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Originally Posted by jock
......or they could just substitute Bob with the 'Count' from Seasame street....no-one would know the difference! (yes I'm sad...but I also have young children!) Hitchy |
the Count already plays footy for Easts, can he do both jobs?
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mwuhuhuhuhuh
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Originally Posted by berny
My email to SBS;
I was absolutely appalled at your decision to switch to the cricket last night, right in the middle of the crucial, final moments of the race. What a joke! You advertised the cycling would run 11.00PM till 2.00AM. I sat up to see the Tour but then in a moment of absolute ridicule you give the cycling a back seat to the cricket. I cannot for the life of me understand your logic. It's not as though cricketing fans in any significant numbers would have been sitting up at 2.00AM just in case the rain stopped. Then to add insult to injury, you give casual coverage of the finish and cut straight back to cricket. No presentation, no final placings, no sprinter details no fanfare. You've disappointed a whole lot of people and made many of us very angry, and I personally will be loath to watch your channel again. I think I'll accept your inference that cycling fans aren't terribly important to your channel and go watch my sport elsewhere. |
Was it only me, or did anyone else get bored of watching ripped thighed men pushing their way around France? I started getting over it at about day 13 - 15.
Or was it just me??......... |
just you, Watto :)
a few of the stages were boring, but overall, I reckon it maintained it's "coooolness" |
nah, not boring unless you actually sit there through every minute of it. I taped it and watched it over dinner the next day usually so just went to the last hour and watched from tehre mostly.
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Originally Posted by climbo
nah, not boring unless you actually sit there through every minute of it. I taped it and watched it over dinner the next day usually so just went to the last hour and watched from tehre mostly.
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Originally Posted by badsac
I rekon I almost did. But then I was just a wide eye'd noob agog at all the wonderous things I was seeing. I think I'm clinically depressed now I've got nothing to sit up until well after midnight over. :(
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Well, it's a layover from my uni days. I still have trouble getting to sleep if I go to bed before 12. So it wasn't really hard for me.
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Fellas, it's been four days now: it's over!
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Originally Posted by jock
Fellas, it's been four days now: it's over!
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Don't dare use that 'r' word around here. I'm attempting to 'train' for the Melbourne 12hr and it's farken killing me.
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I may have to defect to a photography forum, unless anyone cares to offer some opinions on lenses for a Canon digital SLR.
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Originally Posted by crank'n
Berny, i guess you wont be watching any the tdf on sbs next year :D
Originally Posted by wattsy_rules
Was it only me, or did anyone else get bored of watching ripped thighed men pushing their way around France? I started getting over it at about day 13 - 15
Or was it just me??.......... All-in-all I loved it and yes I'm looking forward to next year and just maybe I'll be over there, God willing next July. :p |
Originally Posted by Expatriate
I may have to defect to a photography forum, unless anyone cares to offer some opinions on lenses for a Canon digital SLR.
Go USM if your housing supports it. Good domestic lenses with ultrafast focus. On the 300mm there is some contention as to whether the stabilised (sorry, that'd be stabilized in yankee lingo) version provides as sharp a focus as the normal lens. Mind, if you can afford the fluorite lenses then you might as well just buy them. Best you can get. If you have a spare $13,000 can you lend/give it to me so I can buy my wife a rather expensive Canon digital housing? Pretty please? |
Jock knows Canon? I really need something wider than 24mm, and can't decide between Canon's 17-35, 17-40, or one of the highly rated 3rd party lenses. Sigma makes a 12-24! What to do, what to do?
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I have heard good thing about the 17-40 lense and some says it is even better than the 16-35L lense.But to me,I still like that extra stop of the 16-35L lense provide but one has to pay a premium price for it.So if one is thinking of value for money,then the 17-40 is the one to go for.
check out this forum here: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1029 |
Thanks, Giant. I'm going to try and locate the Canon 17-35 f2.8 if I can. I'd like that extra bit of speed for photographing bike races.
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any takers for Dunc Gray racing tonight?
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Heya- I've got another random question for the Aussies.
Just how populuar road biking in Oz? I used to live in Sydney, and only really noticed small numbers of cyclists in Centennial Park and obvious posers in coffee shops around my flat in Pyrmont. Driving into the Blue Mountians, I never noticed many climbing roadies along the lines that one would find in the French or Italian alps. Yet from the existence of this permanent Aussie Thread and the fact that Australians care about cycling in the Olympics, are there a lot more cyclists out there than I've been led to suspect? |
probably not much has changed since you were here womble, I'd say it's a committed and passionate bunch of people who ride, it's not the most popular sport around here, footy and drinking take care of most people :)
We do however have very good club racing and great venues to race at so we do tend to pump out good cyclists. Also the various Sports Institutes we have make for great cyclists programs. |
Originally Posted by Expatriate
Jock knows Canon? I really need something wider than 24mm, and can't decide between Canon's 17-35, 17-40, or one of the highly rated 3rd party lenses. Sigma makes a 12-24! What to do, what to do?
As for third party lenses, you might as well ask the guys who know. The only one I bought my wife was a 2x extender (you guys can keep your dirty little thoughts to yerselves!) which seems to be just fine. |
Originally Posted by climbo
any takers for Dunc Gray racing tonight?
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Where do people race in Sydney (if you're from around there)? I lived there for seven years and never noticed any mentions of race venues.
I'd also noticed that there are some really high end bike stores around, which kinda surprised me given how expensive anything imported is. |
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