2014 (845 Vanilla slices worth)

2014 is done, a year of prostituting myself around a little, sharing the bike addiction with many. A quieter year than ones past, absorbing a little more life and r&r than prevoius bike obsessed years. It's been a year of kamikaze cars, dogs, ducks, owls and foxes, the rise of the Renegades and Genesis, the dissapearance of Disco Steve, HBK and Wobbly Trev. There was the Mexican chain incident, a bridge bout on Raftery, and the rise of Wozza, AvantiChris and Tucks.  Rode a Fruitloop, a Tat 100, a GrandFondo and had a 10th birthday for the old faithful. There was plenty of ride variety: 2 with HurtLocker, 3 with Renegades, 3 with Titaniums, 7 with Cats, 10 with the Library lads, 12 with the hospital bunch, 15 with the P&W's, 27 with Goats, 28 Saturday laps, 38 solo Toaster loops and 91 with the Couldabeens. From the minus 2's in mid July to plus 35 in November, southerly winds at 54km/h and northerlys at 35. And we'll be silly enough to do it again next year!

I clocked 14,372 k's, consuming 359,300 calories (845 vanilla slices worth), the bike consumed 6 tyres and 3 chains. Sincere thanks to all fellow riders for their friendship, assistance, drafts and humour, the Couldabeens for pushing my limits and the Goats for their hospitality. Thanks also to the 8000+ readers of this prattling prose throughout the year, particularly the devotees from China, Ukraine, USA, France, Germany, Taiwan, Russia and Poland.

See you next year on the circuit somewhere.......