Cream, yellow...same same :D

Dead set tool.

We need him to go live one day with no delay and have a rider say "What the fark are you on about, you dickhead??"

See Mark French only did a 10.80.

He's sooooo slow. He should just give up now. :lol:

I heard it was close to 45 deg in the "Joe Ciavola" velodrome.......would be like breathing hot cotton wool in there. Outdoors, cold night after a warm day, no wind, he would've cracked it I reckon.



Leigh Howard....superstar.

Can pedal a bit, eh?

When he beat Kersten at the Sydney 1000 and Bayley shortly after would he have been on junior gearing, or do they waive the rollout rules for big opens?

in open events, you can ride what you like. In U17, U19 etc, you are limted.

We've got a young guy who races A Grade at club level in his junior gearing (U17 I think) and he scoots along pretty quick. He'll be a monster when he comes off restrictions. I'm betting he'll explode onto the scene in the same way that Dale Scarfe & Angus Moreton (U19) did this year once he can use all that untapped strength.

Don't you normally have to have finished your career/role etc before having something named after you? Will it be called a Ciavoladrome from now on?

+1 on Leigh Howard. Big future for him. Nasty fall for Matt Lloyd at the TDU, victim of the heat apparently.

Gates came across totally differently on yesterday's show, so now I feel a bit guilty for saying he came across as a bit of a dickhead :)

I spotted McEwen, pretty sure it was him coming through Hyde park today around midday. Saw the team gear the guy was wearing then the Aussie coloured bike, must have been him or a full-on McEwen worshiper. He's a short arse.

Yup, that was him:

Robbie's itinerary in detail for Jan 23:

Arrive Centennial Park from Adelaide, breakfast hosted by NSW IS head cycling coach Gary Sutton. Meet NSW IS junior riders, talk with them and join them in a low intensity ride through the Park.
At 11.30am visit ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, then Pool of Remembrance, Archibald Memorial Fountain, Queen's Square, Parliament House and Macquarie statue, deliver letter of introduction from Randwick Botany Cycling Club to State Member for Maroubra, Michael Daly, ride down Macquarie Street to Opera House for lap of the icon.
At 1pm attend City Tattersall's Club for luncheon with media and corporate representatives, hosted by Events du Monde's John E. Scott and Cycling Australia's CEO, Mr Graham Fredericks.
At 4.30pm visit Randwick Botany Cycling Club's 2.1km raceway at Heffron Park, Maroubra, for low intensity ride with juniors, members and visitors - all welcome.
At 6.30pm attend Souths Juniors dinner and talk Tour de France until 9pm.

Hear him talk about the TDF at souths jnrs? Mrs and I went for dinner there once, bad mistake. It's a bit like a crusie ship you can't get off once you enter.

I read on the RBCC site it is $89 to hear him and have dinner. Personally I can think of better ways to waste $90.

waste? can you drink that in wine and beer? Maybe you can do a Boonie and set the beer record for beers drunk during a 3 hour dinner with Robbie on the mic.

GACK!

Let's say dinner is $25 value. That leave $60 to get through in 3hours at about $3.50 a schooey. That's 6 schooners an hour. They'd have to pour you into a cab

Yep....very small, very brown unit.

amazing where he gets all that power from.

impressive guns though on a small man. Check the front photo of yesterday's kick on with those arms.

He used to lift weights in his teenage years I believe, if memory serves me corrrect.

I did some races in QLD friggen years ago...1993 I think (strewth I'm old....) and met him then pre-AIS when he was just winning everything. He won the fluoro pink Toyota sprinters jersey later that year in the Bank Race,

A little ball of muscle...was telling me how he did all these sit-ups and pushups etc etc......he's like Patrick Bateman!!! :D

might take away the pain of listening to the interviews :)

Who, Mr Hankey or Robbie McEwen?

LOL !

Peiper said he does upper body weights in the off-season

How does Peiper know Mr Hankey? :D

Just finished reading Peipers book - good read.

Beer , the first thing I thought of when wasting money was on my mind. Well beer & porn really.

He is an amazing sprinter. Not too bad at BMX too I think, went to the worlds for Aust maybe? (not impossible, you can pretty much make it if show up and start every state and national title).

Will Walker will be moving to the pro squad of Rabobank this year according to his website www.WillWalker.com.au

He implied in his last diary entry that he was having a meeting post world under 23 result to determine his future. ;)

The curious matter is, both squads do not have any intra season transfers. Unless you count stagiares when the season in winding down, and the UCI requires paperwork and gives their approval. So, he is either on an entire 2006 season Rabobank professional program, or he may have signed a contract for 2007 with maybe a little extra comfort money for this season, while he races espoirs. The espoirs race l'Avenir, so he could not race l'Avenir if he was registered with the pro team.

And he cannot race the under23 worlds if he races with the pros this year.

He looks a good bet to race Commonwealth games though. He is on my bubble, on the periphery that is.

6 riders, of whihc 2 can ride the tt.

Davis (got permission I do believe)
Gerrans
Hayman
O'Neil also tt/rr (if available)
Van Hout also tt/rr (he is competing against Jamieson for this spot I believe, Jamieson can tt)

one more


peripherary
Jamieson tt/rr
Walker (could also tt)
Crake
Simon Clarke
Gene Bates

don't believe Roberts has got time off. He would be in the team otherwise.

Classic1, what's the book called? Might have to get a copy.