What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?

hippy

Introspection Question #1:

What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?

To get the new Zipp 808 "fully sick mate!" aero carbon wheels rolling,
some of mine are:

- A good wheelie (followed by a good manual)
- Good no-hand trackstand (or a perfect normal trackstand)
- Melbourne to Mildura ride

hippy



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gescom

- Short term goal is the 'Around the Bay' in a day ride.

- Ride around Australia, NZ, or Tasmania at least.

- Pass roadies up a hill with a loaded bike (they may have to be aged
90+ for that to happen though )

- Those perfect days with the sun on your back, NO wind, and you make it
home just before sunset.


Btw Hippy, what do you mean by 'a good manual'? Not a bike manual I
guess? lol.



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flyingdutch

Cross the Nullarbor
(perth to Adelaide. nice tailwind almost guaranteed :-) )

Tour Europe on tandem (with wife but Angelina Jolie would do in a pinch)

Be on Alpe D'Huez hairpin whilst 'they' go by...

Place in a Kew D-grade crit

Move up to C-grade

Race in C-grade and beat Hippy

emulate these guys... http://www.downtheroad.org



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hippy

"gescom" <usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com> wrote in message
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> Btw Hippy, what do you mean by 'a good manual'? Not a bike manual I
> guess? lol.

A "manual" is similar to a wheelie but you keep the front
wheel in the air without any pedaling, i.e. just by getting
your weight in the right spot over the back wheel. It's a
great trick that needs awesome balance... balance that
I don't have. :-(

hippy

hippy

"flyingdutch" <usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com> wrote in message
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> Tour Europe on tandem (with wife but Angelina Jolie would do in a
pinch)

Yeah, nice one.. 'cept ditch the "tandem" bit.

> Be on Alpe D'Huez hairpin whilst 'they' go by...

I'd love to see any part of the tour.. another good
choice!

> Place in a Kew D-grade crit

If you are riding around those hills near Warrandyte,
you'll do that easy once you work out "the system"

> Move up to C-grade
> Race in C-grade and beat Hippy

That shouldn't be too hard.. I pulled out of my last 2
crits. :-S

> emulate these guys... http://www.downtheroad.org

hehe.. cool!

hippy

Munk3y

hippy wrote:
> Introspection Question #1:
>
> What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?
>

I' like to build a little trailer/chariot for my old cattle dog (13.y.o)
to sit on. He's too old to chase the bike these days.

- Munk3y

Tamyka Bell

Munk3y wrote:
>
> hippy wrote:
> > Introspection Question #1:
> >
> > What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?
> >
>
> I' like to build a little trailer/chariot for my old cattle dog (13.y.o)
> to sit on. He's too old to chase the bike these days.
>
> - Munk3y

After the Gold Coast marathon on Sunday, I saw a guy riding along the
highway with an interesting setup. He had what looked to be a wooden
board mounted along the entire length of his top tube and probably about
five inches wide. For his dog to ride on. It looked like a cattle dog
cross or something. Very cute.

Tamyka
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hippy

With frozen toes this morning I thought of another couple of things I
want to do...

Ride in another country (can't believe I've not done this..)

Ride in the SNOW!! :-D

I reckon try it on ice and in snow with normal tyres and then do the
same thing with those funky studded tyres..

hippy



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aeek

the big thing for me was that I could get up 5mins later and ride in for a 10:00 lecture as against catching the train.
Ended up hating 9:00 lectures !



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? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}

hippy <usenet-forum@cyclingforums.com> writes:

> Introspection Question #1:
>
> What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?
>
> To get the new Zipp 808 "fully sick mate!" aero carbon wheels rolling,
> some of mine are:

- Wheel suck thouse roadies that keep shooting past me on the M4.
- Be able to bunny hop the curb
- SYD to newscatle
- SYD to BRN

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warrwych

hippy wrote:
> Introspection Question #1:
> What have you always wanted to achieve on a bike?



faster, stronger, longer ..

perfect balance

a wheelie (on both road and mt bikes)

a love of headwinds and rain ;-)



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Terry Collins

hippy wrote:

> Ride in another country (can't believe I've not done this..)

Take the ferry south. Cheap fares atm. You could probably do it as a
weekender. (well the rest of the world thinks it is a different country
{:-).

Or a cheap flight east.


> Ride in the SNOW!! :-D

Volunteer for the antartic division {;-)

kingsley

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:24:51 +1000, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}
wrote:

> - SYD to newscatle

I've always wanted to get a map going of this ride with all sorts of
back roads etc, so you can avoid the F3 & pacific hwy.

From here (Lake Macquarie) to Newcastle is a bit difficult, but
to the south is alot more promising.

For example, I could get from Morisset to Wyong with insignificant traffic
along Yaramalong valley road (or whatever the road name is), from there
cut under the pacific hwy at Wyong Creek into farmlands down to Ourimbah.
Up Dog Trap road (not on your roadie) to Somersby... anyway that's about
a fifth of the trip handled. I think if I were more familiar with these
other areas it might just be possible. Would make a good touring route. I
don't trust the gov'mnt to come up with a decent one for the proposed
pacific bike route - these are the same people that mark the F3
breakdown lane as a bicycle path.

(For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

-kt

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"kingsley" <kingsley@maddogsbreakfast.com.au> wrote in message
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> (For outa-towners the F3 is the major 6-laner from Sydney north, it's
> probably a nice surface to ride on, but that's about it in my book.
> Although you do see a few roadies on it on the weekend)

From memory there are some monster hills when you head north out of Sydney.
Or is it a different road that goes up through Kuring-Gai to to Gosford?

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