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Object of desire? Check. Airbourne Hack? Check. Hard-on? Check. All I need now is a fucking Hack and a Tigersuit.

Gotta love a good JRA story. Here’s one from Ryan, who had a good time riding the Luge MTB trail in Hobart a little while back. Photo after the jump…it’s a good one!

The tale:

a ‘just riding along’ story…
….so i was riding the luge a few weeks ago at the end of a sunday – was pretty fatigued (I’d just been yelling at Karl and Robbie to hand over the chocolate but none was forthcoming) and hit that bit where there’s a steep chute of white bulldust in the saplings and Karl had come off or stopped or something and he was on the side of the track and I just rolled over with weight too far forward or too much front brake, dont know or remember, but took the dive, but its a bit of a drop there so i landed hard. the bike belted Karl in the head so I checked to make sure he was ok then did the visual inspection only to fine this little baby under my left glove (i think its called a compound dislocation of the interphalangeal joint) . off to the Royal for a luxury 3 day retreat.
thanks to: Damian and Ange (ambo’s);
Konrad and Jeremy who tried to put the top back on the bottom in emerg without any luck but lots of vigourous yanking (said a white faced Robbie who witnessed the triage scene: “they were doing things youre not meant to do to a body!” – I was gassing myself silly at the time so wasnt as fussed as you might imagine;
thanks also to Mr Quarmby and the smiling Physios who made it work again.
The bikes fine (on-one with Rohloff – tough as nails); thumb will be ok – they reckon i’ll be predicting the weather; back on bike next week..

If you’ve got a quiet interest in things involving knobby tyres, 700c rims and mud, go and check out the race report for the Dirty Deeds Urban CX race from the weekend. It’s got all of that and more.

To continue with the pro-rider appreciation, we cannot forget this great personality. Yet another big stack this year but Jens Voigt is never one to give up voluntarily. Click the image for some classic Jens gold…

And for the curious, here’s today’s current bike-lust focus. The Nicolai Ion ST. I’ll take one please. Scroll down on this here website and check out the ridiculously sexy orange colour scheme.

I’m a bit of a fan of the ol’ Mountain Bike Race. You know the ones where you have to ride up steep hills and down steep hills on the same bike. The ones that aren’t DH races or XC races, but fall somewhere in the massive space between the two disciplines. The kind of races that test skills and equipment and usually end with lots of dirty people standing around drinking beer and talking shit. The races that are as much about celebrating the fine sport of mountain biking as they are the winning riders.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t actually race ‘em myself, but it’s good to know they’re out there. Stuff like the Downieville, 4Queens & naturally the Mega Avalanche events. We even had the Wellington Super-D in Hobart earlier this year.

Here’s a little video from DirtTV, featuring footage from the latest Mega Avalanche. Enjoy.

Nothing quite like two skinny men in tight lycra trying to have a bit of fisticuffs. Things can get a little heated in the peleton…

A good six months ago I put in an order for the cycling film 24 Solo. It was out of stock at the time so it went on back order. Four months later it hadn’t arrived so I followed it up, only to be told that some muppet had lost the master disc and they couldn’t actually press any more DVDs until they found it. Idiots.

The same people are making the following cycling film, so I’m hoping that no one kooks it this time and I might actually be able to watch it. It looks orright…