The Boony I know of is all about cricket which you should have guessed Expat! Also the holder of a legendary beer drinking record - http://beebo.org/smackerels/david-boon.html

Stoopid typo.....should've read Damien McDonald. Went up Mt buffalo with him one day....bugger me, there was some power there.

Ripped me freakin legs orf.

we know this macca has nice legs anyhow :D

ROTFLMFAO you guys are way too funny. You have narrowed my identity down to a relation of mcpartland HINT: there are plenty of mc's or mac's who ride a bike around here...actually no there aren't the only other one I know is dave mcpartland.

HINT: I am no relation to dave.

HINT: I am not boony

:D ooh yeah

Boony's Brother?

Guess I'll hafta wait until later to find out. Trackwork beckons. Have fun

""Don't stop pedalling; keep turning left. Don't stop pedalling; keep turning left. Don't stop pedalling; keep turning left. Don't stop pedalling; keep turning left. Don't stop pedalling; keep turning left."

.....and you can't go wrong. :p

american-"I thought those ossies turned right on velodromes"

speaking of trackwork I really should get down to the velodrome tonight...F it I am calling it a rest day!

Was he the first man to hit out in the 96 Olympic Road Race, too?

:D

I LOVE the caption.....

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.ph...liquigas_g5022

ha!! I wonder if it is a hubbard or a pro. His calves look ok, but he's a bit 'full of cheek'

exact same thing happened to me on Studley Park Hill with a couple of Gatorade pros in 93....Oscar Pellicioli and Andrea Chiurato. They were loping up in the big ring (full thermals mind you....a warm 23-25 degrees) and I was bouncing off 185bpm trying to look as bored as Big Mig in a press conference.....lucky I can't speak Italian, talking wasn't an option.

and take a rain jacket :)

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/radar/IDR03...0116053449.gif

He's fat and smokes a pack of **** a day now if it makes youfeel any better :D

did you pull thru Ed, or did you wheelsuck like Hincapie, and then sprint at some arbitrary point and say thankyou senior Periero :D

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2006.../?id=startlist

Tour Down Under start list. Is it just me or is the quality of the field deteroiating year by year?

Here is a partial list of the prizes for the ACMC 2006 -

set of 36H Phil Wood high-flange track hubs
Phil Wood BB
set of 36H Velocity Deep-V high polish rims, see this link - http://www.chainringtransitauthority...h_polish.shtml
set of 36H Velocity Deep-V black anodised w/o MSW rims
set of 36H Velocity Deep-V black w/ MSW rims
set of Continental Dura-skin tyres

That is just a few of the major prizes. There will minor prizes and giveaways galore.

The ACMC 2006 committee met this evening and I was told to stress that this event is open to all cyclists. Everyone is welcome.

kotter, as for the World's closed course, nobody likes it. But if we were to pursue an open course in the city, SYDBMA could not afford the insurance. So we did the next best thing. SYDBMA has a jersey coming out in the a few weeks time, to help fund-raise for the World's. The Australian, much less the Sydney courier community is small in comparision to the previous hosts for the World's. So I think that it has been a very ambitious effort for Sydney to host the World's.

Dunno what your talking about. There's a good contingent of Aussies and at least one guy whose name ends in OV. What more could you ask for in a field? :D

But seriously, the Tour Down Under is what it is. There's no real incentive for internationals to come all the way over here for a race or two as it doesn't sit well in the annual racing calendar for them. I'm surprised that European teams send anyone at all.

drool !!! :)

Geez I'm up with this whole cycling thang. I just found out there's a frame builder in town.

Anyone heard of him and his stuff?

http://www.ovington.com.au/

Struth, there yus go talkin bike $#!+ again. :(
'sa bloody scandle's wot it is.

New UCI rules mean they can't invite more than 50% ProTour teams. Mike Turtur, the promoter, was saying he could have got 10 PT teams but for UCI rules.

I think it works well into most big teams schedules, especially the ones not like Disco and T Mob, who don't have the huge budget. It is a good training race, and builds up the base miles. It is not a real race. No onw goes with GC aspirations apart from a few Australians and O'Grady. Turtur and TDU would cover most expenses like plane tickets, and ofcourse the hotel bill, so it is a very cheap training camp. Compare it with training camps in the Middle East or South Africa. These would cost the teams much more. Ofcourse, the entire squad is not coming out. But it is easier to train with a squad in a training camp, or a bunch in a summer race (southern hemisphere) than it is getting out into near freezing temperature in Belgium or anywhere in Europe.

It serves a purpose. But the UCI rules instigated with the Protour means the field is not necessarily decimated, but it is much weaker than it could have been. Hence Turtur got the best teams outside the Protour like Chocolade and Navigators.

yeah...bumped into him at the Provincial a few years ago. Pot in one hand, durrie in the other.....but still instantly recognizable. Was working at The Age or something.

A long was from doing in-race commentary with Phil Liggett during Bank Classic criteriums....

Posts working yet?

Looks pretty good to me. Turtur was on SBS last night banging on about the 50% Pro Tour limit, tho.

No way. Sat quietly on the wheel admiring their shiny new lo-pro Dura-Ace cranks.

4th time's the charm, Saccy. We had some issues last night with the server.

Where's Thylo when you need him?

I'll be replacing the road bars that came with the track bike with sprinters bars, but they a likely to be steel. Anything I should know about putting steel bars onto a aluminium stem?