The Aussie Thread
12-22-04 | 07:43 PM
#4301
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Life is sooo good at the moment.
My payroll company's servers died on Tuesday meaning no payroll run. A minor side issue is the fact that I (amongst others) won't get paid until tomorrow morning.
Bah Humbug
My payroll company's servers died on Tuesday meaning no payroll run. A minor side issue is the fact that I (amongst others) won't get paid until tomorrow morning.
Bah Humbug
12-22-04 | 07:44 PM
#4302
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From: Melbourne Oz
Bikes: how long have you got?
....so is it just me....or has the 'road cycling' forum upstairs, turned back into the most boring thing since....since....well before we got there. no-ones writing anything provocative, having 'blues'...nuffin.......we need to get ourselves back up there.......koffee, koffeeee, koffeeee...for the good of humanity?....well how 'bout cos it's Xmas?
Hitchy
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12-22-04 | 07:46 PM
#4303
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From: Melbourne Oz
Bikes: how long have you got?
Originally Posted by rockmuncher
Life is sooo good at the moment.
My payroll company's servers died on Tuesday meaning no payroll run. A minor side issue is the fact that I (amongst others) won't get paid until tomorrow morning.
Bah Humbug
My payroll company's servers died on Tuesday meaning no payroll run. A minor side issue is the fact that I (amongst others) won't get paid until tomorrow morning.
Bah Humbug
sounds like a good enough reason to do 'nuffin' until they pay you....Oh, you already are?.......dang!
Hitchy
12-22-04 | 07:54 PM
#4304
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Originally Posted by Hitchy
sounds like a good enough reason to do 'nuffin' until they pay you....Oh, you already are?.......dang!
Hitchy
Hitchy
BWAAAAHAAAAHAAA
12-22-04 | 08:11 PM
#4305
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From: Melbourne
Bikes: Scapin EOS7 sloping, 10v Record, Ksyriums
Originally Posted by badsac
Your size? Going by reports, you'd bust the thing just sitting on it. 
short legs, long arms. I look like a gibbon.
12-22-04 | 08:14 PM
#4306
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Originally Posted by 531Aussie
Yep. covered in freckles.
12-22-04 | 08:22 PM
#4307
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Just for the holidays, boys.... try to keep some cycling stuff goin' in here.
Koffee
Koffee
12-22-04 | 08:31 PM
#4308
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Sin bin time over boys. We're free
Looks like those comments about how everything has got boring up in Road Cycling must have reached the right ears.
Looks like those comments about how everything has got boring up in Road Cycling must have reached the right ears.
12-22-04 | 08:31 PM
#4309
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Back to reality. 
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
12-22-04 | 08:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Hitchy
....this is undoubtably the worst dream I've ever had!....imagine a dream with you blokes in it!...normally its me, elle mcpherson & some baby oil....but today, I'm dreaming that 531 is talking to bike shop boyz!....I'd better go & have a lie down, obviously training to hard...heatstroke maybe....
Hitchy
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12-22-04 | 08:35 PM
#4311
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From: Between the mountains and the lake.
Bikes: 8 bikes - one for each day of the week!
I got boxes of stuff today! My USPS Pro Cycling Team wallet arrived too. You guys must be so jealous.
12-22-04 | 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Rowan
Sin bin time over boys. We're free
Looks like those comments about how everything has got boring up in Road Cycling must have reached the right ears.
Looks like those comments about how everything has got boring up in Road Cycling must have reached the right ears.
12-22-04 | 08:37 PM
#4313
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Originally Posted by Rowan
Sin bin time over boys. We're free
Looks like those comments about how everything has got boring up in Road Cycling must have reached the right ears.
Looks like those comments about how everything has got boring up in Road Cycling must have reached the right ears.
Woo-hoo! Welcome back to first grade!!
Err.....the Pinarello Dogma is better than a Colnago C50.
12-22-04 | 08:38 PM
#4314
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
I got boxes of stuff today! My USPS Pro Cycling Team wallet arrived too. You guys must be so jealous.
Lance's wallet?? Must be the size of a Volkswagen.
12-22-04 | 08:46 PM
#4315
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From: Between the mountains and the lake.
Bikes: 8 bikes - one for each day of the week!
Yeah, but there's no picture of Sheryl Crow, so I'm not sure that it's Lance's wallet.
12-22-04 | 08:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ed073
Err.....the Pinarello Dogma is better than a Colnago C50.
12-22-04 | 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
I got boxes of stuff today! My USPS Pro Cycling Team wallet arrived too. You guys must be so jealous.
12-22-04 | 09:07 PM
#4318
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From: Between the mountains and the lake.
Bikes: 8 bikes - one for each day of the week!
Originally Posted by Rowan
What? To keep your hypodermic syringes in? And boxes of stuff -- form that lab in LA, no doubt.
Last edited by Brian; 12-22-04 at 09:12 PM.
12-22-04 | 09:09 PM
#4319
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any of your blokes use carbon bars/stem/integrated bars? I reckon they look the shizzle and could be worth a gander....
12-22-04 | 09:12 PM
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From: Bathurst oz
Originally Posted by Expatriate
and some bells.
BTw, good to be home for a while. I think they're trying to confuse us silly Aussies hiding this thing all over the joint.
12-22-04 | 09:15 PM
#4321
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From: Between the mountains and the lake.
Bikes: 8 bikes - one for each day of the week!
Originally Posted by badsac
Bells. You put bells on your bikes....
12-22-04 | 09:19 PM
#4322
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
In NSW, by law you need to have a bell on your bike. When I worked at the IPB, I saw the actual tickets issued @ about $50 a pop.
That is a deadset joke.....it's probably the same law here too.
12-22-04 | 09:24 PM
#4323
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From: Between the mountains and the lake.
Bikes: 8 bikes - one for each day of the week!
Originally Posted by ed073
That is a deadset joke.....it's probably the same law here too.
12-22-04 | 09:24 PM
#4324
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From: Bathurst oz
Originally Posted by Expatriate
In NSW, by law you need to have a bell on your bike. When I worked at the IPB, I saw the actual tickets issued @ about $50 a pop.
12-22-04 | 09:27 PM
#4325
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
Some kid got caught for no helmet. Cop wrote him up for the helmet, no bell, and no front light, no rear light, as it was at night. He told the kid to walk home. The kid got smart and rode anyway, so the cop sent him 4 more in the mail. What gear could you buy with that $400?