Monthly Archives: December 2004
Mate "roars" in Mountainless Mountain Bike Race
It's official – there are more bicycles sold in Australia than motor vehicles.
“According to Australian Transport Safety Bureau figures, there were more than a million bikes sold in the 2002-2003 financial year. Annual sales of motor vehicles are yet to crack the million mark, with this year predicted to be a record, but still only 960,000.”
El Emigrante
Fixer vs. Team Discovery
Glenvale Crit
Still not 100% focused.. losing time on corners, not moving up the field early enough. At one stage I jumped onto the wheel of “rickster” as he shot up the right. He gave up though and I did a bit of work, but before I got too carried away I checked over my shoulder. Sure enough, the field was too close for comfort. I sat up. With three laps to go I was making more of an effort to move up the field. With two laps remaining, on the second last corner, a rider put their pedal into the ground and lost it. I missed him, but another rider was thrown off and also lost it, crashing into the gutter. I had already gone wide to avoid the first guy, now I had to slow down and swerve around the second guy. All this carnage meant that the field was split, with the bulk of the riders now 30m+(?) in front of me. I chased hard, passing a bunch of separated riders, in order to get onto the main bunch. I got back on, but I’d wasted too much juice at the wrong time to effectively contest the sprint. Came in a bit ahead of mid-field. Bugger.
Aboc Pics:
Kill Sp@mmers
Some a-hole decided to sp@m my blog comments with some fscked up casino-religo bullsh1t so I’ve had to alter the setup a little to reduce the likelihood of this tool or his script trying the same sh1t again. You Me Outside Now (as ‘Blokes World’ would say).
On a happier note, I saw quite a few of my rellies today for my uncle’s 50th birthday and managed to only miss half of the Aboc sprint training session.
NEWSFLASH – All Is Not Lost
cfsmtb reports a happy ending after all..
http://cfsmtb.blogspot.com/2004/12/may-all-your-christmass-come-at-once.html