[HAMR] Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)

[mattc]

How many days this week has Steve ridden further than Kurt?!?

(we reeeeally need Jo's "Thought of the Day" back !)

Get well soon Kurt. This sort of thing is inevitable, and in December it will just be a small blip on the graph. 

[marcusjb]

Matt is right, hopefully just a small blip, assuming it doesn't turn out to be anything more serious.

Sounds pretty grim though.  Heal soon Kurt!

[barakta]

Eeep, heal well Kurt, look after yourself and hope you're safely back on your bike soon.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Mopeds, viruses... let's hope Miles Smith at least can get through a year without mishap.

[Justin(e)]

Mopeds, viruses... let's hope Miles Smith at least can get through a year without mishap.

It would be a miraculous year to get through it without a virus.  Just one of those things.

I watched some of Kurt's videos.  He seems like a thoroughly good bloke.  I wish him the best.

[Clemo]

Yeah I hope he's better soon

[Mr Larrington]

Mopeds, viruses... let's hope Miles Smith at least can get through a year without mishap.

Australia is full of things that bite and/or think they're Jamie Whincup

[RPhilips]

Taken from Tarzan's facebook "4 easy loops on the river trail as I start to recover - 1/2 way back to full distance day."

He is still recovering so only rode 101 MILES!  This man is a monster.  Pretty much in bed for two days due to horrendous virus and then straight back out to ride 100 miles...

[Ivo]

Taken from Tarzan's facebook "4 easy loops on the river trail as I start to recover - 1/2 way back to full distance day."

He is still recovering so only rode 101 MILES!  This man is a monster.  Pretty much in bed for two days due to horrendous virus and then straight back out to ride 100 miles...

That's the spirit.
During such an event you'll encounter some problems sooner or later. Kurt has them, Steve has them and quite likely Miles will have them. How you cope with them is a very important part of your succes sor failure.

[Climberruss]

Mopeds, viruses... let's hope Miles Smith at least can get through a year without mishap.

Australia = Snakes, spiders, scorpions and a whole host of other things that kill people!!   

[jefmcg]

Mopeds, viruses... let's hope Miles Smith at least can get through a year without mishap.

Australia = Snakes, spiders, scorpions and a whole host of other things that kill people!!   

So you'd think, but the biggest hazard in Melbourne is the European wasp, which doesn't die off over winter so is becoming worse every summer. 

He's at no danger from spiders, snakes, scorpions or drop bears on his chosen route.  And the last shark fatality was 1956 - and you have to be in the water for that.

He has to watch out for bogans in utes though.

[Climberruss]

Mopeds, viruses... let's hope Miles Smith at least can get through a year without mishap.

Australia = Snakes, spiders, scorpions and a whole host of other things that kill people!!   

So you'd think, but the biggest hazard in Melbourne is the European wasp, which doesn't die off over winter so is becoming worse every summer. 

He's at no danger from spiders, snakes, scorpions or drop bears on his chosen route.  And the last shark fatality was 1956 - and you have to be in the water for that.

He has to watch out for bogans in utes though.

Translation required please...
Drop bears?
Bogans?  ( I know what a Ute is1).

Ta.

[Wowbagger]

I think "bogan" is Orstrilian for "chav".

[mrcharly-YHT]

a bogan is a petrolhead who's main form of entertainment is burning out tyres in one way or another. They think cyclists are something to use for testing roo bars.
http://boganmania.com/burnout-king-2013-carnage/

[macnark]

Drop bears can be repelled by smearing vegemite in your armpits, some say,

http://australianmuseum.net.au/drop-bear

[Kim]

Not to be confused with a bogon, which is either an address that isn't supposed to exist on a network, or the fundamental particle of bogosity in quantum bogodynamics.

[Feline]

Bogans are reputed to come from a run down region of NSW near the Bogan river. That has been disputed- but they are generally the equivalent of chavs (uk) or rednecks (US), possibly somewhere between the two. I've met a few when I've spent time in Sydney visiting my sister 

[jefmcg]

Looks like it's all be fairly well answered.   Except "Orstrilian" is the old pronunciation, it's more correctly spelt 'Straylin.

[mcshroom]

I thought they wrote bad poetry and constructed hyperspace bypasses

[Climberruss]

Looks like Kurt's back on it. 201.9 miles yesterday.

[hillbilly]

Good to see.  He seems to get tantalisingly close to the Tommy Godwin average line, and then falls away for whatever reason.  He will hopefully have a good solid spell of increasing distances that will take him to that threshold.

[SoreTween]

Fast recovery.  How hard must it have been to go through the dress up & prepare routine on the worst day?  We all know the feeling on days when you need to stay within sprinting distance of the bog.  Kurt managed it and it may have only yielded 1.1 miles but it avoided a blank row on his spreadsheet.  Damn fine effort.

[mzjo]

Looks like it's all be fairly well answered.   Except "Orstrilian" is the old pronunciation, it's more correctly spelt 'Straylin.

I must be way behind the times 'cos I thought the language was "Strine".

Back to the thread, what language do they speak in Arkansas?

[Mr Larrington]

Well, we wanted to find out why "Kansas" is pronounced "kan-sas" while "Arkansas" is pronounced "ar-kan-saw", so we asked the local Indians. They told us:

• not to call them "Indians", and
• to piss off

So we think they don't know either.

[TimC]

Might have more to do with the French colonisation of that part of USAnia?

Anyway, amazing recovery, Kurt!