Monthly Archives: August 2009
Take Pity On Wendy
Over the past 12hrs I’ve had quite a few people alerting me to this article written by Wendy Hargreaves in the Herald Sun yesterday. It’s a great day for fishing Wendy, but the fish aren’t biting. Not here anyway. One …
Campy vs Shimano vs SRAM – FIGHT!
I’ve had the chance to ride all three major groupset on the market for a reasonable amount of time now and I love and hate things about each of them. Since we spend many intimate hours with our groupset we …
The Training Week For Real People
Photo by Leigh Schilling Due to the tremendous popularity of cycling these days I see a lot of riders who are in their late 30′s and over. Many of these cyclists have the same history. They used to go on …
What You Missed This Morning…
A brisk but sunny morning out in Kinglake with 20 of my best riding mates (a short ride north of Melbourne). This is where the forest fire devastation took place last February. The vegetation is slowly regenerating but the communities …
Gerro Wins GP de Plouay
After being snubbed from Cervelo’s TdF squad, Gerro showed them who’s boss yesterday. Coincidentally I took this photo yesterday on a well known training road in Melbourne where he won the Herald Sun Tour a few years ago. I had …
Law Of Diminishing Returns
I’ve been a fan of writer and marketer Seth Godin for some time now. He has incredible insights and here is one of his blog posts that we can directly relate to our cycling. This a bit of a trick …
Costco LBS
What a week it’s been. The LBS discussion was one that people apparently feel quite strongly about. It was almost as if there was a lynch mob forming outside my house. What a bloodbath! I think that if some bikeshops …
Melbourne to Ballarat – Crosswinds and Number Crunching
Once thing I love about racing here in Australia is the history behind some of these events. Some of these races have been going on for a hundred years! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Melbourne to …
That’s Not So Tough…
Wait until Beppu-san gets a bit of practice at this. You’ll see him and Arashiro-san topping this on the Champs-Élysées next year. (ffwd to 2:30min)
The Final Corner
Aussie Ben Kirstin comes first at the US Crit Championships. Photo courtesy of Velonews – Casey B. Gibson I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m not a good sprinter. It’s one skill that I’ve always wanted more …
Why the hell do the organisers put a corner like that right before a stage finis...
It's a 51cm 650c bike....