BR104 - Happy 2nd birthday

DaveB said:

Who else is coming for a BR birthday ride?
DaveB

I'm cycling on my feet tomorrow morning, then head off to Perth for 2 weeks, but will be up for another BR when I get back from Perth... would have been 1 month since been off my medication.

DaveB said:

Who else is coming for a BR birthday ride?

DaveB

me!

me three!

also have the same intermittent body-joint aches (old age? injuries? surgical-pins? surgery/s? arthritis? plague-spreading-prodgeny???) but am keen to get out.

flyingdutch said:

me three!

also have the same intermittent body-joint aches (old age? injuries?
surgical-pins? surgery/s? arthritis? plague-spreading-prodgeny???) but
am keen to get out.

You -could- be racing at Phillip Island .. GP track .. weather forecast
looks good ..

gplama said:

me!

me 4 🙂

quote='Bleve'flyingdutch said:

me three!

also have the same intermittent body-joint aches (old age? injuries?
surgical-pins? surgery/s? arthritis? plague-spreading-prodgeny???) but
am keen to get out.

You -could- be racing at Phillip Island .. GP track .. weather forecast
looks good ..[/QUOTE]No centre line!! Yehh haa bring it on! Might be a touch windy though...
Team BikeNow are all heading down😄 Come on Lama...

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gplama said:

me!

me 4 🙂
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essendon93

Count me in........I will see you all in the morning

Gags

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I've had a change in plans so will be out for a ride tomorrow. Not sure
how far i will last. Leg and hip joints have been badly aching all week
for no apparent reason. Who else is coming for a BR birthday ride?

DaveB

Just went outside to feed the dog and it is starting to spit rain
(11:55pm).....hope it clears off before tomorrow!!!

Gags

Gags said:

Just went outside to feed the dog and it is starting to spit rain
(11:55pm).....hope it clears off before tomorrow!!!

Gags

heretic!

"It_nevar_rains_on_a_BRRRR!!!!

Rode the 4km from home to the start point. Had a chat to the others.
Realised cones on the front wheel needed tightening (should have done a
test ride after servicing the wheel). Tried to fix it with one cone
spanner. gave up and went home. Hope everybody else had a better ride
than that.

daveB

DaveB said:

Rode the 4km from home to the start point. Had a chat to the others.
Realised cones on the front wheel needed tightening (should have done a
test ride after servicing the wheel). Tried to fix it with one cone
spanner. gave up and went home. Hope everybody else had a better ride
than that.

daveB

It was certainly eventful! I counted the following:

1 DNF due to dud front hub bearing adjustment;
1 DNF due to dead BB (Gags)
1 weird dislocated shoulder without actually crashing (FD)
1 rear wheel slide around a roundabout (me)
1 front wheel, rear wheel, full body slide around the same roundabout (TimC, apparently uninjured, except for a bit of grazing - really smooth road to slide on)
1 really fast run into Hurstbridge (sitting on Gpl's wheel ha ha ha)

Log another one...

Ritch

On 2006-06-18, ritcho (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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DaveB said:

Rode the 4km from home to the start point. Had a chat to the others.
Realised cones on the front wheel needed tightening (should have done
a
test ride after servicing the wheel). Tried to fix it with one cone
spanner. gave up and went home. Hope everybody else had a better ride
than that.

daveB

It was certainly eventful! I counted the following:

1 DNF due to dud front hub bearing adjustment;
1 DNF due to dead BB (Gags)
1 weird dislocated shoulder without actually crashing (FD)
1 rear wheel slide around a roundabout (me)

Oh? Not the same one as me?

On the boulavard, I was out of the saddle, and hit a small bump, and
the rear wheel decided to go slippy slidey. Recovered though. And
the traffic lights at the start at Doncaster shopping town, when I was
track standing, the rear wheel decided to start sliding backwards, and
my pedals went forwards. Several times; I thought it was quite nifty,
so just stayed there seeing whether I could stay upright. And then I
was looking close to a PB up the kangaroo ground climb (missed it by
that >16sec< much); I looked like I might just catch Ess (must have
been having an easy day) on the final nasty climb, and the rear wheel
went out from underneath me there when I hit a smooth patch.

In summary, not happy Jan, with the GP4000s. Was it pro-race that
people were happy with grip wise in the damp?

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1 front wheel, rear wheel, full body slide around the same roundabout
(TimC, apparently uninjured, except for a bit of grazing - really
smooth road to slide on)

Working my way slowly through the roundabouts 🙂

Bit more grazing on my thigh.

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1 really fast run into Hurstbridge (sitting on Gpl's wheel ha ha ha)

Yeah! Until the group dropped me when I couldn't quite hook onto
Ess's wheel (I couldn't be bothered to stand up, but then later on, I
decided to go for it, which was the chain of events that caused me to
take the roundabout too fast. Thanks to the idiot in the black (?)
car just behind my wheel that didn't bothed to even slow down and
proceed safely. Oh, and the 4WD who slid around the corner gawking at
us. Oh yeah, and the large brutish 4WD just behind my wheel a couple
of roundabouts later. Not much room for error there, [censored]!

Anyway, I had an average of 30.05km/h when my slight incline before
home started. I tried to keep it as close as I could get to 30km/h,
and was averaging 30.02 at the start of my driveway. I slammed on the
brakes at my front steps, and it just notched down to 30.00km/h. Yes!
Beat my previous best by about 0.95km/h and a new milestone!

Lots of bikes on the road after getting into town. Camberwell
junction, a blue combi van looks a bit indecisive, and decides to turn
left from the right hand lane, almost taking out a cyclist. Then
changed his mind, and proceeds straight ahead, cutting me off in the
right hand lane. Stopped at a red light ahead, and the passenger was
kind enough to wind down the window and say "yes, we made a mistake".
Damn right you did! Several. Learn to drive.

I mentioned burning lungs and cold air and pollution at the last rest
stop at top of Burgundy, and just sitting down before, I noted stuff
was rattling around in my chest. Damns, beginning's of a cold. I've
never noticed it coming on that quickly before!

--
TimC
It's written GNU/Linux, and pronounced "Linux". Or, "Linux, with a
silent GNU/" -- Kubric on /.

ritcho said:

It was certainly eventful! I counted the following:

1 DNF due to dud front hub bearing adjustment;
1 DNF due to dead BB (Gags)
1 weird dislocated shoulder without actually crashing (FD)
1 rear wheel slide around a roundabout (me)
1 front wheel, rear wheel, full body slide around the same roundabout (TimC, apparently uninjured, except for a bit of grazing - really smooth road to slide on)
1 really fast run into Hurstbridge (sitting on Gpl's wheel ha ha ha)

Log another one...

Ritch

A new way to injure myself. reaching into jersey pocket and 'schluck-pop' went the shoulder. heyzooos. looks like more friggin boring lil' physio exercises. Getting quite good at popping the damn thing in tho. Must be all the practice... 🙄

That roundabout is nastee. doesnt look too bad, but has a slight negative camber and noted (whilst helping Tim get roadworthy again) just how much roadgrime was collected on the surface. It was almost glass-smooth and grey with the stuff. Tim just slid and lamost didnt break skin (almost) which gives you an idea of jsut how smooth it was.

Also had a wicked attack of cramps as i pulled off. both front and back of legs making it comically impossible to find a comfortable position to hobble into on side of road for a few minutes. When are those banana prices gonna drop 🙄

On 2006-06-18, flyingdutch (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Also had a wicked attack of cramps as i pulled off. both front and back
of legs making it comically impossible to find a comfortable position to
hobble into on side of road for a few minutes. When are those banana
prices gonna drop 🙄

What we need is an artificial source of potassium salt. Could someone
invent that, please? :P

In semi-related news, geez I am tired. Keys are going spazo all over
the keyboard. Can't go to sleep now, far too much housework and
coding and not-sleep to do. (Not sleep has to be done now, so that it
can combine with it's anti-matter counterpart, sleep, tonight).

--
TimC
"It took people a long time to figure out which machine was [mooing],
and even longer to figure out how. But for some reason it didn't take
them any time at all to figure that I'd done it." -- Paul Tomblin on ASR

TimC said:

What we need is an artificial source of potassium salt. Could someone
invent that, please? :P

Staminade powder mix has K and Mg. Can't imagine you sweating enough to
need it in these temps though.

donga

flyingdutch said:

. reaching into jersey pocket and 'schluck-pop' went the shoulder.

The big man above is trying to tell you to eat less and ride more!!!:p

In all seriousness though, that sucks! hope you're alright.

Jono (smart-[censored] comment for the day) L

DaveB said:

I've had a change in plans so will be out for a ride tomorrow. Not sure
how far i will last. Leg and hip joints have been badly aching all week
for no apparent reason. Who else is coming for a BR birthday ride?

DaveB

OK flame away, but what is BR104?
*puts on pointy hat and moves to the back*

phleep said:

OK flame away, but what is BR104?

It's the one after BR103 of course 😉

ritcho said:

DaveB said:

Rode the 4km from home to the start point. Had a chat to the others.
Realised cones on the front wheel needed tightening (should have done
a
test ride after servicing the wheel). Tried to fix it with one cone
spanner. gave up and went home. Hope everybody else had a better ride
than that.

daveB

It was certainly eventful! I counted the following:

1 DNF due to dud front hub bearing adjustment;
1 DNF due to dead BB (Gags)
1 weird dislocated shoulder without actually crashing (FD)
1 rear wheel slide around a roundabout (me)
1 front wheel, rear wheel, full body slide around the same roundabout
(TimC, apparently uninjured, except for a bit of grazing - really
smooth road to slide on)
1 really fast run into Hurstbridge (sitting on Gpl's wheel ha ha ha)

Phillip Island weather - perfect. Good racing on a dry, fast track.
A couple of crashes in B grade, nasty one in the sprint finish.
If I see one of those Leongatha kids throwing random hooks again,
they're getting punted into the ditch. Don't they have bunches in
Leongatha? Insane ...

Llama, you should have come ... you missed a good race. Still, it's
easy to be the king of the BR I guess ... :-P