I knew you'd ask that...He did say, but because I was low on oxygen at the time, I forgot... At least, that's my excuse.

If it helps any, he was riding a yellow CF bike with a Euro brand that I'd never heard of...

no worries. Nothing gives you more street cred than riding an obscure European bike....


Kuips
BH
Flanders
Fort
Red Bull
SAB
etc
etc

all uber-cool....

That and thighs as big as tree trunks...which this guy had.

......you have this unnatural obsession with blokes thighs, wattsy?.....i'm beginning to worry about you!....yeah the pricks that run the 'warnie' heard that I had taken the pledge, so they increased it 35km this year...took out a couple of the climbs...so i guess that evens things out....I can't even think about racing 300km!.....I'm just doing 6 x 50km splits...it's the only way i can mentally cope with it!......5 days to go & I'm PUMPED & READY!......(if i keep saying it maybe i'll start believing it!)

Hitchy

Have you got the eating thing sorted out? I would have no idea. I reckon that'd be tricky becasue it would surely take some practise to get it right, let alone get it right on one of your first long races -- or have you done one before?

G'day,

gunna sit down tonight & work thru it. I'm trying to have 70 to 80 gms of carbs per hour. The problem is being able to carry it & actually eat it......I can't see to many opportunities to eat in the first couple o' hours, (can't chew & breathe at 60kmh!!!) so it's gunna be a balancing act. 1st feed station at 100km then the next at 230km......so assuming I'm there by the time the sun goes down.....multiply the number of carbs needed x my birthdate, takeawy the number you first thought of......divided by the number of teeth on the big ring.......add a little for the number of p!ss stops...take away the fine for crossing double lines X 3.........should be about right I reckon!..........the boys are already talking about stopping at every junk food drive thru between Warnie & melb on the way back!......do you think it's possible to do melb- warnie & actually put on weight?

hitchy

It's called jealousy...but in a 'manly' sort of way.

BTW hitchy, I counted 3 chicks on the ride on Saturday...I thought there was a rule against the fairer sex riding the Hell Ride

oooo, I found a new picture:

https://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDE00902.loop.shtml

I've seen two crashes on the Tuesday night ride, both caused by chicks

You should hop onto that ride, Wattsy. It goes down New St. at about 6:45 to 6:55pm, then turns at Parkdale at about 7:05 to 7:15. It's apparently not as hard as The Hell Ride, mainly because they only go hard for the 20km on the way back to Elwood

Cool, now that the weathers warming up, I can emerge from my cave (er...garage) and do more road K's during the week.

you guys ever check out Weight Weenies?(https://weightweenies.starbike.com/)

There's a 4.166 kg bike listed!!:
https://weightweenies.starbike.com/ar...gory=roadbikes

Madness

...dunno why you're getting so excited about such heavy bikes!!...i'm getting me one o' these 'canyons'

https://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/2004...eurobike/part4

I can see myself 'fanging' down a hill at 90 clicks on this....(not)

Hitchy

Those cinelli frames are v. tasty.

Far Canal!!

Wattsy,

when we wuz going back down Oliver's...there was a copper, lights ablaze sitting at the bottom on the other side (pointing up the hill)...did you see him?...we wondered at the time whether it was something to do with the bloke who came off when we wuz going up?...didn't see any ambulances though.

Hitchy

The "Do you carry a gun when biking?" thread has been bumped on cyclingforums.com.....it's game on again!!!!

...actually it mighta been me that bumped it...i posted to it on the weekend, (ok i was bored, alright!!!)....but they probably think it was a serious post do they?....something about me AK47 & me RPG i carry?.....I'll look tonight....i love it when they get upset!

cheers,

hitchy

Seppos are touchy.

so are they slagging me?...i hope you're over there defending my honour until I can get home & do it myself!

Yep, the copper was directing everyone up the side street. He was not happy with bike riders in general, so I assume that was because of the bike that went down.

I just re-read Joe West's first few posts, and I think he's actually serious!!

........that's why seppo's are so scary....I'm CONVINCED he's serious!.......they didn't even have a dig at me about my AK47 post.......probably thought it was fair comment!,

cheers,

Hitchy

Hey there is a big spread in this months Cycle Sport about Aussi racers. Hitchy Stuart O'Grady is featured!

Thanks. I'm not sure if we get that. Is that the British mag?