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  1. I lived at Nth. Ryde in those days. Use to ride to Palm Beach & back every Tuesday & Thursday for training. On Sundays, training could be anywhere. Picton, Katoomba, Bulli. One good thing, there wasn't a lot of traffic. Unlike today.

    When I got really interested in racing, a bike shop at  West Ryde Tollis Cycles built me a road bike with all the good gear. Cost me $200 in today's money. Thank god I had my paper runs to pay for it.

    I later found a guy in Bondi who built  light weight bike frames. All the Pro's use to buy off him. They were great frames so light & strong. Never knew what they were made out of.

    But they worked.

    Cheers.

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  2. Hi All,

    Got a call from my Mates in the East. Snapper are biting.

    Arrived just before low tide. It was cold. Took two rods with me.

    Bit quite to start. Nothing exciting.

    Then the reel took off.  I thought I had a shark on.

    Big Drummer 36cm. Woke me up & spilt my coffee. They fight hard.

    Went quite for a while.

    Caught two nice Snapper. 44 & 46 cm.

    My mates caught four Snapper between them.

    The two rods were a 10'6'' Penn Prevail 2  &  a 10ft.  Abu Garcia 4.0 Veritas

    These are both top rods. I believe the Penn is the better one for rock fishing  ( imo )

    Watsons Bay Pub for breakfast.

    Top morning.

    Cheers.

     

     

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  3. I have owned bikes since day one.

    I joined Northern Suburbs when i was a teenager at school.

    Northern Suburbs was on of the biggest bike clubs in those days along with ST.George & Enfield Burwood.

    I bought a second hand road bike to see how I would go.

    Won a few trophies. I wasn't a world beater. Had lots of fun.

    I built a track bike. Raced at Wiley Park & Henson Park. I wasn't a good sprinter, so I stuck to road racing.

    In those days the gear we used was Campagnolo. Gears, Double chainwheels & quick release hubs.

    Brakes at the time were Weimann.

    Did it for several years. Still have friends today from the Era.

    Great memories

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  4. Gus Gould admitted on the weekend there were problems in the Bulldogs camp. Mainly injuries.

    It took him a long time to get Penrith firing. Time will tell.

    I see Magurie ( ex Tigers ) is with the Raiders. Ricky must have some faith.

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