[Melb] BR tomorrow?

ritcho said:

Dammit - I didn't get a leave pass to go racing today and I can't go next Saturday either. It looks like I'll be up for my Vic debut in two weeks time.

In the meantime, I'll be up for a BR at 0720 at DSC - if the radar is looking sort of clear...

Ritch

[censored] yeah I'm up for it...got my legs back :p

essendon93 said:

[censored] yeah I'm up for it...got my legs back :p

Oh great, that's just what I need to hear. 🙁

daveB

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essendon93 said:

[censored] yeah I'm up for it...got my legs back :p

Oh great, that's just what I need to hear. 🙁

daveB

I got the cast taken off my wrist yesterday so I will be taking the new
roadie out for its first run. Not sure how the legs/lungs will hold up but
I will have a crack anyways.

Gags

On 2006-04-29, Gags (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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essendon93 said:

[censored] yeah I'm up for it...got my legs back :p

Oh great, that's just what I need to hear. 🙁

I got the cast taken off my wrist yesterday so I will be taking the new
roadie out for its first run. Not sure how the legs/lungs will hold up but
I will have a crack anyways.

<obvious bag>

Are you sure you want to have another crack, given how long this last
crack of yours has kept you out of action?

</obvious bag>

--
TimC
If I had encountered Bill Gates today, I would have shaken his hand,
said "hello", and stopped kicking as soon as there was nothing left
but a bloody stain on the floor. -- Shag

On 2006-04-29, ritcho (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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In the meantime, I'll be up for a BR at 0720 at DSC - if the radar is
looking sort of clear...

Did people attend? I got up, looked at the radar, and eventually
convinced myself that a tiny rain cloud would probably get me just a
little bit wet. I then combined this with an excuse "I may be coming
down with a cold" (thanks Ritcho for that one!), and went back to bed.
Getting up just then, and I found I made the correct decision --
there's rain all over Melb now.

--
TimC
"I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the
artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a
fixed gear!" -- Henri Desgrange

TimC said:

On 2006-04-29, ritcho (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

In the meantime, I'll be up for a BR at 0720 at DSC - if the radar is
looking sort of clear...

Did people attend? I got up, looked at the radar, and eventually
convinced myself that a tiny rain cloud would probably get me just a
little bit wet. I then combined this with an excuse "I may be coming
down with a cold" (thanks Ritcho for that one!), and went back to bed.
Getting up just then, and I found I made the correct decision --
there's rain all over Melb now.

--
TimC
"I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the
artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft... As for me, give me a
fixed gear!" -- Henri Desgrange

Four of us - Gags, Ess, DaveB and I. The roads were a little wet most of the time, but the rain held off until I was heading home, when it was a steady, soaking rain.

At least until I left the group, the ride was fun, muffins were good and no crashes. What more could you want?

Ritch

TimC said:

On 2006-04-29, ritcho (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

In the meantime, I'll be up for a BR at 0720 at DSC - if the radar is
looking sort of clear...

Did people attend? I got up, looked at the radar, and eventually
convinced myself that a tiny rain cloud would probably get me just a
little bit wet. I then combined this with an excuse "I may be coming
down with a cold" (thanks Ritcho for that one!), and went back to bed.
Getting up just then, and I found I made the correct decision --
there's rain all over Melb now.

Yep, there was me, Gags, Ritcho and Ess. It looked like raining a couple
of times but nothing really happened. I put that down to wearing booties
and carrying a jacket (which I didn't do last week and paid the price).
Although it didn't really rain the roads were wet so it was a bit dodgy
in some places. It was a mornign of scares but no damage done:
- Gags had a scare at the roundabout at Diamond Creek when he found
diesel and wet roads don't mix well. Rictho might have hit that as well.
- I had a scare when Gags dropped into the gravel on the road to Smiths
Gully and I thought he was going to take me out getting back on.
- Gags had a scare when he nearly got car-doored in Greensborough (I was
right behind him and I must say his reaction time was hot).
- After missing Gags with the door, our friendly car passenger decided
to step out of the car in front of me. Choice words about having a look
were issued, and she replied that she was looking (obviously in the
wrong direction)
- I had a nother scare in the back streets of Greensborough when a car
that waited for me to enter a roundabout then decided to pull out
directly in front of me. More choice words issued, VERY LOUDLY, but even
scarier he didn't seem to think he'd done anything wrong.

But despite that list of scares it was a bloody nice morning for a ride.

DaveB
- I had a scare in Gree

On 2006-04-30, DaveB (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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- Gags had a scare at the roundabout at Diamond Creek...
- I had a scare when Gags dropped into the gravel on the road to Smiths
Gully...
- Gags had a scare when he nearly got car-doored in Greensborough...
- I had a nother scare in the back streets of Greensborough...

But despite that list of scares it was a bloody nice morning for a ride.

Wow. Gotta love the Diamond Ck-Greensborough area.

Diesel? What made you think it was diesel rather than plain old oil?

OK, Diamond Ck roundabout is probably another roundabout I should add
to my list of "ride slowly in the wet". Me thinks I should just
blacklist all of them, and then whitelist the ones that turn out to be
safe 🙂

--
TimC
FORTRAN is a good example of a language which is easier to parse
using ad hoc techniques. -- D. Gries

ritcho said:

Dammit - I didn't get a leave pass to go racing today and I can't go
next Saturday either. It looks like I'll be up for my Vic debut in two
weeks time.

In the meantime, I'll be up for a BR at 0720 at DSC - if the radar is
looking sort of clear...

Ritch

hey guys I went back to Rosanna to pick up that road frame out for hard
rubbish collection for a SS project and the bloody thing had gone 🙁 .
But since then they had put out another frame, MTB this time, which
looked a bit small in the rain and the dark, but I grabbed it anyway
(didn't want a wasted trip). Got it home to discover it is the same size
as my MTB and it has horizontal dropouts. WooHoo! Best of all, it is a
Roadmaster, so I can pretend I'm in the Indiana Little 500 in Breaking
Away, when they say "Gentlemen, mount your Roadmaster bicycles".

DaveB "living the dream"

DaveB said:

Best of all, it is a
Roadmaster, so I can pretend I'm in the Indiana Little 500 in Breaking
Away, when they say "Gentlemen, mount your Roadmaster bicycles".

DaveB "living the dream"

"Yer nuffin but ah CUTTER!"