up early, oh wait its noon at home

how we roll, euro style. yaa

this bike shop is a fresh market, its all in one, the owner like food and bikes so he sponsors gram, he gets free food so we stopped in and got some.

the shop is in the same building, nice idea.

thought i was getting up early sunday morn, turns out its noon in utah. 18 hr time dif. thats 6 hrs before you back home, but its sunday.

here are some pics from yesterday,
i was trying to stay up late last night to get the lag kicked, it was 930pm, sat, or 430am sat morn, i cracked.

my pal gram lives in canberra, he picked up this new van so we can drive around for 2 weeks. he works at the australian olympic center just a mile from his house, we rode over there, i was on the wrong side of the road a lot and the cops stared at me with my no helmet wearin ass, they dont really care bout that law much unless your in the big city causing havoc..

a lot of international bikers live here, since its like the colorado springs of USA, mick rogers, some dhers, cant remember all the names, jared rando,

and a few xc racers, these few guys raced in the pro norba a few years back and even in utah a few times about 6 years ago, jones used to wax them on the ICUP.

perrin delacour and josh fleming are top 20 norba pros, they live here and are supposed to dominate the race today.

dont expect much from me, im far off that fitness.
that will come soon, it was raining in sydney yesterday so we left and headed inland.

stopped at this bike shop which is grams pal and sponsor, they want to buy my scalpel for $7500, or maybe sell it there, as retail here on that is 10,000.

i think i will leave it and they can sell it for me before i leave.

today is a 46k mtn race in the forest above canberra, seems to be the local ICUP with 300 entrants, flat twisty 1 track in a pine forest, my style.

we rode around last night on a trail system 1 mile from grams house, its right on that olympic centers property, local mid city trail shred.

this is where the roo's live, you can see them dead on the side of the road like deer in utah. they are all over.

i want to try to ride one.

enough typing i need to get in some hours in the sun, next weekend we are goin back to sydney for a local tour on coastal 1 track,

on the 22nd we drive down to melbourne for a 12 hr race the otway odyssey, which tinker is supposed to be doing, i might be on a 2 man team but we'll see.

thats about a 12 hr drive south, i need a short flight back to sydney after that to get back to the snow covered mtns of the mother country.
70 today nice,

but it feels like im riding upside down for some reason.

they like lance here

gotta turn your head for this one
what thaaa