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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
