TdF SBS broadcast from Restaurant July 18

[flyingdutch]

TOUR de FRANCE NIGHT
All welcome!!!
Sunday July 18
(Stage 14 - Carcassonne - Nimes)
Licciardo's Restaurant
Mt Eliza Way
Mt Eliza
$45 per person
includes 3-course dinner
plus ... bottom-less coffee & nibbles
to see you through the evening
Dinner from 8pm - bookings are essential
contact Rob Licciardo on 9787 7710
Guest Speakers
John Kennedy & Terry Hammond
SBS Television will broadcast live from Licciardo's Restaurant and will
include special interviews with diners! ........................................

 

[hippy]

>Originally posted by flyingdutch
>SBS Television will broadcast live from Licciardo's Restaurant
>and will include special interviews with diners!

Woo! Now's my chance for that 15 seconds of fame...

hippy
- not actually going ;-)

 

[mfhor]

Originally posted by flyingdutch

Guest Speakers
John Kennedy & Terry Hammond
SBS Television will broadcast live from Licciardo's Restaurant and will
include special interviews with diners! ........................................ [/B]

Oh joy. Dinner with John Kennedy (along with other local wannabe cycling luminaries), and having to pay for the privilege. Who says that successful cyclists have to have big egos to succeed?

He won't be plugging his infallible money back guaranteed fitting program will he? No, I thought not.

MH

 

[cfsmtb]

Originally posted by mfhor
He won't be plugging his infallible money back guaranteed fitting program will he? No, I thought not.

MH

Of course not.

 

[mfhor]

Originally posted by cfsmtb
Of course not.

Old roadies never die, they just ride their races in reverse. And make sure we hear all about them, and how experienced they are, in all types of cycling, and can help you be as successful as they were, as long as you buy all your (second-hand, only raced two Spring Classics seasons) stuff off them, and trust them implicitly, and act as mini-domestique, praise their name to all and sundry, wear their shop clothing purchased at full price, put up with their technical malfeasance on new products installed by intellectually underresourced employees hired for their low-wage-demand rather than their skill, and then be treated to the effusive good manners and bonhomie of the shop training bunch when you puncture, drop them on a hill, or dare to question whose turn it is to get the lattes.

M "possums stirring, fish biting yet?" H

BTW, before a tirade of abuse arrives from said intellectually underresourced employees, I have walked amongst you, and you know which select few you are.

 

[flyingdutch]

Originally posted by mfhor
Old roadies never die, they just ride their races in reverse. And make sure we hear all about them, and how experienced they are, in all types of cycling, and can help you be as successful as they were, as long as you buy all your (second-hand, only raced two Spring Classics seasons) stuff off them, and trust them implicitly, and act as mini-domestique, praise their name to all and sundry, wear their shop clothing purchased at full price, put up with their technical malfeasance on new products installed by intellectually underresourced employees hired for their low-wage-demand rather than their skill, and then be treated to the effusive good manners and bonhomie of the shop training bunch when you puncture, drop them on a hill, or dare to question whose turn it is to get the lattes.

M "possums stirring, fish biting yet?" H

BTW, before a tirade of abuse arrives from said intellectually underresourced employees, I have walked amongst you, and you know which select few you are.

Very amusing. Always thought I'd love to work in a bikeshop (or better yet own one). The amazed are-you-deranged? look i got from said under-resourced employee set me straight fairly quickly

Will people at that dinner jostle for position to the buffet/coffee/toilets?
Yell "car-back' when the dinner is coming thru or just stay head down and not acknowledge each other.

Interesting reading the comments re Kennedy. I have seen/heard nothing but bad fits/wierd geometry from people who own them

 

[jcjordan]

Originally posted by flyingdutch
TOUR de FRANCE NIGHT
All welcome!!!
Sunday July 18
(Stage 14 - Carcassonne - Nimes)
Licciardo's Restaurant
Mt Eliza Way
Mt Eliza
$45 per person
includes 3-course dinner
plus ... bottom-less coffee & nibbles
to see you through the evening
Dinner from 8pm - bookings are essential
contact Rob Licciardo on 9787 7710
Guest Speakers
John Kennedy & Terry Hammond
SBS Television will broadcast live from Licciardo's Restaurant and will
include special interviews with diners! ........................................

I am orginising a dinner with a few mates. take some time off and ride like hell during the day and dinner and a show at night.

 

[ProfTournesol]

Originally posted by flyingdutch


Interesting reading the comments re Kennedy. I have seen/heard nothing but bad fits/wierd geometry from people who own them

well, sorry to break the mould, but I had a great fit - weird geometry but it suits my weird body geometry! I imagine that no single system will suit everyone.

 

[mfhor]

Originally posted by ProfTournesol
well, sorry to break the mould, but I had a great fit - weird geometry but it suits my weird body geometry! I imagine that no single system will suit everyone.

Suits some people - but what sticks in my craw is that he promotes its infallibility - it is scientific, so it must work. Show us the data points, show us the method, and let peer review, like any other scientific endeavour, analyse, judge and decide its good bits and bad bits.

The way I have heard it talked about is similar to the black magic school of wheel building - secret knowledge jealously guarded by the cognoscenti, and high fees demanded for its vouchsafing. It's not. It's only a idiosyncratic refinement of what a lot of people have been doing for a long time. "Commercial in confidence", so beloved of right wing politicians and businessmen, has no place in such a democratic form of movement as the bicycle.

M "My 2c, x 50 = $1.00" H