The Thread about Nothing.... - Page 3201

Riddles me this, peoples:  Last Sundee I went for a kinda leisurely ride with a few newbie/part-time riders, whoms I don't really know very well.

Two of the guys are 'normal', with demanding full-time jobs, a wife and young kids.  These 2 guys were given a 2-hour leave pass from their missuseses for the Sundee ride, 25 minutes of which we spent sitting in a coffee shop talking shit -- and most of this time they spoke about how they were struggling to get fit enough and struggling to find enough time to ride.  

Is this normal for normal people? :-)

I've only just realized that one of the young chicks on Baywatch is the same chick who famously jumped out of the cake in Under Seige:  Erkia Eleniak.  Who could ever forget her popping out of that cake?!?!?! Wow weee!

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Originally Posted by 531Aussie 

Riddles me this, peoples:  Last Sundee I went for a kinda leisurely ride with a few newbie/part-time riders, whoms I don't really know very well.

Two of the guys are 'normal', with demanding full-time jobs, a wife and young kids.  These 2 guys were given a 2-hour leave pass from their missuseses for the Sundee ride, 25mins minutes of which we spent sitting in a coffee shop talking shit -- and most of this time they spoke about how they were struggling to get fit enough and struggling to find enough time to ride.  

Is this normal for normal people? :-)

Welcome to aspirational middle class suburban hell.

Official TAN ride #638...Htchy and cs124 racing vets at Somerton.  Fun.

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Originally Posted by 531Aussie 

Riddles me this, peoples:  Last Sundee I went for a kinda leisurely ride with a few newbie/part-time riders, whoms I don't really know very well.

Two of the guys are 'normal', with demanding full-time jobs, a wife and young kids.  These 2 guys were given a 2-hour leave pass from their missuseses for the Sundee ride, 25mins minutes of which we spent sitting in a coffee shop talking shit -- and most of this time they spoke about how they were struggling to get fit enough and struggling to find enough time to ride.  

Is this normal for normal people? :-)

No.  I mean yes.  Like most people - including myself - they could quite easily get fitter and find time to ride if they woke up at 4:30 instead of 6:30 every morning and rode instead of slept.

However, if you did that, you'd have nothing to bitch about at cafes, so what's the point?

I choose sleep, beer, and sitting on the couch instead of masochistically sleep depriving and smashing myself into the ground so I can do victory salutes on the Bvld.

Seems like a fair trade.

Ma - once upon a time the Hokitika Wild Food Festival was mostly a celebration of "wild" foods. The sort of thing a bloke could go and hunt, fish for or gather himself. Oysters, whitebait, scallops, kina (sea urchin), wild boar, venison, tuna etc etc... Oh and Monteiths beer.

The more weird stuff like mountain oysters, huhu grubs (wichety grubs), sea cucumber sashimi have crept in over time, and are only a small part of the whole thing. There's an annual nationwide wild food challenge for restaurants, and has been won with dishes like a tasting plate of whitebait, scampi, rabbit and goat.

Most of the people lining up for the horsey hand shandy, huhu grubs and sea cucumber will be fairly trollied, and then slip out for a quiet chunder before going back for more.

UCI Keiren.  Clearly Hoy was celebrating his win to early and should have been DQed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rltqF-HT9iU
 

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Originally Posted by jock.c 

UCI Keiren.  Clearly Hoy was celebrating his win to early and should have been DQed

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rltqF-HT9iU
 

I think he rides A Grade, so its ok. :)

Look at the video at 1:10.  That's Hoy's fault.

$14,000 rec retail for the new Cervelo frame (only)!  What a bargain :-)

http://www.cervelo.com/en_us/bikes/2011/R5ca/

I reckon that Spanish guy would crawl over his own mother for a second helping of Chorizo.

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Originally Posted by 531Aussie 

$14,000 rec retail for the new Cervelo frame (only)!  What a bargain :-)

 

http://www.cervelo.com/en_us/bikes/2011/R5ca/

 Athhhhh, the bike reviewers checklist is including on their promo....

I'm having trouble watching the Ch7 4:30pm news. Samantha Armytage has me hypnotised. What a woman.

Crikey.

Yes.

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and again.

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Originally Posted by Thylacine 

No.  I mean yes.  Like most people - including myself - they could quite easily get fitter and find time to ride if they woke up at 4:30 instead of 6:30 every morning and rode instead of slept.

 

However, if you did that, you'd have nothing to bitch about at cafes, so what's the point?

 

I choose sleep, beer, and sitting on the couch instead of masochistically sleep depriving and smashing myself into the ground so I can do victory salutes on the Bvld.

 

Seems like a fair trade.

 

I was more perplexed that they were struggling to find time to ride, get given 2 hrs on a Sunday to ride by there missuses, then spend 1/4 of that time sitting in a coffee shop whining about their lack of fitness. :-)