acca?

Did get to ride for an hour yesterday, night ride planned for Tuesday and a trip to Killingworth XC planned for Sunday.

Chance of a lunchtime ride down M2 all but vanished today

help is at hand...

So did anyone ever end up posting any pictures of this momentous occasion?

going to be my next question! thylo pmed 2 pics out to people, do you still have them to share around? ive always wondered what hitchy looked like * twas but a lurker back then.

Jock -> acca = accident.

Yeah there were a few pics. Just a bunch of fat dudes plodding along with big calves.

Say it isn't so! I was imagining a bunch of whippet-thin greyhounds on a hammerfest.

so badsac, care to post said pics and expose the guilty?

For those that missed some old pics.... Here's me and Climbo on Ourimbah XC.
And no this isnt circa 1985 before some smart a$$ comments on our dayglo outfits (expat )

Climbos on the pallet...

Actually, in the two group rides I've on the road since deciding to get back into it, I've stacked both times!!!!

Firstly was into the back of Hitchy when he decided to stop for a couple of Jap tourists at the stop lights in St.Kilda (I mean really, who actually stops of pedestrians? Loose all streetwise roadie points immediately). Secondly was with some old mates up in the Dandenongs on a loop I'd never done before. We approached a roundabout, I went straight, they turned right.

Landed in the emergency room after that with a nice chainring induced gash in my leg.

Sorry to hear about your stack matagi. Heal fast.

Details Matagi, details. I was looking for your BRG Jag on the weekend!

heres a couple of HDT looking fat and far from racing weight at the dirt crits in february. good fun, cant wait till next years series!

HOLY CRAP! One of your fork legs has fallen off!!!!!!!!!!!
:ROFLMAO:

and yet they still work better than 90% of forks out there!

Looking resplendent in your poncy peleton skirt HDT

(Don't worry, I have one too and I'm not even a member of their club!!)

then again, i could be part of what looks like the " fruit bowl " club. pshaw looking like a banana, and jocko + climbo rounding out the fruit salad look in their bright orange club kit

actually i think the pic on the left was the 1st time id worn lycra in a MTB race, was sold from then on, the pic on the right was my 1st podium effort ( i actually thought id won, kinda emabarasing!)

So they show up in droves to kick a seppo out of the country?

Hey, when they bake shop has a sale, you can't pass up a deal.

It's funny that on a thread posted under the Road Cycling sub-forum, the only pics are of dudes riding their MTBs!!

meh, seen 1 dude riding a road bike youve seen them all!

It was there, in fact it did a dash from Mt Penang to Calga to pick up a guy who had put his rear derailleur into the spokes. He had only put 200km on the bike - he was not a happy camper (Cannondale R800 with 105 gruppo)

I don't think I want to share the details - it was due to a very stupid error on my part. Let's just say that when one re-assembles one's bike after taking it out of the back of the car, it is very important to connect the brakes before launching down a steep driveway.

But that isn't what I did ....no.. I was doing 60km/hr up Bumble Hill, when this wombat dashed out of nowhere. Yes, that's what happened. No, really, it did.

hey, I never knock back free stuff (even lairy team shirts)... that jersey has lasted the test of time.

Some post-lunch / completely OT random fun while I slack off. Here's the top 20 ways to cark-it if you're a while male Seppo -

20 Leading Causes of Death, United States
2003, White, Non-Hispanic, Males

Cause of Death / Number of Deaths

Percentage of All Deaths in all Age Groups:

- All Deaths 956,194 / 100.0%
1 Heart Disease 276,241 / 28.9%
2 Malignant Neoplasms 236,150 / 24.7%
3 Chronic Low. Respiratory Disease 53,593 / 5.6%
4 Unintentional Injury 51,888 / 5.4%
5 Cerebrovascular 48,549 / 5.1%
6 Diabetes Mellitus 25,940 / 2.7%
7 Influenza & Pneumonia 23,541 / 2.5%
8 Suicide 21,085 / 2.2%
9 Alzheimer's Disease 16,427 / 1.7%
10 Nephritis 15,323 / 1.6%
11 Liver Disease 13,254 / 1.4%
12 Septicemia 11,181 / 1.2%
13 Parkinson's Disease 9,303 / 1.0%
14 Aortic Aneurysm 7,731 / 0.8%
15 Pneumonitis 7,454 / 0.8%
16 Benign Neoplasms 5,732 / 0.6%
17 Hypertension 5,673 / 0.6%
18 Atherosclerosis 4,181 / 0.4%
19 Perinatal Period 3,673 / 0.4%
20 Homicide 3,550 / 0.4%
All Others 115,725 / 12.1%

The most interesting stat? You've got a 6 times greater chance of killing youself intentionally than you have of someone else doing it for you.

Does anyone else find this mildly disturbing?

Yep, you just can't trust yerself these days...

Damn, me bike's on eBay so I've swapped the pedals/wheels etc over to the bog standard stuff <== no riding it. Seems to be a lot of interest in it but FFS, I wish someone would just buy the bloody thing! Does everyone wait fer the last day of auction or summink?
I've got most of the $$ sitting here burning a hole and there's a shiny 5200 waiting at the shoppe.