Secret Weapon

Bright TT - Prep.

Tour of Bright TT has always been considered, by myself, to be a winnable stage, well at least for a bit of pride among mates. I had intended on sneakily trying to steal this from the fellas however in light of some very impressive performances from the boys, I am clearly going to have to make so more obvious changes to my preparations.
So rather than solely relying on training harder I will be dropping the aluminium Giant TCR and adopting the services of Cadel's 2009 Canyon SPEEDMAX (pictures below).

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Crikee there's been a lot of bicycle sponsoring deals going on between the protour teams. Looks like those who like to participate in the weekend 'cycling' fashion parades will have to head out and purchase some new teams kits to match there bike brands soon.

Avast, there!

Avast, there!, today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, So I'm having the day Off. But of course Col, Damn ye , yellow-bellied sapsucker, was waiting again for a Ride, I told him to "Walk the Plank".

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Anti Magpie Escape Device

It was just superb weather to ride to work today.

Col and I deviated from the normal path and got dive bombed by a magpie who was travelling at about 100k an hour.

Not wanting to be defeated Col and I have developed a new secret weapon against the magpies, ( sending Col up the road as a decoy doesn't work). Col tested the new anti magpie device, here is a video of Col testing the AMED. (Anti Magpie Escape Device)

Too Wet And Windy.

Boy was it wet and windy yesterday, decided to retreat to the sanctuary of the rollers, as it was bit wild outside, and the house took a bit of a battering.

Col wasn't happy.

Yours in Cycling.

Fridays Ride.

Well I was suppose to stretch the legs over this morning on the trainer in preperation for tomorrows race. Due to the late night and being slightly hungover thanks to Dazza, I'll have to do it tonight.

Col wasn't happy.

Oh here is a running photo taken in park Avenue New York.

Yours in Sport.

Tuesday's ride

Got up this morning at 7.30am and thought 'mmmmm.. I might go for a ride tonight'. It's time I learned how to ride faster so why not head down to the velodrome. If I'm really lucky I'll catch up with the old blokes so they can teach me a few tricks. It's also a great chance to shoot the breeze. I love hearing their old stories about how they used to train and who was faster than who.



Anyway, I was stumbling across some old pics and found this one which was taken at last year's 1 in 20 Hill Climb. I love that amateur cycling can capture runs to 1/100th of a second, it makes it so much easier to to record PB's. At 14 minutes, 12 seconds and 3/100ths I was pretty happy with my effort. Certainly gives me a good target for this year.