BMC Demo day

BMC's new 2009 range of Mountain & road bikes will be on display
& better still ready for you to test ride,

This weekend out at Lysterfield, by the lake at Trailmix, so come out for a fun filled
weekend & test ride your bike of choice,

Myself along with other BMC crew will be leading out bunches on the dirt & road, from 8.30-4.00 both days.

Just be sure to bring your own peddles & some Id!

See you out there.

Live to ride, Ride to live,

Troy

Sydney to Melbourne Peddling Styles

The storey of my journey is still, work in progress!

Coming to you soon!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas/ New Years Break

I'm home sweet home & Happy New Year folks.

As mentioned I headed to Sydney to spend Christmas & New Years with the family, which was great!

Whilst up there I also started back into my base phase of training, heading out early each morning for a few hour to beat the heat & start prepping the body for the trip home.

Which in summary was the most enjoyable base phase, bar none, 1380km in 9 days,

Via the south coast of NSW, up to Canberra, Back down to Lakes Entrance via Cooma & Delegate, round the bottom of VIC & zig zagged my way back to Melb. through the rolling hills of dairy farms & vineyard country.

Full storey with pics a plenty coming your way over the next few days.

Live to ride, Ride to live,

Troy

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

Impressive Entrance to Wedlock

I know this is supposed to be a racing blog,

However with this post I the wed,

I'm sure most of you would already know, Ash "Epix" Thomas, Former World cup XC junior, Founder of the Felt Enduro racing team.

Was married this weekend at one of the nicest country homesteads on the Murray your likely to see,

With an impressive entrance to the altar on the beach,

Putting on a show for his guests,

Turning up on his wakeboard.

The happy couple..............Awww

BMC Takes the Double

Yep......Hot off the Press.......BMC take the double!

With Jason & Jac taking out the Male & Female Solo
Categories, at the Kona24hr down at Forest in Victoria.

With both Jason & Jac getting the job done on their
always performing BMC fourstrokes!

Jac with the added advantage,
of a pair of Hand built wheels by Andy the man himself of KaosCustomBikes,
Nightlightning lights turning night into day for her &
Maybe a few coaching tips from Mwa!

To Jac's credit she has been working really hard on her fitness with heaps of time on the bike & working just as hard on her skills with Jes & Norm at Mtbskills.com.au,
So a big congratulations to you Jac!

Jason continues his unstoppable form with another convincing win!
Well done mate!

Congrates must also go out to young Scott Chancellor for taking out 2nd & Fellow Worlds competitor Carl(the man)Maroney picking up third, not a bad effort for a guy in the 40+ category, making him more than double Scott's age! Youth VS Experience at it's best.
Nice work guys!

Results aren't up yet, knowing the fullgas crew, they wont be far away,
You will find all the detailed results here!

Live to ride, ride to Live,

Troy

Confucius Say

Man who eat many prune, sit on dunny seat for many moon!

If only that was the cause,

With my blood test results back, indicating that all my levels are apparently back to normal & the docs diagnosis, a nasty virus.

So I'll take that as a win I guess, even though energy levels are still low, just have to eat well & more rest, easier said than done when work is coming out of every orifice!

On that note, you may have guessed Kona24 would not be wise,

Ironically wasn't on my schedule anyhow, as my trusty apprentice Ash & Em are to be wedded this weekend, therefore a relaxing weekend on the Murray with friends to help celebrate this occasion is in order.

Good luck to Jas, Joel & Jac all flying the BMC flag solo this weekend!

Live to ride, ride to live,(Taken literally, I've been dying of late)

Troy

PS. The plan previously spoken about has been put on hold, pending variation, due to health.

Reverse Lights

The reverse lights have been well & truly on!

For over a week now I been feeling far less than myself,

With hopefully hitting rock bottom toward the end of last week,

With work being an absolute battle Thursday & Friday, suffering from the runs, aching body & absolute no energy,

After locking myself away for the whole weekend, with a whole bunch of good wholesome food & slept for most it.

Feeling a little better for it, however still not right,

I managed to get to the Docs yesterday, following a thorough examination bloods were taken!

So hopefully they will show up what's a miss.

Need to get right! Before I embark on what I'm planning to do in a months time!

More on that later!

Hi Ho, hi ho, I gotta go.

Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy

Update

Hi guys,

Must apologize for lack of reports & news as promised,

I have been absolutely flat out & today i feel like

absolute shit!

Barely got through work,

Need to go to bed, haven't even got the energy to go to the doctors, to find out what the .......

is wrong with me.

let along write something inspirational.

will get em done ASAP.

Troy

Report & News

Having an extremely busy week,

Golden Triangle report & some interesting/exiting news to come ASAP!

Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy

Golden Triangle 105km Epic

With the Golden triangle 105km Epic Marathon being run & won on Sunday!

I picked up 2nd Place in the Hotly contested Veterans class.

With a full report to follow real soon.

So be sure to drop by again to get the dirt on how it all went down, it was certainly eventful! To say the least.

Plenty more news on the horizon too, so stay tuned.

Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy

SURFCOAST 6hr Mtb FESTIVAL Wrap up

Sometimes not even the power of the No. 1 plate can help!

Which I did earn from taking out the Inaugural event last year,

Yesterdays race was not to be my day, In a nutshell I had one goal for this race & that was to defend my No. 1 plate!

Off the gun I went out with the lead bunch feeling pretty good until the cloud lifted raising the temperature from the already pretty warm high 20s, to bloody hot mid 30s, about an hour & a half in the pace was pretty quick & with my average heart rate hovering around 5 beats off my max for that period of time in that sort of heat would rarely end well,

Causing some major overheating, even though I was keeping well hydrated, the effort I put in to stay with the leaders basically cooked me like a well done chook, even when I backed the pace off, my heart rate would not come done, this is definite cause for concern, apart from feeling like "total ass",(to use a quote from a film I'm sure most of you have seen, "24 Solo", If you haven't I highly recommend you do).

Therefore I had no other option than to abort mission! Thankfully I made it back to the Kaos tent for some shade, cold water sponge & a lie down, half an hour later, my core temperate had come down & with the sun lowering so was the air temp.

Just to add a bit of colour!

So I thought I'd head out for another lap to see how I felt, forgetting about the race & just cruised around enjoying the course still not feeling great, then by 8pm with 2hrs to go & the temp pretty nice I stated to feel a bit better & managed to cut a few decent laps to save a bit of face, coming back from stone motherless last,

To 6th place & managed to get a day & night lap on the top 20 overall fastest lap board.

Well done to Scotty Chancellor (Orbea) for putting me in the total hot/hurt box & taking out the win!

The Koas flag flew nice & high dispite my miss fortune,

With Jac picking up 3rd in the Womens Solo in her very first Mtb event "Excellent job",

Shane, Ben & Dave taking out the Male 3s, "Nice work boys."

Kaos Lees just getting pipped for a podium, placing 4th in the hotly contested Male pairs, well done to Grover & Sean for taking it out.

A special thanks goes out to Martin who took care of Jac & My Nutritional Needs especially helping me to cool down when I came in almost dead.

As always a Huge thanks to my Sponsors/Supporters who's links you will find on the side of this post especially to Andy from Kaos for the great race prep on the bike
& of course the Night Lightning Blast II performed nothing short of brilliantly, turning Night into day allowing me to be the only solo rider on the top 20 Fastest night lap board.

Finally a big Congratulations goes out to Mick & the Crew from Southern Exposure for putting on a Stella event with a super good vibe, great track, a swag of awesome prizes & managed to grow it 4 fold from last year, reaching the capped limit of 400 riders, well done guys.

Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy

Spinning Surly Steamroller Styles & BMC's 4sale

In previous posts I have mentioned what a great range of products dirtworks distributes

The Surly Steamroller Single Speed is certainly on that list of great product, just so happens that it is the newest addition to my quiver.

I've had an absolute ball the last couple of weeks spinning my heart out chasing bunches up & down the beach,

With this weekend being no exception, yesterday dubiously doing the hell ride, one of the fastest bunches getting around, to my pleasant surprise managed to stay with the bunch till the end, getting 100ks in just 2hrs & my average heart rate just 18 beats of my max.

Today not being any different heading out to Glenvale Crits whilst avoiding Around the bay like the plague, getting a solid 1hr effort in just 12 beats of my max on average for the hour, all at about 120 rpm...........Ouch

Great form chasing training for next weeks Surfcoast 6hr.

Whilst I've been spinning away on the steamroller, my trusty BMC Roadracer has gone up
"FOR SALE"
as the word on the street is my new 09 BMC bikes are due very soon!

The bike is pretty much as in the picture less the wheels, it has

- Mavic race equipe wheels,
- Durace components,
- Carbon bars & seatpost
- Has a brand new bottom bracket
- It's a 53cm 2008 BMC Roadracer, Superlight alloy frame with carbon rear triangle & forks.

Sure it's done a few ks, however it is less than 1hr old, in great condition, very well maintained & absolute Steel at $2600.00

So pop into see Andy at Kaos Custom Bikes & take it for a spin & while your there check out the Brand new 09 BMC's as he has a couple of demos in store.

A sneak peak at BMC 09 Racemaster
& Fourstoke 02.


Keep an eye out as my race bikes will soon be up for grabs too, being a Current model BMC Trailfox 01 & Fourstroke 04, both well specked & maintained for around $2500-$3000.
If interested drop me a comment.


Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy

SURFCOAST 6hr Mtb FESTIVAL

Yes folks it's on again, just a little over a week away,

so be sure to get your entries in to avoid missing out on all the fun on & off the bike!

Click on the header above for all the entry & weekend details.

See you all there,

Live to Ride, Ride to Live,

Troy