Hey, I'm the first to admit our gov'ment is utter shiet. We lock people fleeing their countries for their lives in concentration camps, invent fictitious 'childern overboard' propaganda to demonise them, the AWA farce....I could go on. Hard to expect anything else when we look up to Big Brother and the spectre of 'Popularism' for constant approval.

As for Corby, all that shows is that 1) One chick with nice boobies doesn't out-trump international relations with Indonesia, and 2) Queenslanders are quite possibly the dumbest bogans on the planet!

I's nice to see you guys occasionally think about the possibility of getting all excited about something.

Now, as I said several posts ago, I originally THOUGHT (past tense) the thread was a load of rubbish - given that I actually now post the odd product of my deranged thought processes here, I clearly no longer hold this view. This is a strangely beguiling, oddly addictive thread.

Yes Thylacine, I agree we need an oasis of Antipodean anarchy in a sea of Seppo BS - I especially enjoy the discussions on topics completely unrelated to cycling (like the car thing a several pages back, how long did that run for?) and then eventually someone posts something about cycling which gets the thread back on track for a few posts before it veers off onto a tangent again.

It would be interesting to see if some of you are as err ... eccentric ... in person as you seem on this thread

as opposed to the CIA black ops interrogation plane thats been jetsetting around the globe at the expense of the taxpayer, vs waiting how many days for hurricane support / resuce?

could play tit - for tat with this all day !

You need to speak to pshaw in person...

Is he safe?

then theres jock, whos apparantly the very mirror image of yoda ....

WARNING - question related to cycling follows.....

Is it still possible to buy cycling shorts made with REAL chamois? If yes, any local sources?

Wouldn't pshaw be Mc-centric?

And matagi...careful about asking for real chamois...you'll start the whole dead animals debate again!

Nah, I didn't mention vegans or vit B12, so I think I might get away with it.

https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...344242523.html

doored then hit by truck

Yeah, he's harmless. But yew kint oonderstend a werd he sez...

All you need to know is I get my bike bits from the bakeshop and dress like a banana

I think Giramonda have real chamoiseses. Until Odin bought his Eastern Vets Giramondo knicks, I had no idea the company was in Melbourne!

They sell good quality knicks direct to the public for $85
https://www.giramondo.com.au/

That pretty much sums it up.

Nah, it's not a real chamoiseses..es
There was a blurb about what it actually is but I chucked it. Gawd they're sooo comfy though.

How do ya like the way the press reports this!!!!!!!
As if the door was there all the time and this blind suicidal cyclist just aimed straight for it.

If we want to educate the great unwashed we first need educated reporters.

bummer there is no comment box, I would have flamed away at the journo then got you guys to join in

Yeah, I hate it when I deliberately run into cars. I feel so sorry for the motorists involved. It must be heartbreaking for them

Anyway, as I think Shackleton or someone said "Gentlemen, I may be gone for some time", so wish me good luck as I attempt to ADSL up my new computer. Hopefully I'll come out the other side.....faster....stronger....and better looking.

Bah! Stronger high speed makes one not. Patience and character does dial up build.

Well, that couldn't have been easier. My dial-up days are gorn! Jaysus, it took like 2 minutes to set up.

Zooooom!

Wow, pages load instantaneously.

what did you get thy as far as provider, plan and what hardware did you get?
Im interested in hardware I need a new modem

bah all dial up teaches you to do is swear repeatedly

Well, I spoke to my mate who's up to speed with all this crap, so we checked out whirlpool.net.au or whatever and decided to go with Exetel. It's 49 bucks a month for 512/128, 8gb of data, excess is ramped and costed out at 3 bucks a gig thereafter. It's a pretty bare bones service, but it's so easy to set up (he says now) I don't know why I didn't do it sooner. *crosses fingers*
We were going to get a modem/router seperately, but ended up just buying a NetComm NB5Plus4 modem/router off Exetel as part of the package. Think it was only 105 bucks or something. Got 4 ethernet ports so you can attach as many computers as you like, and Exetel doesn't smack your bum for doing so.

nice Im with internode 39.95 a month 512/128 8gig a month (I think you mean 16gig for the money you pay?) Node is good, heaps of free content that I actually use.
Mate you will love bittorrent once you figure out how to use it. Im not saying anymore on that topic already been sin binned for saying more about bittorrent before. But the info is out there and easily gettable

There is a memorial ride for past cyclists every Good Friday where I live, organised by the local Cycle Action group. I went on it for the first time this year, huge turn out.

Interestingly I learned that the cycle Action group was a direct spin off from a local cyclist getting killed in traffic, and they have lobbied the local council to commit to spending $9m over the next 10 years on improving cycling facilities in the region.

We have cycle lanes popping up all over the place now. It's a pity that it takes a tragedy to get people to wake up and take action though eh

Just ignore them ... I quite like the accent - which part of Scotland, BTW.