Around the Bay in a week or so

cfsmtb said:

ATBW Rough Itinerary:

Ride the bay in a week or so. Stopping at all points of local interest/pubs at whim. Crayfish and caviar for lunch if you wish. Catch the ferry when you feel like it. Plod or cane along at your own speed. Support crew/tifosi welcome. An enjoyable jaunt for all.

Start planning now for 2006, drop in the leave request in advance.

Now I've got to take another analgesic to alleviate this fecking cold.

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couldnt we go somewhere more interesting?
The idea of riding expanses like Geelong/Werribbee and Mordy to Frankston dont appeal much. Besides, the pub count is far too low
AroundTheTriangle(Tassie)! Now THERE's a ride
(i took a month to do that one back in '90)

cfsmtb said:

Good points raised FD. How about 'Around NW Victoria in a week or two'? King Valley wineries, Alpine Rail Trail, Milawa cheese company....smelly cheeessseeee.

*yum*

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ooooooooh smelly goat cheese. I'm tharr

"cfsmtb" wrote in message ...
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> Good points raised FD. How about 'Around NW Victoria in a week or two'?
> King Valley wineries, Alpine Rail Trail, Milawa cheese company....smelly
> cheeessseeee.
>

Sure that wasn't NE Victoria?

I'd be happy to take in a NW Victoria trek... it'd be something like...

- Ouyen to Hopetoun.. onto Rainbow.. enjoying.. well.. nothing.. open roads
and hot winds.. (most likely tail wind)
- Taking the long way around Lake Hindmarsh - taking in the breath keeping
views of a large lake that has been dry for many years.
- Stop in Jeparit - 'Birth place of Sir Robert Menzies (and GPL!)'.. the
pioneer museum tour then out to Nhill...
- Nhill - or was that /dev/null?
- Take a bash though the Little Desert and say g'day to Wimpy Reicheldt -
scrub scrub more scrub
- Maybe take in the mt arapiles <-> Horsham rail trail if it is completed
(or built?)
- Horsham - Finally, (almost) civilisation!



cheers,
GPL

DaveB wrote:
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> cfsmtb wrote:
> > Not complete OT, who watched this?
> > http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1459906.htm
> >
>
> Checking out the website reminded me of the previous week's episode on
> sports performance and the impact of taking Creatine. The "results' from
> their tests seemed failry compelling. Was wondering if anyone here has
> had much to do with Creatine (come on Carl and/or Tam, I'm sure you've
> got a story to tell).
>
> DaveB

Creatine is an interesting one. The studies that show it to be effective
have used it in quite complicated ways, as in different amounts each
day, weird cycles of intake and timing specific to training schedule.
Too damn confusing for me, I can deal with things like, "eat some carbs
before training" or "eat some carbs and protein after training" but
didn't want anything that complicated, so I stayed away from it.

Sorry I can't be mroe help.

Tam

"DaveB" wrote in message ...
>
> Checking out the website reminded me of the previous week's episode on
> sports performance and the impact of taking Creatine. The "results' from
> their tests seemed failry compelling. Was wondering if anyone here has had
> much to do with Creatine (come on Carl and/or Tam, I'm sure you've got a
> story to tell).
>

IIRC and please don't take this as any official word - it depends what you
want to use it for.. results have shown that for endurance cycling it does
sfa.. loading it causes water retention which gives you more mass which
means bad news for cycling in general... I believe the only clear results
have been slight improvements in short sub 30second bursts at max power,
maybe handy for the last pissteenth of a crit - but hauling a heavier ass
around for the most of it blows any benefit..

IMHO there are much better things for cycling... Like low fat coffee BigM's!
hmmmm good, but not the BigM brand, not enough protein..


cheers,
DrGPL
:what, this white jacket with straps isn't a doctors coat!?:

flyingdutch said:

couldnt we go somewhere more interesting?
The idea of riding expanses like Geelong/Werribbee and Mordy to Frankston dont appeal much. Besides, the pub count is far too low
AroundTheTriangle(Tassie)! Now THERE's a ride
(i took a month to do that one back in '90)

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How bout a circumnavigation of holland, you could show us round ?? Nice and flat

cfsmtb said:

Hot winds. Don't like them. Ask Bikesoiler about our delightful ride into Everton against scorching headwinds. Yuk.

Tassie sounds a goer. Plenty of accommodation via the rellies (those on talking terms) and I've plenty of local knowledge. Beers, hills, rare flat sections, fishing, yummy food. And I know how to attire for the freezing/cool/freezing/hot/tempid weather.

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Yes I know what thats like, mid thirties, lots of wind and the nearest swimming hole is Beechworth unless you are staying at the Everton caravan park which has a swimming pool. Two 130k days at the above tempreture and the best spots were the river at Bright and the lake at Beechworth. Lucky they had water tanks along the trail.


If you are going oversea's it might as well be New Zealand.

> The "results' from
> their tests seemed failry compelling.
Please google smth. like "creatine and kidney/liver damage" before you
start taking it.

Timofey

do we get a 'free' bike?

And, if so, any bets on whether it will it be power assisted, or a recombent (or combine the two for a power assisted recombent)

Ash

GPLama wrote:

> IMHO there are much better things for cycling... Like low fat coffee BigM's!
> hmmmm good, but not the BigM brand, not enough protein..

Apparently one of the tricks with cheap milk (woollies, etc) is to strip
the protein out of it.

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DaveB wrote:
> cfsmtb wrote:
> > Not complete OT, who watched this?
> > http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1459906.htm
> >
>
> Checking out the website reminded me of the previous week's episode on
> sports performance and the impact of taking Creatine. The "results' from
> their tests seemed failry compelling. Was wondering if anyone here has
> had much to do with Creatine (come on Carl and/or Tam, I'm sure you've
> got a story to tell).

I don't know a lot about it, and what I have read suggests that
it's a good way to make money (selling it ...) but its effects
are unproven. Probably just another way to have expensive
****.

Do the miles ... spend the money on pasta, steak and rubber

"Bleve" wrote in message ...
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>> it's a good way to make money (selling it ...) but its effects
> are unproven. Probably just another way to have expensive
> ****.

Ah yes.... it is recommended you have NO caffeine when you are taking it..
else you will just **** it all away.. again, only what I've read / been
told.. please see your doctor if peeing fails to persist


cheers,
GPL

Terry Collins said:

GPLama wrote:

> IMHO there are much better things for cycling... Like low fat coffee BigM's!
> hmmmm good, but not the BigM brand, not enough protein..

Apparently one of the tricks with cheap milk (woollies, etc) is to strip
the protein out of it.

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That's total ****. All milk is the same, made by the same big two companies, pasteurised and homogenised so it's always the same. Only the branding changes. Cows don't just make 4% milk day in day out, the manufacturers blend the back in fat to get three different milk percentages (0.1%/1%/4%).

If milk had no protein, it would be water with a bit of lactose in it.