is a 'bed & 'breakfast' th same as a cheap motel? :)

How far out of the city do you wanna go?

there's a gazillion listings on here

http://www.totaltravel.com.au/travel/vic/melbournearea

good web page, thanks. How far out? Not far if possible, we'd like to be able to walk around the city and see a few things while we are there but as long as we can tram it or whatever we're happy. I'm looking at where the events are etc, i.e. the track cycling venue and I believe it's fairly close and easy to get to it from the city.

Did you race last Thurs night Aussie? Create any havoc?

Anyone seen macca's leg thread. It's a work of art.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=166692

yeah, and I made even dumber mistakes thanthe week before :D

I saw Rob Crowe and John Kennedy rock up to A-grade, so I thought I'd jib it and go in 'B'. Now, I don't wanna sound like a hero, but B-grade vets was a LOT easier that A-grade.

I got off the front on my own for a few laps, then looked around, and thinking I was being caught, i slowed right down, but it wasn't my bunch, it was an A-grade break!!!:) So, I cranked it up again, and made the same mistake, but this time it was the A-grade chase group!! Then I virtually stopped to look over my shoulder to try to figure out where my group was :)

Last lap there was a guy off the front on his own, so I took off after him on the slight rise at Sandown. I was ~15M from the front guy when I turned to see the whole bunch only 40M from me, so I thought it was all over for us, and it would be a bunch sprint. WRONG WRONG WRONG!! Th eguy held on and won!!
STOOOPID!! :p

yeah, the dude's only 15 and he thinks this a racing/dissing forum :p

Well, I suppose it depends how much you wanna spend. I'm no traveller, but I'd guess that the inner city hotels will be bucket loads more than some motel 10k out of town.

If you're prepared to use a tram (which, once they make all their stops, are slower than a pushy) or train, you could get some joint for well under a 100 bucks a night. If I were you, I'd be staying east, south east, or inner north -- much safer than the westies :)

it's the same crap on every thread he's in.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...3&page=1&pp=25

No just a forum I use to amuse myself. This is a great place to let my anger out and pi$$ off some Americans. Come back from a ride ( lost the crit because some hack took your line), there is no powerade left in fridge there is only one thing for it. BF bashing...sorry if I come across as a tool fellow aussies coz in real life I am not this bad :p lol.

Well I got a laugh out some of your stuff this arvo. The leg thread was pure gold. Carry on.

I feel your pain, similar thing happened when I decided to drop myself back to b-grade about 4 weeks ago. Every time I have ridden in that group I have wasted my energy trying an attack or tried to be a hero. The pro's are going overseas or to the tour down under now so its safe to crawl out of my shell and race A's again.

nm

this isn't really a 'young mucho dissing' forum -- it's mostly old farts who just ride to get away from their families :)

So you won't get much testosterone coming back your way

As long as the aussies in here understand that I am just taking the piss or having a laugh at everything I do on here I am cool. Its when the ozzie fella's join in the macca bashing that I tone it down a bit :p

I would like to think I liven up the forum a bit, its all in good fun.

Old people can be a bit forgetful. Simple things like racecraft and legspeed get lost in a haze of beer and blondes over the years. It can be like starting out as a novice all over again when it comes to race technique. And the worst part is that you know as soon as you made that dumb mistake. And there's nothing you can do to change it.

ha ha ha. Oh I've realised that already...thats what makes it funny.

A bit off the topic but I will "hopefully" be able to get myself to bright next weekend for the audax do up. IF anyone is going just PM me and we can catch up with a coffee and a real life convo.

anyone else get a Talking Boony for the cricket???


Bloody funny.

Nope, all I got from the lads at the local this year was a stubbie holder with some scantily clad lass printed on it. I'll hafta ask for better service tonight.

"Get me a VB....the cricket's about to start."

"Anyone got any nachos?"

"Is it time for another beer?"

"Shot!"

"Quack, quack, quack...."

Macca are you any relation to Macpartland?

My wife would appreciate a little boony in the family :D

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Much as I tried, I could not break their code. The native language remains a mystery to me.

McGrory?

McKenzie, David?

McGlede?

McKenzie, Damien?