i hope PM is watching.
the scenery is great. aerials of france from the helicopter makes the programme very watchable.

The peleton is the main bunch of cyclists. This year its about 190 professional cyclists who seem to be so familiar with their bikes that rider and bike are one. This main bunch move at about 40kph normally, but towards the end, the last ten kilometres, they move at 60 kph. They generate their own wind and come hurdling towards the finish line at such speed that none dare to touch their brakes. In fact this big bunch of pro cyclists, with their self propelling wind tide, keep jostling towards the front and eventually they reach 90 kph on the finish line.

it’s a phenomena of sport – the peleton is worth watching.

justin said:

The peleton is the main bunch of cyclists. This year its about 190 professional cyclists who seem to be so familiar with their bikes that rider and bike are one. This main bunch move at about 40kph normally, but towards the end, the last ten kilometres, they move at 60 kph. They generate their own wind and come hurdling towards the finish line at such speed that none dare to touch their brakes. In fact this big bunch of pro cyclists, with their self propelling wind tide, keep jostling towards the front and eventually they reach 90 kph on the finish line.

it’s a phenomena of sport – the peleton is worth watching.

I’ve done a lot of cycling and it is just a lot of leg pumping for me. though I never get any hills much.. or at least they may seem like hills going up but there is little benefit to coming down off them.

roughbarked said:

justin said:

The peleton is the main bunch of cyclists. This year its about 190 professional cyclists who seem to be so familiar with their bikes that rider and bike are one. This main bunch move at about 40kph normally, but towards the end, the last ten kilometres, they move at 60 kph. They generate their own wind and come hurdling towards the finish line at such speed that none dare to touch their brakes. In fact this big bunch of pro cyclists, with their self propelling wind tide, keep jostling towards the front and eventually they reach 90 kph on the finish line.

it’s a phenomena of sport – the peleton is worth watching.

I’ve done a lot of cycling and it is just a lot of leg pumping for me. though I never get any hills much.. or at least they may seem like hills going up but there is little benefit to coming down off them.

we recently did ‘the reisling trail’ at clare. the trail is an old disused railway line (sleepers and tracks removed). that was fine but when we moved off onto the side trails the hills were killers. …..except we hired the bikes with electric backup motors …and made it home by nightfall – just.

justin said:

roughbarked said:

justin said:

The peleton is the main bunch of cyclists. This year its about 190 professional cyclists who seem to be so familiar with their bikes that rider and bike are one. This main bunch move at about 40kph normally, but towards the end, the last ten kilometres, they move at 60 kph. They generate their own wind and come hurdling towards the finish line at such speed that none dare to touch their brakes. In fact this big bunch of pro cyclists, with their self propelling wind tide, keep jostling towards the front and eventually they reach 90 kph on the finish line.

it’s a phenomena of sport – the peleton is worth watching.

I’ve done a lot of cycling and it is just a lot of leg pumping for me. though I never get any hills much.. or at least they may seem like hills going up but there is little benefit to coming down off them.

we recently did ‘the reisling trail’ at clare. the trail is an old disused railway line (sleepers and tracks removed). that was fine but when we moved off onto the side trails the hills were killers. …..except we hired the bikes with electric backup motors …and made it home by nightfall – just.

I once rode some 625km from Griffith NSW to Berri SA, with two others. One companion cramped up and couldn’t move as we pushed against headwinds gusting up to 80 kmph across the Hay plains. The second companion joind us at Balranald and tried to make up for lost ground, he was in a terrible state of dehydration and cramping by the time we got to Mildura.

Phil Liggett is probably in ‘Who’s who’. He is the commentator of Le Tour and has become the voice of cycling in Australia.
Le Tour de France is a three week long event. The longest lasting single sporting event in the world? So keeping an even paced dialogue interesting for three weeks is no small feat.
Phil does it with apparent ease.

justin said:

Phil Liggett is probably in ‘Who’s who’. He is the commentator of Le Tour and has become the voice of cycling in Australia.
Le Tour de France is a three week long event. The longest lasting single sporting event in the world? So keeping an even paced dialogue interesting for three weeks is no small feat.
Phil does it with apparent ease.

I had a cup o’ tea with Phil once.

pain master said:

justin said:

Phil Liggett is probably in ‘Who’s who’. He is the commentator of Le Tour and has become the voice of cycling in Australia.
Le Tour de France is a three week long event. The longest lasting single sporting event in the world? So keeping an even paced dialogue interesting for three weeks is no small feat.
Phil does it with apparent ease.

I had a cup o’ tea with Phil once.

he’s very english.
apparently he does the usa cycling commentaries as well/

all australia’s hopes sunk – well we did alright but – the poms had a sensational race and now it’s their olympics time as well.

humble pie mumble mumble.

justin said:

all australia’s hopes sunk – well we did alright but – the poms had a sensational race and now it’s their olympics time as well.

humble pie mumble mumble.

Bradley Wiggins looks like he good do with a feed of a pie or two…. Skinny git he is.

pain master said:

justin said:

all australia’s hopes sunk – well we did alright but – the poms had a sensational race and now it’s their olympics time as well.

humble pie mumble mumble.

Bradley Wiggins looks like he good do with a feed of a pie or two…. Skinny git he is.

you’re right – and he could wash it down with a full-bodied shiraz too.

justin said:

pain master said:

justin said:

all australia’s hopes sunk – well we did alright but – the poms had a sensational race and now it’s their olympics time as well.

humble pie mumble mumble.

Bradley Wiggins looks like he good do with a feed of a pie or two…. Skinny git he is.

you’re right – and he could wash it down with a full-bodied shiraz too.

I reckon’ he may have had a glass or champagne to celebrate. He’s got a race of Olympic proportions coming up.

painmaster said:

justin said:

pain master said:

Bradley Wiggins looks like he good do with a feed of a pie or two…. Skinny git he is.

you’re right – and he could wash it down with a full-bodied shiraz too.

I reckon’ he may have had a glass or champagne to celebrate. He’s got a race of Olympic proportions coming up.

yep – 2 days to go.
the gruen mob should be worth watching even if the results aren’t what we hope for.

justin said:

painmaster said:

justin said:

you’re right – and he could wash it down with a full-bodied shiraz too.

I reckon’ he may have had a glass or champagne to celebrate. He’s got a race of Olympic proportions coming up.

yep – 2 days to go.
the gruen mob should be worth watching even if the results aren’t what we hope for.

I missed the Gruens… GF reckons there was some big finale on some cooking show…. pflflflflflll

Anyway, I got some guinea fowl.
6 of the bludgers in a pen. 1 bloke, 5 sheilas. I might let them out in a month or two.
Not a great level of intelligence I must say. Can’t wait to eat an egg. When they breed I will eat the fowl but keep the originals.

Also got a rooster for the retirement village. His name is shagger.
Maybe he will knock some sense into these redundant old chooks. He’s young but he’s keen.
Reminds me of the old joke about the young bull and the old bull!
I actually got him because my neighbour has a small dog that stands at the fence and barks at me.
He got into the chooks and ripped a couple of them last week.
I figure I will keep the rooster until the dog is trained properly.
A 4:00 am friendly reminder each day should help. Heh heh.
Shagger can’t crow real flash yet but he’ll come good!

Got 2 new point of lay younguns as well. And 3 for the old bloke down the road, so he gave me 2 of his boilers. They’re not that old though, so I will get eggs from them. Impatient old bugger he is!

Current totals are.
2 x goats. Female (one is on heat and I found a lipstick on the fence post. Must talk to the other neighbour about that!)
6 x guinea fowl. 1 male. 5 female
13 x chickens. 1 male 12 female
1 sheila.
1 bloke.
As you can see we men are seriously outnumbered.
Reminds me of this forum actually.

Anyway, i have a new sounder in my tinnie and it’;s like watchin a movie of the bottom of the river.
Cheatin really.
Must go slay some piscatorial fiends.
Lukim u olgether!

How did this end up in Le Tour?
Oops! Hijacked.

Longy said:

Anyway, I got some guinea fowl.
6 of the bludgers in a pen. 1 bloke, 5 sheilas. I might let them out in a month or two.
Not a great level of intelligence I must say. Can’t wait to eat an egg. When they breed I will eat the fowl but keep the originals.

Also got a rooster for the retirement village. His name is shagger.
Maybe he will knock some sense into these redundant old chooks. He’s young but he’s keen.
Reminds me of the old joke about the young bull and the old bull!
I actually got him because my neighbour has a small dog that stands at the fence and barks at me.
He got into the chooks and ripped a couple of them last week.
I figure I will keep the rooster until the dog is trained properly.
A 4:00 am friendly reminder each day should help. Heh heh.
Shagger can’t crow real flash yet but he’ll come good!

Got 2 new point of lay younguns as well. And 3 for the old bloke down the road, so he gave me 2 of his boilers. They’re not that old though, so I will get eggs from them. Impatient old bugger he is!

Current totals are.
2 x goats. Female (one is on heat and I found a lipstick on the fence post. Must talk to the other neighbour about that!)
6 x guinea fowl. 1 male. 5 female
13 x chickens. 1 male 12 female
1 sheila.
1 bloke.
As you can see we men are seriously outnumbered.
Reminds me of this forum actually.

Anyway, i have a new sounder in my tinnie and it’;s like watchin a movie of the bottom of the river.
Cheatin really.
Must go slay some piscatorial fiends.
Lukim u olgether!

got quite the menagerie there Longy. I have heard that Guinea Fowl don’t make good sitters so if you want them to breed you might want to foster some eggs out to a chook. Good to hear from you.

bluegreen said:

Longy said:

Anyway, I got some guinea fowl.
6 of the bludgers in a pen. 1 bloke, 5 sheilas. I might let them out in a month or two.
Not a great level of intelligence I must say. Can’t wait to eat an egg. When they breed I will eat the fowl but keep the originals.

Also got a rooster for the retirement village. His name is shagger.
Maybe he will knock some sense into these redundant old chooks. He’s young but he’s keen.
Reminds me of the old joke about the young bull and the old bull!
I actually got him because my neighbour has a small dog that stands at the fence and barks at me.
He got into the chooks and ripped a couple of them last week.
I figure I will keep the rooster until the dog is trained properly.
A 4:00 am friendly reminder each day should help. Heh heh.
Shagger can’t crow real flash yet but he’ll come good!

Got 2 new point of lay younguns as well. And 3 for the old bloke down the road, so he gave me 2 of his boilers. They’re not that old though, so I will get eggs from them. Impatient old bugger he is!

Current totals are.
2 x goats. Female (one is on heat and I found a lipstick on the fence post. Must talk to the other neighbour about that!)
6 x guinea fowl. 1 male. 5 female
13 x chickens. 1 male 12 female
1 sheila.
1 bloke.
As you can see we men are seriously outnumbered.
Reminds me of this forum actually.

Anyway, i have a new sounder in my tinnie and it’;s like watchin a movie of the bottom of the river.
Cheatin really.
Must go slay some piscatorial fiends.
Lukim u olgether!

got quite the menagerie there Longy. I have heard that Guinea Fowl don’t make good sitters so if you want them to breed you might want to foster some eggs out to a chook. Good to hear from you.

Ditto! What BG said.
Don’t G’ fowl prefer roost in high trees? Get a silkie hen if you’re going to hatch and need a great hen to raise ‘em. They’re living incubators, you don’t have to plug them in. Mine tried to hatch a lemon.

Happy Potter said:

bluegreen said:

Longy said:

Anyway, I got some guinea fowl.
6 of the bludgers in a pen. 1 bloke, 5 sheilas. I might let them out in a month or two.
Not a great level of intelligence I must say. Can’t wait to eat an egg. When they breed I will eat the fowl but keep the originals.

Also got a rooster for the retirement village. His name is shagger.
Maybe he will knock some sense into these redundant old chooks. He’s young but he’s keen.
Reminds me of the old joke about the young bull and the old bull!
I actually got him because my neighbour has a small dog that stands at the fence and barks at me.
He got into the chooks and ripped a couple of them last week.
I figure I will keep the rooster until the dog is trained properly.
A 4:00 am friendly reminder each day should help. Heh heh.
Shagger can’t crow real flash yet but he’ll come good!

Got 2 new point of lay younguns as well. And 3 for the old bloke down the road, so he gave me 2 of his boilers. They’re not that old though, so I will get eggs from them. Impatient old bugger he is!

Current totals are.
2 x goats. Female (one is on heat and I found a lipstick on the fence post. Must talk to the other neighbour about that!)
6 x guinea fowl. 1 male. 5 female
13 x chickens. 1 male 12 female
1 sheila.
1 bloke.
As you can see we men are seriously outnumbered.
Reminds me of this forum actually.

Anyway, i have a new sounder in my tinnie and it’;s like watchin a movie of the bottom of the river.
Cheatin really.
Must go slay some piscatorial fiends.
Lukim u olgether!

got quite the menagerie there Longy. I have heard that Guinea Fowl don’t make good sitters so if you want them to breed you might want to foster some eggs out to a chook. Good to hear from you.

Ditto! What BG said.
Don’t G’ fowl prefer roost in high trees? Get a silkie hen if you’re going to hatch and need a great hen to raise ‘em. They’re living incubators, you don’t have to plug them in. Mine tried to hatch a lemon.

My ducks have tried to hatch golf balls….

painmaster said:

justin said:

painmaster said:

I reckon’ he may have had a glass or champagne to celebrate. He’s got a race of Olympic proportions coming up.

yep – 2 days to go.
the gruen mob should be worth watching even if the results aren’t what we hope for.

I missed the Gruens… GF reckons there was some big finale on some cooking show…. pflflflflflll

iview – ‘gruen sweat’.

Also got a rooster for the retirement village. His name is shagger.
Maybe he will knock some sense into these redundant old chooks. He’s young but he’s keen.
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‘shaggy’ !
good name longy

My rooster was nearly beheaded by Puta the other day, but we have worked out that she (Puta) thinks he (Pancho the rooster) is harming the hens when he jumps on them (crook foot and all) so she rushes to protect them…hopefully your Shaggy will have a bit more bite if the dog ventures near…

I am so jealous, I miss my guinea fowl terribly…they used to roost in the doolan tree, about 15 – 20 foot up (got there via the house roof)…they are highly instinctive but can work the oddest things out…great watch animals…BlueGreen is right, guinea fowl make terrible mothers and the chicks (keets) are suicidal, but they do grow out of it…yours should be “homed” after 6 weeks, 8 at the most…you can then let them free range and they’ll come home every night…you might have trouble finding the eggs? I never knew if mine laid eggs or not…shame

What colour are your guinea fowl?

I also meant to say, the guinea fowl will probably train the dog next door for you, I have seen them chase a dog and bite it’s tail…

Dinetta said:

I also meant to say, the guinea fowl will probably train the dog next door for you, I have seen them chase a dog and bite it’s tail…

Cool. Oh and I D!