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Audax Australia
This is the umbrella organisation running long distance cycling events in Australia Their website includes a calendar of events.

Bikejournal
A place where cyclist can keep track of their mileage and any number of other statistics, as well as an attached forum.

Bikeforums
A set of discussion forums covering almost every conceivable cycling related topic.

Cycling Adventurer
The Cycling Adventurer has tossed in the structured life of an urbanite to explore the world by bicycle. A well-written site detailing how he came to cycling, and what he learned along the way.

Crazy Guy on a Bike

Bicycle touring journals from all over the world, including a couple of my own.

Johns Cycles

This is my LBS on the Gold Coast. While they cater more to the racing market, their service, advice and workmanship is the best on the coast.

St Kilda Cycles

Importers of all manner of things hard to find in Australia, including the legendary Schmidt hub dynamo & E6 lights.

Blogs

Bicycle-eye
Wonderings and wanderings out and about in Portland, Oregon, US

The Journey
The journey begins in Perth, Western Australia.

Lance Notstrong
The "other" Lance!

Ms Mittens
The Wired Cat on-line

Iron Gambit
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Aussie Writer and Cycletourist
A blog chronicling the writing and cycling of a seaside baby boomer.

Up in Alaska
Jill's subarctic journal about ice, bears and distant dreams of the midnight sun.

The Kin Chronicles
Taking mediocrity to a new level of ordinary.

Allez
Riding and running with a vengeance.

London Cycling Diary
Pedalling across the capital since August 2005.

CouchPilot-2-BikePilot (Zin's cycling blog)
Living an adventurous life with Type-2-Diabetes.

The adventures of Crazy Biker Chick
... Including cycling, adventuring, cooking, knitting and ranting.

Redneck Espanol
The two wheeled Spanish redneck.

Treadly and me
"Work is something I do between riding my bicycle".

Crowlie
Womanist philosophy and theology. Cycling, climbing, art, single-motherhood and fire-twirling.

Adrian Fitch's random rambling.
A bit about cycling, a bit about genealogy, a bit about radio but mostly a lot about nothing at all.

Geo's big adventure
The life and times of Geo.

It's about the bike
Musings on the cycling life.

Spinopsys
Various cycling tidbits.

Industry Outsider
A blog about bikes and stuff.

Tweed Coast Treadly
An old man's bicycle riding diary.

A cyclist's life in Tenerife
(Canary Islands).

Bike to work to live to bike
It's never too late to get back on the bike

Stupid Hurts
Just the random scribblings of a guy with a bicycle

I'm not drunk enough for this
Really, I'm not.

BikeHacks
What can I say? Just read it.

Mozam's cycling adventures
A random collection of the things I like to do most, and mostly that is to ride my bikes, bicycles that is... My musings from competitive riding, long distance endurance to puttering around the neighborhood..

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Saturday, July 09, 2005

And so it goes on



I thought I'd start this entry with a pretty picture I took yesterday, because I'm not sure the other news is so good. That spot on my face was actually a Sun Spot, which isn't a skin cancer yet, but would develop into one if left alone. I suppose the good news is that I've had it zapped now, and hopefully dealt with. However, what concerns me is that I'm showing signs of skin cancer at the age of 28! Of course, someone who spends so much time outdoors in Queensland would hardly be surprised that this would be a possibility, but I use sunscreen all the time, and it's still happening, and I certainly didn't expect it to happen so soon.

On the other hand, I've read comments from people on bikejournal.com who appear to have been living with this situation for years, without suffering greatly. I guess it just means I now need to be extra vigilant in making sure I catch these things early, and apply the sunscreen even more often than what I already do! I might also think about doing more of my long rides at night this summer, too. After Thursday's effort, it's clear that I am not having a good week. Sooner or later I'll get some good news, it's just a matter of waiting.

I did, however, get a nice early ride this morning, through cool conditions up to Binna Burra in the Hinterland. A surprisingly windy morning up on the Beechmont range seemed to add to the excitement. There's something about riding along the top of a range, being buffeted by a wind with no protection at all, it's actually quite a liberating feeling. The views on both sides of the range are also stunning up there. I've been doing that ride for a decade, and it's power remains undiminished.





P.S. Apparently the forecast for Springbrook tomorrow is sleet. Sleet? In Queensland? WTF?

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