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melburn-roobaix (the hell of the northcote)

So, Saturday was the inaugural Melburn-Roobaix.

MELBURN-ROOBAIX. An idea for a regular alleycat evolved into one of Melbourne’s biggest and best underground cycling events.

Over 100 riders rode all over Melburn in search of checkpoints tucked away in the roughest corners of each suburb, riding rough pave, dirt roads, traversing stairs, crossing railways, and carrying supplies.

When they were done, their musettes full, they rode a final lap of glory around Brunswick Velodrome.

Beautiful weather, lots of fun :)

Here’s a few of the Abbotsford cycling folks hanging out in the velodrome, post-race. Doesn’t seem like winter at all.

 
The event photos are up too – you can see us lurking in the backgrounds (and foregrounds) of a few photos.

Today, rain started bucketing down. Luckily, not until after we’d finished riding the Yarra single trails. Where I managed to crash and land on my head. Just a little bit. My bike decided to stop for some reason, and as there was no prior agreement about this, I went off over the handlebars.

5 replies on “melburn-roobaix (the hell of the northcote)”

Yeah… I think I have mild concussion too. And I need to get a new helmet – my old one is so battered that I couldn’t tell if it had received a new dent or not. But that will have to wait until I do the dreadlock chop – which should be soon.

Full-face helmet time maybe? If it’s $$ putting you off a new helmet please go visit K-Mart ASAP and buy a helmet there. They’re still standards approved, often made by decent name brand manufacturers and they cost ~$30 – they just don’t look too shmick. (End lecture.)

Tell us more about the Roobaix – it sounds rad. So many retro jerseys. We have the BureauCat Race tomorrow evening, which might be fun, especially if it’s not raining still – like it has for the last farken fortnight. (Who says it doesn’t rain in Canberra?) http://the-riotact.com/?p=2901

Someone pls lend me Red Light Go – http://www.redlightgo.ws/

Well, a full face helmet wouldn’t have helped here – and it really wasn’t a fast or spectacular crash, I was rolling along pretty slowly by the Yarra (as there were a few walkers and kids bike riding on the path) and then there were tree roots, and then I was on the ground. Hit the crown of my head if anything.

And the main reason I was putting off buying a helmet was that in a few weeks more I was going to buy a really good one… mmm… maybe I should visit KMart. Or borrow something… my old helmet really is looking a bit disreputable now.

GET A HELMUT NIECE!!!!!!!
i DO NOT WANT TO LOOK AFTER YOU!!!! WITH YOUR BRAIN OOZING OUT YOUR NOSE

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