home to the city

i did it. i rode from my home to work.
heres all the data for such a stoopid thing to do

DST: 84.95 km
MAX: 62.9 km/h
AVG: 28.4 km/h
CAL: 2214.3
TIME: 2:59:19
yeah!

i left at 5.30am and arrived at work at 9.00am almost on the dot. i must have been stationary for a total of 30min. this would include a stop to buy some sunnies. lol, banana at eastern creak mcdonalds, and random sets of lights around five dock.
it is actually quiet an easy ride with very limited hills etc. once you roll down the hill to the M4 it very smooth sailing. i will do it again but next time i will not carry so much shit with me. my backpack was just ridiculously heavy for such a long ride.
things we learn.

no pedals this weekend

unfortunately with family commitments i didn't get out for a ride. friday i did take tarini into the city for a ride from work to randwick AMF bowling, restuarant, then back to central, train trip then a trip home from springwood. was fun.

i am going to attempt to ride to work tomorrow. don't know how i will go. it will be an early start - 5.30 departure. hoping to make it all the way. scottie is decked with slicks. should be fun

i still love fixies & vimeo

Macaframa SF Track Bike Promo from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.
tomorrow evening we are having a bowling night at randwick bowling alley. i will bring tarini to the city. its just easier to get from place to place on a bike. especially when you have to make it back to central, then from springwood station to home.

vimeo is the shit. the video quality is just hands down so much better than youtube

61km+ oaks sun valley home - poor collar

jason, nick and i did a nice ride today. oaks fire trail then on to the blaxland bake house of coffee [OJ for me - god i hate coffee]. nick then left and caught the train whilst jason and i continued along, through sun valley, along to yellow rock and back home. i think nick thoroughly enjoyed the ride. jason also had his first run on the cross+marks - we are both sold on them. they were the shit through all terrain!

in total it was a 61km ride of all types of terrain. sadly we spoke briefly to a guy on the fire trail who was laying down waiting for an ambulance to come - he had just come off and broken his collar bone. he explained the chain had locked up. then the back wheel locked up and he lost control. it was on the hardest downhill part of the fire trail as well as the fastest rough part. get well.

after 50+ km and a painful last full climb, i came over a hill exhausted only to see this... totally pissed myself laughing


here's the route for today
[add the first 10km to the station from home]


as a last note: after riding along the sun valley section both jason and i were thinking/saying exactly the same thing. fuck we live in the best part of the world.

yellomundee

so i took the cross+marks out today a quick run. first day of the easter break it wasn't raining so i fanged it as hard as i could going down the windy bends from home to yellomundee MTB track. MAX speed of 58.7 down hill and the cross+marks really move on tar. turn right and into the track.
it has been nearly 2 years since i was last down there. weirdest thing is i would be almost the closest living MTB rider to the track. well the track is bloody amazing. in the two years it has improved 10 fold - and i also think the amount of rain has helped. i will definately be doing some kind of racing there this year. not sure of which day etc.

the cross+marks are just amazing. they stick like shit to a blanket on the corners and the climb really well. best $80 i have spent for some time.

i did the testing for time etc. and from what i could work out i think i would have been in about 7th place in D grade??? who knows but i will find out soon enough.

the XT back derailleur worked well. i need a better bike!

scottie comes to the city

scottie comes to the city, originally uploaded by ukalipt.

the infamous wall now has more mould down below, and a token visit from scottie.
scottie now in for XT fix tuning, and showing off his new set of cross+marks.

training mode - xt derailer - cross+marks

so that is it, complete training mode.
light work out over the weekend but focussing more on strength right now. jason and i did a short ride but fucken bee's nest hill, its a killer. jason couldn't make it up it, although his effort is just quiet amazing. i didn't really get that close at all. strength IS the focus. this weeks station runs will be hard paced to gets some build up for the dirtworks 50km. i could easily do the dirtworks, but i want to try and do it in a very reasonable time.

i have placed the xt derailer on scottie but i have to get it "professionally" tuned. i don't really know how to so i would rather it done correctly. it looks shit in the pic above but after a good clean up it is in great condition. couple of scratches but nothing to bad. i did have to get find a replacement top pulley wheel bolt, as the thread was stripped, but for $20 i am stoked. the replacement bolt was thrown in free from blackmans when i bought the cross+mark tires

scottie will venture with me tomorrow to the city for his service. i'm hoping to organise brad to do the oak's fire trail with me over easter.

weekly dump - prt 1 deus

so miss raleigh has left the building.
sad day but very bizarre small world coincidence.
i was having issues pronouncing the buyers name. my english is, well, below average on a good day but i was 100% sure from emails that it was a guy. he said he would come to pick the bike up on friday afternoon. he rang around midday, asked if he could pick it up then. for me that worked out better, his question was "are the tires full of air, or say, can i ride the bike now?"

i was my usual yeah mate no worries, responce. got the bike out of the car, attached the front wheel etc. took it up to the front of the building where piero was waiting talking on the phone. after he hung up he commented on how cheap the bike was, and how mad the price of the ladies bikes had been. then went on to discuss the quality of miss raleigh.
at this stage i still had no idea who he was.
i explained to him how i felt lucy was kinda "fudging" the prices of the bikes and also that i had brought tarini of her, and said she was a really nice lady, and explained how i had turned the tarini into a fixed gear.
he laughed,
piero is one of the mechanics that builds the bikes for deus-ex-machina (pictured above in thefixer.pdf)
we had a really good chat about a few things, fixies, fixed.org.au and he was a bit taken back that it was me who had costed up one of the builds in defence of their prices for showroom sold bikes.
enough on that but it was really nice to feel special for once, i had sold deus one of my bikes...

back to falconbridge

jason and i did the falcon bridge ride today.
second time for me, not sure how many times jason
has done that ride. man he is a fit bastard. on the way
back he just pushed and pulled away from me
with ease. i wouldn't say depressing, just challenging
TM 2:00:51
DST 45.07
MAX 52.2
AVG 22.3
i am impressed with the average

late, tired, dreaming

love this - forks are shit as 

come on . a white seat on a MTB. thats cool!

ultra dream time below.

might be the request for my 40th birthday

ultra dream time HT below. i still love HardTails

probably complete reality check below

yep, its late, im tired, i should be in bed but i am still thinking bikes.

i would so dearly love to upgrade my MTB. Hardtail or Dual.

i would love one of both. 

PE-8 white boy - mystery bike

the process has begun in purchasing the peugeot from melbourne. money has been transfered to the account, now i am just waiting for it to clear, then i will sort out all the freighting to sydney. Still waiting on brigs dad to get back to me about the so called peugeot he may have in his garage. this mystery is really starting to get me excited. i have no idea what the bike is - or for that matter - even if it is a peugeot. brig believes it is. fingers x'ed

still no bids on miss raleigh????

old knew skool

i love the concept of old bikes being re-worked/furbished... just being the focus of ones love again. i also really love the combinations of the two worlds. old and new melding sometimes seamlessly.

For instance, an old old frame and components with some new life being the wheels and bars. this bike is a perfect example and a joy to see.

miss raleigh - time to go

tomorrow is now today [read below]

unfortunately miss raleigh will have to leave the nest next week. tomorrow this ad will be featured on ebay.