how heavy has Ullrich been in past off-seasons?

I missed Cycling Sunday on telly yesterday and I'm spewin' about that. That's like 4 weeks in a row I've missed it, gawddamit. Might have to try and postpone the sleep-in/brekky in bed/morning nookie next time....feel like I'm letting the side down.

Anyway.

Moving to Australia. Tough one. Here's my thoughts as a well travelled Aussie -

Upsides -

1) Lack of Bullcrap (except if you live in Sydney)
2) Fairly okay weather on a global scale I guess
3) Pretty laid back lifestyle
4) You can live cheaply here if you have to.
5) Amazing diversity ethnically which is great, esp in terms of food and festivals
6) Awesome geography, easy to escape the maddening crowds.

Downsides -

1) Everything is expensive here, except food and basics.
2) Yes, that includes the Internet and bikes.
3) Government sucks, too heavily taxed, hard road for small business.
4) Still good money to be had in IT (apparently).
5) We lick the US's arse, and kick Timor in the arse now that we 'saved' them.
6) Queenslanders are still allowed out of their state.

Congrats to berny on his top four finish....although......'E Grade'???

You reckon I'M up at 10:30??!!

I've got a new VCR with 16 timer programs!

Yeah, but you're Captain Spalding, so nobody expects you up before noon.

i got a DVD with 80gig hard drive. Brilliant.


Ullirch would have been up to high 80s, I reckon.

what's a "noon"?

DVD recorder, I gather?

How much? $$$$$

I fink about $600-$700. 160gig is still over a grand.

I gotta get me one of those before the hijinks in France start

so, for that price, is that one of them ones that tapes more than one channel at a time onto a hard drive?

it's the cuda. Missus has to werk it for me, though. I'm a **** with technology....I can barely use the basic functions on a HRM.

I think so. It's a Pioneer.

They had the Topfield one on the telly last night for $700 or so, 2 tuners and 80gigs

the only thing in the whole world that I'm good at is I can program a vcr and understand a 24hr clock

HEY ED, do you mostly only use Cycling News for news, or others?

that's a PVR or something....do disc burning capabilty I think. Only records onto a hard drive. but it records digital, whereas a DVD recorder converts to analogue before putting it on a disc.

cyclingnews
cycling4all
Wieler Revue (Dutch)
Wielerparcours (for Belgian results)
pez cycling
daily peloton
velo news
procycling.com

lot of them double up though...there's only so many stories

did you learn Dutch over there? Or Hollandese, or Netherlandian?

I got out of two. Every friggen European country uses 24 time for everything....from train schedules to TV guides.

A little bit...they all want to practice English on you, so it's hard to get "immersed"....but the more rural you go, the more hardcore Dutchies you get.

I had some amusing traning rides trying to read street signs, though.

What's the water cooler chat about Lisa Lloyd's singing the other night?

Missed that. Did she improve from her earlier effort??

Stoopid tart.

Yeah, a bit.

On both occasions she chose hard songs to sing

.....was at the game on Saturday night....Matty puts in a pretty ordinary chase & some bloke next to us yells out "geezus LLoyd....that was even more pathetic than your missus' singing....nice tits though"!.....LOL

Hitchy

Thy, I admit it ain't no big deal but given I'm a 64yo and didn't start racing till Feb this year, I mean my first race ever in my life was Feb this year, I don't think I'm doin' toooooo bad.
Gotta start somewhere.