First a house rennovation update:
Clear roofing over the deck is on. Bird shit free for now. Also check the great timber which had been hidden behind paint all this time.
The main bathroom and wardrobe has been demolished. We’ve demolished the wall between the wardrobe and bathroom (so stupid putting a wardrobe next to the bathroom in any case as I had a bad mould issue). The bathroom is twice as big now.
New powdercoated aluminium windows to replace all windows on the house.
On Saturday Jamie and Richie got Suga and I tickets to the Sydney Good Food and Wine show.
Suga’s R32 in the carpark. It’s not so clear in this picture, but the R32’s excessive brake dust covers the wheels and is making them look dark brown instead of glossy black. We might have to look into some better brake pads soon.
Hey! Decent food at the Darling Harbour exhibition halls for a change!
Armed with a wine glass each, the wine testing was on and we were all spinning in no time.
Entry included an allocated seat for the Master Chef show, which to be quite honest, was heaps of fun. For these chefs (who are usually behind the scenes) to be so great in front of the camera and on a stage in front of 2000 people, that impressed me, they were hillarious.
Death Star on the harbour.
Despite there being a lot of great food and wine at the show the one thing that impressed Richie and I the most was the beer served up at the James Squire stall (try their Sundown Lager! It’s fruity goodness). So we headed to the James Squire bar/micro-brewery at King Street Wharf for more.
On Saturday night Jing called me up and said a ride was on Sunday morning. Pressure’s good. That’s what mates are for and I needed to work off the alcohol in any case so I set my alarm and got up early on Sunday morning for a ride at Appin.
Clifton at the start.
“Bei”Jing showing us all how to do the China squat right. As usual on rests the gay jokes started flowing.
What Jing would look like on the dancefloor at a rave?
Thanks to Timmy, Cliffy and Jing for waiting up for me at every opportunity. I just didn’t have any energy at all and was feeling the pain 10 miuntes into the ride. The boys pushed me to do a 2nd lap and whilst I went even slower than the first lap I’m glad I did it.
I rode clipped in for the first time ever on the Reign, the Shimano DX pedals are awesome, so easy to clip into and you can actually use them as a platform pedal not clipped in too.
I failed to clip out a few times though on techy stuff and went down 3 times. 2 times were slow falls uphill but one was a little nasty on the way down and I’ve got a bruised up knee but it’s nothing major so… all good! I’m pretty determined to stick with the DX pedals, at least for a while.
