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..

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Tosspot of the week



It was quite a hot field this week, but the award is handed out jointly to every braindead moron in Queensland who has this annoying and dangerous habit of stopping dead in the middle of intersections or roundabouts (traffic circles for those in the US) for no readily apparent reason. I say "every braindead moron in Queensland" because I'm yet to see or hear of this catching on anywhere else in the world. It may also go part of the way to explaining why Queensland continually tops the national road toll in Australia year after year.

Guys, it's quite simple, make your decision before you enter the intersection, not half way through. If you still can't decide, pull over to the side of the road before entering the intersection to ponder your next move. If the thought that you might actually have to share the road with someone else really intimidates you that much, move to Weipa. In short, if you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen; if you don't understand the road rules and the rules of acting decisively and predictably, then just F*CK OFF!

Honourable mention this week goes to those two "cyclists" I've seen riding the wrong way around roundabouts in the darkness of the evening commute with nary lights, nor reflectors, nor bright clothing of any kind. Fortunately, my $600 lighting system illuminated them when I needed to be illuminated (and when they were incapable of it themselves), but the principles of the previous paragraph apply here too. This situation gives further ammunition to my scribblings of almost two years ago.

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