The embed will probably fail. It has been hard to find vids this year. Go figure. If you need to, click on thru: youtube.com.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEgJuJ2jSG4[/youtube]
Ale-Jet is a card carrying bad ass. Story at Velonews.com.
Two Wheels. One Dark Lord.
The embed will probably fail. It has been hard to find vids this year. Go figure. If you need to, click on thru: youtube.com.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEgJuJ2jSG4[/youtube]
Ale-Jet is a card carrying bad ass. Story at Velonews.com.
Old dogs can still bite hard!
Jonny, the video ups are coming a little early, I don’t get to see the Vuelta until 5-7 p.m. PDT and it’s more entertaining if you don’t know who won. I suppose I can just avoid this page like I avoid cyclingnews until later in the evening…
Anyone hear from Hurben?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/04/world/main6835136.shtml
…holy crap…
…thanks for alerting us, sommerfliesby…there was nothing on yahoo even when i kicked on my computer @ 12 noon left coast time, so ‘yours’ was my first indication…
…i just sent hurben a quick e-mail & i’ll let you know as soon as i hear anything….
…a 7.1 @ 4:35am ???…any large quake is scary but one that large in the sleepy dawn hours must be terrifying…
…note from hurben via e-mail after i mentioned that drunkcyclist folks were concerned about his health n’ welfare: “Hi BGW,
Thanks for your concern, appreciate it.
Me & mine are fine, we’re up in Auckland in the North Island & the quake was in Christchurch down & the South Island.
I’ve got friends down there & I’ve checked that they’re okay as well, no damage.
Fortunately the quake happened in the early morning & the worst hit areas were mainly in the city center which was pretty much empty at the time.
No fatalities reported & only two critical injuries , (one from a falling chimney & one from glass), so we got off pretty lightly.
NZ & Australia are pretty good at dealing with disasters & the recovery effort has already started.
It was a shit of a day all round, we also had a plane full of sky divers crash, 9 dead.”…
…glad to hear the good parts, bud & my heart goes out to those who did suffer losses…
Team,
Thank you all for your concerns.
It could have been a lot worse, we’ve been really lucky.
I live in Christchurch in the middle of the quake, very lucky to have nobody I know hurt and no property of mine damaged, a bit surreal riding my singlespeed around the place seeing a number of buildings collapsed, chimneys smashed, etc… Very lucky to have been at 4:30am, most people at home in bed rather than in the central city where a big number of brick buildings have fallen to pieces. A bit wierd that 5 and 6 on the scale aftershocks shaking things every hour or so are now ‘no big deal’!
@Specialneedz,
It’s that Kiwi attitude kicking in.
Seriously, I’m glad that you’re okay.
Shit of a thing to happen, especially to such a beautiful city.