“God, I wish more men would fscking shave their legs, pits and pubes. I would so be in heaven! SHAVED LEGS ON MEN IS SEXY IF YOU HAVE NICE MUSCLES.”
“Shit, where’d I leave my razor?!” 😛
Category Archives: Bike
Wearing out brake pads and rims in the wet: Solution
"Vegemite" enters www.fixedgeargallery.com (#1029)
greenhummerproject.org
“This is the perfect SUV.
Our SUV is healthy, friendly, non-polluting, simple, inexpensive, fun, and socially responsible.
There are no black tinted windows to hide us from view. No air conditioning to further isolate us from the outside. No gas tank to fill and fill and fill. No greenhouse gasses pouring from the exhaust pipe. No frustration, no yelling, no honking, no road rage. No clocks to set, no alarm to annoy, no menus to scroll through. No video game system, DVD player, or GPS system. No “we own the road”, “get out of our way”, “don’t slow us down” mentality.”
Fastest Dash Bike Leg.. sort of..
2004 Taylormade Richmond Duathlon Results
Remove the disqualified competitor and the guy who swapped shoes quicker in transition and I’ve got the fastest bike time in the Dash 🙂
Hippy, meet ABOC Cycle Coaching..
After thinking about this for ages and, of course, not doing anything about it for ages, I thought I’d give structured coaching a go. I know Carl from racing and he’s a good bloke who seems pretty cluey about things race-related. So, as of today, hippy now has a coach and a training program!
Duathlons are fun.. 'cept for that running bit.. and missing wallet..
Skipping the AlpeDueEast/BR7 group ride I planned to race the short ‘dash’ duathlon (2k Run/8k Ride/1k Run) and then hussle to make it to the C grade crit at Glenvale Cres. Cold, early morning (4degC) start, register, very short warm up, extra 2k added to the ride and then off for the first run leg. 20 or so people racing and 10 were in front of me after the 2k (hippy loves running!). Slow transition to bike (I was stuffed!) and then off to make up some places. I’m not sure how many places I made up because by the second lap I think I was lapping the slower entrants and I lost count. On the second run I was really fighting for air.. I just couldn’t maintain the pace and I was passed by 4 or 5 guys. Drank some of Taylormade’s sport drink and then had to get out quick to try and make Glenvale. At 9am (C-grade start time) I was only at Elgar Rd. and had no chance of starting the race so I turned around (probably incurring a few speeding fines) and went back to see how the others went.
Headed to a cafe for a hot chocolate (in my case) or pancakes with banana, bacon, maple syrup and ICECREAM in some freak’s case!! (You know who you are.. ). Had to leave to pick up a set of road wheels I was buying from a dude advertising on the ‘net. On arriving at the meeting place I realise I don’t have my wallet.. anywhere! FSCK!
I explain to the dude what’s happened and he’s understanding while I race off back to the cafe to find my wallet.. no luck.. SHIT! Off to Steve’s to return the cat basket I borrowed to transport Hatchback home the other day (I was in the area – may as well). Check at the cop shop near the cafe before heading along the path I travelled when I lost it.. nothing.
On the way home I pick up a post-race tub of Tiramisu ice-cream from Diary Bell and then set about calling various banks to cancel my cards (after Tee insisted). Just as I’m about to pick up the phone, it rings, and a guy says “I’ve got your wallet”. Awesome!! Terry from Streetwise Software had picked it up in the street outside my office (it must have fallen out of my pocket as I suspected) and must have looked me up. All is saved! Call wheel guy and arrange another attempt at ‘cash for wheels’.
So, the day didn’t quite go to plan, but it could have been worse. Oh, I heard that one of the riders in the Dash (a footballer.. no surprise then.. ) took the wrong turn and then in his haste to rejoin the race, knocked a spectator over! This, in a frickin’ 30min race! No medal, no money, no Olympic gold and his own stupidity causes the injury of an innocent woman. Anyway, he was DQ’d, so I want to find out where I finished..
Picked up a Matt Hoffman BMX for some computer work..
Picked up a Matt Hoffman BMX for some computer work at the bike shop today.. thanks Mick!
Obviously I don’t need another bike, but I saw it in the shop and thought about using it as an office run around – for grabbing spares and the like. The 3-piece cranks currently hit the chainstay but I’m sure this can be sorted with judicial use of washers. Riding my roadie home and pushing the bmx along made me realise how heavy this thing was and wonder how those jump grommets actually get these things into the air! 😉
I don’t have pictures of it yet but they will come soon enough. It’s cheap blue paint over chrome I think.
Human Powered Rollercoaster
I should learn how to ride a normal velodrome before trying this.. 😉
My first experience with ebay fraud..
This dude was selling a $10,000 Trek Team TT bike for bugger all – the winning bid was ~$3k: Dodgy Ebay Trek
Before the bidding ended I noticed the ad was simply taken straight from Trek’s website. I emailed the seller about this:
Dear jayt91,
This photo appears to be from promo material. Do you have pics of your actual bike?
and shortly after, when I noticed no size, I emailed this question:
Dear jayt91,
Oh, also, what size is it?! You’ve cut and pasted the details from Trek’s website (which makes it look well dodgy) and didn’t specify a size..
I received this:
From: Mihaela Lacraru [jayt91@msn.com]
Dear potential customer,
First of all I want to thank you for your message.
I have a various sizes of bikes right now so please let me know what size do you need so I can see if I can find the size that you need.
The bike model year is 2004. All my bikes are new in boxes and be sure that it will be a prompt delivery and the bike will be fully insured for the total amount.I’m handling the liquidation of a big store stock. The product is brand new in box with all the warranty papers for lifetime. So the best price that I can make for you is $2400.00 including shipping. Let me know if you like the price in order to go ahead with the deal. If you are ok with my price and we will decide to move forward with our deal you must know that we will close our deal under protection of eBay.
Feel free to ask me any other questions. I’m waiting for your reply.
With all due respect,
Mihaela
and 10 minutes later (without me doing anything else) this:
From: Mihaela Lacraru [jayt91@msn.com]
Dear potential customer,
First of all I want to thank you for your message.
I have a various sizes of bikes right now so please let me know what size do you need so I can see if I can find the size that you need.
The bike model year is 2004. All my bikes are new in boxes and be sure that it will be a prompt delivery and the bike will be fully insured for the total amount.I’m handling the liquidation of a big store stock. The product is brand new in box with all the warranty papers for lifetime. So the best price that I can make for you is $1200.00 including shipping. Let me know if you like the price in order to go ahead with the deal. If you are ok with my price and we will decide to move forward with our deal you must know that we will close our deal under protection of eBay.
Feel free to ask me any other questions. I’m waiting for your reply.
With all due respect,
Mihaela
Wow! Some guy just won the $10k bike for 3k and in the space of 10min the price for me has dropped to $2400 and then $1200!!! That’s the price of the groupset alone, let alone the frame, wheels and extras! With some well-justified doubts in my mind I emailed back:
So you are offering a 56cm Trek Team Time Trial bike, complete with wheels, groupset and extras like saddle, stem, seatpost.. all for $1200AUD, including shipping?
..to which I received:
From: Mihaela Lacraru [jayt91@msn.com]
Hi,
I have a size 56 cm avaible for you.
I will ship the product as a gift and you don’t pay any extra taxes. As I have told you the product will be ship via UPS 2nd days air insured in my shipping cost. It will be there in two days.
Usually, I accept paypal but for the moment I can’t do that because I want to sell this item quickly and I haven’t enough time to clear the deal in a week (4 days for charge my bank account from paypal account +3 days shipping) and second, I had many transaction though paypal in the last days and I’m over the limit (I can’t transfer in my bank account though paypal more then $5,000/month and I already transferred this amount).
You can do the payment via wire transfer under eBay protection because I need the money to pay my bill in time. If yes I will announce eBay Safety board about our transaction and we can do that under their protection.
Thank you,
Mihaela
Oh, really?
What do you mean ship it as a gift? You said you were based in Sydney – there wont be a need to pay taxes, hence no need to ship as a “gift”.
Ebay’s protection only covers items up to $400 worth. This is a $1200 item. Where will the extra protection come from?
Will you do an escrow transaction?
How do I do a ‘wire transfer’?
..and for some strange reason I have yet to hear from him!
It appears that someone has hijacked this account and was trying to con someone into handing over clams for a deal ‘too good to be true’. I feel sorry for whoever actually won this auction and hope that they realise just how dodgy it is before they lose $3k.