SMH use mushypea photo
Check this out, Ivan makes the front page of the Online Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)! 20 seconds into the video, we can see Ivan during stage 1 riding along the coast from Dili to Baucau.
If you look carefully around 2 min 40s you’ll see a still shot in the video. Jock Cheetham, a [...]
The Best of British! Peaty takes the Worlds in Canberra!
Sometimes I can get a bit proud to be British, and this is one of those moments. I didn’t even check the World’s results as I thought Sam H would’ve got it, but no, GB’s Mr Peat wrapped it up after 15 yrs and got the gong at 35yrs old! LEGEND
And this interview almost had [...]
Mushypea gets on Track (.org.nz)
Planning on riding in NZ but don’t know where to start? Well check out this cool site documenting the intricate trail network around the north and south island of our neighbours across the pond. This great site dedicated to trails in NZ is using a mushypea (YouTube mu5hype4) video clip to help give an idea [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s all downhill to the Gobi!
With three days rest and make shift repairs done on the back wheel it was time to put those broken spokes to the test and cycle over the top of the Arkhangai mountains to the Gobi some 400 km away.
After 40km two young herders on horseback rode alongside me to the town of Bulgan. We [...]
