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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
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Ms Mittens
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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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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Closure

It's been a good few weeks for me. First of all there was my trip through Spain and France (yes, I have looked at the pictures, and yes, they do look spectacular, and no, I probably won't get around to uploading them here for a while), and yet there is more good news to come. I had a phone call from my lawyer last week. It seems there will finally be a settlement in the legal action I've been pursuing against the red-light runner who took me out last year. Ironically, the call came 11 months to the day after the crash itself.

Without wishing to give any specific figures at this time, it seems my lawyer has done very well. Even after they deduct their fees, the fees for the doctors who did the examinations, and (astonishingly enough) the fee for the report from the police who point blank refused to even investigate the incident, I'm still going to be left with a decent sum of money. Incidentally, let nobody waste their breath (or electrons in the case of online "friends") trying to tell me the Queensland Police exist for any purpose other than revenue generation. If they can charge a fee for doing no work at all, it more or less proves what I already believed.

There was one lingering disquiet as I pondered what I might have received had I been less physically fit and consequently less able to heal, but that is quickly forgotten as I recall the ownage I dished out on the Col de Tourmelet last month. Cycle-tourers carrying 25kg of luggage on an 18km, 7.5% climb aren't supposed to pass roadies, but I've always been a bit unconventional.

Incidentally, the 12 month anniversary of the crash falls on a Saturday this year, in what is likely to be near-perfect cycling weather. There's really only one thing to do about it...

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