Rockin out to Secret Samardi on 11 with monitors at very close range. Kick drum is pounding my chest as if I was sitting inside a W bin at an Angels concert at the Newcastle Workers. One of my mates fell asleep inside one of those one night!!! God knows how. How he can still hear, that is.

oh yeah.........65L then? :)

I just got back from the Tuesday night drags on Beach Rd.
Nobody showed up (must've been the balmy weather), and I got mt first puncture in about 9 months!!

In english?

No luck:p
serves ya right for training...and if no-one turns up..its secret training!

Don't s'pose you noticed that It's p!ssing down & about 8 deg, ya stupid bastard...you tryin' to get you-moan-ia?

man, it was 10 degreees!!! i call that mild :p

....with a wind chill factor of about -5....thought you muso's were supposed to be soft?

Ach ahm sorry toup maan. Wot aah woz sayin woz that aah've got wun of Live's albums playin und its rool lout lark. Fairly thoompin. On accoont of dem speakery thangs been too close to mah vitals.

Aussie can translate for ya if your stil stuck

When I left werk today it was 22.5deg!!! I had nowhere to stash all my winter gear except arm warmers so I had to wear my leg warmers and booties. Sweating buckets all the way to the train. Gosford was (predictably) cold just 30 mins later.

I was in our fair state capital last week. Went down to St Kilda for a window shop down Ackland st and a feed with the missus and little bloke. You reckon the wind off the bay wasn't friggin' cold? Mawson would have complained. Are you training for next years Belgian spring classics Aussie?

BTW, how good are the cakes in that Monarch bakery in Ackland St. Senfarkinsational!

Close, 68L :)

i think my commodore only has somthing like a 60 litre tank, seems like its getting filled every 2 days or so.... :(

get a Bathurst tank!

If you don't know what that is check out any A9X or SLR5000 that's still on the road.

120L from memory.

Check out the ultra-weird Yamaguchi frame on http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=210035

So weird it's cool, but bags not riding it for any great length of time.

He meant his mate fell asl..
HE MEANT HIS MATE FELL ASLEEP INSIDE A BASS SPEAKER CABINET AT A ROCK CONCERT ONCE
which is quite a feat.

Regular group ride....The 'Beach Rd' area has 100's of 'em...testosterone filled, nitro burnin', law breakin', posuer heaven.....awesome if ya got the legs to hold on!

AND
I
AM
THE
HAPPIEST
CONVICT
IN
THE
WORLD.

So is an iPod shuffle a decent gift for a 12 year old?
After getting a quote for $2500 for the essentials this morning, I chucked a saddie and slunk home to my deathcouch, but managed to drag myself out this evening for a coupla hours of laps at Centennial. Remember the phone vibrating at one point and then forgot about it.
Best voicemail I've ever heard.

The world IS an amazing place.

Seppo Mike McCarthy won a world pursuit title on one of them

http://www.yamaguchibike.com/history/worldchamps.htm

531 is your man to answer that...he might even come out with you after a gig....he lives those bizarre hours as well!

Generalising: Best training time is between 2:00am and 5:00am. However I always try to avoid those times on Sat and Sun morning to avoid the serious drunks onthe road. There are still the odd one or two after 5:00am, but not enough to worry.

how strung out is the field! massive pace.

Answer a dumb noob question for me. Some of these Tour teams like T-Mobile who lost a couple of dudes to the controversy before the start. So they are riding 2 men short. But they have a lot more riders in their employ than just the ones riding. So what I'm wondering is, when 2 of them were thrown out why not just bring in another couple of dudes? Sure they might not be prepared for the tour, but sure they could get a little bit of donkey work out of them to help out on the first week at least. Surely better than not having them there.

thats called discipline.
The ASO got balls.

Not allowed: "No rider ousted under 'Operation Total ****upp' can be replaced"

So apparently we should all get these newfangled titanium hips

I 'helped' my cousin get back on his feet after an early hip replacement at age 35. not pretty, not inspiring. Would take about the same amount of mettle as recovering from a smashed kneee I reckon. Sooooooo painful.