Just trying to remember the last bike thing I bought locally......hrm.....A Thomson seatpost, because my US source dried up.

Before that....um.....waterbottles and tubes?

Oh yeah, and I blew 9 grand on a Time.

i nearly start bawling my I eyes when I keep seeing how cheap these Yanks get their bikes.

yer, there was a thread on the MTB side of things asking how/why anyone would pay 240 odd dollars for a SRAM x0 derailer. If only i could pay 240 from a new X0! ( not that im a SRAM user... )

Hee hee

oooh, denial!

Yeah, there was a guy on here ages ago b1tching about spending ~$550 US on a brand new Lemond Zurich frame, and all the other Yanks were saying, "yeah, you can do heaps better than that"!!!!!

The Cervelo Superprodigy frame-set was selling for about $900 US (or less?), which is $1260 AUS, and my SUPER DUPER OOPER HAGGLING cash deal for my Superprodigy, that had a big scratch on it and a dinted BB shell, was $1700!!!!

<-- offers Expat a bit of biff

i dont know what their road set is going to be like, but i shute hope its stronger than their MTB set! several occurances of derailers exploding at a weak point. i think its caused by the fact that they wont move verticly like a shimano one will , hence it just brakes the derailer at the weakerst point when theres stress applied ( like a big stick!). from experience a Shimano derailer will jam, probably bend the hanger but survive.

Anyone want to buy a faulty satellite? We had a bit of a problem with Sky Digital TV last night. Had to do the dishes and go to bed early

https://www.trademe.co.nz/Electronics...n-52360702.htm

Um, no thanks. By the way, I feel very un-hooked up right now. Seems like I was able to score better deals from the US when I was still in Oz. I need to set up my fast computer and get down to business soon. We've put in an offer on a 2nd house the other day.

anyone see Didi Senft's World Cup soccer bike? It's on the SMH videos page, it's ****in' brilliant !!!

The trike is a classic, the dude is a total nutter. It's hard to believe he is German.

wrong paper, it's on here.

https://www.news.com.au/

+1

took me a while to spot the one-man-band contraption at the back..?

The "who washes their shorts after every ride" thread seems to have generated a lot of traffic. I have to guess there are a lot of teenagers on this forum who have an aversion to hygeine and like the stench of unwashed polyesters

just had 2 pairs of castelli Yfusos fall apart after about 5 rides.
The rep repeated about 5 times. "make sure they are FRESHLY washed, before you send them in!"

Scratch'n'Dent sale!!!!

*Change of topic*

Hey Patty, e-mail me will ya. Got little jobbie for ya.

Hey guys, do we know any good alum tig welding ppl? Got a little job to do for the boat not the bike.

I sent an email the other day - technical difficulties? Try brian@ozbikesports.com. My website is going to be changing in a big way soon. No more retail on there.

jee, I like this power calculator!!

it says I'm generating 537 watts if I'm doing 45kmh on flat ground!!!

https://www.2peak.com/tools/powercalculator.php

website? Retail? No more? How come I never heard of the site?

It was hugely successful, really. But it's taking a new turn. Do you know anything about Podcasts? If you do, send me a PM or email.

Did the akuna bay group ride today for the 1st time ( 1st group ride as well) not a bad little ride, although the pace was down on what was expected. scored a 2nd up the 1st climb and 3rd up the 2nd basicly from holding off a bit cause i didnt know where the sumit was! good ride tho, will be doing it in the future.

Woo-'kin-Hoo!!
EVCC road race today, 52km of hills and I f***ing won!
I'd never ridden the course and was a bit nervous cos the mountain goats had rolled up, so I attacked hard 3km's in which disintegrated D grade. I came up behind C grade, and not really knowing the rules (didn't know if we could pass higher grades) I backed orf.
That's when one of the climbers caught up and asked what I had left. (maybe wanted to go on with me? and said we could pass)
We attacked again, passing a good number of C graders and managed to drop another 2 D graders that'd latched on during the calm.

So it was me and 2 climbers going at a pretty hard pace for the remainder of the race (2x 19km laps). I think I heard them talking a few times about dropping me etc, but I managed to hang on whenever they attacked on the hills... just.

3 km from the finish there's a nasty steep climb... heard them say "count of three" and they were orf. Stayed on their wheel 'till the crest and put the hammer down for the descent. Last Km is flat, I was pushing bloody hard with one of 'em still on my wheel... rounded the corner to see the line (200m away) and sprinted. I saw him start to come around so I upped a gear and dropped him.

Definitely my biggest win to date.



Sheet my legs hurt.