Purile?
nice Tigerboy, nice.

you got that right! Ed had his Merckx, and I've got my Raleigh :(

I saw a new Ciocc Challenger frame on special for $2700 at some shop in Adelaide, and I'm sure I can get this one for under $1000

Pronunciation??? I still can't even pronounce "Cervelo". It's still "Kervello" as fas as I'm concerned. I'll never forget the tosser at SBR who said: "don't you mean 'Sirvello'?"

What about "Ciombola"?? The guy who makes them wanted to deck me when I said "see-em-bowla". :p
I wasn't worthy of one of his frames.

eh, stuff that!! If I own one I'm calling it "Chee-ock", like all the closet bogans do :p

Yep. It was Cheeok at my place until I was "re-educated".

But it's not a word that comes up often these days.

For some reasons I've been pronouncing it "cock-sick" in my brain everytime I've seen the word. :rolleyes:

(Hey, I had to post something in this shiny new thread)

Dunno about these guys that spend bazillions on wheels.
I recently scanked around for new "old-stock" bits, and came up with......

new Mavic CXP30 rim: $70
new Ultegra rear hub: $60
28 straight gauge DTs: $14
Labour: $10

Whole new rear wheel for $154 :D

I'd love to offload my Ksyriums for some quality hand-bult wheels. Retro-cool and not so friggen rigid for my well padded arse.

hmmmmm......Kyrissiums (that's another one I can never pronounce) are stiff?

Might have to get some :)

plenty stiff.

wow, even for you?

Whaddya mean, "even for me?"

I'm not exactly Marty Nothstein, y'know!! :D

you hit 110 keelo-gees yet?:p

107 at present. Another visit to the naturopath tomorrow for him to yell at me about my diet.

what's wrong with your diet?

did you check out this link I sent ya a while ago?
http://www.theomnivore.com/home.html

This is the guy who advocates the paleo diet, and he's also an iron pumper, personal trainer, and part-time cyclist.

Yep. I signed on for his newslettter. He seems very well informed and has some good ideas.

Mate, wait 'til you hit 35!!

It's fairdinkum like a fkn switch goes off on your metabolism, and you can only eat about 2/3 of what you used to just to stop BALLOONING UP!!

...or am I generalizing from my own experiences? :p

mmmm, I'll let you know, only 10 days in.

Great.

I'll look forward to that....

I got to 92kg last year, and while I liked feeling big and tough walking past the "Ginos" in the McDonalds car park at 3am, I hated the feeling of pushing all the fat around my face with my electric razor :p

My current dinner party gag is showing people my old Italo-Australia l/s jersey. I can't even get my forearm into it these days....lol.

the Ominvore guy was so p1ssed off one time when I told him that a doctor on this forum criticized one of his articles that he registered as the Colnago Kid, and got stuck into her :D

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ight=reversing (post #20)

In the words of Chief Wiggum....."That's some nice work, Lou."

:p

Good to see it's the same old nothingness.

Well I finally did it! Shaved down I mean. Geeeeees it feels weird.
Should win tomorrow though, right? ;)