What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?

- Short term goal is the 'Around the Bay' in a day ride.

- Ride around Australia, NZ, or Tasmania at least.

- Pass roadies up a hill with a loaded bike (they may have to be aged
90+ for that to happen though 🙂 )

- Those perfect days with the sun on your back, NO wind, and you make it
home just before sunset.

Btw Hippy, what do you mean by 'a good manual'? Not a bike manual I
guess? 🙂 lol.

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Cross the Nullarbor
(perth to Adelaide. nice tailwind almost guaranteed :-) )

Tour Europe on tandem (with wife but Angelina Jolie would do in a pinch)

Be on Alpe D'Huez hairpin whilst 'they' go by...

Place in a Kew D-grade crit

Move up to C-grade

Race in C-grade and beat Hippy 😄

emulate these guys... http://www.downtheroad.org

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Btw Hippy, what do you mean by 'a good manual'? Not a bike manual I
guess? 🙂 lol.

A "manual" is similar to a wheelie but you keep the front
wheel in the air without any pedaling, i.e. just by getting
your weight in the right spot over the back wheel. It's a
great trick that needs awesome balance... balance that
I don't have. :-(

hippy

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Tour Europe on tandem (with wife but Angelina Jolie would do in a

pinch)

Yeah, nice one.. 'cept ditch the "tandem" bit.

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Be on Alpe D'Huez hairpin whilst 'they' go by...

I'd love to see any part of the tour.. another good
choice!

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Place in a Kew D-grade crit

If you are riding around those hills near Warrandyte,
you'll do that easy once you work out "the system" 🙂

Quoted message said:

Move up to C-grade
Race in C-grade and beat Hippy 😄

That shouldn't be too hard.. I pulled out of my last 2
crits. :-S

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emulate these guys... http://www.downtheroad.org

hehe.. cool! 🙂

hippy

hippy said:

Introspection Question #1:

What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?

I' like to build a little trailer/chariot for my old cattle dog (13.y.o)
to sit on. He's too old to chase the bike these days.

- Munk3y

Munk3y said:

hippy said:

Introspection Question #1:

What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?

I' like to build a little trailer/chariot for my old cattle dog (13.y.o)
to sit on. He's too old to chase the bike these days.

- Munk3y

After the Gold Coast marathon on Sunday, I saw a guy riding along the
highway with an interesting setup. He had what looked to be a wooden
board mounted along the entire length of his top tube and probably about
five inches wide. For his dog to ride on. It looked like a cattle dog
cross or something. Very cute.

Tamyka
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With frozen toes this morning I thought of another couple of things I
want to do...

Ride in another country (can't believe I've not done this..)

Ride in the SNOW!! :-D

I reckon try it on ice and in snow with normal tyres and then do the
same thing with those funky studded tyres..

hippy

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the big thing for me was that I could get up 5mins later and ride in for a 10:00 lecture as against catching the train.
Ended up hating 9:00 lectures !

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hippy said:

Introspection Question #1:

What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?

To get the new Zipp 808 "fully sick mate!" aero carbon wheels rolling,
some of mine are:

- Wheel suck thouse roadies that keep shooting past me on the M4.
- Be able to bunny hop the curb
- SYD to newscatle
- SYD to BRN

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hippy said:

Introspection Question #1:
What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?

faster, stronger, longer ..

perfect balance

a wheelie (on both road and mt bikes)

a love of headwinds and rain ;-)

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hippy said:

Ride in another country (can't believe I've not done this..)

Take the ferry south. Cheap fares atm. You could probably do it as a
weekender. (well the rest of the world thinks it is a different country
{:-).

Or a cheap flight east.

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Ride in the SNOW!! :-D

Volunteer for the antartic division {;-)

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:24:51 +1000, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}

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- SYD to newscatle

I've always wanted to get a map going of this ride with all sorts of
back roads etc, so you can avoid the F3 & pacific hwy.

From here (Lake Macquarie) to Newcastle is a bit difficult, but
to the south is alot more promising.

For example, I could get from Morisset to Wyong with insignificant traffic
along Yaramalong valley road (or whatever the road name is), from there
cut under the pacific hwy at Wyong Creek into farmlands down to Ourimbah.
Up Dog Trap road (not on your roadie) to Somersby... anyway that's about
a fifth of the trip handled. I think if I were more familiar with these
other areas it might just be possible. Would make a good touring route. I
don't trust the gov'mnt to come up with a decent one for the proposed
pacific bike route - these are the same people that mark the F3
breakdown lane as a bicycle path.

(For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

-kt

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(For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

From memory there are some monster hills when you head north out of Sydney.
Or is it a different road that goes up through Kuring-Gai to to Gosford?

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On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:24:51 +1000, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}

Quoted message said:

- SYD to newscatle

I've always wanted to get a map going of this ride with all sorts of
back roads etc, so you can avoid the F3 & pacific hwy.

From here (Lake Macquarie) to Newcastle is a bit difficult, but
to the south is alot more promising.

For example, I could get from Morisset to Wyong with insignificant traffic
along Yaramalong valley road (or whatever the road name is), from there
cut under the pacific hwy at Wyong Creek into farmlands down to Ourimbah.
Up Dog Trap road (not on your roadie) to Somersby... anyway that's about
a fifth of the trip handled. I think if I were more familiar with these
other areas it might just be possible. Would make a good touring route. I
don't trust the gov'mnt to come up with a decent one for the proposed
pacific bike route - these are the same people that mark the F3
breakdown lane as a bicycle path.

(For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

-kt

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Get yourself a good GPS and some software and publish your maps on the net.
It's not hard and it's actually fun.
GarTrip is good software. I use a Garmin GPS 72 (It's waterproof and it
floats.) You cna download your routes and superimpose them onto scanned
maps.

Marty

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(For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

From memory there are some monster hills when you head north out of
Sydney. Or is it a different road that goes up through Kuring-Gai to
to Gosford?
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You're memory is correct, though it betrays your taste for hills... the
maximum elevation of the "old" road is about 200-250m, which you do at
least three times from Sydney to Gosford. (Plus all of the little ups
and downs). The hills are lengthy, but not particularly steep as the old
road was the main highway... main highways tending to be less steep than
other roads. Judging from my own speeds up the hills, I'd reckon the
grades are around 5%.

I think it's a fun road, but the surface is pretty bad in some sections.
Sunday mornings also see plenty of hoons on motorbikes and WRX-type car
people. Fortunately, you can hear them from a long way off.

Ritch

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I thought of another one today...

a reverse 360 on the fixie..

Practising for 30min today I could roll back 90deg and managed a few near-
180's but 360 will take some time...

hippy

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On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:24:51 +1000, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}

Quoted message said:

- SYD to newscatle

I've always wanted to get a map going of this ride with all sorts of
back roads etc, so you can avoid the F3 & pacific hwy.

From here (Lake Macquarie) to Newcastle is a bit difficult, but
to the south is alot more promising.

Unfortunately, only the main road north, unless you cut west and ride
the Sugarloaf range up to the west of cardiff.

Quoted message said:

For example, I could get from Morisset to Wyong with insignificant traffic
along Yaramalong valley road (or whatever the road name is), from there
cut under the pacific hwy at Wyong Creek into farmlands down to Ourimbah.

The bush route is west into the Watagans and follow that main road south
to Buckety, Kulnura, Mangrove Mtn, then south to Mooney Mooney on old
highway, then (train at Brooklyn) or climb to Cowan, Hornsby, etc. or
west at MM to Spencer, Wisemans Ferry (death alley to Dural,) or
riverside to Windsor (The Buckety to Windsor is part of the Bicycle
Australia Pacific Bicycle Trail)

I will think of that road name soon.
From Wyong, west along Yarramlong Valley Road, then up Bumble Hill to
Kulnura, then as above.

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Up Dog Trap road (not on your roadie) to Somersby... anyway that's about
a fifth of the trip handled. I think if I were more familiar with these
other areas it might just be possible. Would make a good touring route. I
don't trust the gov'mnt to come up with a decent one for the proposed
pacific bike route - these are the same people that mark the F3
breakdown lane as a bicycle path.

Isn't this the Elias Ducohen coastal route that goes east of lake
macquarie?

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(For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

I think I've mentioned my current preference of the F3 (very wide
shoulders) to the West of the lake road (no shoulders and a 6" drop off
in places)

bummer, still can not think of that road that runs South in Wyong west
of the F3. will have to look at map.

Quoted message said:

-kt

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(For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

From memory there are some monster hills when you head north out of Sydney.
Or is it a different road that goes up through Kuring-Gai to to Gosford?

There is really only one hill with a few bumps.
It is downhill from Cowan to Mooney Mooney on the Hawkwsbury River,,
then uphill to Peats Ridge.

If you are going north, you can then follow a ridgeline to Bucketty and
then take forset roads through Watagans (undulating) or the more relaxed
route through Laguna and Wollombi to Cessnock then Maitland and north
coast or Broke to Singleton and New England

If you go east from Peats Ridge, you then drop to Mooney Mooney Creek
and climb back up to Somersby, where you can go north again or east to
Kariong, then down to Gosford. I like the gravel route slightly east of
the main route. You get spat out at the West Gosford lights.

Marty Wallace said:

Get yourself a good GPS and some software and publish your maps on the net.
It's not hard and it's actually fun.
GarTrip is good software. I use a Garmin GPS 72 (It's waterproof and it
floats.) You cna download your routes and superimpose them onto scanned
maps.

How many way points does it hold?
This has been the real limitation to date.