What do they look like? Are they any good? Are you able to get one down to TEST for that price?

Is this the one with Argentin's 1985 Bianchi in it???? I'm keen to have a aquiz at that.

I forgot to mention in that post that that is the wholesale price

Spot on jimmy! Europa are selling theirs for $1395 with Carbon + Alloy forks

I went looking for Ride just now and it wasn't in the shops.

So I bought a sixer of Coopers Pale instead :D

Well I'm glad to hear nobody has Ride yet, I was begining to think it had be lost in the mail again.

Also, I have not pedaled my bike in about 5 months!

Someone asked for this - forgot who, sorry.... I have one for muffins too, want that one?

Power Bars

Ingredients

1 C rolled oats
½ C sesame seeds
1.5 C dried apricots, finely chopped
1 C blanched almonds, chopped
½ C nonfat dried milk
½ C roasted wheat germ or oat bran
¾ C sugar
2 tsp butter
1 C corn syrup/honey (either one or a combo)
1 ¼ C peanut butter (give me crunchy or give me death!) Chocolate chips

What do I do with the stuff?
Chop apricots and almonds.
Lightly toast sesame seeds, almonds, and wheat germ/oat bran separately in an oven.
Combine all ingredients above up to butter in a large mixing bowl.
Lightly heat and melt butter, corn syrup/honey, and peanut butter in pan until runny, stirring constantly.
Mix dry and wet ingredients until well-combined (it's hot so don't use your
hands!)
Spread on a flat baking sheet lined with foil or wax paper. Press very flat.
While everything's still warm, spread chocolate chips over the top.
With oven still warm from toasting, put whole thing into oven and heat for 5 min, stirring with a spatula to melt the chocolate chips into a top layer.
Place uncovered in fridge or freezer to harden.
Cut into separate portions (above makes ~30), wrap with foil, and keep in freezer until your ride.

PS. I couldn't be bothered with the toasting thing so I never did it and they taste fine, I also left out sesame seeds 'cause I had none so you can vary it to suit tastes etc.

Aw shit! What next? Hair and nail tips? :D

split enz ? :)

Dead split enz?

cheers thanks climbo, it was moi that asked for it.....

sure, send the muffin one my way as well...

It's in American so you may need some translation from Expat :D

POWER MUFFINS

1-1/4 cup all purpose flour
1-1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup oatmeal
1/2 cup soy granules

1 scoop vanilla protein powder
scant 1/2 cup sugar
scant 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 T baking powder
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
1 t cinnamon
heavy 1/2 t ground allspice
heavy 1-1/4 cup grated carrots
1 cup raisins

Combine all this in a large bowl.

heavy 3/4 cup 1% milk
heavy 1/2 cup low-fat buttermilk
heavy 1/3 cup light ricotta cheese
Heavy 1/2 cup mashed pumpkin or sweet potato
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 T vanilla
1 lg egg white
1 lg egg

Combine all this in another bowl. Mix well.

Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, add wet stuff and mix
just until all mixed. Spray a muffin tin with Pam and fill almost to the
top. Bake for 20 minutes @ 400. Remove from pan immediately and enjoy!
These are really good! I eat a couple every day. They have about 200
calories and 4.5 grams of fat and have lots of fiber & protein.

Tomorrow's Tip: how to fold down your laundry so it doesn't crease in the wrong place - NOT.

Good job, looking forward to getting up there for a look. Where is the singletrack?

Looks like you'll need to convert the temperature. Also, don't let your partner catch you cooking with Pam. She's a **** in the kitchen. :D

You fellas read this? Geez it makes on angry. :mad:

$3100

Saw it on Sunrise with Kochie this morning. Absolutely disgraceful.....hopefully the heat will go on the Premier to do something.

Yay for the police. They're doing a good job.

If it's made it to tjhe telly that's got to be a good thing. The more exposure it get's the better chance something might change. I wont hold my breath though. :(

that's an absolute joke !

that's a secret :)

But I'll tell you anyway...

You have to go down past the sub-station near the lookout at the top of the mountain, it goes over and down a huge rock garden, has a huge berm of natural rock to about a 3 foot drop, then barrels down on to the fire road. There's a massive (about 6 foot) jump built over to the right of the fire road further down, continue on that fire road for a bit, then you hit that section we went down the other week.

I also found a track that goes down a really tight, bendy stair section. I got my teeth rattled out, must be over 100 stairs.

Who's racing tomorrow? I am, we're riding up from Erina/Kincumber at noon !

and almost got hit last night. P-plater tuning left at a roundabout, I'm behind him about to come through the intersection (about 10 feet behind), he sees my blinky front light or something and freaks out, slams on the brakes in the middle of the roundabout, i lock it up and manage to swerve left and miss his car by about an inch. I yell some not-so-kind words, he then proceeds to do a huge burnout and take off (to the original left hand turn he was indicating to do)

I'll prolly ride up with youse guys but I'll be watchin the HR on the climbs (as in "slow down ya bunch of morons!") seeing as how I haven't ridden in over a week. As for racing, wll I could try to sit and spin, but that might be a very bad idea.

come on..... I've "trained" 5 times in the past 2 weeks on my commute. If I can race (and PShaw), you can.

Hey doods,

im planning on moving to aussiland in the next year or two.
just want some heads up on somethings.
It has nothing to do with biking.
I just want to know some general stuff like work in the tech section and living cost.
i'm a computer science grad student and am planning on stay in the sector.
any thoughts on this? thx guys.

from where? and who said you could come? :)

there's a few IT geeks on here could help you out. big cities would be best, Syd or Melb, we can debate amongst ourselves which one is better. Go Sydney !!!