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Then purely by acci­dent I saw the Crumpler Yee Ross on the Crumpler web site, a Crumpler back­pack that can be used as a hydra­tion pack. So I went to my local Crumpler store, check it out and walked away after pur­chas­ing last year’s model (more on that later) …

This is my infam­ous bag that has been repor­ted to the local Crumpler store on more than one occa­sion, because I had the auda­city to sten­cil my blog URL on it, to clearly identify as mine.

Three years ago, I bought a Crumpler bag on …

If you have wandered across my flickr stream lately you might of noticed a couple of pho­tos of my latest bicycle. So here is the story behind it. I reg­u­larly com­mute the 2.5km to and from the train sta­tion each day. Until recently on self destruct­ing cheap chinese hybrid, that is in des­per­ate need of replace­ment. So when the latest bulk rub­bish col­lec­tion occurred in our sub­urb, I decided to see if I could find a suit­able replace­ment. Unfor­tu­nately I spent the week­end clear­ing our shed of 10 years worth of junk to have a good look locally.

A few days later, on the way home in the bus (it was rain­ing heav­ily), I spot­ted a suit­able candidate …

After get­ting tagged again by Ruth and speak­ing to Miles who was vis­it­ing the State Lib­rary to work on his spe­cial pro­ject. I decided to have a second go at the On my way home meme. This time a more typ­ical trip home, by train and bike, last Friday.

Leav­ing the lib­rary on a Fri­day evening, […]

After a week on excess­ive alco­hol, nicot­ine (I do not nor­mally smoke) and caf­feine at WD06, I have been slack about cyc­ling to work. It was not until Miles Burke at port:80 meet­ing men­tion that he was reg­u­larly going to the gym, I finally got back to cyc­ling to and from work. The res­ults were:

After encour­age­ment from Lisa, Max­ine, James and a few oth­ers at WE05 (and check­ing my fin­ances) I have decided to attend SXSWi. See­ing I will be fly­ing halfway round the world, I might as well have a hol­i­day. My inten­tion is to either arrive a couple of weeks early or leave a couple of […]

Well I sur­vived the week­end in, with barely a scratch, other than a couple of close encoun­ters with the thorns on black­berry bushes that were over­hanging the trail in a couple of places and a grazed knee with the sil­li­est of get offs.

The tail­wind that made the morn­ing com­mute rel­at­ively easy had strengthen, so the ride home was into a nasty head­wind and what usu­ally takes an hour forty was just under two hours. And that was only because I man­aged to tuck in behind two riders who felt sorry for me for the last 5kms along the free­way bike path.

Get in the door, put the kettle on .….

After five weeks off a bike with a broken col­lar­bone, I finally got back on the road bike on Sat­urday, So this morn­ing my bright idea was to com­mute to work, hey it is only 43.5km each way.…