Aligators and Assholes, meeting the Maxaphone.

G'day,


I have arrived back in sunny St.Louis and was welcomed with a good dose of snow. The trip from Sydney was a dream everything went really smooth and we were able to lounge out across vacant seats on the flight from Syd to LA as there was pretty much no one on the flight. I'm writing this at 4.30 in the morning as I'm jet lagged to the hilt.


Last Friday I went to watch Australia v South Africa in the cricket, although the wrong team won it was an awesome day and I got to meet a few childhood heroes namely Doug Walters and Max Walker. Both these dudes were pretty sensational cricketers in their day and both are legendary beer drinkers too which knocks them up a few notches in my books.

The MaxaphoneAll happening at the SCG Switchback in King Edward Park

I now have a month to prepare for the first race of the season which I'm really looking forward to. I have heard only good things about the collegiate road racing scene and we are all good mates on the team so I'm sure its going to blast traveling and racing around the midwest.

Sorry but thats about all I have for the moment.
Cheers, Chev.

Hammin' & Jammin'

“Do you mean sexually, or financially…?” Mick Jager

Crushin it in the heat.

The last few days have been scorching hot here in the Hunter Valley, as such riding has been done either early in the morning or late in the evening, more often than not the later. When I say it's been hot I mean it's been HOT!!! It was 42 Celsius when I went in to the shop to get things for lunch, that's 108 Fahrenheit! So as such I have a lot of time to kill in the middle of the day to kill and have been creeping Youtube pretty hard so I though I would share some of my latest favourites on here.

Anyone that knows me well, knows that I love watching music videos on Youtube and the first vid is a clip from a 15 piece collective out of San Fran called Still Flyin'. As Crades would say "it's heaps noisy", but it's a pretty catchy tune and has been stuck in my head for weeks.

Second video is from Seth McFarlane who is the mind behind Family Guy and American Dad. I love this video because it sums Christianity, and well every other religion, pretty well.

If anyone can tell me what/where this climb is I'll buy them a schooner (Seriously).

Stay cool, literally.

Chev.

Pots or Pints?

Hey all,

Apologies for the lack of updates lately but I have been away from the net for 2 weeks, BUT I do have stories to tell so listen in.

Well it said riders wanted...

On the 30th of December myself, Cliff Lyons and Matt Cammo packed up the old faithful Toyota Kluger and headed on the 1000km journey south to Melbourne for New Years and Bay Crits. Meeting us down there on NYE was Mr. PJL Kilmurray as this is the second year we have gone down for the festivities and racing and is now pretty much tradition.

Yeah...we had some spare time on our hands. Paddy bench pressing Cammo

It was cool to play tourist in Melbourne for a couple of days cementing my notion that it is definitely one of the best cities I have been to in the world. We did the obligatory dinner on the famous Lygon Street, shopped on the ever so trendy Chapel Street and also checked out St.Kilda Beach. Paris Hilton was spotted shopping on Chapel Street the day before we were there so you know it's good. New Years was again a massive blast, I won't digress but I will say we certainly met some interesting characters on the train that night.

Old Tram on Chappel Street.

Bay Crits...Hmmm. As cricket season is full swing down here in Australia I will use a Tony Greig cliche quote to sum up the five days of racing at Bay Crits "hard and fast!!!". It was good training lets just put it that way as I was able to knock up 3-4 hours each day on the bike so I guess it's not all bad.

Last day of Bay Crits

The whole week around Bay Crits its pretty cool as you are always spotting pros out riding or just hanging out in cafes, sometimes this is a bad thing if you read Paddy's blog you will understand. Another cool thing was seeing Rockin' Robbie turn up on that start line of the first stage in a taxi, quickly build his bike then immediately start the race.

I have to say that the whole two weeks have been extremely enjoyable even if I was getting pumped in the races and hours of hard training thanks to having good mates around.

Cammos best surfer pose at Torquay.

After dropping Cammo at the airport I made my way solo up to the town of Bright which is nestled right in the middle of the Victorian Alps for a four day training camp with my coach Aaron and his squad of hyperactive Tri-Athletes. I have been to bright a couple of times now and I think its probably the best place in Aus to train as there is an abundance of climbs and good roads. My legs were super tired after Bay Crits and throw in 2, 30km+ climbs, 100kms of motor pacing and another 12km climb, I was ready for my coffin. But I can be happy knowing that I have started putting a solid base down for the coming road season.

Bryce (aka Bruce, Cron Dog, Koby Abberton) atop of Tawonga Gap

Two weeks today until I go back to the USA, until then it's more of the same: hang with the family,enjoy lots of good food and wine, chill at the beach and maybe a bit of training.

Until next time, take care. Chev.
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