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

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

Top marks Odin. 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
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

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

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 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.

Good. I don't think BF can spare the bandwidth.

Wouldn't have a clue Willy, was at DGV all weekend. Even missed the grand prix coverage!

I hope you'll be there next Sunday for the last crit of the season, baby or no baby.

Speaking of DGV, man I am totally shagged from the waist up!! Upper body is not used to countering three full-on days of hard leg work. I might have to go to the gym after all.

Final analysis: I'm too effin slow There is much work to do between now and next September.

On the upside I think I've discovered my pet event in the pointscore race. What a hell race that is. It's like a prime crit with no inhibitions! Whooop.

Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine went like this,

Whole familly got a cold bar me. I rode Sat morn to waterfall and on the mad strung out dash back to Sutherland, I went to the front about 4 times. That was until Rochelle Gilmore popped out of nowhere, and after veiwing her cheesy web site last week, I did the right thing and sat on her wheel to check the form.

Good ride, averaged 36ish kph (including the shlep home from the coffee shop). Sunday I couldn't back it up all the way and after Berowra, I fought the highway traffic on my own back to the East. Maybe would have been easier to keep going.

Thought about driving to work today as I was feeling pretty crap, have to move wifes car to get mine out. Easier to take the bike instead. I have an approx 1k long hill to start with from home, by the time I got to the top I was flying. Had to resist using big gears on the way to work. I hope this lasts a while.

Jock the GP wasn't bad. The way buttons engine let go on the last 2 corners was great. See the footage from behind? the amount of oil that covers the lense?

I saw 30 seconds of the GP on a replay. 2 Ferraris get mangled, which is always good telly.

Hey, saw "V for Vendetta" on Satdee. Good flick - right up my alley conspiracy/totalitarian/1984 type stuff, with explosions and knife fights too boot. Solid 7.5/10.

Comic book styling (ala Sin City)?

DGV results?

MMAS2 Fraser: Gold in 1000m TT in 1:08+, DQ 3000m Pursuit, Silver in Sprints, pointscore? dunno.
MMAS2 Worby: Died in last 300m of TT, DNF pointscore
MMAS3 meself: generally went crap (as in slower than on Adcock!!), but learned heaps.
MMAS4 Holley: into absolutley everything, might have PB'ed a few.
MMAS5 Tierney: Died in last 150m of TT

Club Team Sprint:
Kerkin, Chapman, Fraser 4th ~54.5
Page, Harding, Worby ~55.5
Tierney, Murray, Beckwith ~56.3
White, Samuel, Holley ~59

I talked the Saturday lads into a MTB ride after all the road we've been doing lately.

We went on a 3 hr return trip through plantation and native forest on 4WD tracks and a little single track up into the hills just behind town with a 10 minute walk down into a gully to see a waterfall at the turnaround.

My chain broke two minutes into the return journey, but there were a couple of chain breakers on hand luckily or it would have been a long walk on the uphill and flat bits going back. One of the other blokes got a snake bite puncture descending through some largish rocks as well. That's MTB riding for you though. My ride tool kit now includes my chain breaker L.

There was a very slow section of descent that was mossy and slippery enough to offer no traction on the way up. I could hardly even stay on my feet to walk it going up. Luckily we went on Saturday as it absolutely peed down on Sunday, and it would have been like skittles but with blokes on bikes

Good work, I went for a MTB on Sunday and stuffed up the clocks, was waiting for my mate at 0530 instead of 0730... doh!

How very Irish of you!!

Only 3 stacks at the state titles, all of them by world champions:

Bronze medal to Peter Barnard for ungraceful exit from a 200m sprint heat in pike position.
Silver medal to Geoff Stoker (or was it Dave Willmott?) for low speed splat on the warm-down lap.
Gold to Peter Barnard for high degree of difficulty crash into photographer's chair after the warm-down lap.

LOL, you nut, long day for you getting up that early. All I got on the weekend was a cold

any of you guys got the Joe Friels Training Bible or the Greg LeMond training book?


Where can I get it without getting ripped off?

Would I get ripped off ordering it through a book shop?

just ask the BF members, they know it all anyway.

When I finally did get to ride...
After getting lucky hopping up and down a couple of rocky ledges, good luck gave way to ability and i won the OTB comp with a spectacular effort which resulted in;

1 uprooted tree due to shoulder charge
1 scratched Polar HRM
1 bent de-rail
1 bent rear tip
1 buckled wheel

No injuries to speak of

I've discovered I ride like a *****, every time I fall off I land on my feet.
Lives left = 8!