fark yeah, heaps of trails out there.

Man, my Arete Sc is only 225g lighter than the equivalent Arete SL. That's about half a waterbottles' worth of water.

Sweet! Is the price of steel coming down yet?

Yes.




Only if I buy 10 or more tubesets at a time :D Then I'd be happy to pass the savings on to you and your 9 closest mates! *evil laugh*

Naw, seriously, I'll look after any of yas if you're in the market.

Hey saccy, mates said pretty muchthe same as you e.g.
Waaaay too much sand!
Not very flowing
Lots of crappy rock shelve drop offs
A waking section in a bike race:eek:

One mate got to the walking section and met someone else on their way back...dunno maybe the trails crossed, anyway he turned round and road back to the village at 75odd kays cause he thought it was crap!

Ourimbah is on the NSW central coast next to Gosford. Make a weekend of it and there are loads of trails to ride, maybe even squeeze in a CCCC RR.
Ourimbah XC course
Killingworth XC course
Glenrock nat park
Boudhi nat park (Staples Lookout/WoyWoy tip/Pearl beach)
Tons of trails to ride :D

Is Ourimbah on the train line to Newcastle? We have friends in Newcastle that we'll probably visit in the not too distant future.

Ourimbah is indeed on the trainline between sydney and newcastle, but it's not a major stop. You would have to catch an all-stations train from either gosford (coming from the sydney end) or wyong (coming from the newcastle end). Ourimbah station is about 10-15 mins from either option.

timetables at www.cityrail.info or as an alternative http://www.cityrail.info/

Expat can you fix the bleep on the valid URL in the post above so that it actually works as a hyperlink pls?

I didn't mind going down the drop offs. Going up them gave me the irrates though. You get over the trials mindset after a while.

Does this look like the area?

hmmm.... hard to say saccy. I've never been able to jump quite that high! :p

but yer definitely looking at the ourimbah/lisarow area (eastern side of the freeway). The two roundabouts at the top/left are the F3 ourimbah interchange. Our crit course goes around that cluster of white buildings just down and to the right of there.

willy or climbo will know the trails area

You guys sound like a bunch of old roadies or somethin' ;)

Sounds like fun to me.

My race on Sunday consisted of mud rain and more mud! Raced for 4.5 hours (6hr enduro)then called it quits.

Some super dodgy descents on steep rutted terrain. Very scary. :eek:

you're miles fom it saccy :) , it's NW of there. Look up Red Hill Road Yarramalong and you'll find the general area.

I can't find those pictures of Warney with the nude chicks

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/

Ask him to text 'em to ya! :lol:

"Hi Shane, u r my favourit bogan. Can u sign my butt pls?"

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/media-p...-autograph.jpg

Damnit, I'm freezing again. 12 degrees, Jaysus.

The don't have street names on these photos. Is one of these it?

I'm going out now for an easy one, and I expect to see an orange bike with MTB style decals out there :p

Not as bad as yesterday: 10 degrees as 4pm, so I only did an hour

You'd love Bathurst. It's 6.

No, try Photo 99 Run 8, Red Forest Rd should be in the LH quarter (Mardi Dam is the body of water in the lower part of the photo).

There, I bet you found that really helpful didn't you? :D :D

Go Warnie!

http://www.theage.com.au/news/cricke...940438785.html

http://media.theage.com.au/?rid=1899...ate=23&flash=1

From News of The World

Last night MTV presenter Coralie, 25—who was spotted canoodling with Robbie Williams at a London hotel just over a week ago—told us: "Shane blew our minds. He was so fit. I'd give him top marks for more than satisfying us.

"He was talking dirty all the time. It was full on, hardcore and we had a great time. In the trouser department he was above average."

Emma, also 25, added: "Shane's a stallion and very willing to experiment. He loved playing around with the inflatable and was up for anything." Sex-mad Shane—who is facing a £4 million divorce battle with Simone—set up the steamy three-in-a-bed session by bowling a series of saucy texts at Coralie.

:roflmao:

we need google maps

her butt will keep ya ears warm.
err cool in the mornins over here 6-23, warm during the day, puuurfect

Yep it was tough although the 'hell wind' had calmed a bit to about 20k for my race (MMAS8).
The journey for us was 38k on a/the* 12k+ figure 8 circuit up Peat's Ridge Rd and back along Wiseman's Ferry Rd. *(I'm not sure if this is the normal CCCC RR track but it's quite hilly.) The wind was NW which was on the nose (literally) up PR Rd.
First time up I was comfortable, handling a couple of early surges without much trouble. When we turned off onto WF Rd. I was near the rear and they slowed to a ridiculous speed for the corner at the bottom of the dip which meant I lost my momentum and had no run on for the big hill just around the corner. There was a surge and I was gorne. I recovered to trail them back to the start by about 2/300m but I couldn't bridge before the second effort up PR Rd. into the wind which was basically the end of my story. I pulled the pin 1/3rd into the last lap fotally tucked.
I think the TT on Thursdy took a lot out of me and rightly or wrongly I did a steady 44k on Satdy morning with the guys after a deep tissue massage Fridy nite. :eek:

Anyway, I was never really in it with a chance and I was reasonably happy with my effort considering the competition.

CNSW did a great job with help from many areas including CCCC. The marshals/officials were all great, giving lots of help, support and encouragement and it was a privileged for me just to be there.
Keith Oliver won our div. going away in the sprint but a couple of our blokes, Tony Whiteside and Phil Owen were there at the end to keep him honest.

This could possibly be the end of my racing career :rolleyes:

Huh? What big hill? Nothing in the Central Mangrove area of Wiseman's Ferry Rd qualifies to my knowledge. Any local yokels know which route this was?

grazie ragazzi :)

Wo ist der Jan?

I'm sixty farkn five mat and for me a farkn hill is a farkn hill. orite cob! now go play in the traffic.

The course was... lets say "testing" for want of a better word matagi.

It seemed to me that you were almost always going uphill to some extent. Now they're only steady little rises as you rightly point out, but when you're chasing the climbers (who are doing it easy) all day life get's a little less comfortable.

well done berny. bad luck on fading at the end, but you'll be back next year for another go. hope it's not in perth or darwin. or wagga