones (name dropper ) for $2100 in 1992, which was too much, but after I saw Crossroads, and bought Eat Em and Smile, I was desperate to one like Stevie's



If anyone wants any grouse Charvel/Jackson links, lemme know.

There's also a few muso forums (too many teenagers), and some manufacturer-specific forums.

Jock - I was there with you in spirit. Wondered why my good eye was so itchy...

yeeeees, I can understand how you'd come to that decision.

Jock you've been out in the sun way too long old mate.