I’ve become a bike part cynic. Its sad really, the magical wizardry of shiny new things only makes me suspicious now. I arrived here via a set of fandangle Mavic wheels, that promised, well, to be wheels – but they looked great, rolled really well and I foolishly thought they would last forever.
Ooops.
Now, 18 months [...]
In around 3 weeks there will be a new little human doing its new human thing in our household. What a crazy thought! Its both exciting and scary – but its been done billions of times before… no doubt I’ll write even less about life here when the little’un arrives!
Its been an intense weekend, dominated [...]
Last night I had a high speed altercation with a motor vehicle on my ride home! ouch! A bit of a shock, to have someone pull out to do a u-turn from a park right in front of you…
Luckily, I’m OK and Rosie the bike seems only minorly damaged. She’s going for a post-trauma checkup [...]
Its nearly the end of April and I have been slack at updating things again. Trying to escape the facebook plague and get back into this little baby of my own. Sheesh.
That, and I’ve been busy working and lacking a home internet connection. So – what’s going on? A bit more marathon mountain biking – [...]
As usual, its been almost a month since I last looked in here! Well, you can rest assured I still think about this site a bit, and have even started extracting content from the old overcomplicated beast in order to reload it all.
I digress. Yesterday I rode my mountain bike 100km, along with around 200 [...]
I’ve actually been back on Terra Firma for some time now, a few days short of a month! Crikey time flies. So you can see what I got up to on the ship at the SIPEX voyage website, if you navigate to ‘blogs’ and look for my entry there.
So, what have I been up to? [...]
welly well well… this week has been like christmas! I’ve put together a new bike – DMR switchback frame with a whole pile of hand-picked funky bits. First ride just an hour ago has made mountain biking a whole new level of fun again!
Also, a new camera arrived so I’ve been trying to figure out [...]
Who’d a thunk it? fluffly, soft, fresh snow in Tasmania? Unheard of… but thats what Pete and I got last Sunday up at Mt Field. We postholed our way to glory on the Rodway tow line, through knee to waist deep fluffy stuff in amazing clear sunshine! And equally amazing was the lack of punters [...]
Its 28 days until I jump on a ship with a load of other science geeks and sail to the deep frozen South! The cruise web site has been launched, so you can follow the journey when it starts. Most things are sort of packed and organised, my new camera is shipping next week, so [...]
My friend Dan sent a link to a web site where you can map trail routes. it’s cool! So, in celebration here is one of my commute loops from home to work and back…
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I started paddling this morning, training for a [...]