who wants a "spot" anyway ? I have no interest in winning or getting a prize, I just want to do it. I am totally unfit for 100kms off-road but I'll give it a go, I have a few months to work up to it.

Best thing I have ever done is the Wilderness 101 in Pennsylvaina, 101 miles on fire roads and PA singletrack, wicked fun, hard work (especially SS) but awesome fun.

I got all of you beat. Before the IIe, before the Commodore, before the COCO. I had the Timex Sinclair with 4k of RAM, and a cassette tape drive. 22 years ago, if I recall correctly.

Didn't run over any Amish, mate?

Spot prizes make it fun for the losers. Wear the giant inflatable condom on your helmet, and win the Biggest D!ckhead award. My wife is warming to the idea. We'd do the 1/2 race though. No sense killing ourselves over 100k for nothing more than a bit of pride and ego.

My parents bought a Microbee with B&W TV as a monitor, tape deck to load games like Pong and Space Invaders......circa 1982 or 83 I think.

Sinclairs came out after the Apple, around 1978 in OZ if I do recall correctly. I was playing with Apples complete with cassette drive and 16K RAM when I was 10, which would be 1975. Tandy/Radio Shack then released the TRS-80 in 1977. Dunno when the commodore came out coz it woz only a toy. Us serious junior geeks wouldn't touch it

Steve Drake and his missus used to do the Hell Ride on a tandem.....they could sit on 65kmh on that bloody thing.

Like being behind an motorbike, though....

I won my Microbee at the University of Wollongong's Computer Summer School for Nerds Trouble woz, there was no monitor included so it didn't get turned on for 5 years!!! I still have it, and it still works.

Tell us another story, Grandpa.....




he he!!

fire it up and take a digital photo of you playing Pong on it and post on here.....priceless!!

excellent !

4k? That'd be a luxury! I had a Sinclair ZX81 from '82, with it's huge 1k of memory and a touchpad keyboard. I think the original Timex Sinclair was a clone of the ZX81 developed for the export market.

nah, they make good pie !!

And they are awesome on road rides, you can pass them on a bike, just watch out for the horse-**** they trail behind though

"Slow down, English!"

Canibalism?

$8000!!

I paid $1700 for what you see in the pic (including Cane Creek S2 headset and Cervelo carbon post), and Cheeky Monkey discounted them to $1500 before the '05 models came in.

You know they're made in Taiwan?

We all know it's "psychosemantic",for the thoughtful, and for the technical, it's "psychoschematic"

Well I knew there was a psycho in there someplace. It's Hitchy after all. He appears to be crazy.

This thread is pure psychobabble

Yeah, mine was the one with the touchpad. Useless. And I got the 64k module for it. Used to write stupid crap in BASIC as part of our computer nerd class. Moved up to Tandy's COCO from there. Used to think I was real James Bond like, handing my friends the latest and greatest on a 5.25" floppy. Top secret stuff.

Hahaha - you guys are just jealous that our sheep are better looking than yours.

What's that old joke again?
An Englishman wanted to become an Irishman, so he visited a doctor to find out how to go about this. "Well" said the doctor, "this is a very delicate operation and there is a lot that can go wrong. I will have to remove half your brain". "That's OK" said the Englishman. "I've always wanted to be Irish and I'm prepared to take the risk".

The operation went ahead but the Englishman woke to find a look of horror on the face of the doctor. "I'm so terribly sorry!!" the doctor said. "Instead of removing half the brain, I've taken the whole brain out". The patient replied, "No worries, mate!!"

That I can do!!!! Monday night's project MEWHAWHAWHAW. Do remind me

Location: Auckland, NZ, the Los Angeles of New Zealand.

I remember the time when I used an abacus. Zero RAM or ROM. Then I graduated to a slide rule. Still got it. Heaven knows why.

My watch has a circular slide rule for calculating velocity etc......I use it all the time planning my covert "black ops" for the government.