+1. WTF is up with people taking 50% longer than the winner to do the TT?

https://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2008...ts/AORC083#res

^ yeah, jeez! Roughly 78.5 mins over 39km is an ave of 29.8 kph

Even Jock could do that!!! Well lets face it maybe only after a mouthful of PEDs and a good kick up the arse.

Ouch.

Looked like a big crowd to me. The photo's don't lie
https://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/20...allery-AORC086

Yes they do.

This one is typical, it was about 30m down from where I was standing, and maybe 100m before the start of the last little steep bit before the KOM. There would have been 1500-2000 people up there at most, and I'd lean towards the lower number.

There have been heaps ppl more in the past, with cars parked all the way down nearly to the bottom corner and elbow to elbow on the side of the road. I've been to about five of them and it wasn't the biggest crowd I've seen, not even close.

Like I said though, I didn't go to the start so I have no idea what it was like in the town.

fair nuff. I guess we'll never have any actual attendance figures.

But we can all agree that whoever deciced to ban painting on the road is a complete knob.

lol. They should have allowed chalk IMO. Crowds looked to be fairly big in the town from the pics. They were last year.

Speaking of knobs, one of the knobs who lives up there blocked his driveway with his car so we couldn't get out. I have no idea why coz nobody blocked his drive last year. Nor did we or anyone else around us leave any rubbish, even a bottle top or a smoke butt. Luckily there was just enough space to get out between two trees.

hey Jono, can you please tell me again which roads all the cool kids use when they go down to Mornington and Arthurs Seat, etc, etc?

thanks

follow the motor poacing loop
https://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Motor-Pacing

Those VIS ******* appear to stop for lunch half way.

Weak dogs!

Hey Brian make this thread a sticky please. I am sick of having to dig it.

If you dont I will make all the seppos cry. I have been going soft on them lately. As you would know crying seppos are a nightmare to deal with.

Whatdayasay?

**** me, I could do that now, and I'm totally out of shape. I was worried about starting in the D's. Looks like a bit of training and I'm good to go.

Don't upset the septics. Their defence force is 1.4 million, ours is 50,000. I know the trip here would kill the planet, but they'll do it.

Arthurs Seat, Two Bays Rd..... the horror, the horror

Davo must be mellowing. He used to make you do two or three times up Arthurs Seat and a couple of times up Two Bays, plus three or four 4km efforts at 52km/h+ in front of the moto - yelling and tooting the horn the whole farkin time. Wonderful fun belting along the coast between Safety Beach and Mornington in the dark chewing on the stem. I still have nightmares.

Does he still make you do all that sht?

Nah. Tuesdee's is hill reps around mt eliza Today was 4x Olivers (Big gear sprints), 4x Two bays (SE), 3x Wooralla drive (vomit session). Then TT'd it home from mordi.

Thursdee's is the loop as shown on the map. Goes as

Moderate to Mornington then absoulte vomit fest suffering to Safety beach, short reccy then smash up arthurs. Pisso at top. Then flat chat along the rollers to sorrento, the bit from arthurs to sorrento is always the hardest atm with the pace on the downs pushing 70 with crosswinds. Lunch. Moderate back to the old mooruduc highway then depending on what's on it's ITT or TTT generally mashing along on the ****ty old dead roads, little cruise along the highway, sprint up two bays then grab a coke in franga. Franga to mordi is moderate then everyone splits. I chug back up beach road struggling to hold 30kph/

Plus some days he does the PITA road to flinders and red hill then to sorrento...

Yeah, but what about on non-recovery days?

He hasn't mellowed at all, except recovery was at 50km/h behind the bike when I trained with him.

Is Wooralla that steep 1.5km ball-biter out he back of Mt Eliza or Franga? Can't remember exactly where as its nearly farkin 20 years since I trained down there when I was 18yo. Only went up it a few times and only once behind the bike IIRC.

Yeah, some of those roads out the back near Flinders are dead as. Normally it would be out the road 100km in the morning (more for Jeff Stewart or Clively) then moto at night. We'd go out from Seaford around the back of Pearcedale/Tyabb and back up two bays a few times (about 70km loop), but probably every third week down to Arthurs seat (can't remember how far it was, maybe 80km). It used to flatten me. Bloody torture.

We do it on flat tyres

Davos letting you use air in tyres now? Back in my day we had use an old length of hose instead of an inner tube. He's gone soft IMO.

Does he get called 'The Colonel'?

Also does Ozman get called 'Bartos'?

yes: "Neville bloody Bartos".

How does an Albanian get a stupid English name like Neville?

I'm obviously not training hard enough. Dammit!



Tell one of your mates to smash my Beach Rd TT 'record'

Inbound, massive tailwind only (strong enough to sit on at least 50kph from Mordy to the Mentone Pub), flying start from that pedestrian crossing outside that little bar in Mordy to North Rd: 18.4km in 23:07. That was quite a while ago, so it's a lot harder now with all the extra farkin pedestrian crossings. In fact, there are so many traffic lights now that it's hardly worth trying to time it

"Cash - not here!" Pi$$er of a scene.