Yearly Archives: 2006
Josie’s Diary: Meet the Harthogs
The Hartogs are my Dutch host family. One of the first things they told me on my arrival was that anything goes in Holland. This was a pretty scary statement as I’d never been to Holland and my beginner’s knowledge …
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Nudgee Ride on Saturday
This weeks shop ride will be the Nudgee Loop. We will depart at six thirty Saturday morning and ride the 45klm at a steady pace between 25-28klm/hr. We will be back into the city about eight o'clock and will stop …
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Josie’s Diary: Germany
I have to say that I am getting quite use to the glamorous lifestyle of an elite athlete, flitting around the world competing in European Cycling Tours and day races. It’s the second 10 hour car trip I have taken …
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A Jolly Good Yarn
Here is a blog well worth a read. Its about a guy called Eric and his trip to Cairns. He writes very well and you may also be familar with one or two people in his stories. Check it out …
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Josie’s Diary: Womens Giro Stages 6 – 10
Stupidly, the race on day six started at a designer fashion outlet centre!!! I don’t know where the logic behind this one was, but starting a race of 130 women here was just plain cruelty. To get to the toilets …
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The Winter Warmer 2006
This is what greeted the Winter Warmer riders early on the Saturday of departure. Lesser men (+women) would still have been in bed but those who showed knew what the …
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Winter Warmer Profile
This is the road profile for the Winter Warmer. For those of you who ride on our Saturday ride to Samford the hill between the 10-20klm mark is shown as "Samford Range". As you can see the climbs are very …
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Josie’s Diary: Womens Giro Stages 1 -5
A few months ago someone told me the world of women’s tour cycling was a circus and I quickly discovered that they weren’t lying with that one! My introduction to the `circus’ was the 17th Giro d’Italia Donne Elite which …
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Josie’s Photos
These are some of the photos of Josie in the Giro d'Italia Donne. She rode very well for her first grand tour with the best cyclist in the world. Josie will be following up with report of how the race …
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Lifecycle customer wins national Tour de France competition
John Osbourne, one of our favourite customers and all round good bloke has won the nation wide Michelin tyre "Tour de France" competition. He bought a pair of the fantastic Michelin Pro Race tyres and entered in store. The competition which …
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