For sure. Personal safety was not high on my agenda. Plus my climbing was only passable (6'2", 70-72kgs) so I needed a decent descent to get back on even terms.

oops!! "Descent": 'd' 'e' 's' 'c' 'e' 'n' 't'

decents are the only good thing about racing for us fat blokes.....

Geezuz, you was a rake and you're still complainin about being too heavy? What I'd give to get down to my old racing weight (67kg), and even then I'd still climb like a sprinter. Shamefully, I wouldn't necessarily sprint like a sprinter.

This looks like fun: https://www.fixhistio.org/

PS. Put your sunnies on, the site is very pink.

I started the year at 89k's. I'm currently 78k . My sprinting, if you can call it that, has improved but I have no chance against guys weighing under 70.

::thinks:: gotta loose more weight, gotta loose more weight, gotta loose more weight, ::

I arrived in Oz 76Kg from hitting the gym in London (wasnt much else to do), normal weight without training was 72Kg

Bought my first road bike and dropped to current 66Kg in about 3 months.

So with under 1 year on roadies and no real base fitness to call on, I climb & sprint like crap

Still I'm learning to love the track, methinks you can hide a lack of fitness in the 1 lap screamers!

You obviously weren't there when Geoff (Chuck) Morris brought up breakfast, lunch, and dinner after the 1 lap screamer final last week.

yep....bin dere.

Check out some of Hitchy's posts from last night. The man was on fire!!!!

Have a good chrissie everyone

Making up for lost time, that Hitchy. But he never posted in my CF failure thread.

Expat/HDT

I am still delivering a BMX bike?

Links please....coz I'm lazier than Pavarotti on fat camp.



+1 on the Xmas sentiments.

+2 enjoy the hols

Try this one [Edit]Ed[/Edit], sums up the state of mind he was in

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...39#post1954539

Sorry Ed, I can never tell you and Expat apart

He'll LOVE reading that....





(maybe I should be given mod status too??!!????)

I'd like to see that. In fact, why don't we try to get mod status for everyone on the Aussie Thread. Just add beer and stir

I just added 4 beers at lunchtime......some customers may get a dose of truth serum this arvo.

"'you stink, your whole operation stinks'"

...or maybe the bosses

I think he's arranging for a courier, so we'll stick with that unless we hear otherwise. Oh, Ed should be made a mod any day now. We're just waiting for a signature from the Easter bunny.

Happy holidays to all you beer-swilling, non-bogan Aussies. And Paul Bravey too.

Yep, have a great Christmas and new year guys.

You lot get to open your pressies way before me! Merry Christmas.

That leaves me out!

Wow, 3.30pm and just finished doing jobs for the mrs. Rode at 5:30 this morning, was already hot. Did the Saturday Coluzzi/waterfall ride as usual, the pace was full on the whole way out, touching close to 70kph past the airport, even Chris Sutton went up and tried to get it to slow down. Matt white, graham brown and a bunch of Italians kept all the locals trying to prove something. My speedo shows a top speed of 76kph, from the sprint back at southerland.

I'm so smashed now. Christmas day will be a nice rest, beer is tasting pretty good now in the 37ish degree heat.

Merry Christmas all.