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"Bikesoiler" <[email hidden]
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I'll be able to ride the course OK & not shed any blood. It's just the shame of walking hills that kinda gets to me.
Well, I'll be walking hills AND shedding blood if it makes you feel better! :-)
I've just put the call out on www.farkin.net and I'll wait patiently for bites...
I'd REALLY like a duallie for this one.. but I've been talking about buying one for ages and I've got a roadie on order.. arrrrgh.. bike addiction!!!
hippy
Well, I will be riding my duallie for this one 😄 , but I have no doubt that I'll still be walking hills (up & down!) and bleeding profusely. Confidence and courage are two things I lack significantly!
'The New Justice Team' are all enrolled and as ready to go as the three of us will ever be (which means we've done squat in terms of training and prep and will likely do no more! - although I do need new cables... anyone know where you can buy those Avid Full Metal Jacket cables in Aust??)... Now just acquiring support team members to pat our heads, make us coffee and tell us how manly we all are... 🙄
Well, I will be riding my duallie for this one 😄 , but I have no doubt that I'll still be walking hills (up & down!) and bleeding profusely. Confidence and courage are two things I lack significantly!
What sort of bike? If we make it there I can keep an eye out for you and we can swap energy bars :-) As a dodgie roadie.. I make a worse mtb'er! :-) But it's all about the fun innit so I figure who cares about lap times.. (that's what I tell people anyway ;-) )
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'The New Justice Team' are all enrolled and as ready to go as the three
Team of three.. you guys must be fit. :-)
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of us will ever be (which means we've done squat in terms of training and prep and will likely do no more! - although I do need new cables... anyone know where you can buy those Avid Full Metal Jacket cables in Aust??)... Now just acquiring support team members to pat our heads, make us coffee and tell us how manly we all are... 🙄
That's what the other guy is for.. 1 riding, 1 resting and 1 slave.
What sort of bike? If we make it there I can keep an eye out for you and we can swap energy bars :-) As a dodgie roadie.. I make a worse mtb'er! :-) But it's all about the fun innit so I figure who cares about lap times.. (that's what I tell people anyway ;-) )
Quoted message said:
'The New Justice Team' are all enrolled and as ready to go as the three
Team of three.. you guys must be fit. :-)
Quoted message said:
of us will ever be (which means we've done squat in terms of training and prep and will likely do no more! - although I do need new cables... anyone know where you can buy those Avid Full Metal Jacket cables in Aust??)... Now just acquiring support team members to pat our heads, make us coffee and tell us how manly we all are... 🙄
That's what the other guy is for.. 1 riding, 1 resting and 1 slave.
hippy - this year will remember a towel
I'll be on an orange/silver Marin Rift Zone (http://www.mtbr.com/reviews/Bike_full/Marin_1999_Rift_Zone.jpg) so feel free to give me an excuse to stop for a break & chat mid-trail! We're not too competitive about this whole thing, but just personally wanting to do what i can, and preparing myself for having to do more than my fair share of laps given the computer-programmer physiques of my team mates!
The real competition will take place back at camp to see who can bring the comfiest bed and best food!
"A mountain bike designed for going up, down and around mountains really...." ? :-)
No probs.. I'll be the one brushing the dust off myself, cursing my lack of previous mtb'ing.. :-)
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We're not too competitive about this whole thing, but just personally wanting to do what i can, and preparing myself for having to do more than my fair share of laps given the computer-programmer physiques of my team mates!
So I can blame my "computer-programmer physique" for my lack of pace. Done! :-)
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The real competition will take place back at camp to see who can bring the comfiest bed and best food!
Ah, crapola, I'll have to find a tent.. How long do pizza's keep when left outside? :-)
Hardly a classic, SuzyJ or otherwise, but it's shiny and pretty and nice ;-)
hippy
nice bike hippy, i've been checking them out at link cycles in camberwell now and then, but the wife drags me away🙁 will this be a racing only bike or will we see it on a sunday BR one day?🙂 (that is, if your not busy at cafe racer) 🙂
nice bike hippy, i've been checking them out at link cycles in camberwell now and then, but the wife drags me away🙁 will this be a racing only bike or will we see it on a sunday BR one
day?🙂
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(that is, if your not busy at cafe racer) 🙂
None of my bikes are race only. Even my best bike has gone shopping with me :-) Cafe Racer? Not unless someone else is buying me a coffee :-)
