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2004 Easter Deadly Treadly Tour: Moe to Melbourne

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2004-Apr-09 Fri – Day 1: Moe to Mirboo North (35km) 2004-Apr-10 Sat – Day 2: Mirboo North to Tarwin Lower (82km/65km) 2004-Apr-11 Sun – Day 3: Tarwin Lower to Poowong (82km/64km) 2004-Apr-12 Mon – Day 4: Poowong to Melbourne (100km/62km)

2004 RTA Big Ride: Mid North Coast to Sydney

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2004-Mar-19 Fri – Day 0: Getting to the start 2004-Mar-20 Sat – Day 1: Gloucester 2004-Mar-21 Sun – Day 2: Gloucester to Tuncurry (70km) 2004-Mar-22 Mon – Day 3: Tuncurry to Bulahdelah (68km) 2004-Mar-23 Tue – Day 4: Bulahdelah to Raymond Terrace (89km) 2004-Mar-24 Wed – Day 5: Raymond Terrace to Newcastle (71km) 2004-Mar-25 Thu – Day 6: Rest day in Newcastle 2004-Mar-26 Fri – Day 7: Newcastle to Bateau Bay (70km) 2004-Mar-27 Sat – Day 8: Bateau Bay to Gosford (71km) 2004-Mar-28 Sun – Day 9: Gosford to Berowra (44km)

2005 Cycle Tours

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2005-Mar-25: Easter Deadly Treadly Tour: Avoca to Melbourne 2005-Feb-19: 2005 RTA NSW Big Ride: Kosciuszko to Kiama

2005 RTA Big Ride: Kosciuszko to Kiama

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2005-Feb-18 Fri – Day 0: Getting to the start 2005-Feb-19 Sat – Day 1: Charlotte Pass to Jindabyne (40km) 2005-Feb-20 Sun – Day 2: Jindabyne to Dalgety (73km) 2005-Feb-21 Mon – Day 3: Dalgety to Bredbo (90km) 2005-Feb-22 Tue – Day 4: Bredbo to Queanbeyan (73km) 2005-Feb-23 Wed – Day 5: Rest day in Queanbeyan 2005-Feb-24 Thu – Day 6: Queanbeyan to Gunning (90km) 2005-Feb-25 Fri – Day 7: Gunning to Marulan (109km) 2005-Feb-26 Sat – Day 8: Marulan to Robertson (82km) 2005-Feb-27 Sun – Day 9: Robertson to Kiama (36km)

2006 Cycle Tours

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2006-Apr-14: Deadly Treadly Tours — Easter Weekend — Kilcunda to Melbourne 2006-Feb-25: 2006 RTA NSW Big Ride: Holbrook to Binalong

2006 Easter Deadly Treadly Tour: Kilcunda to Melbourne

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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The Deadly Treadly Tour’s 15 year celebration, and their last organised ride. 2006-Apr-28 Fri – Day 1: Kilcunda to Poowong (59km/48km) 2006-Apr-29 Sat – Day 2: Poowong to Neerim South (78km/55km) 2006-Apr-30 Sun – Day 3: Neerim South to Wesburn (66km/55km) 2006-Apr-31 Mon – Day 4: Wesburn to Melbourne (81km/39km)

2006 RTA Big Ride: Holbrook to Binalong

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2006-Feb-25 Sat – Day 1: Holbrook to Jingelic (54.1km) 2006-Feb-26 Sun – Day 2: Jingelic to Tumbarumba (44/70km) 2006-Feb-27 Mon – Day 3: Tumbarumba to Tumut (71.8km) 2006-Feb-28 Tue – Day 4: Rest day in Tumut 2006-Mar-01 Wed – Day 5: Tumut to Gundagai (61.7km) 2006-Mar-02 Thu – Day 6: Gundagai to Junee (65km) 2006-Mar-03 Fri – Day 7: Junee to Cootamundra (83.4km) 2006-Mar-04 Sat – Day 8: Cootamundra to Boorowa (92.

2007 Cycle Tours

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2007-Mar-17: NSW little ride 2007-Jan-27: Audax Alpine Classic Randonnée 130km (8hr 41m) 2007-Jan-06: Amy’s Ride Victoria 2007

2008 Cycle Tours

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2008-Jan-28: Audax Alpine Classic 140km 2008-Jan-06: Amy’s Ride Victoria 2008

2010 Cycle Tours

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2010-Dec-11: MBTC Tandem weekend — Lilydale to Healesville & return 2010-Mar-28: MBTC MAD ride – 65km

2011 Cycle Tours

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2010-Mar-10: MBTC MAD ride – 65km

2012 Cycle tours and longer rides

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2013 Cycle tours and longer rides

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2013-Mar-03: MBTC MAD ride (95km) 2013-Jan-27: Audax Alpine Classic (135km)

2014 Cycle tours and longer rides

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2014-Jan-26: Audax Alpine Classic (130km), 8hr 31'

2015 Cycle tours and longer rides

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2015-Jan-25: Audax Alpine Classic (200km), 10hr 46" riding

Apollo II

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. 1979-1983. A 27" ten-speed road bike. My first “decent” bike, used to and from school and university, for a brief introduction to road racing while in high school, and for several tours of the surrounding countryside. Stolen from UNSW while I was a student there, along with about twenty other bikes, by some thieves who cut the lock off the “secure” bike store and loaded every bike into a truck.

Apollo III

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. A 27" road bike – red – purchased second hand out of the newspaper – for $150. Bought a few months after my Apollo II was stolen and used for many years for touring and getting around town. First ever ride was memorable; after spending a weekend or so cleaning it and getting it rideable, I took off down the driveway, turned too sharp, caught the front wheel in a rut in the road and fell off and grazed up my knees.

Bikes on Airlines

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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Experiences with Bicycles and Airlines As they say in the classics, Your mileage may vary. Here is a summary of my experiences with taking bicycles on airlines, both within and outside Australia. In general I’ve found that officially, all the airlines will insist that a bike is boxed. Bikes also count as oversize and fragile items, so if they choose, they can decide not to carry it, and if they damage it, in theory it’s your fault not theirs.

BNSW 1994 Tour: Armidale to Trial Bay

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Armidale to Trial Bay, wherein we learn that it rains in rainforests. 1994-Mar-05 – Day 1: Sydney to Armidale 1994-Mar-06 – Day 2: Armidale to Ebor 1994-Mar-07 – Day 3: Ebor to Dorrigo 1994-Mar-08 – Day 4: Dorrigo to Bellingen 1994-Mar-09 – Day 5: Rest day in Bellingen 1994-Mar-10 – Day 6: Bellingen to Macksville 1994-Mar-11 – Day 7: Macksville to Kempsey 1994-Mar-12 – Day 8: Kempsey to Trial Bay 1994-Mar-13 – Day 9: Trial Bay to home

Cannondale R800 — 2003 roadie

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. Purchased second hand in 2010 through the BV forums from someone with too many bikes who was culling their herd. Like its Peugeot predecessor it doesn’t get ridden as often as it should be.

Cycling

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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Information about bikes I have owned, places I have been, and other cycling related material that I’ve found useful. My Bicycles Retreating back further and further into the mists of time, the bikes I have owned are: When What 2014— Specialized AWOL 29er offroad tourer 2011— Mallet singlespeed 2010— Cannondale R800 roadie 2003— Trek T50 tandem 1996— Thing, Spotty II MTB frame, not yet built up 1996— Norky Bike MTB, retired 2014 1991—1996 Spotty Bike MTB, destroyed 1991—2009 Peugeot Aspin roadie, damaged, unrideable 2009-Oct-28 1983—1990 Apollo III roadie, stolen.

Cycling — rides

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Tours and longer rides. Not all of them, probably most of them. Distinctly out of date for anything since 2015. I must get around to fixing that…. Most Recent … broken. I must get around to fixing this as well. All 2015 :: 2014 :: 2013 :: 2012 :: 2011 :: 2010 :: 2009 :: 2008 :: 2007 :: 2006 :: 2005 :: 2004 :: 2003 :: 2002 :: 2001 :: 2000 :: 1999 :: 1998 :: 1997 :: 1996 :: 1995 :: 1994 :: 1993 :: 1992 :: 1991 :: 1990 :: 1989 :: 1988 :: 1987 :: 1986 :: 1985 :: 1984 :: 1983 :: 1982

Cycling Facilities

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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Why I think shiny white paint is a cop out. Police car parked over a “forward bike box” I’m of the firm opinion that the provision of segregated bicycle lanes and separate facilities is not achieving much for me as a cyclist. Bicycle Victoria, and many other formal and informal groups seem to believe that since cycling on a public road is perceived as a dangerous activity, since cyclists are a vulnerable group, that a whole range of segregated facilities should be built for them — whether these be on-road bicycle lanes, or nice safe off-road paths.

Cyclops Dragster

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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The first of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. 1974-1976. My first bicycle! A present for my tenth birthday, it was stolen under two years later when I was 12, from my primary school, eventually the police recovered the bare frame in the garage of some local high-school students. Memory is hazy, but it was yellow, had a sparkly-yellow banana seat, and a three-speed hub and dragster shift on the top tube.

El Tigré — singlespeed

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. 2011…. A single-speed/fixie from Cellbikes, $450 in your choice of mix-and-match colours, as plain or lurid as you like and delivered to your door. Hopefully it’ll mean a little less wear and tear on norky bike during the winter months and while commuting.

Fun and games with the lovely motorist

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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OK, I’ve decided that each time I meet some homicidal maniac doing some really dumb thing whilst nominally in charge of a motor vehicle, I’ll write it up here. This is mostly in response to the (lack of) response and interest shown on 16-Apr-96 when I attempted to follow up an incident with the police. The other reason was that somewhere in the back of my mind I got the feeling that one or two of the number plates were starting to look familiar.

My bicycles

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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Retreating back further and further into the mists of time, the bikes I have owned are: When What 2014— Specialized AWOL 29er offroad tourer 2011— Mallet singlespeed 2010— Cannondale R800 roadie 2003— Trek T50 tandem 1996— Thing, Spotty II MTB frame, not yet built up 1996— Norky Bike MTB, retired 2014 1991—1996 Spotty Bike MTB, destroyed 1991—2009 Peugeot Aspin roadie, damaged, unrideable 2009-Oct-28 1983—1990 Apollo III roadie, stolen. 1979—1983 Apollo II roadie, stolen.

Norky Bike

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. What is it? A Norco Java mountain bike that doesn’t spend much of it’s life off road. Instead it gets used most days for commuting, touring, or just having fun. As befits the successor to Spotty Bike it is covered in spots, originally applied by a group of my friends one night on tour when they decided that it just didn’t look right without them.

NSW solo South Coast tour

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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A solo trip, Canberra to Moruya via Araluan and the Deua valley, scoffing peaches all the way. Then down the coast to Tathra, inland and up Brown Mountain, then back to Canberra via Cooma. Cooma to Canberra is one of the world’s most boring 120km rides. 1994-Jan-01 – Day 1: 1994-Jan-02 – Day 2: 1994-Jan-03 – Day 3: 1994-Jan-04 – Day 4: 1994-Jan-05 – Day 5: 1994-Jan-06 – Day 6: 1994-Jan-07 – Day 7: 1994-Jan-08 – Day 8:

Oxford 3 Speed

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. 1976-1982. Over my high school years this gradually decomposed into what now would be called a mountain bike. Flat handlebars, 26"x1.5" tyres, 3-speed Sturmey-Archer hub gears, it started life a shiny blue colour, but at some stage was resprayed a virulent orange by myself and a friend.

Peugeot Aspin

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. A 14spd 700c road bike, Reynolds 501 frame, Shimano 105 equipment. 1990-2009. A road bike that got very little use for many years, since 6 months after buying it I bought a mountain bike and spent all my time on that. Riding home from work one day in January 2009 I crashed when another rider turned into me, I didn’t realise at the time but it bent the frame.

Sorry Mate I Didn't See You

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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A gentle rant. Variations on a theme. Words from the motorist to the cyclist. Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You, I was on the phone, but Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You, and I only looked down for a second, and Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You, and the road is dangerous mate, but Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You, and the light had only just gone red, but Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You, and the kids were arguing in the back, but Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You, and I was only going a bit over the limit but Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You and you should wear brighter coloured clothes, and Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You, you should ride on the bike path and Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You AND ITS YOUR FAULT.

Spotty Bike

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. What Was It? More than a mountain bike, Spotty was a legend. Fundamentally a Technicomps Bigfoot, it’s birth was a long and laborious process starting with the purchase of a fluorescent orange Bigfoot frame at a bike show and a verbal promise to transfer all the components from a 17" model to the 20" frame. During the following two months, the person it was purchased from left the shop and the two new lads wanted nothing to do with it, consequently a lot of the components mysteriously changed down in spec.

Spotty II (Son of Spotty thing)

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. Aaaaaarrrrrgggggg!!!!! The above was said with great feeling. After spending a few weeks chasing up the “lifetime warranty” – in vain – of my Technicomps mountain bike after it failed and eventually giving up, shortly after purchasing Norky Bike (tm), one of the ex-partners of Technicomps Australia offered me an exchage frame at cost price. I took him up on the deal with the intention of rebuilding Spotty on the new frame – precisely what I’ll do with two mountain bikes I don’t know.

Trek T50

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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One of the bicycles I’ve owned over the years. A tandem at last – No collection of bicycles is complete without at least one tandem. The tandem at Noojee hotel After several years of thought, and several months of searching, Jo and I finally bought ourselves a tandem. Second-hand, a trifle scratched and worn, but mechanically magnificent. 40 hole Shimano XT hubs Velocity Dyad rims Shimano Ultegra shifters Shimano Deore DX 9-speed rear derailleur Shimano 105 triple front derailleur 1750mm long, with the wheels removed, so very cumbersome to carry up and down the stairs or to put in the car!

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I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.

Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.

Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.

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