A quick (cos it's 1.15am here and I'm creamed!) thankyou to Brian from Ipswich for putting me right on blog settings - you can all talk to me now! Just click on comments at bottom of this post or any of the others.
Just back from Gillman...in Adelaide hotel foyer typing away and off to Mt Gambier for Aussie title decider at 8am this morn so need some shuteye!
Friday, January 12, 2007
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Am I talking to myself?
Don't seem to be many comments received so far - hence the title of this post! Feel free to comment - just click on the "comments" text below!
Off to a dinner at a swanky Sydney hotel tonight - meanwhile it's brekkie time and a Sunday morn fry up!
Off to a dinner at a swanky Sydney hotel tonight - meanwhile it's brekkie time and a Sunday morn fry up!
Friday, January 5, 2007
Two down, three to go!
No I'm not talking about the "bloody ridiculous" Pints of Bundy & Coke mein current host Ron Malm here at Manly Beach is trying to feed me - fairly light on the coke they are trust me! I'm talking about rounds of the Aussie Championship.
After a breathtaking first round at Newcastle is was the new Sydney Showground for the second leg last night (Saturday).
The Showground is within the massive sporting complex built at Homebush for the Sydney Olympics - if you're ever this way do go and look for yourselves because merely describing the complex as "impressive" fails to do it justice! Anyway the Showground is where they staged Baseball and thus the track shape last night can only be described as unconventional! As Ron has said on the Yahoo Group the shape is best desribed as "teardrop"
Ron wrote, "the track was very oddly shaped (as compared to speedway tracks as we know them - Bryn). "It was a credit to the riders that they could negotiate the "sharp" corner at all let alone and speed with four of them trying to get there together!" To add I would say that the "sharp" bend was a very short distance from the starting gate and, as I've said, the track was pretty narrow indeed.
As Ron said in his posting on the Yahoo group, despite the above there was some very good racing indeed with Crumpy absolutely outstanding. He won the A Final re-run by a distance from Leigh Adams, Rory Schlein and Steve Johnston - what a cracking series HE'S had so far - the race being re-run after Rooboy Schleiny got a flier at the first attempt.
Today it's time for a bit of R & R although I'll expect we'll "get into it" later once the thirst builds up and then tomorrow night we're off to a dinner at the Pacific International Hotel at Parramatta being staged to celebrate Crumpy's World Championship success.
Then on Monday yours truly sets out on Tuesday on the 12 to 14 hour roadtrip to Mildura for Wednesday's third round. Just had a look at the long range weather forcast and temperatures of 40C PLUS are being predicted so it's gonna be thirsty work!
Talking of thirst, methinks it's beer o'clock so Cya!
After a breathtaking first round at Newcastle is was the new Sydney Showground for the second leg last night (Saturday).
The Showground is within the massive sporting complex built at Homebush for the Sydney Olympics - if you're ever this way do go and look for yourselves because merely describing the complex as "impressive" fails to do it justice! Anyway the Showground is where they staged Baseball and thus the track shape last night can only be described as unconventional! As Ron has said on the Yahoo Group the shape is best desribed as "teardrop"
Ron wrote, "the track was very oddly shaped (as compared to speedway tracks as we know them - Bryn). "It was a credit to the riders that they could negotiate the "sharp" corner at all let alone and speed with four of them trying to get there together!" To add I would say that the "sharp" bend was a very short distance from the starting gate and, as I've said, the track was pretty narrow indeed.
As Ron said in his posting on the Yahoo group, despite the above there was some very good racing indeed with Crumpy absolutely outstanding. He won the A Final re-run by a distance from Leigh Adams, Rory Schlein and Steve Johnston - what a cracking series HE'S had so far - the race being re-run after Rooboy Schleiny got a flier at the first attempt.
Today it's time for a bit of R & R although I'll expect we'll "get into it" later once the thirst builds up and then tomorrow night we're off to a dinner at the Pacific International Hotel at Parramatta being staged to celebrate Crumpy's World Championship success.
Then on Monday yours truly sets out on Tuesday on the 12 to 14 hour roadtrip to Mildura for Wednesday's third round. Just had a look at the long range weather forcast and temperatures of 40C PLUS are being predicted so it's gonna be thirsty work!
Talking of thirst, methinks it's beer o'clock so Cya!
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Shots 'n Ladders is a deadly game!
Tis the morn of the second round of the Australian Championship here in Sydney, the Poms duly lost the test match thus losing the series 5-0 and yours truly is having trouble getting his eyes to focus!
To say it was a bit of a "heavy" day yesterday would be the understatement of the 21st century! Started with Sir Ronald's "special" coffees and ended with us playing several games of Shots n Ladders. What's that I hear you ask! Well snakes and ladders basically BUT when landing on certain squares one is required to down a shot of the strong stuff AND, if landing on other certain squares, everyone playing the game is required to down a shot of the strong stuff.
We demolished a bottle of Polish Raspberry flavoured Vodka for starters, a bottle of a rather tasty hazelnut liquer and finished on the Bundy - hence my eyes having difficulty focussing! Hardly surprising.
Just had a shower, hope that does the trick as we're off to the meeting shortly. Will update with news of that later today if I'm sober, tomorrow if not - more like the latter I would say!
To say it was a bit of a "heavy" day yesterday would be the understatement of the 21st century! Started with Sir Ronald's "special" coffees and ended with us playing several games of Shots n Ladders. What's that I hear you ask! Well snakes and ladders basically BUT when landing on certain squares one is required to down a shot of the strong stuff AND, if landing on other certain squares, everyone playing the game is required to down a shot of the strong stuff.
We demolished a bottle of Polish Raspberry flavoured Vodka for starters, a bottle of a rather tasty hazelnut liquer and finished on the Bundy - hence my eyes having difficulty focussing! Hardly surprising.
Just had a shower, hope that does the trick as we're off to the meeting shortly. Will update with news of that later today if I'm sober, tomorrow if not - more like the latter I would say!
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
WE'RE ON THE COFFEE THIS MORN!
Tis Thursday Lunchtime and mein host Ron Malm, Sir Lunchalot of BSF fame and yours truly have been drinking coffee all morning believe it or not!
Yep Ron's "special" coffee, the first of which appeared to have slightly more Bundy than coffee - hence the term "special!"
Now reverted to beer for a while (we've temporarily run out of Bundy until Ron's better half Shona brings some back from the shops!)
Having a Barby by the pool this afternoon and us well as Ron, Lunchy and myself, Gavin Elmes from the Gold Coast has now arrived and shortly Sharon Grundy (moderator of the yahoo speedway list) and her mates should arrive - providing they don't get lost!
Blimey there's a lot of Poms out here for the speedway what with Sharon, Tony Jackson (the new Workington manager), Mike Patrick, Randy Owen (from Leigh's sponsors Owen Bros) and Matt Ford all out here.
They, and yours truly, were at the Newcastle Showground last night for the first round of the Aussie Champs and believe me when I say racing there is fast (extremely!) and spectacular.
First time I've seen a rider beaten because of "crutch problems" but that's what happened to World Champ Jason Crump in his first ride. Wearing new Kevlars he caught them on his saddle as he gated second behind Rory Schlein and "split them in a place where you don't wanna 'em to slit" to use Jason's own words!
That was the only defeat of the night though that Jason suffered but also suffering were Schlein whose bike died in the final whilst second and Leigh Adams, on his new GMs, who had something of a nightmare with a chain break another ef and only made the "B" final which at least he won.
Surprise packages were:
A) Youngster Tom Hedley who rode extremely well to reach and finish third behind Adams and Holder in the "B' final and
B) Johno who proved there's life in the old dog by producing some breathtaking passing manoevres throughout the meeting and desrvedly finished runner up to Crumpie in the "A" final after Rory Sclein's Ef passing third place Scott Nicholls in the run to the chequered flag.
Right enough from me, it's beer o'clock!
Yep Ron's "special" coffee, the first of which appeared to have slightly more Bundy than coffee - hence the term "special!"
Now reverted to beer for a while (we've temporarily run out of Bundy until Ron's better half Shona brings some back from the shops!)
Having a Barby by the pool this afternoon and us well as Ron, Lunchy and myself, Gavin Elmes from the Gold Coast has now arrived and shortly Sharon Grundy (moderator of the yahoo speedway list) and her mates should arrive - providing they don't get lost!
Blimey there's a lot of Poms out here for the speedway what with Sharon, Tony Jackson (the new Workington manager), Mike Patrick, Randy Owen (from Leigh's sponsors Owen Bros) and Matt Ford all out here.
They, and yours truly, were at the Newcastle Showground last night for the first round of the Aussie Champs and believe me when I say racing there is fast (extremely!) and spectacular.
First time I've seen a rider beaten because of "crutch problems" but that's what happened to World Champ Jason Crump in his first ride. Wearing new Kevlars he caught them on his saddle as he gated second behind Rory Schlein and "split them in a place where you don't wanna 'em to slit" to use Jason's own words!
That was the only defeat of the night though that Jason suffered but also suffering were Schlein whose bike died in the final whilst second and Leigh Adams, on his new GMs, who had something of a nightmare with a chain break another ef and only made the "B" final which at least he won.
Surprise packages were:
A) Youngster Tom Hedley who rode extremely well to reach and finish third behind Adams and Holder in the "B' final and
B) Johno who proved there's life in the old dog by producing some breathtaking passing manoevres throughout the meeting and desrvedly finished runner up to Crumpie in the "A" final after Rory Sclein's Ef passing third place Scott Nicholls in the run to the chequered flag.
Right enough from me, it's beer o'clock!
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