sounds like we have somthing in common then!

my mates racing ourimbah on sunday after 6 weeks off the bike... should be interesting.... 10 bucks says hel still beat me at ourimbah as my technical skills suck the big left one at the moment and unless they put demtel hill in im screwed :(

TIMES OF CIVIL TWILIGHT FOR:
GOSFORD Lat=-33°25'00" Long=+151°20'00"
30/05/2006 Rise 0622 Set 1723

Useable light at 6:22am means we can set off at about 5:00am from East Gosford (limit of battery life). Forecast is for mostly fine conditions, so daylight won't lag behind cloud.

Expected Temperatures: Gosford: 11, Mooney Creek & Berowra: 5

Reckon you'll be out of bed by then?

size 43 is my new size. Last time I really stuffed up buying 44s, but they felt quite tight when I was walking around the shop. I learnt that walking around a shop isn't the way to test bike shoes, coz as soon as i was on the bike they were looser, and a month later i was wearing 3 pairs of socks and using 2 insoles!

I'll be keeping both pairs, if that's what you're getting at :)

Belated congrats...2 girls, hhmmmm time to get a shot gun!

The thought had crossed my mind that if you were stuck with an unwanted pair in the right size perhaps and arrangement could be made....hehehe :)

Although, that being said, I haven't actually tried on any Sidi's at all, and I know that there is definately differences in fit in the same size shoe between various brands so Sidi may not be what I need anyway.

Nev has pigmy feet, heh heh.

congrats to climbo and his better half.
Don't tell me you were a Lothario in a past life to deserve the two girls?

Man, what a day. Insanity. I need a beer or 10 more than I can describe.

Anyway fellas, here's the latest cub to leave the Thylacine Den, thought I'd share. This one is bound for Tassie (Thanks Adam!) -

http://www.thylacinecycles.com/album...oh01.sized.jpg

http://www.thylacinecycles.com/album...oh04.sized.jpg

Now that's a colour you never see out there in the wild. Very eccentric.

Those dropouts are ultra-cool. What are they?

Certainly wouldn't see it out in the wild, it would be too camoflaged!

Dropouts are Paragon Machine Works Sliders. These ones are specifically for the Rohloff 14 speed hub.

Ahhh......a felafel and a sixpack of Monteiths Pilsner. I feel better already! :beer:

While were talking about helmets, I upgraded my smashed MET Ippogriffo to one of these http://www.specialized.com/bc/SBCEqP...TF_FULLSESSION

I always hated the MET because of its propensity to generate massive amounts of wind noise. Having head-slammed both it and a Bell Furio I can thoroughly recommend the Ippo over the Furio. The Furio was quieter yes, but left me with a massive headache after side slamming the road. MET took full force of the fall at a much higher speed and i hardly felt a thing afterwards even though the shell did not break down as much.

Having said that, there was no way I would buy another Ippo: I need to know what's going on behind me. I was going to upgrade to a MET Stradivarius but baulked when they pulled out a large and it fit. There's no way I'm a large, so the alarm bells started ringing. The Decibel fitted nicely in a medium and was $200 vs $290 for the Strad.

After 7 hours of riding I'm bloody happy with the Decibel. It's quieter than the Ippo, better looking (although the Dav-Lotto colours were more betterer!), and it's so light you hardly notice it's there. I'll update you with crash performance details at a later date :D

So what colour is it? Burgundy Rust?

I tried on the Decibel, my head wasn't Frankenstein enough (square). The new Strat is a nice helmet. I'd probably get one of those as my next skidlid, but you can pick up an Atmos on ebay real cheap these days, so it would be a tough choice. Come to think of it, I've stacked my helmet more times I can remember, so I really, really should replace it (right honey?) :D

Colour is a very unglamourous 'RAL 8012 matte', but I think 'Uluru' sounds much better.

Thanks for the report jock.
I was gonna get me an Ippo next... or maybe a Strad (seen some dirt cheep) I've never heard that they're noisy though. Good tip.

Nice work with the avatar Odin. A+

hehe, cheers jock... got bored sitting here waiting fer me bike auction to go orf. 50 minutes to go <drums fingers>

Yeah, flash git..... Saw it and immediately thought COOL!

Is this the one???

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Malvern-Star-...QQcmdZViewItem

:roflmao: yeah, but I didn't want to link to it and attract too many bids :roflmao:

A Rohloff with the disc setup. Does it get any better?

I s'pose 43 is small compared to your clown paddles :p

What does that make my 41's?
Damn Mets dont fit my big melon.. even in L, I liked the strad & 5th element.
Specializeds dont feel nice either, felt like they compressed the front/rear.
I guess my gead is a weird shape....

no racing for me but sinday plans include a morning session at killingworth and an afternoon session at ourimbah, once all you speed freaks have finished diggin up the trails ;)

sounds good pshaw, ive never been to killingworth, but dead keen to go there one day.

thylo, that bike is hella nice. drool....

i have a met AND a HUGE noggin and it fits me quite well. i do worry a little about the side impact protection tho.... i also had a bell ( but it was way short on venting and i used to get well overheated) and that was OK from a fit perspective.

The side impact protection works pretty well (speaking from experience :) ) I'd often wondered about it too, but you would have to be in an unusual crash to hurt your jaw or cheekbone.

The little bit of side protection helmets provide is more than adequate for your everyday, garden variety bike crash where your shoulder hits the road first, followed by your noggin. Your shoulder keeps the lower part of your head away from danger so your delicate features are preserved but in doing that it catapults your brain cage into the ground, which is where the helmet comes in.

I have only ever seen BMX riders hurt their face in a crash. Takes a certain breed to pull of something that strange and difficult.