Morning All.
Had a rotten commuter ride this morning on the run to work through North Sydney and Milsons to the bridge. To the chap in the green shirt that went down near Lavender Miller Sts intersection, I hope your grazing is OK. But then...

On Sunday I had the misfortune of a flooded garage. This was basically caused by all the heavy rain late at night. If you are interested, here is a video of the flooding:

http://youtu.be/K9InRk-oz-w?hd=1

Im trying to get the insurance claim done. Does anyone know anything about water damage to bicycles? The bikes were completely submerged in muddy water overnight, I pulled them out in the morning. (Giant Roam ladies, Commencal Meta 5.2 and a custom built hybrid/racer)

I am a Mountain Bike enthusiast living in the heart of Sydney. So like many in my position it takes at least an hour to get to a good cross country track. Then on the weekend i was riding my roadie in Centenial Park, and i noticed the amount of unused grass around the perimeter of the park and had an epiphany. Why not build a single track around the edge of the park, seperated by a fence to protect both the cyclist and the pedestrians. So here i am trolling all Sydneys bicycling web sites lookingfor support.

Just in case anyone missed the announcement for what events are included this year

http://www.cyclenation.com.au/News/DisplayNewsIt...

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to find riders who went up to the Blue Mountains today and where waiting at Glenbrook station at 6:50am. There was a lot of you there, perhaps even 50 of us?

Hi,

All was set for a ride to Manly dam only to discover my bike has been stolen from my garage. After 6 months off the bike due to injury it was only my second off road ride in many months.

My bike is a Specialized Stumpjumper Expert 2008 Test Bike. It has distinctive light blue test bike colour. The bike has a sticker saying test bike.

I've only ever ridden Wingello for The Fling but am heading down to Kangaroo Valley for the weekend and the bike is coming. Is Wingello somewhere that you'd consider ok to ride solo? Getting around seems pretty easy and I have the supplies but want to make sure that it is not a silly idea. Is anyone thinking of heading to Wingello tomorrow at all?

Hi all, unfortunately tonight something really bad happened to a fellow Mountain Bike rider out on the Perimeter trail. To whomever it was, a whole bunch of us know you're hurt real real bad and we wish you the best recovery possible. If anyone knows the gent, please pass on this message on behalf of the MTB community.
All the best mate - whoever you are.

Penrith City Council has a public exhibition for Shared Paths in the local area. "The Draft Strategy is on public exhibition from 20 January to 29 February, 2012, and written submissions will be received by the undersigned up to the close of business on 29 February, 2012."

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=7532

BIG CHANCE TO FINALLY GET BIKE PATHS IN KU-RING-GAI.... (both Off-Road and on-road)

Please participate in the council's current survey. You know what to do. You can even win cinema tickets....

Ku-ring-gai Bike Plan

The council is working on upgrading and providing new cycleways in Ku-ring-gai to meet the community's needs for the future.

The first step is to prepare a new bike plan. They have engaged consultants to undertake a study of cycling behaviour and opportunities for improvement. Some of the issues the consultants will look at include:

I hope somebody can advise me on this.

I use a Met Kaos helmet bought from Wiggle for mountain bike riding (excellent helmet btw). Anyway, although the helmet is sold in Australia and complies to australian standards my helmet doesn't have the sticker, as it was bought in the UK. Does anybody know how/if I can get an australian standards approved sticker being it's the same helmet sold in our shops?

cheers