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Old 04-13-06 | 03:41 AM
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Thanks to everyone who played tonight, and congratulations to our winners.
Bugger, there's my evening's entertainment down the schitter
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Old 04-13-06 | 04:21 AM
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Bugger, there's my evening's entertainment down the schitter
you can play the whole game at www.mrock.com.au if looking at 50 eggs takes your fancy. Have fun...
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Old 04-13-06 | 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by jock
Sea-Otter results covered way back by climbo (https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...er#post2383352)

What's with the podium 'swap' bit?
Typo. I make mistakes like that quite often. It's been changed.
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Old 04-13-06 | 06:29 PM
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Only eggs I'm interested in are chocolate, and are laid by a chocolate rabbit. And that - my friends - is the story of Jesus.
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Old 04-13-06 | 06:38 PM
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Only eggs I'm interested in are chocolate, and are laid by a chocolate rabbit. And that - my friends - is the story of Jesus.
Over here, the Cadbury bunny that lays those eggs makes chicken sounds on the commercials...
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Old 04-13-06 | 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Thylacine
Only eggs I'm interested in are chocolate, and are laid by a chocolate rabbit. And that - my friends - is the story of Jesus.
Enjoy the break and a steak fellow BF'rs.
2 days of MTB'ing in the hills has given me the taste for more still,

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Old 04-13-06 | 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Thylacine
Only eggs I'm interested in are chocolate, and are laid by a chocolate rabbit. And that - my friends - is the story of Jesus.
The egg thing predates Christ. It related to the festival of the returning spring season (northern hemisphere). Christians incorporated their stuff into it and effectively ended up polluting the whole concept.

Just thank your lucky stars you don't live in Norway, where easter is celebrated with the reading of murder-mysteries. WTF?
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Old 04-14-06 | 02:28 AM
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Well HDT went a step closer to having a Mrs HDT today. proposed to the GF ( and more importantly gota yes!0 at Cathryn hill Bay today.

now consider all the $$ i spent on the ring and what a nice bike that could have gotten me

passed a Central Coast Cycle club guy up near the Caltex on the freeway, was that anyone from here?
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Old 04-14-06 | 03:46 AM
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I've been doing it for over 20 years, what do you need to know? Leaves at 6.25am, back to Darlo about 8.50
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Old 04-14-06 | 03:49 AM
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Congrats HDT (ya silly bugger!)

If you passed the guy at about 10:30/11:00am then no. I passed a guy in cccc kit about 3km before the Gosford exit at about 11:20 and it looked like Phil Campbell.

All the rest of us were out on the Aust Masters Road Course with some guys Hunter Districts CC up until 11:00am. Bit of an eye opener. Tough course with just enough in it to give the hill climbers a bit of an edge. Sprinters will have to hope that the strong men can tow them along and keep them in touch with the weight weenies.
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Old 04-14-06 | 03:51 AM
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JFS, did you just answer a question from about 3 or four weeks ago? The colluzzi ride??
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Old 04-14-06 | 04:43 AM
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Originally Posted by HDTVKSS
I proposed to the GF
you proposed to the Grand Final? Crikey
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Old 04-14-06 | 04:51 AM
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These look sus to you?

https://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....MakeTrack=true
https://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....MakeTrack=true
https://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....MakeTrack=true
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Old 04-14-06 | 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted by HDTVKSS
Well HDT went a step closer to having a Mrs HDT today. proposed to the GF ( and more importantly gota yes!0 at Cathryn hill Bay today.

now consider all the $$ i spent on the ring and what a nice bike that could have gotten me
Congrats. But you gotta not think about things like what the ring cost, and how expensive kids are, that sort of stuff. Every time I saw a nice used 4 door Hilux 4wd, it reminded me of the 3 weeks we spent taking the kids to the US and Disneyland.
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Old 04-14-06 | 06:53 AM
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Scams. All three. I'd bet money on it. Use the Ask Seller a Question to alert the owners of the compromised accounts.
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Old 04-14-06 | 07:12 PM
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Scams. All three. I'd bet money on it. Use the Ask Seller a Question to alert the owners of the compromised accounts.
well your right all of them have been taken down.
What were they?
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Old 04-14-06 | 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by mrkott3r
well your right all of them have been taken down.
What were they?
I sent an email to my contact at ebay. After about 100 or so, they act pretty fast when I send them a sketchy auction. They were rare bikes with a history, but the scammer was greedy and tried it with 3 different accounts.
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Old 04-14-06 | 08:29 PM
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Congrats HDT!

I must warn you though that now is the time to buy your unobtanium dream bikes before the cycling budget comes under the control of "she who must be obeyed"

I am the owner of a set of very tired legs this arvo. Good thing I mowed the lawns and dug the garden yesterday. This morning's ride started out as the standard Sat morning 70-90km gallop with the boys, but ended up being a 130km epic over rolling hills. I had to stop at a bakery on the way home and scoff down a large quantity of sugary baked goods as my one banana I started with just wasn't cutting it.
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Old 04-14-06 | 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
I sent an email to my contact at ebay. After about 100 or so, they act pretty fast when I send them a sketchy auction. They were rare bikes with a history, but the scammer was greedy and tried it with 3 different accounts.

hmm i think I saw one last night. But I barely looked at it because it was stupidly undervalued.
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Old 04-14-06 | 09:38 PM
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this is a very minor ebay thingy....

I once bought a new frame that I didn't like, and after riding it for a month I swaped it at a shop for another (MUCH CHEAPER!! ) frame. A few weeks later I saw the frame on Ebay, accompanied with such comments as, "this frame has never been completely built up and never ridden"
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Old 04-14-06 | 09:49 PM
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yeah ebay is pretty dodgy like that. Especially atm everything is a bit overpriced. I wouldnt call your experience minor though. The person who bought it got ripped off
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Old 04-14-06 | 10:21 PM
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Hit a pothole as 60kmh this morning and I knew straight away that the hidieous cracking sound from under my nose could mean only one thing: cracked carbon forks. 3" vertical split from the shoulder of the left blade.

went straight to the LBS who reckons $230 is a fair thing for some new ones. GACK!
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Old 04-14-06 | 10:30 PM
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Bluddy hell jock, lucky you didn't end up a 3" vertical split in you.

The last of those auctions finished this morning with 4 bids!! Then it disappeared.
I'd emailed eBay about it too.
This one:
Flecha's Fassa Bortolo Pinarello Dogma Team Bike
Current Price: AU $800.00



Congrats to HDT as well. 62vette is right... spend, and spend big.
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Old 04-14-06 | 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jock
Hit a pothole as 60kmh !
"CRIKEY JALIKEY"

I recently got some 1"1/8 full-carbon Mizuno forks for about $200 from my LBS

do want full-carbon? Inch & 1/8? For the Gitane?

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Old 04-14-06 | 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Odin
Bluddy hell jock, lucky you didn't end up a 3" vertical split in you.
I was just waiting for the front end to collapse underneath me. Was on a downhill run, mass of cars tangling with each other 100m up the road and spreading out all over the place, not much room to move. Very much fun NOT.
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