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Castelsagrat, roadie race in France

Last Saturday, 29 March, I rode my first official ‘race‘ of 2014. Now a member of the Sorèze Velo Club, I wore their jersey although covered during the race by my vest as it was still little too cold. About 120 riders showed and there were 5 categories, a combined cat 1 & 2 (

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The New Tandem Is Go

Meet Don’s new machine, purchased with the help of a disabilities “Quality of Life” grant. It’s certainly improved my quality of life. The frame is Titanium, custom made by XACD - “located in the historic, ancient Chinese city of Xi’an”, where the terracotta warriors are. After about half a million emails with the infamously abrupt Porter, we […]

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National Para-Cycling Series Round 2, Bathurst

While others were riding Capital Punishment Don and I went up to Bathurst to compete in the National Para-Cycling Series, which culminates with the national championships in Echuca in April. We aim to be there on our *new* tandem. Watch this space. The real Paralympics contenders didn’t turn up but we were the best of […]

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Capital Punishment Wrap Up 2014 – Where’s Bleeksie?

First year without Bleeksie but probably the most idealic conditions in the history of the race with trails, weather and ultra smooth running organisation coming together. A big Thanks to Tom and Al too for such a well run event – not sure whether they made much but the smooth operation on race day was […]

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When rule #5 doesn’t work

Last weekend Tanya and I decided (well I decided) we would ride from Tom Groggin to Dead Horse Gap in the Snowies. It’s a Hors Category climb of 1050m from the Victorian border up to the Main Range at an average gradient of 6% but the average is deceptive. Well it deceived me. It includes […]

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