anyone here done the ATTA time trials up at Calga? if so do you think its somthing worth doing? im looking at getting into some time trials and im looking for osme feedback on people whove done that event.

cheers,
g

ITT's are reserved for sad, desperate and lonely individuals... See you there on the 3rd July! :D

But seriously, I've not done the event but it's been running for years so it can't be half bad.

I would thoroughly recommend doing one or two road races before you try a time trial as the course has a few tricky sections. It would be soooo easy to overcook it early in an ITT if you weren't familiar with the course.

[edit] road racing is held on Saturdays at 2pm, except it's not on this weekend. You'll need a road racing licence of some sort, of course. If you don't have one and you still wanna check out the course then we can probably make a decent ride out of it with Climbo and Dr. Shaw one Sunday.

Not me. I was standing on No.1 platform at 6am

cheers, thanks jock. mite see if peleton is running some group rides up there. im pretty sure their sunday ride heads out there occasionly. just want to do somthing to break up the MTB racing a bit and ive always had an interest in time trials. cant afford aero bars or good (racing) tyres at the moment , so it looks like i do it soon its gonna be a St Vinnies effort!

Yup, Irreversible is probably the most full-on movie I've ever seen....although I have blocked most of Salo out so I dunno.

Agree about Monica. 100% woman right there. Watched about 10 minutes of her in some war movie with Bruce Willis in it last night. Even with her in it couldn't go for more than 10 mins.

What sci-fi movie was she in where she spends the entire time in PVC? Hrm....maybe Google can help there.....:D

Tears of the Sun?? Crap.

Malena...great film. (she nudes up, too...:D)

Err... no.

I hope you and climbo are both gunna be up at Minmi with me tomorrow. I'll be needing someone to lean on when my left knee blows up. :D

you can lean on my car, that's OK, even better, just hang on.

you dippin out again, ya slacker?

Jobie's on the juice for sure....

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World championship bronze medallist Jobie Dajka faces possible expulsion from the sport after attacking national head coach Martin Barras, pushing and pinning him to the ground.

Dajka's golden future in cycling may be quickly terminated today when he faces an urgent disciplinary hearing in Adelaide before the Cycling Australia chief executive Graham Fredericks.

South Australian police are also investigating an alleged assault.

It is understood several cyclists and cycling officials are shocked at what happened and furious that the sport faces intense scrutiny once again.

Dajka has been in trouble before, being dumped from the Athens Olympic team for lying to the Robert Anderson inquiry into allegations of drug use by cyclists.

It is understood Dajka assaulted Barras, breaking his glasses in the process during a counselling session with a sports psychologist in the cycling offices at the Adelaide velodrome. The counselling session had been organised after Dajka had been involved in several incidents.

The most recent had come last weekend when he and another national cyclist, Shane Perkins, traded blows after a fiery discussion about cycling's black days of last year involving the banned cyclist Mark French and the discovery of equine growth hormone in the rooms of the Australian Institute of Sport.

Perkins is a one-time training mate of French. French is still awaiting the result of his appeal heard last month before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Perkins is not the subject of any disciplinary board.

Cycling Australia officials would not comment on the matter last night.

just busy, haven't even thought about racing let alone training, when and where is it?

Spotlight on Michael Rogers in the BlueCollarRag http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/st...toryid=3261011

There was also a big write-up on my favourite clown, Dopey Dajka, who is in a spot of bother after getting physical with senior coaching staff at AIS track training in Adelaide on Wednesday. The cops are even considering laying charges. But nothing on the web-site about it unfortunately.

[edit] see climbo's post above!! Gawd I'm slow today... must type faster, must type faster, must....

Central Division Champs at Minmi (Blackhill) at 1:45pm.

Start line is near the marshalling area (the red dot on the map). To get there just go to the roundabout at the end of the freeway. Do a U-turn then take the first off ramp onto Lineghan's drive. Travel on for about a km and take the first left to get to the carpark.

I shall be there, I think...
how long to get there?
race distance?

With the pulicity going about the tickets and the comm games, well iv booked my ticket front seat in front of the telly, or got the recorder ready.

allow an hour from Erina & take it easy: double demerits apply
Should be 40 or 50km. Course is a hotdog with two little hills in the middle and a small rise as you approach each turn. Finish is uphill (~ as steep as ourimbah), but it's fast >60kmh because you come off a downhill run-up.

If you're lookin for some groovy entertainment tonite, you could do worse than
http://www.holdthebutton.com/game.php

131 cubic inches, with dual carbs. I'll be the first to admit that's too much for Lancey boy. Way too much.

....did I just hear on the news that Jobie got 4 years for belting the coach?.......the lad has the IQ of toast!

Hitchy

If you like Monica Belluci, you should watch Les Pactes Des Loupes/Brotherhood of the Wolf. It's a typical french film full of naked bodies, incest and men in wigs. Oh and it has a weird plot and some martial arts in it too. You can even claim to the other half that the film was critically acclaimed (it was) while appreciating the display of Miss Belluci's ample talents.

Jock - hate to drag you into this if it brings up any unpleasant memories, but I thought of you when I saw this thread - http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?p=1249212

From what he was saying on tv about other riders and the cycling sport,and taking down others down with him, it sounded like he was also sick of breathing!

Bloody 'ell! Did Munchie fall under a truck? :eek:

You never read his blog, did you?

[edit] It appears to have vanished, but I did find this:

One guy's ride from truck accident to recovery to racing again.
Author: rockmuncher
Location: Gosford, Australia

Blog? What Blog?