Br18

flyingdutch said:

Meet 7:20am Sunday 24th (every Sunday)
Doncaster Shoppingtown corner (Doncaaster and Tram/Williamsons)
map at:
thehippy.net20040927 BR route.gifOpen ↗
60-70k roundtrip. 25kph'ish average and we cater for all speeds
(faster guys wait at the tops)

anyone up for that extra bit we did out top St Andrews again?
mainly flattish/down from KGround to St A
must checkout if there is a bakery out there this time 🙄

forecast is looking good (again!!!) and I have just realised we are yet to puncture :eek:
guess i've jinxed us now...

Who's bringin the ghetto blaster to play Blah's CD? 😄

"By the end make a bet and only place is laminex
Laugh a lot cry a lot salt and pepper supper sex
And sometimes when that magic of the moment
Fails the test
In retrospect that diamond day
Did not make second best
And sometimes when a thousand voices
Tell you that you're wrong
A saint in any form
Becomes a sinner all along, oh yeah"

This a question for Xmas/NY time... I just looked at the map - is it clockwise or anti-clockwise from Doncaster Shoppingtown?

Ritch

flyingdutch said:

Meet 7:20am Sunday 24th (every Sunday)
Doncaster Shoppingtown corner (Doncaaster and Tram/Williamsons)
map at:
thehippy.net20040927 BR route.gifOpen ↗
60-70k roundtrip. 25kph'ish average and we cater for all speeds
(faster guys wait at the tops)

anyone up for that extra bit we did out top St Andrews again?
mainly flattish/down from KGround to St A
must checkout if there is a bakery out there this time 🙄

forecast is looking good (again!!!) and I have just realised we are yet to puncture :eek:
guess i've jinxed us now...

Who's bringin the ghetto blaster to play Blah's CD? 😄

"By the end make a bet and only place is laminex
Laugh a lot cry a lot salt and pepper supper sex
And sometimes when that magic of the moment
Fails the test
In retrospect that diamond day
Did not make second best
And sometimes when a thousand voices
Tell you that you're wrong
A saint in any form
Becomes a sinner all along, oh yeah"

Ok, we already had a few takers in the followup on BR17 that I started, so we should be a nice little crowd. 🙂

ritcho said:

This a question for Xmas/NY time... I just looked at the map - is it clockwise or anti-clockwise from Doncaster Shoppingtown?

Ritch

counterclockwise

must do it the other way one day just for the heck of it!

Max speed UP that hill Im guessing 13kph!!!

"flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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I'll be there.

Quoted message said:

anyone up for that extra bit we did out top St Andrews again?

Yeah, why not.

Quoted message said:

mainly flattish/down from KGround to St A
must checkout if there is a bakery out there this time 🙄

Hmm, I wonder what that bakery in Diamond creek is like!!! Or if we get
really carried away and ride out to Kinglake we could always stop in at the
bakery in Whittlesea.

Quoted message said:

forecast is looking good (again!!!) and I have just realised we are yet
to puncture :eek:
guess i've jinxed us now...

No, not the p word!!!

Geoff

flyingdutch said:

anyone up for that extra bit we did out top St Andrews again?
mainly flattish/down from KGround to St A
must checkout if there is a bakery out there this time 🙄

Yeah I was thinking of doing that section or at least to Panton Hill.
There's a bakery at Hurstrbridge that needs checking out.

Quoted message said:

"By the end make a bet and only place is laminex
Laugh a lot cry a lot salt and pepper supper sex
And sometimes when that magic of the moment
Fails the test
In retrospect that diamond day
Did not make second best
And sometimes when a thousand voices
Tell you that you're wrong
A saint in any form
Becomes a sinner all along, oh yeah"

I'm back on the boooooooooooorder line.

DaveB "ready for BR18 karaoke and Midnight Oil trivia tests Q1. What
band did Bones Hillman play in before he was with Midnight Oil with Phil
Judd?""

Geoff said:

Hmm, I wonder what that bakery in Diamond creek is like!!!

Good vanilla slices , mmmmmmmmmm snot block.

Quoted message said:

Or if we get
really carried away and ride out to Kinglake we could always stop in at the
bakery in Whittlesea.

Even better vanilla slices and so many other things to chose from.
gaaaaaaaghh.

DaveB

flyingdutch said:

counterclockwise

must do it the other way one day just for the heck of it!

Max speed UP that hill Im guessing 13kph!!!

Can I have the award for the earliest excuse for a weak performance? I'll be riding across from East Keilor... I think its about 30km.

Ritch

ritcho said:

Can I have the award for the earliest excuse for a weak performance? I'll be riding across from East Keilor... I think its about 30km.

Ritch

Probably, me and my friend come from Soutbank/South Mel, maybe 20 k?

flyingdutch said:

http://thehippy.net/nucleus/media/1/20040927-BR_route.gif

Does this mean the BR has made it to Hippy's list of Melbourne bike
rides? I'd check myself but have lost the link and can't find it from
the home page (Dutch please provide site design tips to Hippy).

DaveB

quote='DaveB'flyingdutch said:

http://thehippy.net/nucleus/media/1/20040927-BR_route.gif

Does this mean the BR has made it to Hippy's list of Melbourne bike
rides? I'd check myself but have lost the link and can't find it from
the home page (Dutch please provide site design tips to Hippy).

DaveB[/QUOTE]

woz on his blog, cant seem to find his old training page (under the archived bits perhaps? too much web too little time...)

ritcho said:

Can I have the award for the earliest excuse for a weak performance? I'll be riding across from East Keilor... I think its about 30km.

Ritch

No fair! you'll be warmed up!!!

Me I'll just be hungover 🙄

quote='DaveB'Geoff said:

Hmm, I wonder what that bakery in Diamond creek is like!!!

Good vanilla slices , mmmmmmmmmm snot block.

Even better vanilla slices and so many other things to chose from.
gaaaaaaaghh.

DaveB[/QUOTE]

"Ice, Ice baby to go, to go"

"DaveB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

Does this mean the BR has made it to Hippy's list of Melbourne bike
rides? I'd check myself but have lost the link and can't find it from
the home page (Dutch please provide site design tips to Hippy).

Nope, hippy hasn't updated that list since he moved
web hosts. But, you've reminded him about it and he
will do something about it.. one day ;-)

http://www.thehippy.net/ now has a link to the Rides
page on the left. Direct link to the Rides page can be
found here:
http://www.thehippy.net/Cycling/TrainingRides.htm

I like the way the blog page works so I'll keep that.
It's only a problem when I want to have permanent
links - they have to squished into the side-bar.

hippy

When recoverign from the flu:
a) listen to your body when it says slow down
and b) when a shortcut presents itself, don't be sucked in by people
saying "but the the next section is all downhill"

DaveB "there is no such thing as all downhill"

"DaveB" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

When recoverign from the flu:
a) listen to your body when it says slow down
and b) when a shortcut presents itself, don't be sucked in by people
saying "but the the next section is all downhill"

DaveB "there is no such thing as all downhill"

LOL....Amen, brother.

DaveB said:

When recoverign from the flu:
a) listen to your body when it says slow down
and b) when a shortcut presents itself, don't be sucked in by people
saying "but the the next section is all downhill"

DaveB "there is no such thing as all downhill"

oh [censored]. sorry man. just logged on to make sure you got home.
Did Nick stick with you?
must stop riding at the front so I can keep an eye on the rearguard.
Apologies to Nick. not a nice intro.
If its any consolation i bonked bigtime riding thru Kew and only Redbull got me home. No more fried food the night before (or any other for that matter...)

flyingdutch said:

must stop riding at the front so I can keep an eye on the rearguard.

There's a rearguard? This is sounding good for when I eventually end up joining you for one...

flyingdutch said:

DaveB said:

When recoverign from the flu:
a) listen to your body when it says slow down
and b) when a shortcut presents itself, don't be sucked in by people
saying "but the the next section is all downhill"

DaveB "there is no such thing as all downhill"

oh [censored]. sorry man. just logged on to make sure you got home.
Did Nick stick with you?
must stop riding at the front so I can keep an eye on the rearguard.
Apologies to Nick. not a nice intro.
If its any consolation i bonked bigtime riding thru Kew and only
Redbull got me home. No more fried food the night before (or any other
for that matter...)

What???? You mean I was last - I thought you were all behind me 😉

I cracked seriously just before Hurstbridge. I was really underfuelled
for that ride.

Then I wasn't sure which way you went so I stopped at the bakery in
Diamond Ck and refuelled, then I kept going through Greensborough,
Rosanna, Heidelberg, Clifton Hill etc.

Still, I had a great time - I finished with a respectable (for me)
average of just on 26km/h over 90km and a personal best top speed
of 87.2km/h (which road was that FD?)

Thanks all, despite a slightly lonely last 40km 🙂

--
Nick

"flyingdutch" <[email hidden]

Quoted message said:

If its any consolation i bonked bigtime riding thru Kew and only
Redbull got me home. No more fried food the night before (or any other
for that matter...)

WUSS! Burger with the lot and chips got me
further up the C grade ranks this morning. I think
I finished around 6th in the large, fast, evil C bunch.
(Larger, faster, more evil B grade looked nasty).

Rickster, was that you on the sidelines? Cheers if it
was :-)

hippy
"gonna taste the cash soon.."