so not only did I manage to crash on the velodrome last week, which lost me some skin on my legs and some blood soaked arm warmers, tonight I managed to pull the dumbest move ever. riding home from work on my fancy road bike in non rain clothes, sudden down pour - I spy a tree, dry patch yeah, ride up the curb, front wheel gets stuck in a grate under the water, instant flat, me =over the handlebars, hard on the ground, bent rear wheel. What a plonk.
This could turn out to be a right interesting bike season. oh F
Monday, April 27, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
buy more shit
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
mum, sorry
Mum, Happy birthday, yes I'm rubbish . I forgot a gift or a card, what a bad son.
the Fuzz
many things going on with me, just before Christmas I got a car racing ticket form the fuzz, which was total rubbish, yeah of course it was James, so I protested, said alright i'm not guilty and got a court date, which came up as April 14th. So yesterday I drove for an hour in rush hour traffic to get to the flippin court house to find out it was closed! The guard told me that due to cutbacks they had rescheduled everyone and sent letters to notify....hummm...me no letter. Today I call them an they told me my trial was on April the 3rd and since I did not show up I was found Guilty by default. Great system eh. now I owe them a ton of money or I can try appeal. Me thinks the appeal won't work.
black and blackness
so along with the new president, I decided to go black in the kitchen. since the dishwasher did not work and the fridge was 29yrs old, those were the first to go weren't they. They both required a little bit of plumbing, which I managed not to bugger up. Since the new fridge is taller than the old, the cabinets that were sat above the old fridge had to get knocked out, so a bit less storage space. After a few runs of the dishwasher, the Bosh is total money, cleans really well and is super quiet, admittedly it does no dry like an American energy hog, but run the cycle overnight and everything is fine.
As you can see in the fridge there is a lot of room, even for the fattest of Americans (59% am pop , fatties all of em)
crazy Hill ridden
Along with messing around with my house, the weather has been getting better and bike riding is still on fullcore. A few weekends back was the De Ronde van Oeste Portlandia, which is basically the tour of West Portland Hills. This ride is famous for being hard and in nasty weather. 700 riders started and I bet only 40% finished. one of which was me! Two of the climbs in particular are are so steep that cars have difficulty climbing them. Anyway, the weather was good and this was a ball buster ride - I finished without having to get off my bike once...well wicked.
if you have a few mins click the link to a youtube movie that shows the pain!
to quote"How tough were the climbs? One of them, on Brynwood Street, has a pitch of 24-28%, an incline that forced all but the toughest riders to get off and walk."
thus I am a toughest rider...oh yeah!
next up.
Track season! back to the velodrome in the next month. Got a new chainwheel and sum tyres for my bike and my friend Paul is riding track this year, he just bought a spiffy bike to show off on. little does he know he's gonna look a plonker when i'm beating him on my janky bike.
the Fuzz
many things going on with me, just before Christmas I got a car racing ticket form the fuzz, which was total rubbish, yeah of course it was James, so I protested, said alright i'm not guilty and got a court date, which came up as April 14th. So yesterday I drove for an hour in rush hour traffic to get to the flippin court house to find out it was closed! The guard told me that due to cutbacks they had rescheduled everyone and sent letters to notify....hummm...me no letter. Today I call them an they told me my trial was on April the 3rd and since I did not show up I was found Guilty by default. Great system eh. now I owe them a ton of money or I can try appeal. Me thinks the appeal won't work.
black and blackness
so along with the new president, I decided to go black in the kitchen. since the dishwasher did not work and the fridge was 29yrs old, those were the first to go weren't they. They both required a little bit of plumbing, which I managed not to bugger up. Since the new fridge is taller than the old, the cabinets that were sat above the old fridge had to get knocked out, so a bit less storage space. After a few runs of the dishwasher, the Bosh is total money, cleans really well and is super quiet, admittedly it does no dry like an American energy hog, but run the cycle overnight and everything is fine.
before
after
As you can see in the fridge there is a lot of room, even for the fattest of Americans (59% am pop , fatties all of em)
crazy Hill ridden
Along with messing around with my house, the weather has been getting better and bike riding is still on fullcore. A few weekends back was the De Ronde van Oeste Portlandia, which is basically the tour of West Portland Hills. This ride is famous for being hard and in nasty weather. 700 riders started and I bet only 40% finished. one of which was me! Two of the climbs in particular are are so steep that cars have difficulty climbing them. Anyway, the weather was good and this was a ball buster ride - I finished without having to get off my bike once...well wicked.
if you have a few mins click the link to a youtube movie that shows the pain!
to quote"How tough were the climbs? One of them, on Brynwood Street, has a pitch of 24-28%, an incline that forced all but the toughest riders to get off and walk."
thus I am a toughest rider...oh yeah!
next up.
Track season! back to the velodrome in the next month. Got a new chainwheel and sum tyres for my bike and my friend Paul is riding track this year, he just bought a spiffy bike to show off on. little does he know he's gonna look a plonker when i'm beating him on my janky bike.
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