Blood, Sweat & Timor; wrapping it up
Australian Mountain Bike magazine publish Blood, Sweat & Timor
The guys at Australian Mountain Bike magazine have done an awesome job on the Tour de Timor story which landed on the shelves this week. It covers everything from the guy who started it all, Dr Horta of course, to the race route and plans for the future [...]
Digicel’s Tour de Timor on You Tube
Digicel (www.digicelgroup.com)were the major commercial sponsors of the Tour de Timor.
“Digicel’s goal is to provide our customers with affordable and innovative mobile communications that fosters personal and professional connections between nations and people”
They put this amazing footage of the weeks riding together, enjoy!
First of the race photos uploaded
Photoshop and I have become close friends this week as I’ve been sifting through the rider shots selecting the best ones for posting. It was great to get ahead of the pack on Stage 4 and 5 (thanks Dave White for letting me take off in the dark with just a head torch – I [...]
Rubbing shoulders with a world leader
Here’s a picture of Ivan and I with President Jose Ramos-Horta at the Presidential Palace after our interview in Dili. I’m writing up the 8 questions we asked the 60 year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and I must say for our first interview, Ivan and I did great! We’ll be popping some of the [...]
Fun re-living the Tour
It’s Saturday morning and I just got from the beach and Bacinos coffee shop in Manly. I brought the Bacino boys some Timorese coffee we picked up from Dili which seemed to be a hit!
I’m going through the 600 photos and notes I made on the trip today and putting together some stories together for [...]
Back from Timor-Leste
Wow, what an amazing trip! Ivan and I got back late last night after almost two weeks traveling and racing our bikes around Timor-Leste. I wasn’t able to blog on the actual trip as I was riding as well as media so I will try to get some photos and info up here over the [...]
Touch down in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste
We have only been here one day but so far we have:
Sneaked our way in to a press conference for the Timorese press at the Presidential Palace,
Met the race organisers Michael, Mel, Joel and Shaun,
Built up the bikes
Spent the night in a container.
We are now heading west on our own leaving the UN cotton wool [...]
It’s 1:15am and I can’t believe we’ll be in Timor in 2 days
2 days to go! Flying to Darwin tomorrow night and will be in Dili on Wednesday.
For those not familiar with the Timor story, check out this trailer for a film, Balibo, that came out this week in Australia:
The Australian
EAST Timor president Jose Ramos Horta has given the film Balibo the thumbs up, saying that [...]
AMB Blog Spot
Australian Mountain Bike will be blogging our exploits in Timor-Leste subject to internet access. We’ll try to blog on mushypea and http://australianmountainbike.blogspot.com/ as often as possible with interviews, photographs and try to capture the excitement of the event!!
We’ve packed our fins and snorkels and masks as Timor is rumored to have some of the [...]
Interview confirmed with President José Ramos-Horta
Had a pleasant surprise in my mail inbox today!
Dear Dave,
Your request been approved by the President. We will work the agenda out as you required. Please send us your local’s number once you arrive in Dili.
regards,
Joel Maria Pereira
Office of President RDTL
Dear Dave,
Your request been epproved by the President. We will work the agenda out as [...]
President José Ramos-Horta
This week I’ve been emailing the consulate regarding an interview with Timor-Leste President José Ramos-Horta, the public face of the Tour de Timor. I sent off the official request last week – it’s looking hopeful I can get some time to interview the co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister [...]
Tour de Timor 23-28 August 09
Where is Timor?
What started as a bit of a joke has suddenly become a weird mountain bike race reality. The Knitting Circle, (Alex, Ferg, Ivan and I) will once again unite, this time in East Timor of all places to race the Tour de Timor. It looks nuts and is probably the most stupid thing [...]
