The 'I love my Trek' thread is over the other side of the planet.

Ferchrisakes a bike is a bike. Two nice triangly things, splash of paint and your done. Fundamentally all road bikes look pretty mush the same. They only ever look really good if there's a lithe female triathlete on board. (sorry matagi, it had to be said)

...and yes Thylo, you have permission to weep for me and my ignorance

Yes, that could have been me. Fark it's cold though.

Don't you ever answer your fone willy?

Spoken like a non Trek owner-wannabe

They all look good when they're shiny and noo

I soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo want one.



















not

Bummer. No Grafton-Inverell for me this year, coach no likey with so much time off the bike. So that would be... now let me see... the whole goddamn winter season goooorrrnnne.

Thank god for Friday night winter track racing.

From what I hear it's almost impossible NOT to draft at Noosa. There's so many entrants that it's more like dodgem cars....

BTW Good descending skills will come in handy for avoiding carnage whist at high speed back down the hill.

Hey jocko...come down south & do the Warny instead.

(Just to clarify....that's the Melbourne to Warrnambool race & not you in a thong getting jiggy with 2 chicks either - sorry!)

I'd love to but the distance is the thing he's worried about, and at 260km its longer than the Grafton. Sure I can do the miles, but his thinking is that I'd be toast in a race environment, and even toastier if I raced any races (like the state masters champs) in the weeks following.

Me, being a noob, will have to cool my heels for a while. Sort like being a sprinter in a 4 month long road race, "just stay patient, just stay patient....".

maybe next year

yeah the only bike related thing that happened to me is that being a uni student I now get a discount at hadleys and civic bikes. https://www.unu.org.au/DisplayPage.asp?pageid=4640%20
Bummer civic is ****, and pbk is cheaper than both. But then again I do need to get a set of shoes soon.

2 shiny pairs of Sidis arrived today
Prob 2004 models....but fit like gloves....

Well I've joined the world of road riding last week.

Lashed out and bought a roadie (Giant OCR Zero 2006).. Nothing too special as it's just a training bike to do some road kays and the price was right ($1800). I'll upgrade to a thylo frame in a month or two hopefully.

I've never ridden a roadie before and it is amazing how efficient they are. I did a loop from Brunswick down to Mordialloc and back (90km) in about 2hr 30mins. Averaged just under 36km/h for the full trip and just under 37km/h for the way down.

That's like 5km/h faster than I could ever done on the MTB.

Couldn't believe it.

Snap, I got my first roadie last year and was spun out by how quick you could go for so little perceived effort...
Unfort that didnt last long and now I puff along like an old man

Next ride I go on with you, I'm collapsing one of your lungs and making you wear a backpack with ten bricks in it.

nice ride odin, what year is it?
How much did your ocr1 fetch on ebay?

Thanks mate, it's a 2006. I got $700 fer the OCR.
I had it on eBay fer 7 days at $800 - heaps of questions, 35 watchers, 700 odd views and nuthin.
Put it on again fer $700 Buy it Now and it went within a couple of hours.

Good work Odin getting off that girls bike.

Thanks for that.

I've got to wonder how Civic stays in business. The worst store ever. They didn't check our cruisers before delivery, and couldn't even extract a broken screw (that I pointed out a month before delivery). Their solution was to order a new bike. No kidding. I called 3 times about some accessories, and they never called me back. Not a good way to make sales. And seeing as how they're mathematically challenged and undercharged us by about $200, I thought they'd jump at the chance to get some more of my money.

so did you score or what?

Other people ride Giants here

So do I, I had a look in the store one day, left 30secs later

I'd go so far to say that a 100k ride that encounters any traffic lights isn't a 100k ride, but then again I did 40kms in the burbs on Friday and it killed me, so what do I know?

Got this in my Inbox this morning. Apparently it really happened on Koshi's morning show.

https://www.bjjsux.com/WhatAWayToEndIt.wmv

Can't play media files here....what is it? Is it that dude from the Chaser telling his girlfriend to f*** off??

If so, I saw that live....champagne TV moment.

are you sure that went out live? if you go ot the chaser website theres the whole clip there, looks staged to me?