Here is a blog well worth a read. Its about a guy called Eric and his trip to Cairns. He writes very well and you may also be familar with one or two people in his stories.

Check it out at

http://journeytocairns.blogspot.com/2006/07/gympy-and-gympie.html

This Wednesday (26th) we are having our night ride. Leaving the shop at six pm sharp. This is a fast dark ride so bring lights and your reflective clothing. We go to Sandgate and re-fuel at Sonoma's then make our way back to Brisbane CBD. Usually back about eight thirty.

 
Photo ©: James Huang/Cyclingnews

Congratulations to Kimble (our chief mechanic) and Aki on their new arrival. Baby Hannahko was born this morning the 21st July at 9:14am. Good Job Aki !

All your friends at the shop wish to say congratulations on making such a beautiful little girl.

This Saturday 22nd July we are doing the Nudgee loop as part of weekly ride schedule. Please be at the shop for 0630 departure. 276 Petrie tce, Brisbane 4000.
The Nudgee loop is a fun 45klm and relatively flat ride, suitable for most types of road cyclist, average speed of 28-30klm/hr

Stupidly, the race on day six started at a designer fashion outlet centre!!!  I don’t know where the logic behind this one was, but starting a race of 130 women here was just plain cruelty.  To get to the toilets we had to walk past lots of great shoe, bag and clothes shops as well as stores like Versace, Armani, Diesel, Nike and Adidas… Needless to say there was a lot of power shopping done that morning and I’m sure it was a strange site for the other shoppers to see the outlet centre flooded in girls wearing cycle knicks buying up quick.

This is what greeted the Winter Warmer riders early on the Saturday of departure.
Lesser men (+women) would still have been in bed but those who showed knew what the Winter Warmer meant, a stripe on the sleeve that could be worn with with pride for the next twelve months.

We have Livestrong bands in the store right now. We bought a whole lot from the Lance Armstrong Foundation store so they are genuine and support the LAF. We sell these for $5.00 with all profit going to Canteen a charity to help teenagers with cancer. We also post these interstate for the cost of postage. Call or email for details.

This is the road profile for the Winter Warmer. For those of you who ride on our Saturday ride to Samford the hill between the 10-20klm mark is shown as "Samford Range". As you can see the climbs are very tough.

It is 125klm on the Saturday and the same on Sunday, 250klm in two days.

The ride is full for this year but this time next year we will be taking entries.

A few months ago someone told me the world of women’s tour cycling was a circus and I quickly discovered that they weren’t lying with that one! My introduction to the `circus’ was the 17th Giro d’Italia Donne Elite which is the ten day women’s tour of Italy consisting of one prologue and 9 road stages.  Over 10 days 130 women race 894.2 km through Italy, starting from Rome and finishing on the summit of the Madonna del Ghisallo climb in the Como area near Milan.