So... we just ticked over 350 likes on the Facebook page and it got me thinking how ridiculous that is given we're just a bunch of hacks. I went back to our old blog which had it's first post on November 10th, 2010. Almost 3 years later and we're still pretty crap cyclists. Look good but!
My first combine race was the first race of the 2011 season. Pastoria. Our first, and last, D grade race. It also happened to be the first for Fonz, Kent, Dingus Dave, the Cross Boss, Gene, and Watson. Fonz won after the bunch split on the first ascent of Bald Hill with the aforementioned primarily making up the splinter group. We didn't know a great deal about each other at that stage, but shook hands and had a lol after the race.
Now, 3 years on, we're good mates, still racing together, and have collectively eaten about 10,000 Trippy Taco burritos in the gutter next to the shop after HCC crits on many a Wednesday eve. So much so that Kent recently went there in kit and they asked where we've been. I understand his response was: "It's fkn road season, cunce".
We're all still pretty stoked on the cycling scene in Melbourne. We've made a bunch of great mates through racing (except for that James Butler bloke - what a complete and utter gimp), and continue to do so. If you see our kit in the bunch, be sure to say g'day; and if you're thinking of attacking, do it because one of us will almost certainly come with you.
Blakey was at that Combine race taking pics. If ever you overhear us ragging on noobs for low socks or mismatched kit - remind us of these...
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| Pre race lols. |
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| Sam de Bruin didn't pull a turn all day in the break. |
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| Watson - what were you thinking? |
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| U19 Jez. Gene hasn't changed. Nice-kit-Kent. |
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