Will see how things pan out, circumstances aside, PM us if you fancy heading up one weekend, with enough notice we should be able to make a rare appearance!

I am up for a rear wheel rebuild after breaking a spoke on my morning training ride today. I don't think I trust the remaining spokes, and you often have further breakages after one. GRRR

I also had to phone home to be rescued for the first time ever as the wheel was so far out of true it was jamming on the chain stay. My monster 28mm tyres didn't help there either.

It was such a beautiful morning today as well - I stopped for 10 minutes at the beach to watch the surfers enjoying the remnants of the storm generated big waves, then laughed at the poor saps queueing in the traffic, and then instant karma bit me on my back wheel

They are cheap for a zonal tube set. Just needs a bit of a re-spray. I think the graphics look terrible.

A friend bought a carbon Learsport frame for $300. Some guy bought the bike then stripped the parts and flogged the frame off through the LBS.

Thanks 531 and Alchemy for the suggestions on rides that are organised around melbourne.

Ian.

60th Tour de Romandie

1 Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 4.10.21 (40.503 km/h)
2 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram
3 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
4 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas
5 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank
6 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram
7 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Rabobank
8 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Française des Jeux
9 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone
10 Fabrizio Guidi (Ita) Phonak Hearing Systems

go Robbie go! welcome back to form

Yay, new wheels just arrived.

They look sweet as. Hope freewheel sounds pretty beefy.

5 bucks says the first thing you do when you get home is put them on the scales

Those Learsports are the worst frames money can buy. I mean, is the Eifel tower just I-Beams? Is the Guggenheim at Bilbao just titanium sheets? Is the Boeing 777 just Nomex? No.

Oh, and the definition of triathlete? The inability to steer.

Hehehe! I just downloaded the Blood Brothers doing a cover of 'Under Pressure'. So very wrong.

Pretty safe bet I'd say.

What a coincidence that just happened to pick my scales up last night.

WoooHoo. Dry Race Tonight.
No mud to be seen.

I expect a full race report of the new wheels on my e-desk no later than 10:36am.

Racing the old wheels tonight.

Going to come back to work afterwards to pick up the wheels.

Besides, I can't have dirt on them before I put them on the scales.

Thylo's a d1ckhead!

damnit, you beat me to it - wonder how long Thylo's been beating it

'cept I don't have brown hair

Easily arranged

Chain started muck'n up today. I thought the grand kids had fiddled with the adjustment again cause it was jump'n like it had too much tension on the cable but all effort to adjust the bugga, failed. After check'n it tonite, it seems that one pin has let go on one side. The out of line chain, is actually clipping the dropout at the wonky link. weird.
I'll drop it off to Eddie S tomorra for a new chain. (name dropper ).

*dashes orf to check chain links*

The Cycleops 12 Hour Enduro is on again at the Eastern Creek Raceway on Saturday 20 May. You's blokes should extract you digits and come along. Wurf every minit

What about the nose

No worries. Maybe see you out on the road sometime.

Yep - with perhaps a few exceptions .

Check this all you road jockys;

https://www.waratahvcc.asn.au/database/wapmc.pdf

I was there for Part 1 and some of Part 2....missed part 3 and you are still going in Part 4.... You guys need a show on Channel 31 or something!!

SJP, unfortunatley seinfeld has allready done the show about nothing!

They're talking about Cadel on RRR right now