Damn, one of them has half a brain apparently. Oh, well.
BTW, nice werk Rowan. Enjoy the carb loading.

Cheers! Avagoodweekend.

Ahhh......memoirs. Have I told youse about how fast I used to be and how many races I won and why I'm such an authority on all matters cycling??

No, coz you've been on the can all day looking at stick books.

Pray tell, good Sir ed. How fast were you, how many races did you win, and why is it that you are such an authority on all matters cycling?

1. Fast enough to keep up.......just
2. Hardly any
3. I started racing in 1988 after watching the Tour highlights on a Saturday arvo on Wide World of Sports with Gibbo and Chappelli.....gawd that's ages ago.

Oh, so your a young kipper then ed? Either that or a very late bloomer.

In my racing days there were no Tour highlights on TV. Just snippets about Phil Anderson on the ABC radio news.

Child of 1973, hence the username. I love Phil....sold him an MTB when I worked at The Freedom Machine.

Looks more like a number plate.

1965 here. Greys are emerging, darks are receding

(sorry Ed).......


Ed also did a year or two racing the kermeseseses in Holland

You guys are boring today. I hope at least one of you gave 53-11 a hard time though.

Nah, I tried to get rocky to go over and invite 53-11 to join you as an ornery Aussie, but he told he to get fukkked and do my own dirty work. Cheeky baaastard.

We've also been giving teh New Yorkers a bit of a hard time. But we've kissed and made up (they kissed our @rse), and I threatened we'd torment their NY Thread from time to time to remind them what fun is. Then one of them tried to sool the gang on to me for mentioned the F word. Geez.

He's the biggest blowhard, big headed moron I've come across on here. He is apparently the fastest, strongest rider around, but he only does it for fun, that's why he's never won any races. <COUGH bull***** COUGH>

We went to NY earlier this year - every gift shop sells t-shirts that say in huge letters,
F**K YOU
YOU F**KING
F**K.

And they don't have asterisks, if you know what I mean. My wife loves to hear me say that with my New York accent.

Ah well, I suppose when you've run out of imagination, and your leadership stinks, and a terrorist has blasted your icons from the skyline, there's really nothing else you can say.

Leads me on to that old joke about what the Mayor of Hiroshima said when the A-bomb went off.
What the....

I don't see it that way. New Yorkers have always had that attitude. It's nothing new. I love the place, much better than Sydney. Less crime, and you don't feel as threatened. But the natives do have a cetain attitude. Gotta run, there's a delivery truck out front.

I've read soem of his stuff....and frankly, what he knows about cycling I know about quamtum physics.



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Busy day...work keeps imtruding on my forum time!!

[shudder]

I'd blocked that out.

Yeah, he was going on about all sorts of crap, and I just wanted to say "get a room and go f**k yourself already" he's that in love with himself.

Of course NY is better than Sydney. That's simply because it's not Melbourne!

Thems fightin werds mex

<Scratch head and wonder> How many of the "people on the other side of the Pacific" (I was going to say seppo, but I'm not sure Expat has grasped the true meaning of the word) have thought the same thing about us -- individually or collectively.

So Tiger, who isn't really Tasmanian but obviously wishes he could be, and is a frame-builder extraordinaire, has decided to grace us with his company...

.... after slumming it around a few other forums, I notice.

Have we offended one of our own?

I've got the full meaning, don't worry. My wife said "Nah, it's not because septic tank rhymes with Yank, it's because they think Americans are full of *****". And to think Americans love Australia so much. You gave us 2 great documentaries - that one about driving, and one about crocs... We don't hold a grudge about Jacko either.