Category: Random Crap

Ok, so for those who follow the online fixed community, you’ll no-doubt know that when it comes to Australian sites, Andy’s fyxomatosis.com and Dan’s shifterbikes.com are the two leaders of the pack (bad pun). There’s recently been a little bit of controversy over a new website (fixxxation.org, currently offline) that’s sprung up, and its similarity to Andy’s site. Understandable, because the likeness is a little strong. We’re a bit low on content here at the moment, so I thought I’d post up my 2c, as cross-posted from the fixed.org.au forums.

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The weather’s toying with us lately. Warm days with the mercury pushing 20 degrees. Right now it’s 8 in the evening and it’s still sitting at 18 degrees. Shorts and t-shirts are once again suitable riding gear. We know it’s not going to last though, it’s just the seasons giving us a taste of what’s still a few months away; summer. Right now I’m thinking it may even be worth the wait. It’s been a dismal winter and I think we’re all feeling it. There’s definitely a desperate need for some hot days to burn away the cobwebs and bad moods. Bring it on I say.

I want hot mornings at the beach, afternoons drinking coffee, evenings sitting in a park downing cold beers, and riding in between it all. Sweaty punk rock shows and BBQs with mates. Sweat streaming down faces, the sun beating down on backs. Wading pools filled with cool water and summer days in the shade. Reggae days and thrash punk nights.

I want a  revolution summer.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those … moments will be lost in time, like tears…in rain. Time to die.

-Roy Batty, Blade Runner

I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

-T.S. Elliot, The Waste Land

Low on updates around here. There’s a digital camera sitting on the coffee table here at BnC HQ with a bunch of photos due for talking about, but they’ve yet to make it onto the digital communications device that passes for a computer round here. Safe to say bikes have been ridden, on road and dirt (it had been too long). Liam is scouting out Melbourne, seeing amazing bands and drooling over luminous bikes. The rest of us are dragging ourselves through tedious days at work and all-too-brief commutes, followed by a few relaxing hours in front of the tour.

The sun was shining in some kind of mock summer today, and it’s done a fair job of increasing my lust for warm weather and blue skies. It’s been a long winter already and it’s not over yet, although we’re definitely over the summit and onto the plateau. Let’s hope the descent is fast and crash-free. No climbers jersey for any of us here, but it’s finishing the race that counts, right?

Here’s something worth getting excited about come summer time. Will they actually make it to the country this time, or is it yet another tease? Fingers crossed!

Is there such a thing as ‘too early for a beer’? Sometimes it’s a good idea to put the bottle on the back-burner and grab a cup full of life’s other liquid vice. I for one can’t really start using my brain until I’ve rocked the group handle and I’m pretty sure it makes the early morning ride to work through traffic a bit safer when your not falling asleep at the drops. Hey Mischa, you making a cup?