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Best ride in Australia so far, as we got WAY outta Melbourne, past the 'burbs and into actual countryside. It did get obscenely hilly though. Sawtooth profile ride!

Also we found a nice little doggie before a descent on this dirt road. And also two courts of kangaroos. Fo realz.

92.2km, 1065m ascent, almost 5 hours because we're unfit and poor at navigating.

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did the mug contain ISO standard tea standard tea?

Ehhrmagerd, why am I only learning this now?

Yes, but unfortunately it's on the opposite edge of the earth to me right now so I'll have trouble getting it to you. Happy hunting!

I and another mechanic from the shop here in Melbourne just had our first real effort on a tandem. It can go cocking fast, like 50kph without trying hard. We were just hooning it down a main street when a bogan (chav) in a ute (pickup) was waiting patiently to pull out from a turning until we were almost passing and then VVVRRROOOOM out he came in front of us.
"SHIT!", I screamed. Two handfuls of brake. Not much effect.
"Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit - othankgodhemissedus".

Dishing is adjusting spoke tension to move a rim evenly right or left along an axle. You cant't dish carbon trispoks, but you can space them how you please by adding/removing spacers on the axle to change the distance between locknuts. This is easy and any monkey with a cone spanner can do it.

To use hazzus's wheel you'd also need to swap out the cassette-accepting freewheel for a track-cog-friendly threaded part, which requires finding that part (eBay or the supplier of a LBS) and going to a good LBS or some knowledgable forumenger with some experience of swapping out the bits.

Beautiful frame, and I assume it's Reynolds 531 or similar if it as Campagnolo dropouts.

Very good price on this bike.

^^^ Nice report, clubman. Do write up more like this.

For the first time I serviced a bike yesterday with rod brakes. The mechanism is pleasing but it's so cumbersome to remove wheels!

Two crashes in one day!

ONE:
My pacy, gliding arc around a parked car placed my tyres neatly into a tram track. They managed to slot in there nicely despite being like 8cm wide (it's a MTB I found in my garden). My wheels were obeying a new, linear metal master now and travelled straight ahead but I continued, sans bike, on my sideways course and hit the tarmac quite hard. The ground ripped open my DHB bibs, castelli gloves and gave me semi-severe road rash on the usual places: left forearm and hip. I hit my head quite hard but the helmet took all of that. Two fingers lost 1.5mm of their tips and dripped blood over my stem & bars. A pair of presentable young women animatedly enquired as to my wellbeing, and so I reassured them in as laid-back a fashion as I could "Oh yeah, fine. Yeah. No yeah really, just a scrape", whilst bleeding through gaping lycra shorts.

TWO:
Melbourne drives on the left and has green cycle paths on the left like in the UK, but to the left of these cycle paths there is a continuous line of parked cars, in bays on the side of the road. Awful design, as cyclists are guided right into the door zone. If you are in the centre of the bike lane you face a dooring, so I cycle on the right edge. Still, I have nearly been doored thrice in one week so today I thought I'd be clever... With a queue of crawling traffic ahead I opted to overtake the queue on the right, rather than slotting to the left past the parked cars (i.e. the painted green cycle path). However, no driver expected this and one of them pulled out of the queue to turn right, and I went straight into the driver's door and wing mirror. The driver fiercely apologised but it was perhaps my fault: I don't remember if she was indicating, I didn't look. Driver gasped "Oh my god did I do that to your arm?"
"No actually that was this morning. It's been a bad day."

The worst part about crashing is coming home to my girlfriend will tonnes of road rash because she gets all upset and scared about cycling.

Australia 2, Ndeipi 0.

KidneyPunch™ ?

Anyone know any forumengers living in Melbourne, Australia? I'm moving there next week and I could do with a contact.

Seriously only 54 effectiive TT? It looks massive....

^^ That's what happens when you end auctions near midnight on a Thursday....

As posted by eyebrows in the Nairobi thread, the "matatu soundtrack":

Heart And Soul Riddim Mix [November 2011] [Notice Production] - YouTube

All gone I guess? If not I'll take one...

That really is a lovely frame.

^^ Good to hear you don't overheat. I worked with Goretex as an engineer and we had trouble with low airflow.

^ That sounds about right to me.

^^^ I fucking love the Antiques Roadshow.

^^ Goretex lets air through but not water. That is the point of Goretex.

The only problem is that it might not let air through fast enough to avoid the rider overheating.

There was tension. Neither of us mentioned it. We didn't need to.

Wheels sold.
Laptop sold.

I did a Sunday early bird ride with Essex Roads Cycling Club. Two hours, 60km+, glorious conditions (until the rain), friendly chaps, brisk pace. We had six riders, convenient for that tidy two-two-two formation.

One fast bloke called Simon kept leaping off the front, and I managed to hang on his coat tails for two such forays. We'd then both wait for the others at the next junction, panting and smiling.

I'm filthily envious of all those who rode this.

Earthloop, or anyone else actually, could you please PM me your mobile number? There's a chance I might make the last half of the ride but I haz no androidz for gps. [html][/html]

I must bail. I am truly gutted. Some unavoidable family problems, and my entire weekend is a write off. I was looking forward to this ride even whilst still living in Kenya so I am weeping into my smartphone. Best of luck for the ride, you brave fools.