Your paying more for petrol there than here. Suck crap. :D

Hmm. US$2.79/3.8 = US$.73/litre. US$.73=AU$.94. So I guess petrol is under a buck in Oz? What's your major, son?

LOL What is your major malfunction private pile? LOL

FWIW, no dirtworks for me, should have seen sense a while ago but wife recovering from surgery, and brand new baby means it's easy to make the right decision :(

Oh, well always next year. Anyone know a rider who missed out on entry?

Actually, the exchange rate is .768 :p

To buy or sell? If you'd been a Forex trader this week, you could have easily doubled your money. Put US$2k in, take out $4k a week later.

it changes by the minute: http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html
up to 77c!!

I was a little quick to jump in :o

But you could argue the point with buying power of of the average household income or a twi.

EDIT: why am I replying to myself?

The first sign of insanity is talking to yourself. :p

bloddy hell. stupid **** car blew a fuel pump on the way up the coast today. oh well, i need to wait another week to do my 1st road race :( not happy. could have been worse i guess and let go on the freeway.

Well guys I bought a bike today. 2002 Giant OCR 2 giant link

And here is a pic
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/588...ocr26ff.th.jpg

Yeah its not the best bike in the world but its gonna do what I want it to, and it hasnt broken the bank, and no carbon forks or shimano wheels.

:beer:

Hey Oz, we raced @ Casey Fields fer the first time yesterday.
The track's a nice layout but : no carpark, no dunnys, no shelter, howling winds and mud as far the eye can see. Most people had to carry their bikes/gear a couple of hundred metres through crap to the start and you had to wear blunnies to get there. :mad:

crikey!! I was actually thinking about saddling up yesterday, but then I saw where the race was.

Is the track tight? In other words, anti-531Aussie? :)

there's a thread on it here: http://www.cyclingforums.com/t337670.html

There's 2 hairpins - well they look like hairpins but you don't slow down for 'em, couple of other wide open turns, a snakey bit that you straight-line, two bloody great long straights and one shorter straight.
I wouldn't call it tight at all... quite 531Aussie-friendly.
It'd be awesome if they put a 30ft wall around it... the wind there is a bloody killer.

Interesting read in that link :)

eh, wind is good coz it sorts out the wheel-suckers :)

Did you race B grade?
What was the turn-out like -- were all the big guns there?
Did the wind break up the field?

How was the CCCC RR?
How was the Dirtworks (heard the course was *****)
Anyone else out there?

I raced C grade and you're right... the wind absolutely disintegrated the bunches. 2 southern riders broke away so we went after them - we being 25 odd riders - by the time we caught them, we were 8 riders... and that's how it stayed 'till the last lap when our bunch broke in two.
We lapped just about all of the dropped C graders which surprised me cos I some of 'em usually place really well. All but one of the C grade guns were there, but only 2 finished in front of me (I was 6th) - the other 3 were Southerners.

That wind though!! We were going 50+km/h away from it and around 22km/h into it and the direction meant one straight with and 2 straights against it .

Eastern, Southern and CCCC were there.

For our regular players in NSW that's Carnegie Caulfield CC, not Central Coast CC :D

Well done on yet another excellent result Odin. You'll make A grade next crit season if you keep up the excellent performances. ;)

hehe oops! I shoulda specified... there were a few CCCC jerseys floating about and...

Thanks mate :) How's the mending going?

the real CCCC road race was OK. A grade went faster again this week. How about some Master RR reports? Who won, who lost? Who went? :)

CCCC WINTER ROAD SEASON 2006 RACE #: 3
6/05/2006 Riders Total: 54

Place Name Club Time Kms Avg Spd
km/h
A GRADE 15 Starters
1 Phil Thuaux CCCC 1:11:23 50 42.0
2 Dale Scarfe CCCC "
3 Cameron Peterson Peloton "
4 Robert Hodgson North Sydney "

B GRADE 8 Starters
1 Peter Griffin CCCC 1:20:02 50 37.5
2 Gareth Thomas North Sydney "
3 Peter Wickham CCCC "
4 Ray Van Schie CCCC 1:24:09

C GRADE 19 Starters
1 James Tan Waratah Vets 1:24:26 50 35.5
2 Ross Clague CCCC 1:24:32
3 Chris Sellars Manly Warr 1:24:56
4 Chris Chapman CCCC "

D GRADE 7 Starters
1 Brad Dillon Peloton 1:27:58 50 34.1
2 Paul McDonald CCCC 1:28:03
3 Daryl Telfer CCCC 1:32:51
4 Rob Russell CCCC 1:34:00

E GRADE 5 Starters
1 Jacyn Mellish CCCC 0:44:03 25 34.1
2 Mark Downes CCCC 0:47:08
3 Sue Jordan Kooragang 0:47:13
4 David Mellish CCCC 0:51:30

ugh, im still pissed that my car broke down on the way there :(

shoulda bought a Volvo :)