Too right.

Le Skippy's protege from Mansfield, more baby-faced than Oscar Sevilla.....looking down the barrel of a great 06

C'mon ed, thunder where are you when I need an opinion... has anyone ridden Looks or Times?

Not me....I'm more old skool than Grandmaster Flash and Slick Rick.


Time is pure quality......if it were my cash, I'd go for that over the Look.

(Hope Hitchy doesn;t read this...)

Evans is from up there too, imagine a training bunch, Anderson, Walker, Evans and Gerrans. Walker is only 15 mins from the foot of the Dandenongs in Ivanhoe.

think Evans is live down near Torquay now. Wonder if he does any climbing in the Yu Yangs

Every time I hear the words "Look carbon frame" the words 'cracked' or 'broken' are somewhere in the same sentence.

the VXRXSRSRXR frame-set retails for $7000 at Fitzroy Cycles

I'm also a bit old school when it comes to carbon, but the right price might change my mind

sorry pshaw, only got an old cannondale which is my excuse when everyone passes me.

Times are the most expensive stock bike in the peloton are not they? That is not the top of the line frameset is it... big $$$, hope you get a good discount.

Thanks, I like the look of the Time

Im relativley new skool in terms of yrs experience with roadies, although my current bike is steel.
Just got some cash and the opportunity of some semi affordable carbon F&F.

I'm checkin what else is on the go an may report back in case one of you fellas is interested.

What's a F&F?

flying faaaark

jk, frameset, frame and fork

+1 on the Time. Sweet looking frames
F&F = frame and fork?

Yep Frame & Fork, only the time comes with stem/post etc

I'll give you a sweet deal on a slightly used Specialized with a bent rear skewer. It's got a F&F and it's carbon. Everything you're after!

Yo! Yao. Yo! Yao. Yo! Yao.

My nutrition for K2 and Taupowas as follows:

Two bottles sports drink at full concentration (Horleys Replace or Leppin Enduro Booster in my case) plus two bottles plain water. Food was energy bars cut into portion sizes (equivalent carbs to 1/4 powerbar) and a bag of wine gums (jelly beans just as good). Also 6+ gels according to estimated time. Substitute the two water bottles for a camelback if you like the camel thing. For more than 5 hours I will bung the food into a top tube food bag thingy.

In each hour divided into 15 minute chunks I consume:

15 mins - 1/4 bottle sports drink
30 mins - bar portion + up to 1/4 bottle water
45 mins - 1/4 bottle sports drink
60 mins - 5 lollies + up to 1/4 bottle water

I heave the first two bottles when they are empty (at a drink station being a tidy kiwi) and refill the remaining two with water when I get the chance. Then I drink gels and water instead of the sports drink for the remainder of the event.

Following the clock and volumes strictly means you don't forget to drink which helps stave off dehydration and keeps the fuel going in. And always consuming either sports drink or food + water means you are always taking in electrolytes and that helps avoid hyponatremia.

Whatever you do, practice using the method you decide on for a long ride to be sure the mix agrees with your system so you don't end up looking for a dunny or a bush unexpectedly.

I'm prepared to be contradicted, I know bugger all about the mechanics of nutrition and am just following a sports nutritionists advice.

Bluddy 'ell vette. You spend more time shoving things in your gob than pedalling.

If I followed that though I'm sure I wouldn't bonk at the top of Tawonga Gap the first time through. Don;t have time to test your theory but I rekon I might suck it and see anyway. Thanks.

I cycle therefore I eat

I'm bored. No racing is not good, no fun.

I've come to appreciate that the two gloomiest places on the earth are Melbourne and Gosford. Gosford is so pathetic that even when it's sunny it feels like it might rain. On the weekend I brought my wife down to look for somewhere to stay 11 years ago it pissed down constantly. Seems like its been pissing down ever since. But on the upside I've learnt how to get soggy kit dry. Bonus.

Wish I was back in sunny Newcastle.

well its raining here too. So im redoing my hubs tomorrow

Haha!

uni offers out in about 10min. Any other Aussies (in this forum) applying for uni this year?

In my country, everyone has an opportunity to go to uni. I'm sad for Australia.

how? explain? As far as i know the US has never had free uni, like we used to have back in the '70s

It's not free, but no one is excluded. It's not like there's only so many places.

I cant believe this, the bit in the UAC site i want has gone down! Upgrade your servers!