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scottie comes to the city, originally uploaded by ukalipt.

the infamous wall now has more mould down below, and a token visit from scottie.
scottie now in for XT fix tuning, and showing off his new set of cross+marks.

so that is it, complete training mode.
light work out over the weekend but focussing more on strength right now. jason and i did a short ride but fucken bee’s nest hill, its a killer. jason couldn’t make it up it, although his effort is just quiet amazing. i didn’t really get that close at all. strength IS the focus. this weeks station runs will be hard paced to gets some build up for the dirtworks 50km. i could easily do the dirtworks, but i want to try and do it in a very reasonable time.

i have placed the xt derailer on scottie but i have to get it “professionally” tuned. i don’t really know how to so i would rather it done correctly. it looks shit in the pic above but after a good clean up it is in great condition. couple of scratches but nothing to bad. i did have to get find a replacement top pulley wheel bolt, as the thread was stripped, but for $20 i am stoked. the replacement bolt was thrown in free from blackmans when i bought the cross+mark tires

scottie will venture with me tomorrow to the city for his service. i’m hoping to organise brad to do the oak’s fire trail with me over easter.

so miss raleigh has left the building.
sad day but very bizarre small world coincidence.
i was having issues pronouncing the buyers name. my english is, well, below average on a good day but i was 100% sure from emails that it was a guy. he said he would come to pick the bike up on friday afternoon. he rang around midday, asked if he could pick it up then. for me that worked out better, his question was “are the tires full of air, or say, can i ride the bike now?”

i was my usual yeah mate no worries, responce. got the bike out of the car, attached the front wheel etc. took it up to the front of the building where piero was waiting talking on the phone. after he hung up he commented on how cheap the bike was, and how mad the price of the ladies bikes had been. then went on to discuss the quality of miss raleigh.
at this stage i still had no idea who he was.
i explained to him how i felt lucy was kinda “fudging” the prices of the bikes and also that i had brought tarini of her, and said she was a really nice lady, and explained how i had turned the tarini into a fixed gear.
he laughed,
piero is one of the mechanics that builds the bikes for deus-ex-machina (pictured above in thefixer.pdf)
we had a really good chat about a few things, fixies, fixed.org.au and he was a bit taken back that it was me who had costed up one of the builds in defence of their prices for showroom sold bikes.
enough on that but it was really nice to feel special for once, i had sold deus one of my bikes…

jason and i did the falcon bridge ride today.
second time for me, not sure how many times jason
has done that ride. man he is a fit bastard. on the way
back he just pushed and pulled away from me
with ease. i wouldn’t say depressing, just challenging
TM 2:00:51
DST 45.07
MAX 52.2
AVG 22.3
i am impressed with the average