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Complaint thread
Postby tuco » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:39 am
Any other year it wouldn't bother me but now I'm riding it's getting quite irritating, more so now we've started racing and I'm losing fitness.
I took my daughter out for a ride today and sure enough we got wet again. That's 5 rides in a row now. I know I shouldn't complain since you people would kill for a drop of rain but we've all had enough.
It's rained everyday except one since Jan. 17th.
Interesting times ahead now. We have a cyclone watch and it should be up to a cyclone warning late this evening.
Even if it crosses nearby as a rain tropical low we're still expected to get buckets loads of rain.
The national media are having a field day relating this with Innisfail but they don't seem to realise these things affect a very wide area.
Damn it, could things get worse!!!! Now my druggo, hippy, almost proven shop lifter customer is in the store!!!
He'll hang around, scratching his greasy hair, torching all my stock for an hour then buy a second hand $2 miniature.
I better get back to watching the cameras.
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Postby europa » Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:52 am
BUT ...
... man have you lot got it hard this year. I couldn't believe it when I saw the cyclone warning last night. Maybe it's time to set up some rollers. Now there's an exercise for you - have a chat with the local junk shop specialist and make your own set of training rollers. Sure, it's easier to buy them, but turning it into an exercise might make the whole thing feel a little less like 'I'm dodging the weather'.
Richard
what was the comment about avian excrement?
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Postby tuco » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:05 am
We may get some fine weather after this cyclone/tropical low passes to the south of us. It'll drag in NW or W winds which will be dry.
So hopefully we'll be back into full riding mode by the weekend.
We actually got a brief 5 minutes of actual real sunshine yesterday! First time since Sunday last week.
I don't mind riding in the rain too much, I just worry about my daughter falling. If certainly is a LOT cooler riding in the rain.
A few definitions -
Cyclone watch - Cyclone could hit in 48 hours.
Cyclone warning - Cyclone could hit in 24 hours.
The warnings are exciting as they come with gliding tone sirens and all.
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Postby moosterbounce » Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:58 am
I'm sure you could pick up a cheapie and then you could cycle every day and not lose any fitness
I have mine set up in the spare room in front of a TV. Some people hate the idea as it is pretty boring but I find watching a movie (with subtitles on) makes time go really quick. My husband measures his trainer work in the number of episodes of The Simpsons he watches!!
One word of advice though...don't try to use the playstation and ride at the same time. I tried a car racing game and quickly discovered that 1) my cadence depended on how fast my car was going, and 2) I tend to lean over to "help" my car speed round corners. I'll leave that to your imagination!!
Moo...
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Postby mikesbytes » Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:28 pm
No problems with been overtaken, just now hes in the way and as slow as I was going, I got to slow down even more, while Valentio Rossi glorifies his victory, or give up crusing overtake and get rid of him.
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Postby europa » Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:37 pm
Richard
notice I didn't comment on those that go flying past me and then disappear into the distance
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Postby tuco » Wed Feb 07, 2007 8:21 pm
Wind is gusting to 50km/h. Just like a windy day (evening) so far.
Would have loved to have gone out for a ride in it just to see what the tail wind would have been like but I had to go back go the shop and fix the awning it case the wind gets worse.
Back on thread, old people pasting me. Two old codgers pasted us today (admittedly we were slow to take off from the lights.) We got caught at the next set of lights and they got way ahead so we just had to catch them and past them at speed. Of course they then tried to catch back up to us so we went up to 33km/h an left them for dead.
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Postby pospete » Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:55 pm
It's overflowing. It was salt but now it's fresh water. Have to spend a fortune getting it back to normal now.tuco wrote:mikesbytes wrote:Nice pool
can you not use something like Blue Crystal instead of salt? Just wondered as I established 5 blue crystal pools before i left the UK. Much simpler to operate etc, and only use the liquid Chl. to shock dose once a month. All my clients said they prefered it too.
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Re: Complaint thread
Postby heavymetal » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:31 am
I agree, it's been so hot over here in the west that the concrete cyclepath melted.tuco wrote:My complaint is the weather.
It was hell trying to drag a loaded touring bike out of the molten concrete.
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Postby Mulger bill » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:03 am
You've got a lot of smoke about too, don't you?
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Postby heavymetal » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:04 am
It's cleared up now and the sun looks almost it's normal color.Mulger bill wrote:Urrk, that's not fun.
You've got a lot of smoke about too, don't you?
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Postby Mulger bill » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:24 am
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Postby tuco » Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:19 am
Don't forget the regular volunteers. They never get a mention.Mulger bill wrote:That's great news, the smoke's been gone for over a week now, and most of the fires are controlled. Massive kudos to firies everywhere, Heros all
When we had the ash Wednesday fires I wasn't a firier because I worked all over Victoria at the time (so couldn't train on a regular basis) but I was based at my parents where the fires were.
Couldn't fight the fires so a bunch of us took a few days off work (like that was a hard decision!) and signed up as volunteers.
Quite an experience and one I'll never forget, I'd recommend to anyone.
Had a great boss to. Got back to work after almost a week off and since I was still a trainee I asked what to put the leave down as, he said I saw you here the whole time.
However, this is the complaint thread not the happy thread.
FINALLY got to walk up the hill last night. Bugger me if I didn't hurt my back. Bloody hell, I was, and still am, pissed off.
It's VERY steep in places and that's where I felt a pulling sensation so I'm hoping it's only a muscle strain. It's not like other lower back injuries I've had where my movement is restricted and I can't stand up straight.
Second race is next Sunday. What with all the rain we've had and now this I'll never be ready.
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Postby tuco » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:38 pm
Don't say that. Last time you said it'd be a cyclone and we had flooding rains.europa wrote:It's alright, they've scheduled earthquakes for next sundaytuco wrote:Second race is next Sunday. What with all the rain we've had and now this I'll never be ready.
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