Links

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..

More cycling blogs

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Saturday, August 20, 2005

A year ago...

Well, a little more than that actually. It was August 11, 2004 when this little blog kicked off. Somehow that milestone got lost in various things, I actually thought it was August 17, then earlier this week I completely forgot about it (that's what happens if I don't ride). It's been a lot of fun to keep this thing going, even if it hasn't exactly had a huge impact on the world (not many blogs do I suppose). In anycase, if anyone clicks on that first entry, perhaps they could give me some feedback on that red typeface -- I'm thinking about reinstating it.

As far as the here and now goes, I finally got a decent ride this morning, a quick 78km through Currumbin Valley/Piggabeen, filled with the joys of Spring. The temperature was near-perfect, the flowers were blooming and filling the air with their scent, and the temperature was near-perfect. The only downside was that I forgot my camera, but I can live without the pictures just once. The virtual "week off" doesn't seem to have done any harm, but I'll be the judge of that in the Tweed Valley tomorrow. A perusal of the old posts reminded me to watch for magpies, especially the crazy one at Uki (if he's there again this year) -- actually there were two of them. I'll make double sure to keep the water bottles stocked up.

2 Comments:

Blogger "Ritz" said...

Nice place Chris.
HTTP://WWW.TOURDEPANTS.COM

12:18 am  
Blogger Chris L said...

Hah! That's an old photo in front of Queenstown, Tasmania, which may well be Australia's ugliest town. The hills around it have no trees, the Queen River which flows through the town is copper red, and the population has declined by a third in the last five years.

Still, it was an interesting place, a genuinely authentic mining town, so I don't regret visiting it. Posing in front of it probably made me look considerably less ugly than normal. :^)

8:43 pm  

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