Unaugural 8.0 - Roll Call

For such a pressing subject ??

 

I've arranged a stay at Benalla on Friday night. I expect to arrive
there about 8pm. Hope to see you all on Saturday afternoon.

PS: http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/forecasts/southeast.shtml#ST

 

Quite
now my glasses are all steamed up

 

If you can drive the gear wll enough to make a ferociously strong short
black, I might be able to help you out there.

Our espresso machine, which isn't that flash and complex, has been
declared non-bike portable by Angie.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Ahh, I think I will bring both sleeping bags then

Kev

 

Friday Update
=============
* Shopping is complete[1];
* Truck + trailer + Minx's car are loaded[2];
* Weather forecast is looking promising[3];
* Only a bit of setting-up work to do on tomorrow.


BTH
[1] You're going to be eating very well;
[2] I didn't use to have to lug so much gear when
(a) I was living at Funkytown, and
(b) I was feeding you all pig slops;
[3] SAT - Mostly Sunny. Mild. Wind 3 km/h WNW Min 5 Max 20
SUN - Mostly Sunny. Mild. Wind 5 km/h WSW Min 6 Max 20

 

How silly do I look, Iain? (That's a rhetorical question, BTW)

If Angie says it isn't bike portable, then that's good enough for me.


regards,
CrazyCam

 

Under the thumb then

 

I might bring a 1-cup moka pot which we can serialise if worse comes
to worst.

 

Yes, indeed!

...........and perfectly happy there,too.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I do have a "plunger" type mug, plastic and extremely bike portable,
which is my last chance, lo-tech method of getting a decent coffee.

Given some boiling water, it makes quite an acceptable and reasonably
large dose of caffeine, but it's a bit anti-social.

I suppose, being anti-social fits in with its owner.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I should have thought another piece of anatomy would be more pleasant

 

So, you would prefer to be under his kilt instead of under the thumb?

 

you're not girl enough to find out (although you may be gay)

 

I grabbed a ristretto from a bakery in Goulburn. A ristretto. From a
bakery.

That, and Goulburn girls are cute. Oh god, I've been in Coona for too
long.

--
TimC
"I picked my head up during an interval and saw an enormous ostrich
zigzagging in the road. I swung wide to get by - and just as I did he
started chasing me. These guys can motor. I had to sprint to drop
him." -- Tyler Hamilton

 

You regularly leave them behind in peoples paddocks so much so that
you became the distributer?

 

Quite a few people have a similar philosophy toward their tents at the
Unaugural!


BTH

 

BT Humble wrote:

Yeah, sorry, BT.

I remembered that I had left my pillow/wine skin in the tent, after I
had cleared the dirt road.

I apologise for that, I meant to deflate it and throw it in the rubbish.

Again, many thanks to you, Minx, and the others who did all the setting
up and stuff.

The whole thing was a new experience for me and I enjoyed it.

The wee wrist band thingy caused great amusement when Angie saw it.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

No no Cam, I meant that a few people have left their entire tent behind in
previous years.


BTH

 

I had lunch at Albury and was back home by 6:30pm. I decided to do
the twist-turny bit again because it was daylight so I came of the
Hume at Euroa and took the C366 to Merton (it was much better in the
day), then in to Melbourne via the Yarra Glen a.k.a. the B300.

One last mysery solved. Some people noticed I had an overnight bag
which had been hit hard. A shampoo bottle inside it had come apart,
somthering my toothbrush (yes it does taste bad) and something put a
crease in a metal can of shaving foam. It was all OK on Saturday
morning when I packed it, so how could that happen if the rucksack was
on my back all the time?

The answer is it was run over by a 4x4.

-- Annoyed on
I stopped for petrol at Gundagai (stopped singing too) on Saturday
afternoon and refilled.
NORMALLY I put my gloves on the ground in line with the bowser (so
it's protected from being kicked) and my helmet on top of my gloves,
but it was a bit awkward this time, so I put my helmet in between my
rear wheel and the bowser.
After paying, when I came out there was an impatient woman in a gold
Toyota 4x4 that had pulled up near to my bike (my bike was at the
front bowser, another car was filling up behind me). I wheeled my
bike to a parking space 10 M away and went back for my helmet, gloves
and knapsack.
At first I couldn't work out what had happened. She was already at
the bowser filling up, one glove was near her rear wheel but the
helmet was resting on the other glove -- in front of her car. I
realised her car had pushed my helmet one car-length along the
concrete and, because I have kevlar knuckle protectors, it just slid
along the ground.
I reasoned that she couldn't have shunted the helmet too hard because
it would have rolled off the glove if she had.
I said to her "You have run over my helmet" and she said "oh sorry" in
an off-hand way without looking at me or breaking her stride as she
walked in to pay. This really annoyed me because she probably thinks
helmets are indestructable and doesn't know they have to be replaced
if they get dropped (or that mine cost me $550) so I said something
about how it's like being kicked in the head and walked off fuming.
I nearly took her licence plate. If I had known she had crushed my
knapsack too I probably would have done something very bad and be
regretting it now.
What a bitch.
-- Annoyed off

Thanks again, BTH.