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This is the route:

https://www.strava.com/routes/3126426176279767484

Oh, they've decided it IS something to do with them after all. Jesus

Pads - whenever they're worn or stop working well irrespective of bike use
Rotors - As above

Looks like the mental health ride ("Manride"), organised by Black Sheep is the day I was planning to ride so I'll give that a go. No published route yet but they're saying 200km/2000m so might not be ideal after a week of traveling from Europe and working late, time will tell.

Thanks all... probably won't do the full loop but will do Nebo/Glorious some way or other. I'll try to figure out the Gravatt route too, not been there yet.

Amp, for example.

I think the issue is that most of the "big tech" platforms gained revenue from republishing (with attribution) news articles. So the news orgs weren't getting views on their ads and therefore were doing the work without the revenue. The same sort of law passed in Australia and Meta pulled all news for a bit (including emergency info) before backing down and doing deals with the publishers. Same will happen here.

Surely that's part of the training. Seen it in literally every country I've ever ridden a bike in. Here, if i don't get almost crushed by a bus on every road ride I'd be surprised.

Not sure the whole locking people up in prison camps stopped the boats in Australia either

Was talking to a guy who runs a bus company here. He said that the problem with electric buses is outside cities they're pretty complex to run (and not that straightforward in cities for that matter). He's replacing his diesel buses but for each of those he needs 2 or 3 electric buses as the recharge time is "not trivial" even compared to cars and if you're out in the sticks, you need get back to a proper charging location (not the local public charging point like cars). He said that hydrogen fuel cells are better but the buses are 2-3 times as much to buy (think he said over 1M euros but I might be misremembering).

Even charging infrastructure for cars and motos in a Grand Tour will be problematic, let alone that for buses.

Off to Brisbane for 4 days and getting a road bike rental. I’ve got a Sunday off so rather than lapping Cootha or going down the river, I need some longer ride suggestions. Any pointers ?

Their sale photography makes it looks a little bit "buy more kit while the world burns"

His Santa Monica penthouse looks very wrappable.

US police far more likely to resort to violence though...

I did one tyre this way by cleaning the cut up, putting the patch on then putting a tube on to hold it in place until it was well stuck. But I did this at home not on the road.

And only 1450 grams per pair.

Is that good for spoks? For 4 grand there's a lot of wheels out there that will be lighter.

Warren Barguil somehow managed to get himself a 3 year deal at DSM. Maybe the sponsors like to have a French rider that people have heard of but who rarely wins?

Didn't he already ride for them and got the boot for being a selfish, uncontrollable prick (their words, paraphrased)?

Maybe the UCI needs to do x-rays of complete bikes. But that would be slow and expensive. In the meantime perhaps we could have a video analysis widget to autodetect acceleration when seated.

They did. https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20049889/uci-xray-machine-motor-doping/

Arnaud Démare signed and riding immediately for Arkea-Samsic. Signed through to the end of 25.

He was REALLY salty about not going to the tour wasn't he

Yup; Moccamaster here too (plus I got them to get one at work)

We use that in some of our companies for accounting but does it do personal expense management too?

I don't travel that much for work, but when I do it's a mess of paper invoices, electronic stuff etc and I just spent 2 hours sorting out the last few months. What's the go-to app for this crap now? I've used expensify in the past but it seems a bit pricy when my experience with it was that the "automatic" scanning of invoices rarely worked well.

Just fitted a pair of the new gp5000 all season tubeless. Maybe just a fluke but they went on incredibly easily considering the gp5000 they replaced I had to get the lbs to do.

Hmm. Probably good that was 6 months ago as I don’t have 2 grand to spare.

Retrofit or built with them?

I was thinking of something a bit more "conventional". It looks like I'll be traveling a fair bit for work next year and want to be able to bring a bike with me.