Happy spring time all you southern hemisphere cycle riders.And a swag of autumn happy joy to you Northerners,too.
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the Slow Schlepper
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- the Slow Schlepper
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Having spent most of my working life at sea, as a sailor in the merchant marine,I have recently come ashore for a second go as a land lubber.The first time I was retrenched due to the GFC and I went back to sea on the Bass Strait ferries .Three years later,here I am. My job as a cargo super involves a company car and a small amount of driving around, which I try to keep to a minimum. This blog is my view of the world from the saddle and also a diary of my passion for old, steel framed French treadlies.
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6 comments:
YES! happy riding - the weather has been fantastic in SF :D
MG: one of the the joys of the interweb for me is being able to experience the change of the seasons through other people's eyes.For instance,I now know that SF gets a lot of fog,Copenhageners can cycle to the beach,Chicago's climate is just about as extreme as Melbourne's. The flip side is that the world gets smaller and travel has fewer surprises.
cheers,
Ian
Wow. I've never given a ton of thought to the weather in the Southern Hemisphere before; but last week my sweetie and I watched the world road race championships in Geelong, and besides looking very much like an American suburb, the weather was positively gorgeous! People in shorts! Flowers blooming! "Funny," I remarked to Sweetie, "kinda looks like April in Oregon."
Happy Spring, indeed!
Up here, we're expecting our first big rain storm of the season, with a 20-degree drop in temps by Sunday.
BLJ~tragically, the UCI Road Race Championships were held at the same time as the AFL grand final rematch.(AFL= Australian rules football but probably best you Wiki that one!) Happily, they still managed to catch 200,000 spectators. Road bike racing is becoming huge here in Australia and this is spilling over into every day cycling as well. It's all good stuff.You are right about Geelong~it's a pretty good place.Good cycling territory and close to some of Australia's best surf beaches.
regards,
Ian
At your suggestion, I looked up the AFL, which led me to a promotional video on YouTube.
Yikes.
People play this game and live??!?
..::shakes head::..
I think I'll stick to cyclocross.
...it's a national obsession. You could say a cross between rugby and soccer? The first grand final this year was a draw, hence the replay which messed up a lot of people and events such as the road bike race in Geelong.
cheers,
Ian
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