jock

G'day Odin. I find COKE is the best fix for stubborn sinuses. Just take a big swig and have someone make you laugh just as you start to swallow. Make sure you laugh hard enough for at least 1/3 of a can to flush through you nasal cavity. Be sure to use a really cold, just-opened can for best effect.

Brian

Dr. Jock went to the same med school as Dr. Nick Riviera.

62vette

For a moment there I thought you were suggesting Colombian marching powder as a sinus remedy. Then I read on. Either would probably work though

Odin

Cheers jock (pity I didn't have any loaded up when I read your post)
...and here's me worried that it'd be some kind of crude procedure

Cure=.33swig x

Got it

jock

Hiiii everybuddy

Brian

Hi Dr. Jock!

531Aussie

my doctor had me snorting warm salty water when I had a sinsus infection

blaaaa

jock

Anyone know what NOS means on eBay? In carspeak it means more-better-go-faster, or mix it with helium for the ultimate party gas.

Odin

New Old Stock

Brian

Indeed. New old stock for everything but Nitrous Oxide System's products. NOS for cars allows your motor to more effectively burn the air/fuel mixture achieving higher volumetric efficiency.

jock

A couple of my old school friends put a 7litre V8 into a ford falcon. Of course they saw the need to add nitrous ahead of any requirement for a rollcage! On the inaugural test run they couldn't shut the engine off: the thing was ticking over on pressure of the NO bottles (yes plural). Once they got the flow regulated properly it was a dead set rocket.

Anyway they sold it to some guy in Sydney. He rang up the same afternoon to say he broke it. Apparently he'd put the foot down and left it there as soon as he hit the freeway. About brooklyn the C4 auto decided that enough was enough and locked up. The car did multiple 360's at very high speed. Somehow it didn't roll.

Funny

Odin

Or laugh your arse off. Apparently, at N2O parties, people always fall over backwards.

jock

Hang on a minute Expat. I though NO was used as a displacement tool, like water injection, to effectively give you higher compression. Isn't volumetric efficiency achieved using something like a tunnel-ram?

Brian

You're just getting more complete [read powerful] burn out of that same compressed mixture. Of course, if you don't supplement the fuel, you burn pistons in no time.

[edit] back in my racing days (1968 Camaro, 327/4 speed/12 bolt rear w/posi 4.10:1 gears] one of the clowns I knew installed his brother's NOS injector plate upside down. Some sort of explosion resulted.

531Aussie

I missed Cycling Central. Did it start today?
Anything good on?


any of you northerners get into the riots?

jock

Cycling Central started last Sunday with coverage of the Sydney 1000 or something like that. If you miss a Sunday edition you can set your PVR to catch a repeat edition on Wed arvos at 3:30pm.

ed073

The Windemere Classic is back!!!

Tour de France stars to race in Dandenong
The international stars of Australian cycling, Baden Cooke, Simon Gerrans and Matt Wilson, will race in the Jayco Greater Dandenong Criterium on Sunday, December 18, 2005. The event is open to all registered racing cyclists, giving them a rare chance to match their skills and fitness with the world's best riders.

All funds raised on the day plus the proceeds from the Women's race go directly to the Amy Gillett Foundation.

There are six events (A-Grade Men 60 mins, Celebrity Race, Women 45 mins, B Grade 45 mins, C Grade 45 mins, M/W17 30 mins) and eight categories (Men, Women,M23, M/W19, M/W17 and Masters). Racing begins at 11:30 am on a course bounded by Pultney, Wilson, Langhorne and Wedge Streets (Melways 90 E9).

For more information contact John Trevorrow (Cycling Events Downunder) at johnt@cyclingevents.com.au.


Great criterium circuit....short, sharp downhill onto the looong main straight has you revving out the 11.

HDTVKSS

Sorry Odin, too busy riding to look on here everyday! umm 2 ways to do it depending on your budget / preferences. you can get a bottle of compressed saline from the chemist, im not sure if you need a prescription for it or not. bascily you put it in your nose, lean your head back and pull the trigger! then blow all the mess into a tissue. not my prefered method, i think the name of the one i had was phi - somthing.

other way to do it is get a largish bowl, some table salt and warm water. mix the water and a large portion of the salt cup it in your hand and inhale, then as above blow it out into a tissue. seems to work well for me, my old man gets sinus a lot and he swears by it....

the only time it didnt work too well was when my sinuses were infected and i was blowing out blood, not the most comfortable sensation....

pshaw

Someone should send a link to this thread to Brett Lee!

jock

Here you go then: https://www.brettlee.net/contactbrett.php

531Aussie

thanks, Jocko

you guys have probably already read all this somewhere else, but......

...grouse interview with Cooke last night on SEN (radio). He said he was definitely gunna hit Bettini after that crash, but as he was approaching him, he saw all the Italian media swarming around them and thought he might spend the night in jail if he snotted the Olympic champion in Italy in front of 1000 cameras.


Cooke also said that his crash before the Tour was a result of his bike and chainrings being too flexy, causing the chain to occasionally come off. He continually complained to his mechanics to get stiffer chainrings, but they didn't really believe him. His chain came off at 65kmh during training, causing his crash. He had to scramble off the road with a truck coming the other way with its brakes locked up!
He quickly called the mechanic to abuse them, then, eventually ended up with track chainrings.

also a good interview with Josh Collingwood. He was in a lab at his uni one day during his retirement, and, with virtually no training, wearing runners with no toe-straps, got a VO2 max of 84 on a bike, so he thought he should start thinking about a comeback

ed073

Yep. Brilliant listening last night.

Isn;t Collingwood a qualified doctor now?? Jeezus.....far too smart to be a bike racer.

531Aussie

have you heard the SEN ads? They're looking for "an experienced accounts executive".
is that you?

I think i've said this before, but couldn't you be doing what you're doing now, but for
a bike comapny, like an importer, or whatever?

you could be the next Robin Tullett
Actually, he seems like a top bloke. Doesn't he work for Look?

ed073

Yeah....why not go and work for a radio station that's in receivership!!


I could, but the bike industry is very small in Australia...and populated by a lot of fairly massive egos I'd have an issue with. I'd last 12 months before walking away.

Tool-ett is not bad....been around for a million years.

531Aussie

A few weeks ago he was trying to talk me into racing vets with him. I think he wants a chubby, wind-breaking, lead-out man

is he a sprinter?