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Hi All, Thanks to everyone who’s shown interest in becoming a part of a volunteer track work team for Royal NP. I’ve done some assessment of the track and noted the areas that need the most attention, mostly fixing up some drainage and erosion issues. Thanks to Ben and Elliot for already...

Steve Larsen, dead at 39, was an iconic endurance sports figure in Bend The sports community in central Oregon was stunned this week when Bend's most accomplished endurance athlete - a world-class mountain biker, road cyclist and triathlete - died suddenly during a training session. Read...

Again You'd think he'd learn - Its not like "I was at a party and everyone but me was pulling bongs..."

This either a downhiller whose selling get rich quick, or some Nigerian doing the same: http://www.farkin.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1641907&postcount=7 Is there somewhere to report these posts and removed...

Hey roadies I have a Sella Italia Flite seat with titanium rails that keeps sliding back in the alloy seat clamp. The clamp is a simple Kalloy single bolt (6 mm). What solutions are there? (1) Torque wrench Parktool recommends a torque of between 20-40 Nm or 17-28.3 Nm at...

Do you call a sparky when you get a mechanical?

In case any of you punks want to ruin WYD .

Not really laying out the MTB access argument, but has some really good points about the ethos of national park management. Find it here

Soeharto is nanometres from the end of his life. And its the only story here in Indonesia at the moment (TV news even gives you his latest blood pressure and O2 saturation levels). So it is apt for the Australian people to pass a message on to the Indonesian people, the Soeharto family and...

Young lawyer out for a morning group ride...fark it could been any of us ... (I was sideswiped about a month ago only by a slower moving car, thankfully - but the personal similarities are plain scary)

With Patrik Sinkewitz telling all about his history of doping at various teams, such as T-Mobile and Quick.Step, and Floyd Landis getting CAS to give him the 2006 TdF title back, doping is back in the headlines. Following last month's Summit, there is to be an anti-doping biological...

News Limited is reporting that last night's The Eulogy Song on the Chaser's war caused a "flood" of complaints. The SMH (below) and subsequent News reporting disputes the earlier report. Do you agree? Was the Chaser wrong to defame dead celebrities? I agree totally with Chris Taylor...

I spent way too much money on bits and pieces for a tubeless conversion at the Scott 24 (nicely enriching the SIC lads in the process:rolleyes:). That said after the tubeless settled in (the rear tyre on my first lap only held about 10 psi at a time and I was constantly refilling it), it was...

I can't wait for this...

Landis found guilty of doping Floyd Landis, who tested positive for the banned male hormone testosterone during his 2006 Tour de France triumph, has been found guilty of doping by a US arbitration panel. "He has been found guilty. It proves that the system works no matter who you are,"...

One of the things the Government have focussed on in the drama of the NT intervention is the role of pornography in the commission of sexual offences, particularly against children. Howard and Brough (especially the latter) have painted an image of very poor households living in substandard...

As HG Nelson says, "its time to pour a can of petrol on this fire". As the title says, what is the future for and professional cycling, and the Tour de France in particular. There has been a very public brawl between Pat McQuaid of the UCI and the TDF organisers ASO, over the communication...

Do you support the Death Penalty? After reading Edison and the Electric Chair, the final chapter argued that reason America still has the death penalty is the perception that "modern" execution methods such as the electric chair, gas chamber, and lethal injection are humane and painless...

Mountain Bike Volunteer Program in the Royal National Park (southern Sydney) DATES: 12 May 2007 & 2 June 2007 TIME: 9.00am-1.00pm MEET: Royal Area Office car-park (ask at the gate) BRING: Sturdy shoes, Long pants and sleeves, hat, sunscreen and Water. Please register with NPWS project...

Mountain Bike Volunteer Program in the Royal National Park (southern Sydney) DATES: 12 May 2007 & 2 June 2007 TIME: 9.00am-1.00pm MEET: Royal Area Office car-park (ask at the gate) BRING: Sturdy shoes, Long pants and sleeves, hat, sunscreen and Water. Please register with NPWS...