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Mia Freedman hates on Cadel Evans

Not that I ever watch the Today Show, nor have I heard of Mia Freedman, but yesterday morning I was made aware of someone on national television bashing on Cadel’s victory at the Tour de France.

Immediately after the video (in rage) I commented on the YouTube page. Unfortunately I resorted to calling her names (an idiot) and over the course of the day, despite the thousands of hate messages Mia has received over twitter, on her blog and on YouTube, my comment was given the thumbs up by others and it’s now “stickied” and highlighted at the top of the video page.

I spent a lot of yesterday spreading the video footage as much as I could through my network (facebook, twitter, blogs and forums). I’m still mad, maybe I’m looking for an apology? Whilst her opinion is valid and worthy of discussion the timing of it is awful and the way she delivered her opinion stinks. Either way I think she’s stuffed up, hit a lot of nerves and made more enemies than fans and I doubt that all the advertising revenue she’s gotten from the traffic to her banner filled web site would suffice for all the abuse that’s been directed directly at her.

I’ve failed to read all the responses on her blog, and various other media but this morning Bridie O’Donnell, a professional cyclist and doctor responded with a well thought out open letter worth reading.

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Riddle Me That Alleycat


Jarod‘s Casserole.


Nat’s Chumba. Skillzors, he was popping some mads tricks on this thing.


Nick’s bike.


Andy‘s Cinelli Mash.


Andy.


Felix was my checkpoint partner and we were in charge of giving out these riddles to riders when they rocked up to our checkpoint (which was the Opera House).


My 1st spoke card!


BMU sponsored the event (I gave 5 x T’s and sticker packs), so too Cycling Express (a $100 voucher).


Andy. After us checkpointers got our briefing we snuck in a pie face session.


When we got back to the starting point the serious dude were ready to rock.


My Reign and Felix’s CAAD. Felix and I headed straight for the Opera House, and played the waiting game.


In what seemed like no time at all a horde of riders came blasting down the hill, all lights blazing, zipping through the Opera House show goers and all of a sudden we didn’t have enough hands to hand out the riddles. 3 guys went down in all the excitement, these guys were so competitive we didn’t even get as much as a “hi” from most of them!

Security hammered Felix and I after they all left, we decided to move the checkpoint closer to the road so that show goers and tourists weren’t in harms way from psycho cyclists!


At 9PM we called it a night and headed to the finish point. With almost 60 riders, it was a great sight to see.


Wasted people in cabs on the way to the cross were yelling all sorts of foul crap, typical Sydney weekend!


Another rare Paino! A bit older than my one.


The guy who owned the Paino came first!


The Cycling Express voucher was given to dead last!


First girl winner won some great gear (candy cranks chainring drew some envy!).


Alex (aka Lorday) had some extra prizes to give away to the first 2 people who jumped in and rode across the fountain haha.

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BMU Jersey Group Buy #3


Back in black.

An executive decision has been made, and the new Bikes Move Us jersey design is now BLACK. Price is $77AUD. If you’re after one, put your name down on the list here.

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Hanging out with Jordan


Bulmers with ice at the Argyl.


Tapas treats.


Jordan shooting AP’s R32 Golf.


The QSR bike was towed by this hummer with crazy huge wheels.


QSR bike.


Fat!


Jordan at work.


QSR’s Million Dollar Drag Car. There’s so much gold plating in the engine bay, you have to see it to believe it.

Jordan‘s about to leave to go back home to the states so we thought we’d hang out. He had a couple of shoots to do today. One was Anthony’s Golf R32 which has a twin turbo R36 engine swap, the other shoot was the Queen Street Racing Million Dollar Drag Car and matching bike.

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INfront VR05 @ Melbourne – Day 2


Andrew, Christina and I rolled out of bed late and hit Atomica on Brunswick.


I had the El Gringo Eggs, what you can’t see buried under all that badass goodness was a huge smoked potato rosti, so so so good.


Spotted on Brunswick. About as cool as a postie bike can get.


We headed to my hotel for lunch with Jeremy as well as Toby and Pete.


Jeremy smashed (skulled!) 2 coffee’s in a row.


Jeremy’s electronic cigarette.


Lightning bolt straw. Many more beers than intended were consumed. Was just so nice up on the roof top, time flew by.


Psycho bike spotted on the way back to the apartments.


I’ve got a thing for macarons now, can’t resist them.


Later that night we checked out Naked For Satan.


The interior and graphic design is whack. Love it.


Loved their food concept too. An honesty based system where you just keep your toothpicks and pay $2/toothpick at the end of the night.

Despite the absolutely freezing cold, we had a great time in Melbourne. I’m crazy tired, and I feel very dehydrated from all the beer (and lack of water!), also bloated from all the fantastic food. No stopping though. Steve’s B’day dinner at Rengaya in 20 minutes, time to jet!

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INfront VR05 @ Melbourne – Day 1


INfront put us up at the Tyrian serviced apartments on Johnston St. in Fitzroy, right in the middle of all the action, only a short walk away from The Compound Interest too.


The apartments were very nice, very new.


We headed down to The Compound Interest to start setting up the exhibit. I stopped in my tracks when I saw this outside.


1973 Honda CB350 Twin. What a beauty.


Modern Motor Cycle Company operates from The Compound Interest.


More bikes inside.


Myself and Damien. After I was done gawking at the bikes, we got started setting up.


The “woman” posters we had pinned up around Melbourne thanks to many helping hands.


Sonny from We Buy Your Kids, Zann and Damien setting up the prints.


Sonny, Biddy and Andrew did an awesome job with laying out the top 20 on show.


Jeremy’s pup!


The sponsors who helped to make our show happen.


Tiger Beer were our beers sponsors!


We were so busy setting up we skipped lunch, at 2.30PM Lorena saved us all with some awesome toasted sandwiches from CIBI next door.


Next thing we knew it was 6PM and on the dot people started rocking up to check out the show.


We were lucky to have Simon Winkler from RRR busting out great tunes for the night.


Our bar guy Menake had a mad rush from 6-7PM.


We were all happy with the great turnout, it was a huge space to fill!


Unfortunately at 7PM all the beer had run out!


At 8PM we called it a night and hot a local pub.


Damien, Alicia and Lorena.


Pie + peas + mash. Absolutely smashed it.


Andrew from Kindred was our room mate, great guy to hang out with for sure.


Yes it’s been said before, Melbourne Graff kicks Sydney graff, hard.

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Cycling Express goes live

For the past 2 weeks I’ve been working on launching Cycling Express, a new Australian owned and run online cycling shop which price matches the 2 largest cycling online shops in the world. Chain Reaction Cycles and Wiggle.

I’ve managed to get the industry talking and I’ve heard some crazy rumours through the grape vine (one mob are spreading rumours that the company is owned by the latter day saints?!). The Cycling Express Facebook page almost hit 1000 likes, the page itself has had over 42,000 impressions. The blog is geting over 600 unique vistors a day. All in all I’m really happy with my performance, the guys at Cycling Express are too.

The shop has just gone live 10 minutes ago. If you’re after a bicycle, or bike parts, then there’s nowhere in Australia cheaper, not to mention you get local warranty and fast delivery too.

Visit: http://www.cyclingexpress.com

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Easy laps @ Centennial Park


Suga’s Giant + Paino.

Sun is out, bit windy, and chilly but a mid week ride at Centennial Park is always nice (even if there were a couple of tosser Sydney drivers going twice the designated speed limit in there).

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Cycling Express $200 Facebook Giveaway


Photo: Top model and professional athlete, Jenny Fletcher for BMC Bikes.

Those who know me, also know I’m a lover of everything 2 wheels. I’ve just started working for Cycling Express, an Australian online cycling shop that has the balls to take on and price match the 2 largest and cheapest online bike shops in the world. Wiggle and Chain Reaction Cycles of the UK.

I’ve convinced the guys to do a pre-launch and give away a $200 gift voucher to spend in the upcoming Cycling Express online store (should be later this month if everything goes to plan!). Open to Australian residents only, all you have to do to go into the draw to win is “Like” the Cycling Express Facebook Page.

Cycling Express Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cycling-Express/170320129694838

Spread the word (I’d appreciate it). Winner will be drawn 1st of July!

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BMU on MCC

Just spotted this photo I took at the BMU bike night at MCC on MCC’s home page! Visit: http://www.mccyclery.com.au

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