Some of the posts I've read on here about training, nutrition etc have GOT to be flamebait rubbish.

They're just too out there.

Says he put on a kilo or two. Can't imagine 1% increase in bodyweight would be noticeable on Hitchy

now everyone seems to be on holidays except me.......how about TAT@BF Ride 2??

bloody taswegians!......I reckon I'll be lucky to have only put on a KG or 2!...more like 3 or 4 or 5...hmmm....I'm planning to have my 1st alcohol free day in 10 days today....mates willing!...gotta rest up for NYE!......the recycle bin is looking like a bunch of piss heads live here, p'raps thats why the missus put it in front of the neighbors house the other day?.....road bike, road bike, road bike

Hitchy

Where's wattsy been hiding the last few days? Haven't seen a post since b4 christmas. Doing double time on the highways?

Did I say summint wrong?

I'll talk to ya........seeing as i'm sober for the 1st time in a few days, i'm taking the time to load a few CD's that I got for Chrissie, into the IPOD...then I'm going riding...If the weather holds!....been pretty ordinary down this way since boxing day

Hitchy

Ungh.....my head........

Gawd I hate Xmas. 4 days of galavanting around Victoria, over-eating....over-drinking......

Anyway, thank christ it's over. I got bugger all as usual. Why can't they make cool bike stuff for around 40 bucks?

And who is this Sue Nami chick anyway?

....that coming form a bloke who volunteers at a soup kitchen & is doing a charity ride in Sri lanka next year?....geezus.....the alcohol has done bad things to you!....come ride with me today & get it outta your system son!.......there might even be the odd slab of 'crownies left for when we finish!

Hitchy

Well, doesn't look like there's any Sri Lanka left to ride around....unless I take the wheels off and add some sort of floatation devices. Man, what a catastrophy. Man, why does everyone at this point in time have some friend or relative sunnin' it up in ****et? My cousin was on an elephant safari thing inland when the waves came in. Woah nelly!

Today's no good but I could go a ride tomorrow or Sunday or something. Who's going to be arround?

Compulsory bike content - Hitchy, I've found a place in the US that has white and silver Ariones for USD105. Very tempted. Hopefully it'll be arse-friendly, coz that'd look spankin' on my bike, especially with white tape Summer face-lift for the steed.

Ah, careful. We're being "watched"

The aussies just won the three and a half day road cycling classic against the touring pakistani team.

... and the pakistani sprinter shaob aktar wasn't able to power over his bunny (Hayden) in today's criterium event.

Yeah, what about that guy that went to hospital yesterday before he even got on his bike? What's with that? Tell you what, though, that young spinner they've got could be a real thorn in the peloton side when he grows up a bit and gets rid of the killer stare.

All up, I thought the Aussie team deserved its win. If the Pakis put as much effort into their riding as they do staring, they'd be a better side.

And hurts to say, but Warnie rode a blinder. Track seemed to be made for him, though.

Gentlemen , I've decided to build a cyclocross bike. Anyone have spare drop bars? And Rowan, suggestions on brakes/shifters would be appreciated.

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If you're looking for something cheap, John Kennedy in Melbourne has just had a bunch of ITM copies made in (i'm pretty sure) 26.0mm

I think he musta got Yarra Belly. He had dizzy spells, etc. Nothing found at hospital tho. He was only a domestique anyway, so wouldn't have influenced the outcome.

Got dropped on the run in to the finish.....the Aussies finished way ahead of the fastest predicted average speed.....again.

Geeez, why ask me? I don't do cyclocross. But that lack of experience and knowledge has never stopped me before.... I'd go one of the STI variants -- brake and change gear at the same time. But then you'd probably want V-brakes, so you'd need travel agents to make the levers work properly. Although you could look at the Avid (?) brake levers.

Cyclocross bikes are pretty good for utility cycling, as I understand it.

Go to the cyclocross forum here? I'm sure they'd have more than enough answers for your questions.

(<sigh> It only took one question to really find me out ... that I'm just an idiot <shrug>).

Yeah, but the late-order domestiques still had to work like bugggery to get them over the line yesterday. Dizzie again held up against the attacks by the **** front men.

Sheldon Brown has a cyclocross crankset for $299 on this page https://sheldonbrown.com/harris/frenc...ks.html#bottom

No, the aussie machine always had them covered. Most of the breakaways that the pakistanis were able to make on the first day were through sheer luck. They were never going to be able to repeat the perfomance. And they certainly faded badly at the end of the third day. Shame really. Results like this can't be good for world cycling

Cyclingnews.com has 'tests' on a whole pack of 'cross bikes. Just go copy one of those specs.

I had a CX/bike-of-all-trades bike once. Hated it. Does nothing well.

Yeah, but the **** group has been slowly slipping back in the peloton for a while. It's the Pommie team that I'm a little concerned about now. Been racing in low-level countries, but they've been posting some interesting stage victories from time to time. and maybe the West Indians can spring a surprise, especially now the team contract situation has been resolved, and maybe if Lara can get a few centuries under his lycra.

As the Olympics proved, when you're Australian in cycling, you dominate! Same in world cycling, eh?