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.

http://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 :eek:

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!!!! :rolleyes:

*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!!!:p

http://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.

:D :D :D :D

Sheet my legs hurt. ;)

Tomoro there is a ride form Coluzzi 6.15 or harbour bridge 6.30am. Galstons (spelling),berowra, bobbin head then akuna. Going to start trying to do it every Sunday.

Well done Odin.

I went and got the registry forms for 2006, have to race next Sat. Haven't raced since December, new baby has made the 3 month phase, so it's game on again for me.

Yeah, great effort Ode. Up you go :D

Coluzzi wasbe**********

:beer: Top marks Odin. :beer: Get up into C Grade straight away if you can. The cunning old pro's will be lurking in there, just waiting for someone like you to come along :)

BMXer, that's an effin awsome ride!!!! Man I gotta get me some of that action. Every Sunday during winter, or is it just a pre-road season prep ride?

Thanks guys. I'm knackered but still buzzing :D
Yeah, there's quite a few calls fer moving up to C. :)
Last 8 starts: 3 wins, 3 seconds, a third and a fourth... hehe they reckon the three of us that broke away today have no right to be in D :lol:

They're not joking either. Watch yer back

You've done enough in D Grade (consistently). Go up so you can challenge yourself and improve. As you go through the grades the racing is different. The pace during the race gets less choppy so it's "generally easier" for want of a better description, but it's faster and the attacks are longer and more intense. Ego's are usually more intense too :D

Some very fast times in the NSW Masters State Titles.

Peter Barnard clocked a 50+ skinny in the MMAS3 TT to be within .5 sec of the world rec in that cat
Grant Fraser was super smooth on his way to the only sub 70 second ride of the night in the 1000m TT
Townsend, Willmott, & Barnard came within a second of the WR for the MMAS3 Team Sprint: and they're all from the same club :eek: x 2 Massive effort (48 skinny)

I understand what you mean by less choppy and easier, remembering when they threw me into C for my first race... it was a much more consistent pace than D (although quicker, we usually ave 33ish and C ave 35ish).
One of the other blokes went up a week or so ago and reckoned that C was much smoother to race in.
I know their sprint speeds are around 56km/h, but with a faster moving bunch/leadout, I might get close. (53.5 is my quickest to date)

Doing my intervals twice a week at the moment. Sprints on Tues and hills on Thurs :)

Congrats Odin.
Jock, fill us in on the weekends CCCC racing?

Boonen,

Fittler crossed with Carey crossed with Thorpe crossed with Mottram.

No race commentary necessary.