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Sunday, Feb 27, 2005

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stats. Today 38.4km Trip total 598km Maximum speed 63km/hr Riding time 1:50:27 Average speed 20.9km/hr

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RTA Big Ride, day 8: Marulan to Robertson

Saturday, Feb 26, 2005

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stats. Today 84.1km Trip total 559km

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Friday, Feb 25, 2005

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stats. Today 113km Trip total 475km

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RTA Big Ride, day 6: Queanbeyan to Gunning

Thursday, Feb 24, 2005

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stats. Today 82km Trip total 362km

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RTA Big Ride, day 5: Rest day in Queanbeyan

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2005

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stats. Today 0km Trip total 280km

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RTA Big Ride, day 4: Bredbo to Queanbeyan

Tuesday, Feb 22, 2005

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stats. Today 75.5km Trip total 280km

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Monday, Feb 21, 2005

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stats. Today 85km Trip total 205km

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RTA Big Ride, day 2: Jindabyne to Dalgety

Sunday, Feb 20, 2005

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stats. Today 74.6km Trip total 120km There was a thunderstorm early last night and some heavy rain, but it all stopped later on. One obnoxious local appeared at the show ground sometime after the pub had closed and seemed to spend half the night walking around the campsite and screaming abuse. On and on he went to the tune of “You can ride a f’ing pushbike but you can’t ride a f’ing horse.

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RTA Big Ride, day 1: Charlotte Pass to Jindabyne

Saturday, Feb 19, 2005

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stats. Today 44.75km Trip total 45km A 7.30 am arrival in Jindabyne, out of the bus and into endless queues to register, weigh bags, meet friends, find coffee then get back on the bus to head up to Charlotte Pass. I’m not sure where Bicycle NSW got the coaches and drivers from, in the light of day the rust holes added nothing to last night’s impressions of lurching driving and grinding gearbox.

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RTA Big Ride, day 0: Travels to Jindabyne

Friday, Feb 18, 2005

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stats. Today ??km Trip total ??km

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Monday, Feb 7, 2005

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Another day, another near miss…. A couple of times a week I meet them, dickheads in too much of a hurry who decide to drive the wrong way up the ring-road at Monash then cut through to the other side. The layout of the car-park seems to encourage them, the entrance is only a little bit past the through road — but far enough that they have to plant the foot and come roaring the wrong way head-on at any cyclist foolish enough to believe that the one-way road will have traffic only heading in one way.

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Sunday, Feb 6, 2005

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There’s an interesting market held every Sunday in a car-park at the Oakleigh shops; this morning Jo and I wandered over after breakfast for a poke about. Second-hand books, masses of old electrical junk, pot plants and clothes… and a couple of dodgy young Asian guys selling pirate DVDs. I joked about the $20000 fine for selling them with another guy near me, he laughed and pushed past to get his hands on the latest releases… Five minutes later at the other end of he markets there were two police officers interviewing another DVD seller, and packing up their boxes of disks.

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Sunday, Jan 30, 2005

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There’s nothing quite like an audience to make you nervous for a first attempt at anything — both of Jo’s parents came outside to watch us take off down the very steep driveway! We departed without ignominy, and took off down the hill with frightening acceleration. I’m still not entirely used to guiding 140kg of bicycle and riders! Out to North Lorne and back for a warm up, another very wide u-turn to turn around, then right across the traffic to commence the ten kilometre climb up to Benwerrin on the Dean’s Marsh road.

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Tuesday, Jan 25, 2005

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Riding home along North road, a car passes too closely. Lady driver in the Audi (rego. Vic ###-###) has the mobile phone in her hand and is busy staring at the display as she taps in a phone number. As I went past her to the front of the lights I gave her an evil glare, but she didn’t notice, too intent on her phone… The lights changed to green, I took off, three cars passed and then came the Audi, this time the phone firmly clamped to the ear, busy chatting away.

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Sunday, Jan 23, 2005

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OK, so we chose the 85km option — the soft option, the easy option… Starting at 07:40 from the car-park down by the Ovens river in Bright, the first challenge was taking off up the steep road in a great bunch of other cyclists. Chatting with the older couple on the KHS tandem beside us showed that despite far more experience on the bike they weren’t all that happy with a crowded uphill start either.

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Saturday, Jan 22, 2005

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The town of Bright must be cursing that Australia day falls on Wednesday and there’s no long weekend. From memory, in the past Bright has been packed, today it seems like a ghost town. There are quite a few cyclists around, but nowhere near the numbers, and nowhere near the number of families, partners and friends. The morning was taken up by some very important sitting around and relaxing, followed by a visit to the local street market and a chance to catch up with other cycling friends, including Andy and Suzie from Wide Open Road, who we haven’t seen since the tour in 2003 in Switzerland and Italy.

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Tuesday, Jan 18, 2005

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Out for an evening tandem ride tonight, time is catching up on us to get ready for the Alpine Classic on Sunday! Even though we’ve entered to do the 85km baby version, I really think a little more practice was called for! The gawks and stares and comments are hilarious, anyone would think that we’ve got two heads or something…. Some of the motorists look as though they’ll either drool into their own laps or swerve into a tree.

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Saturday, Jan 15, 2005

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Uh oh, the Alpine Classic is in a week, we thought it would be fun to do the easy version on the tandem, (85km and up Mount Buffalo) and we haven’t been on the bike since about Easter last year! There’s only one thing for it then, get the bike out of the shed and go for a ride. Merely extracting the big beastie is a task enough, a bit like one of those puzzles where each piece seems to depend on moving another piece first.

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Wednesday, Jan 12, 2005

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It’s 9.50 in the morning, its 27 °C in the office, there’s no airconditioning, I’ve been here three minutes, and on the way I’ve had to deal with an idiot in a bike shop. I am NOT having a good day. sigh you would think that when someone tells you that your wheel will be ready that afternoon and they take your phone number, that there’s just the faintest chance that they might ring you up if they decide that they can’t do anything.

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Monday, Jan 10, 2005

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Smited by the finger of god1. That’s the only excuse, I can’t possibly have been clumsy enough to pull up at a traffic light, pause as I saw it change from red to green, then have my foot slip out of the cleat as I rode off. Tipped over to the left, flicked the wheel to the right, and down I came on my knee on the front wheel! Total damage?

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Friday, Dec 31, 2004

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New Years’ Eve. The end of a good year. Last bike ride of the year. A seven o’clock start from somewhere in Fairfield, six of us headed out on a two hour ride out around Heidelburg, Doreen, various hilly parts to the north east of the city, then back again. The last few months have seen me only riding to and from work, laziness, house-moving, holidays, it all hit hard as I could barely keep up and had to be almost carried back the last stretch to Mill Park!

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Saturday, Dec 11, 2004

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Almost exactly a year after first thinking of it, finally got around to trying to fit the tandem into the car (a Holden Astra). Well what do you know! Both wheels off, rear seat off, bit of wire to tie the rear dérailleur up out of the way, handlebars almost poking the driver in the back of the neck; and it fits! No more excuses not to take it places and ride it….

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Sunday, Oct 17, 2004

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stat. Distance 237.4km It’s a very long way, and a very long day. Being woken by the alarm at 04:45, having to get out of a nice warm bed and eat breakfast in the dark — surely these aren’t things that people chose to do on the weekend, on their days off? No way was I going to ride all the way in to Docklands for the 5:30 start, I checked on the map and it was the same distance from Docklands to the end of North road in Brighton as it is from our house to the end of North road, so I felt justified in leaving home and heading straight along North road.

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Friday, Aug 20, 2004

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I nearly had my revenge against the stupid motorists this morning. Typical small courier van came flying past on my right, left indicator on and with the intention of turning left down the side street, he swung out to hook in, realised that he hadn’t made it past me and stopped. Stopped half in the next lane right in front of a semi-trailer, whose driver was not impressed! The truck air-horn was very loud, but worth it for the expression on the courier’s face as he braced himself and tried to shrink from view.

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Monday, Aug 2, 2004

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Confirmation that Spring is on its way arrived this morning, not with the scent of flowers in the air, not with the sight of blossom unfolding on the fruit trees, but with a crack across the side of the head as a swooping magpie [*] made its presence known. The bane of the cyclist’s life in the Spring! Now if only I could train them to swoop and attack the motorists who yabber on their phones while driving….

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Thursday, Jul 29, 2004

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I guess I blame it all on the rain… Riding in the rain always results in more punctures than riding in the dry, the water lifts up and moves around all the little bits of wire, glass and rock — today was no exception. Two thirds of the way to work, running late, down goes the back tyre. It’s always the back tyre when you’re in a hurry. Off with the wheel, spin it to check for glass — Ouch!

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Sunday, Jul 11, 2004

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With impeccable timing we arrived home in time to throw ourselves on the couch for the start of SBS’ live coverage of the eighth stage of the tour — except that the first half hour is excruciating studio commentary from the Sydney studios. I have nothing against Stephen Hodge, as one of five Australian cyclists to win a yellow-jersey he has my utmost respect — but I don’t think he’s one of the world’s great commentators, or even one of the world’s acceptable ones….

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Deadly Treadly Tour, day 4: Poowong to Melbourne

Monday, Apr 12, 2004

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stats. Today ??km Trip km Not just the fourth day of the bike ride — today was our first wedding anniversary! Woohoo, what fun. One year and no divorce, we must be better than all those Hollywood people or international sporting stars… A couple of friends snuck breakfast-in-bed, the paper, and a bottle of bubbly under the edge of the tent this morning, luckily we opened the door before packing up the sleeping bags, letting us have a somewhat amusing romantic breakfast-in-bed of muesli while sitting in the tent!

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Deadly Treadly Tour, day 3: Tarwin Lower to Poowong

Sunday, Apr 11, 2004

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stats. Today ??km Trip km The overnight rain had blown away as we packed up this morning — I guess there’s got to be some rain on an Easter Deadly Treadly! In place of the rain we had a strong westerly, straight in our faces on leaving Tarwin lower and for the next hour’s slog towards Inverloch. Nobody seemed in a very talkative mood on the road; maybe it was the hangovers from last night, maybe it was the headwind, maybe people were still asleep.

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Deadly Treadly Tour, day 2: Mirboo North to Tarwin Lower

Saturday, Apr 10, 2004

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stats. Today ??km Trip km A magnificent day’s riding, mostly along peaceful country roads through the Gippsland hills. At one point we watched as a flock of twenty to thirty black cockatoos flew overhead, creaking mournfully as they called to each other, flying with their characteristic slow, floppy wing beat. There was a long hard climb after the morning-tea stop at Meeniyan, then magnificent views down towards Wilsons Prom as we headed south to rejoin the Foster to Inverloch road.

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Deadly Treadly Tour, day 1: Moe to Mirboo North

Friday, Apr 9, 2004

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stats. Today ??km Trip km Breakfast, finish packing, put the bags in the car and drive down to Alexandra parade to the start of yet another Deadly Treadly… somewhere along the way Jo asks whether I’ve checked that we really are starting from the same place as all the previous rides! We are, and about a hundred people have shown up, quite a few more than the last couple of times.

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Wednesday, Mar 31, 2004

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Last day of my holiday. Two weeks seems such a long time when it involves an escape like the bike trip. My paper journal is full of empty pages from last week, but that never seems to work, I either leave too much or too little space, or I just don’t get around to revisiting the days — time just keeps flowing forwards. At least the electronic one doesn’t get its pages wet or have problems with cheap paper and felt-tipped pens — on the other hand, I don’t think a handheld PC would have stood up to last week’s deluge!

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Monday, Mar 29, 2004

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Back in Melbourne, miserable weather and all! Somewhere around Seymour the sun came up on a dull grey sky. Cloud turned to drizzle turned to rain — welcome home to Victoria! Somehow the train managed to run an hour late, I tried to call Jo to let her know, no luck, there’s mobile phone coverage for people driving up the Hume highway, but none for those in the trains.

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 9: Gosford to Berowra

Sunday, Mar 28, 2004

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stats. Today 47km Trip 381km Where? Gosford, Berowra(-33.6333333,151.15)

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 8: Bateau Bay to Gosford

Saturday, Mar 27, 2004

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stats. Today 77km Trip 334km …

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 7: Newcastle to Bateau Bay

Friday, Mar 26, 2004

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stats. Today 74km Trip 262km Where? Newcastle

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 6: Rest day in Newcastle

Thursday, Mar 25, 2004

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stats. Today 0km Trip 188km Things continue to improve. Its a sunny day, breakfast at a reasonable hour. A visit to a laundromat and a coffee in Beaumont street. Definitely an improvement. In the afternoon Ron and I trundled into town on Big Bertha for a beer at the waterfront brewery, then along the sea-wall to the lighthouse, and around the point. Eventually we ran out of path and Ron tried to take the flexy old tandem over a skate-ramp, but sanity prevailed and he pulled out at the last moment.

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 5: Bulahdelah to Newcastle

Wednesday, Mar 24, 2004

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stats. Today 73km Trip 188km Stuff-ups and more stuff-ups! Up at 4 am as the cooks got up and started to prepare breakfast. A quick pack up and dress, then down to the showground in the mill owners 4WD. Put the bags down in a corner where we could see them and started on the bikes, preparing and loading them into the trucks. Within minutes the sheep-like hordes had dumped bags on our bags and buried the lot.

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 4: Rained out in Bulahdelah

Tuesday, Mar 23, 2004

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stats. Today 5km Trip 117km There was little to do all day except walk around town and look at the floods. Some of our more quick-witted friends ignored the BNSW organisers, arranged to have their bags taken in a van, and rode the 100+ km straight down the highway to Newcastle. Others, who had friends in the area, arranged to be picked up and taken there in cars. The rest of us sat around wondering what miracle of logistics was going to occur that would take over a thousand wet and pissed off cyclists, their luggage and their bikes, away from the flooded back roads, and over a hundred and twenty kilometres to get them back on the planned route.

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 3: Tuncurry to Bulahdelah

Monday, Mar 22, 2004

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stats. Today 36km Trip 112km Breakfast took longer than anticipated, the weather saw to that. Ominous dark clouds threatened while some chose to pack up before eating, others chose to eat first and pack later. I was one of the latter group, not only had I not packed up, but I was only just joining the queue as the downpour began and put a delay in the proceedings. The sudden deluge caught me between toilets and breakfast so I huddled under shelter to wait it out, then managed to grab some food, eat and pack in hurry all while not getting too wet.

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 2: Gloucester to Tuncurry

Sunday, Mar 21, 2004

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stats. Today 74km Trip 76km Either the beer or the travelling had produced a killer headache, tend to think it was the latter since I always seem to end up with a stiff neck and a headache after sleeping in buses and trains. Steamy and humid all morning, then a bit of a cooler change after the lunch stop. For the first half of the day I rode by myself, trying to shake off the headache and in no mood for company.

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2004 RTA Big Ride, day 1: … to Gloucester

Saturday, Mar 20, 2004

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stats. Today 2km Trip 2km A foggy morning in the Southern Highlands as it became light enough to see from the train, then a seven o’clock arrival at Strathfield for 07.30 departure on the North Coast XPT. Homeward-bound ferals everywhere on the platform, chuffing away on joints and bongs, oblivious to the “No Smoking” signs, but no more oblivious than the rest of the population with their cigarettes. While waiting I sat and chatted to three other people destined for Gloucester, travelling with a Bike Friday tandem and a Birdie — two folding bikes that become more and more appealing every time I travel and have to go through the hassles of boxing a bike and transporting the box…

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