What about a spotter?

I'll grab whoever is around for my final set of flat BB bench.....that's the only ex I need one for. Maybe DB shoulder and incline presses.....although I have run out of weight.

Stoopid gym only goes to 100lb DBs.

You guys are dumb meatheads, I swear Here's me wanting to slip down into the 80somthing Kg mark ( down from 104, currently 92 ) and you're talking weights.

Gawddamn. I might just go eat me a whole chicken and chug a big ol' Creatine shake! That'll make me a good cyclist, fersure.

Oh 'eck, look at that! The suns out! Where are my shorts?.......

Ha! I slipped "up" from 73 to 104kg!

You might have to be a hero and bring in your own screw-on DBs. I've seen guys do that, then
they start slapping 20lb plates on.


Just thought of a motto for the genetic freaks: "I grow therefore I know"

"they took er jerbs, they took er jerbs"

JEEEZUZ!!! 73 keelo-gees at 187cm....fukn B. Riis

WAAAAHHHHH I'm never going to be a climber!!! WAAAAAAHHHHHHH

lol....just about. See the pics of him in the "Miguel's 40th birthday" Cycle Sport?? Love the nostalgia....

Is that on a web site, or in the "Aussie" issue of Cycle Sport?

Did you see that shot on Indurain during last year's Tour, when he was cruisin' on his pushy?
Couldn't bleeeeev it

What are ya, 6'4"? Hmmm..dunno. Better to ask Ed, but I can only think
of two tallish, good climbers: Indurain and Riis

Rooks
Theunisse
Hampsten (tallish )

Aussie issue...hit the newstands last week I think.

Are you prepared to become a bean pole?

Have all your old Fitzroy and TFM buddies dumped you since you became a meathead?

Correct...I don't move in racing circles any more....

Yeah, I'm 6ft 4ins......but Indurain had the heart of a horse, whereas I have the heart of a small rodent.

I was only kiddin' ya know. I climb like a brick and am perfectly comfortable with that. I'll still give it a good shake though.
This dude I run into every 2nd Sunday raced the Tour of Bright or some such a week or so ago, and said he won the Open C Grade KoM. When I told him I went out to St.Andrews for a ride on Friday, he said "Did you do that big climb? The one just outside St.Andrews?" I said "Err.....no. St.Andrews is my turn arround point."

"Oh, you don't go up to Kinglake?"



"Err, no....that'd be like a 200km round trip from my place, just a teeeeenie bit past my current abilities"

Cripes.

The guy is frikken 60kgs wet, too. I should call him 'Mayo' just for fun.

Post best times for the Kinglake ascent...from the house at the bottom on the right, to the 60kmh sign at the top.

19.00 even.

So, Thylo, what would traffic be like out there, these days?

I tried going up Mt Dandy a couple of years ago, totally SH1T meself, and turned around after 300m up the Tourist Rd.

I used to do sprints up the "Wheelers Hill Wall" (Waverly Rd, past the Academy)

I know the berg....good for 90kmh in the other direction.

The bit of Ferntree Gully Rd up the same hill a bit further south was good for repeated strength efforts.....probably too much traffic these days.

If you're talking about the bit that goes more or less city bound from Scoresby to the Wheelers Hill pub,
then I think there's now a bike lane, but still.......

Yep....up to the pub that they tried to burn down in an insurance scam in the early 90s. Left to VFL Park (if you were a hard man and had done a trip over Mt Dandenong before racing on a Tuesday night) or straight to the city.

Which way did you normally go over the mountains (sorry to any Euros reading this: hill )?

I usually went up the Ferntree Gully side, then straight back down. The first 5km of the Tourist Rd is killer.

I sometimes went the "back" way, through Bayswater, but it wasn't steep enough.

I've ridden every paved road on that hill so many times.....in both directions.