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DaveB said:

DaveB "I want my aero bars back on"

WTF? abstinence (and the ability to ride in a styraight line!!!) are next to BIKE-liness

flyingdutch said:

DaveB said:

DaveB "I want my aero bars back on"

WTF? abstinence (and the ability to ride in a styraight line!!!) are
next to BIKE-liness

Yeah yeah start the tri bagging now (hopefully Tam is out there
somewhere to offer some moral support). But when I'm doing 40 km along
Beach Rd in January's Olympic distance Tri with no bunch to hide behind
and a head wind in at least one direction (and last year in one race a
change came through so it was head wind both directions, gasp) I'll take
every advantage I can get. Besides they also seem to get me into a much
more relaxed position, even though I'm probably leaning over further my
back never gets sore with them.

DaveB "I still want my aero bars, but I need new ones for the new bike"

quote='DaveB'flyingdutch said:

DaveB said:

DaveB "I want my aero bars back on"

WTF? abstinence (and the ability to ride in a styraight line!!!) are
next to BIKE-liness

Yeah yeah start the tri bagging now (hopefully Tam is out there
somewhere to offer some moral support). But when I'm doing 40 km along
Beach Rd in January's Olympic distance Tri with no bunch to hide behind
and a head wind in at least one direction (and last year in one race a
change came through so it was head wind both directions, gasp) I'll take
every advantage I can get. Besides they also seem to get me into a much
more relaxed position, even though I'm probably leaning over further my
back never gets sore with them.

DaveB "I still want my aero bars, but I need new ones for the new bike"[/QUOTE]

I'll throw in my support - I like tri's and started road racing as an off-season training activity. The season has started and riding with no draft is much more difficult (duh!).

Canberra half-IM just two weeks away...

Ritch

I just realised that what with getting to Doncaster and then going to Richmond afterwards, I've set myself up to ride my first century. That's about twice as far as I've ever ridden in one go before. Should be interesting...

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Not for me this week, had to reschedule training so doing a flat ride out
to Whittlesea on Saturday.

DaveB

Dave, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm racing on saturday afternoon
(and hence have to do the domestic tasks in the morning) I would have
joined you for the South Morang - Whittlesea - South Morang leg of your
ride.

Geoff

Be glad you didn't. OH MY GAWD that wind was a killer. Straight into a
northerly that at one stage had me down to 14kmh on a flat stretch. I was
so tempted to just give up and turn around but me and the mate I was with
just shamed each other into continuing. Coming home though was a buzz,
even if teh legs were pretty knackered by then. The stretch straight into
the wind that had me down to 14kmh was sped through at 51kmh. WooHoo! And
coming down Greensborough Rd past the army camp I was passing the cars
(felt like I was in the truck scene from Breaking Away).

DaveB "I want my aero bars back on"

The wind was pretty vicious out this way this morning. I did spare a
thought for the fact that you were probably out in it. Thankfully it eased
off in the afternoon so it was not too rough for track racing. Now I'm just
hoping that any rain that is going to happen will happen before tomorrow
mornings racing.

Geoff

Resound said:

I just realised that what with getting to Doncaster and then going to Richmond afterwards, I've set myself up to ride my first century. That's about twice as far as I've ever ridden in one go before. Should be interesting...

there's a couple of places you can bail if youre feeling inclined (no pun intended!) along the way 🙂

flyingdutch said:

there's a couple of places you can bail if youre feeling inclined (no pun intended!) along the way 🙂

Damn it...the thing I went out to last night went a LOT later than I thought it was going to. I decided I didn't really want to do the ride on about 3 hours sleep. I'm a wuss. I didn't really intend to bail THAT early. Didn't intend to bail at all, actually, but hey... Won't happen next week either. It will happen though.