All Smiles

With the Worlds,
& Work,
Behind me, what's left to do?

Head to Sydney for Chrissy with the Family & then Ride home!

What a great idea!
Nutrition packages packed & sent to designated Hotels.

& the New Nokia Navigator to help me find my way,

Should be an adventure, if nothing else, should be nice & fit when I return, or completely Stuffed,
One or the other, tipping combo of both.

Be sure to check back after the 12th of Jan to see how I faired.

Have a bit of a scroll down to check out my new toys & the year that was, 08.

All the very best.

Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy

Christmas Comes Early

Introducing the newest edition to my Quiver, team elite 03 is the model & it's hard to believe there is 2 models above this as it's soooooooo sweet!

Yep that's right, she's a hardtail & a Single Speed @ that.


Crank Brothers coming on board,

As do Ritchey, that rymes with tricky,

Z Race look nice, will be sure to let you know how they handle,

Keeping it all alloy, with Richey Pro, bar, stem & post, Bullet proof!

With Fox gone to a clothing company, bring on Manitou.

Did someone say tricky,
That's exactly what these exzentriker trickstuff bottom brackets tensioner's are,
Brought in by the man himself, Captain "Kaos" Andy @ you guessed it, Kaos Custom Bikes.

Received my new apply named Racemaster a couple of weeks ago.

I think rocket ship sums it up pretty well!
With a set hand built wheels by the man himself "Captain Kaos" Andy, built for speed & reliability & of course, colour coded to the frame in the new Black, "BLING"

The Schwalbe Ultremos will be staying on untill I where them out, judging by the last set, that's about 8000km away, without a flat mind you, Touch wood on repeat performance.

Seriously, this is without a daught the quickest bike I've ridden, with less effort this is the only view your mates will get in a sprint,

As the BMC RaceMaster will do it all for you! Well almost.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas & remember,

Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy

08 A Memorable year for Team BMC Aus

What a year it was for team BMC

Jas from broken back to Cover of Enduro/2nd in the World.
Grab a copy of issue # 9 for an interesting read, an interview with Jas, available at all good news agents.
We are all there actually, looking our best of course.


I was pretty chuffed to get a full page shot in the same issue.


Cool cover!........ Not a bad read too, just quietly.

The next issue BMC ran an add with the same shot, got to be happy with that!


Go Aussie,
With the "Willonator" leading the way, whom is now my new house mate!
The race is on! for the bathroom that is.

Which brings me to next years focus, Stage races! Fun Times!

Be sure to make some room in your calender for both these events, they are sure to be absolute crackers!

Live to ride, Ride to live,

Troy

It's Coming

So is Christmas........

Maybe even a little early.........will elaborate later.

With another Jamb packed weekend of work, fun stuff &
to be completely honest, weather just far too good to be sitting in front
of a computer screen.

Heaps of cool stuff to post coming as soon as I find/make time,
So keep an eye out.

Live to ride, ride to live,

Troy

Busy Busy

It's certainly that time of year again!

Busy busy in all realms,

Flat out like a lizard drinking...............etc, etc, etc,

So there certainly has been a whole lot going on of late,

I'll try & bring you up to date on the weekend,

Next year is shaping up to be a cracker......... more on what's to expect there too!

Hope the Silly/Festive season is treating you all well!

Live to ride, Ride to live,

Troy

Australian MTBA Marathon Champs

Today I headed up to Wandong to pre-ride the,

Australian MTBA Marathon Championships course,

With photographers present in order to help promotion of the event,

One thing I can say, this is sure to be a great event in true European marathon style &
with an Australian jersey up for grabs it will be on for young & old.

A great day was had by all!

Pics & Links to follow.

Live to ride, Ride to live,

Troy

Bens Ok

For those who where up late last night, having a look around,

Bellie posted a photo with a helmet with some pretty bad cracks in it,
Then there was a comment from Richard who was on the Fatties ride with us,
mentioning he would like to know how Ben got on at the Hostpital,

For those who weren't out blatting around on the Yarra trails last night,
Ben Randell had a head on with a virtual brick wall, one of the biggest most solid guys you're likely to see on a bike, at speed too!

I was on Ben's wheel at the time, his head pretty much buried into this guys shoulder with enough force to crack his helmet in quite a few places & once Ben had got his breath back from a pretty nasty winding, couldn't remember much of what had happened, or that afternoon for that matter.

So it was time for Ben to take a ride in a Van with flashing lights & bed in the back,

Consequently, I received a text late last night from Ben saying he was out of Hostpital with a mild concussion & a sore back, essentially he will be OK!

Therefore those of you out on the trails, especially this time of year, there is allot of traffic out there with many blind corners & whilst accidents do happen,

Expect the unexpected to be round the next corner!

Check out Bellie's blog for a different spin on the event, he had his camera too!

Take care Ben, something is obviously telling you to rest up & good luck on Monday too mate, where he goes back to the big white house to get a piece of bone removed from his hand!

Live to ride, ride to Live,

Troy