"A babe" says Matt
OK I finally got a response form someone after posting my bike with various people 'Holding' it. So mat this here is Megan that you asked about.

Matt, She is no longer single so your to slow my friend.

however she was cool when I told her about how much you like her shots. So here is some more for you.

There has been a lot of info in the media about bikes... They out sold cars Again and then infrastructure debate is revving up and people are getting their old rattlers out of the garage and riding to work... Petrol is cheaper and still the bikes come out. GOOD ISN'T IT?

Here is my favorite photo subject matter .. My Bike.
Hope you enjoy the pics.

I know MATT is a follower of my pics of my bike, and these are for you.

Beatrice (left) is a French Teacher in Singapore, she is really a groovy chicka. An amazing smile and a very smart conversationalist. and very high NATURAL BEAUTY level.


Hanna (right) From Perth was just sick of sitting on the bus that broke down just near Federation way. Behind those glasses is an very amazing set of eyes. Very defined and brown.

The Harrajuku impressionist is also from Perth and on holidays with a guy from Perth. I have forgotten her name but when I spoke to them I asked about the outfit. She told me there is group of us (them) in Perth who get about like they Belong at the HARAJUKU GATE. Its called COSPLAY and that COSPLAY is what inspires them. HOW COOL!

(link to someone elses blog and amazingly the pictures are similar to my travel blog wrird huh?)

Riding about the CBD and inner west and inner east has been a real different vibe this week. It feels sleepy like Sundays but all the shops are open and the ties are at their desks.

I reckon we have 2 weeks till we know if we need to stock up on Baked Beans and Water and the banks wont open OR everything will be OK.

Finally and without DELAY the last two images are MEGAN. Megan rides a beautiful road bike and likes to ride with the guys. Recently She has become single and If there are any good guys out there who wanna date... hmmm I take bribes.

Megan works in the shop on some weekends and likes a chat about not girls stuff.

Wishing you all the best for the new year

Danger YOGI, DANGER.

Yellowstone National Park .... is a hive of activity in regards to earthquakes at the moment. The park features many hot spings and the like so it is in an "alive volcanic System"

more info here http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=azcy5X_UMhoo&refer=us

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my fellow blogger and I wish you all the best and well wishes. Yeah I know that is kinda soft but really. I don't pretend to be tough (after all I am (haha hehe hoho)).

Also doom and gloom to my favorite photographic icon. My Bike. Although it is fixable I managed to sheer off the head of the SkidStars Bottom Braket bolt (or crank bolt).

I was riding along and thougfht my pedal was comming off as it felt kinda wobbly. When I looked down and aexected my pedal to come off. I noticed that the wobble was also including my chain ring and crank. I took my foot out of the cleat and pushed my crank and the chainring back onto the square taper.

Of course I thought I had just lost a bolt so offto the bike shop I hobbled where I found Julian P and he noticed that the bolt was still inside there.

Easy fix, new bottom bracket... DAMN I hate walking home.

Santa brought my son a new few pieces of track for his wooden THOMAS SET. So here are some tips for youjng players who wanna make their kids happy with TRACKS and such.

It is so much cheaper to get no name "bulk" track and a few unique items like "T junction", "bumpy track" and "wobbly track" I think I saved a heap of cashish on buying this way possibly a 66% saving. But be warned The cheapest matching IKEA track with bridge will not let regular THOMAS TRAINS and ENGINES under as it is about 1 or 2 millimeters to low

forum from mums and dads (less dads) on what trains sets do you use?
http://forums.naturalparenting.com.au/crafts-hobbies/29289-what-train-sets-do-you-your-kids-use-2.html

Matching track is BIRO, and IKEA and of course THOMAS

the island of Axel

AT&T are headed to release the OS SYMBIAN for its handsets. (if your asking about Australia "WHO CARES".. until anything happens here and it won't its best to keep an eye on what is really happening in the werld of telecommunications).
A possible slap in the face to the number of IPhones using the Apple and perhaps a competitor to Googles Android that was released as open source a few months ago. Will Apple release it's IPone platform to the public giving it a much needed user side.

Symbian has been used for some time on a variety of popular international phones, including Nokia's own S60 line and phones from Sony Ericsson. With this acquisition of the entire platform, though, Nokia plans to open source Symbian, making it a much more service-agnostic choice for AT&T versus Android, Google's open source mobile phone OS. Android had developmental help from a variety of hardware manufacturers like Samsung, HTC, and LG, and already offers advanced functionality like the application marketplace. But Google's OS has been criticized by some carriers and manufacturers as being too Google-centric, tying too closely into services like Gmail and Google contact syncing.

Also

Nokia responds to the projected drop in handset demand by effectively ceasing its efforts to penetrate the Japanese market... or, rather, what's left of the Japanese market.

Windows Mobile has become 42.9 % more popular.

meanwhile my son wants to play flash games fro the nickelodeon site and forces me off the computer. I am considering buying him a glorified communication device in the form of an eeePC. I can buy one locally for about 50 to 700 bucks , powered by possibly the better CPU in current release the ATOM from Intel. They are WiFi ready , have bluetooth but somehow miss the 3G connection to get on the phone line. many of them have web cams and so this makes them ready for SKYPE or social networking.. If your a geek and your not up to speed on this ... Your not a geek.

I went to a handfull of local mobile phone providers of hardware and service and of the approximately 20 service staff that claim to know something only ONE of them knew of ANDROID in any form. ... what is ANDROID? i t is an open source mobile phone opperating system. And there are LOTS of apps being made for it every day.

So is the mobile phone becoming a multi media device or is the multimedia device becoming super portable?

I have become addicted to the BLOOD series of mini games on facebook. It has basically cured me of a long passion I have with RPG genre. I used to spend hours killing trolls and shadow warriors and the like in EverQuest and everquest 2 then I went to AoC and even tried WoW. but was soo pissed off that they claim that they cant do stuff cause it resembles real life then around christmass you find snowball and candy canes to waste slots in your inventory. Did it make me mad. Yes , especially when they are the reason why they did not do stuff cause it was to REAL LIFE. the ad Christmas trees (only cause they are so NOT real life... what crap is that?).

Celibrating real life holliday occasions and events in a fantasy game is just trying to butter both sides of your bread... but where do you hold on to it without getting butter on your fingers?

Second Life is dead (not quite)..... I tried it 2 times and both times it was a waste of my time. The learning curve was steep but its flaw was also one of its charms. the fact that there was Telstra badges on my start up location was almost like having cops standing in the corners at a rave... it just does not work. especially when like in WoW, the more experienced users "grief" the noobs, so do the older users of secondlife dish out how basic you are in your 2nd hour... makes the whole thing a waste of time and unfriendly..... perhaps if I could just find an OS server instead of the telstra one.

Griefers are bullies .. end of story.

Star Wars: the old republic is being taken on by BioWare... this has surly have to be a good thing

Death Penalty ....


not the real life one but when your CHAR DIES... here is a mouthfull of crap we dont need explained about EVE. Eve is a great game but seriously it get really booring if you do one to many missions... I was in a bunch of great corporations (guilds) but now that my last one has disbanded im bored... VERY bored.. oh was that MY Account that lapsed.. im sorry... but my muninn and broadsword sits in a proverbial black home until i bother to re start my account.
I have been having the hardest time finding a pice of space that was right for me.... I just became bored... the most exciting thing to happen was a vlob of reds not see me as I was on the gate they came through... must have been a blob of about 130 ships or so.... exciting but no one was close enough to "de cloak" me.

Also I find the idea of having to pre-book for fleet battle 2 things.
firstly its a cry for help to secure the diminishing nuber of seats required to actually have a fleet.
and secondly it takes away the impromptu of the MMO. I play MMO cause there is a certain level of randomness.. In my life at the moment somethings I cant BOOK to fight... I must fight now or l just log off.

Although I am quite tired of EVE it has one thing that is great... ONE SERVER... this ONE server model is great.. cause all your frinds and enemies will eventually log on to the same server.

found this .. interesting but it not me.. this might be...
http://www.massively.com/2008/07/21/eve-evolved-suicide-ganking-investigated/


I am an avid hater of WOW. I hate the kids and I hate the rubbish that you need to put up with.. I hate competing egos over coffee and I hate the fact that it takes an idiot to play the game. Once upon a time before class leveling MMO games where actually fun because you needed a wizard or you needed a priest or you needed a warrior... now its all leveled. WOW is leveled, EverQuest is definately class leveled and it was even wound back to make it easy for people who don't want to read the maual or think its to hard for a druid to fight past a gate... get a life.. its a game... wait for someone to help you.. not just complain. Wow won the MMO game between itself and everquest by making the system requirements to be LOW as opposed to the uber machine required to play EverQuest. Essentially the games are more similar now than when they where conceived. Wow is better hands down but it still looks like a cartoon whilst everquest is truly imersive.

Age Of Conan has come between them to give easy game play, quick leveling and a variety of leveled classes and a cool char generation. I have stope playing lady characters and now only play men. I was lucky in AoC as it was true (since fixed) that female chars did not hit as hard... War Hammer is now the flavour of the month.

Bamboo Bike


Bamboo!!

Wow, I have heard of this stuff before but slowly I an getting more interested.
Not sure about these bars though. Not aware of any Tracks locally that will let me ride like that. CUSTOMS might stop me too. http://www.calfeedesign.com/singlespeed.htm



Built by Warren Von Botbyl. Warren's been building furniture for about ten years now and had some oak leftover from his last piece. http://www.bikeforest.com/homebuild17.php

pretty impressive and definably unique. There are a few other bikes like that on the site too. The

I also found a blog by Nick Frey. I did not really look to deeply into other pages of it but this page was hoot. They built a Bamboo prototype fixie and it seems to work ok.. apparently, I might be understating . check it out here