New Pushbike(s)

[Keystone19]

However, the idea of road *racing* with all that peloton stuff and drafting and wotnot scares the crap out of me.

Hehe, have you ever been in a Peleton travelling at 40+kph? It is the biggest buzz on a pushbike - believe me!!!

[jrandom]

Hehe, have you ever been in a Peleton travelling at 40+kph? It is the biggest buzz on a pushbike - believe me!!!

No. The *idea* scares me. I'm quite sure that I'm not coordinated enough to avoid wobbling or standing up at the wrong time and taking out a whole raft of other riders, domino-style.

I'll dip my tootsies in some club racing over the medium term and see how I go, though.

Must... upgrade... road bike... gnnnngghhhh... three-ring front sprocket too shameful...

Oooh, Ultegra components on TradeMe!

I'm turning into a very sad little man.

[vifferman]

I now have three pushies in the gargre, and have spent very nearly as much on them as I've spent on my motorcycles.

Heh... sounds like when I caught up with a friend of mine a few years ago. He's an engineer, and so was very picky about how the suspension, gears etc. on his new MTB should be. He couldn't get the model he wanted here, so he imported it from Murka. Just after he landed it, a shop who said, "No, we're not going to import those - there's too small a market and they're too expensive" bought some in, for a few hundred less than his cost.

Scary thing was his treadly cycle cost more than my VF500...
Couldn't go anywhere near as fast though.

[Keystone19]

No. The *idea* scares me. I'm quite sure that I'm not coordinated enough to avoid wobbling or standing up at the wrong time and taking out a whole raft of other riders, domino-style.

I'll dip my tootsies in some club racing over the medium term and see how I go, though.

Must... upgrade... road bike... gnnnngghhhh... three-ring front sprocket too shameful...

Oooh, Ultegra components on TradeMe!

I'm turning into a very sad little man.

Hehe, I have ultegra on my race bike, I also have a triple chain-ring at the front. Yeah, everyone calls me a wuss but it's there for a purpose. I mostly do multisport races these days and if you've just done a four hour run and you still have to grind 35km on a road bike over a biiiig hill, that granny gear sure saves your legs - specially if you have to do it all again the next day!

Best thing I found for peleton riding was to make sure I was ultra-comfortable with drafting and then just increased the group size, two then three and so on. Drafting is easy, just have to practice and have balls...

[Ixion]

Ha! A new mountainbike for $600?

Luxury!

I just barely escaped having to buy Mrs Random a $4,000 jobbie a couple of months back by giving her my $2,500 one and moving myself onto her old dunger (definition: almost a year old and cost less than $1,500).

And those bikes are just XC hardtails. I live in fear of the day that she wakes up and decides she needs a dedicated downhiller.

I guess I'll see you at the Karapoti Classic, then.

GWARK !

HOW much ????

I've never paid that for a MOTORBIKE. *crosses pushbiking off list of possible future activities*

I must show this to Mrs Ixion. That'll shut her up suggesting biking as good exercise. Exercise for the wallet arm! Must make sure she is sitting down first, though. $243 at the Warehouse, still seems dear, who has them for $99 ?

Seriously , GWARK !

[erik]

Heh. I got mine for $225 secondhand through trademe. doesn't have any suspension, disk brakes or other fancy stuff, but it's good enough for getting fit.

[jrandom]

HOW much ????

I've never paid that for a MOTORBIKE. *crosses pushbiking off list of possible future activities*

I must show this to Mrs Ixion. That'll shut her up suggesting biking as good exercise. Exercise for the wallet arm! Must make sure she is sitting down first, though. $243 at the Warehouse, still seems dear, who has them for $99 ?

Seriously , GWARK !

A colleague of mine is about to spend over $10,000 on a roadracer. He wants to hit sub-10 hours in the '06 Ironman.

*My* commuting/racing-at-the-back-of-the-pack road bike was the cheapest Trek in the store, at $1,200. I am not worthy...

[curious george]

Hey you lot!
What about we get ourselves organised for the woodhill 12hr race comming up?
I forget details like when it's on etc... I'll get back to ya.
I've been told it's something like Taup and Vegas, 5 people, 12 hrs.
Works out to 2.5 hrs each if you want to split it evenly, but we rarely do for soem reason.
Who's keen?
Or something in Coromandel? Even Karapoti?
I've done it a few times a few years back, but we could have a kiwibiker Auckland 'vs' Wellington comp....
Or something

[curious george]

A colleague of mine is about to spend over $10,000 on a roadracer.

Hey JR, tell your friend I hope he spends his money wisely.... I know this from experience.
I would expect almost 5k of that to be wheeles, if not.....

[Motoracer]

Hey you lot!
What about we get ourselves organised for the woodhill 12hr race comming up?
I forget details like when it's on etc... I'll get back to ya.
I've been told it's something like Taup and Vegas, 5 people, 12 hrs.
Works out to 2.5 hrs each if you want to split it evenly, but we rarely do for soem reason.
Who's keen?
Or something in Coromandel? Even Karapoti?
I've done it a few times a few years back, but we could have a kiwibiker Auckland 'vs' Wellington comp....
Or something

I might be keen. Have you got a website for this event?

[Phurrball]

GWARK !

HOW much ????

I've never paid that for a MOTORBIKE. *crosses pushbiking off list of possible future activities*

I must show this to Mrs Ixion. That'll shut her up suggesting biking as good exercise. Exercise for the wallet arm! Must make sure she is sitting down first, though. $243 at the Warehouse, still seems dear, who has them for $99 ?

Seriously , GWARK !

Like the motorised variety, one gets what one pays for. At the time I purchased my fully suspended XC MTB, the rear shock was worth more to replace than my cage! It's all about the grin factor...

(Mental note to self, get fat, lazy arse on pushbikes to justify their not-so-small-in-dollar-terms existence in my gargre!)

[Hitcher]

A colleague of mine is about to spend over $10,000 on a roadracer.

Who is he buying for that amount, Lance Armstrong?

[mattt]

Hehe, have you ever been in a Peleton travelling at 40+kph? It is the biggest buzz on a pushbike - believe me!!!

Yeh it's awesome. Finished a lot of the 200km races in Europe in times well under 5hrs... Plus doing round lake taupo in a little over 3hr50 was a nice too. Fastest average for a race will have to be a tailwind stage a few days into the Southland tour - hicktown to hicktown at a 52k ave.

[Keystone19]

Hey you lot!
What about we get ourselves organised for the woodhill 12hr race comming up?
I forget details like when it's on etc... I'll get back to ya.
I've been told it's something like Taup and Vegas, 5 people, 12 hrs.
Works out to 2.5 hrs each if you want to split it evenly, but we rarely do for soem reason.
Who's keen?
Or something in Coromandel? Even Karapoti?
I've done it a few times a few years back, but we could have a kiwibiker Auckland 'vs' Wellington comp....
Or something

You've missed the Woodhill 12 hour - it was a couple of weekends back. There is the Taupo Day Night Thriller on October 1st. Check out www.daynightthriller.co.nz

I'll be a starter.

[inlinefour]

I have a GT Avalanche 2.0 and its finially a bike that I cannot break Nothing like going down a hill at stupid speeds and trying to told on for grim death.