Calendar Event: August 17, 2008

Simon Kennett Describes The Great Divide Race

Postby sifter on Thu 7/Aug/08 4:56pm

Simon Kennett will be holding a talk and slide show in which he will describe his experience in the Great Divide Race.

It will be at Rongotai College's Library, at 2pm, on Sunday 17 August. Simon will also be auctioning off his GDR bike, and a few other bits and pieces. I'll try to get a confirmed list of things asap.

Rongotai College is on Coutts Street, about half way between Burkes Cycles and Rocket Bikes. The school library will be signposted from the main entrance.

Feel free to submit specific questions of interest, in this thread. Then, Simon can make sure he covers all the interesting stuff!
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Postby benw on Thu 7/Aug/08 9:24pm

Did the DBR cycle pants make it back to NZ???? I hope they will be up for auction :thumbsup:
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Postby Oli on Thu 7/Aug/08 11:24pm

I can't wait for this! :0
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Postby ryda on Wed 13/Aug/08 3:24pm

I just read how early in the day this is :hmmm:
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Postby Monolith on Wed 13/Aug/08 3:33pm

Will you still be in bed darling?
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Postby way_downsouth on Wed 13/Aug/08 3:33pm

:pmob: It's going to be cool, locked in and ready to go (and conveniently I can go to PaknSave after).
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Postby jo on Wed 13/Aug/08 3:38pm

I wish I could make it. :huh: I really enjoyed the talk he gave before the race. :)
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Postby psychavoc on Wed 13/Aug/08 4:19pm

Sunday is beginning to look mighty busy! PNP social ride in the morning, meeting friends for brunch at 11:30am in town, then off to Rongotai to hear Simon speak! :)
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Postby sifter on Fri 15/Aug/08 11:46am

I'm really looking forward to this :)
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Postby sifter on Sun 17/Aug/08 9:49am

Hopefully see some of you this afternoon!
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Postby psychavoc on Sun 17/Aug/08 11:31am

I'm going to sift into town on my roadie, browse some shops, then head to Rongotai :thumbsup: Then maybe head back via the Miramar/Bays part of the BP race next week :paranoid: (depends on how shattered my legs feel :huh:).
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Postby Monolith on Sun 17/Aug/08 6:57pm

That was excellent. :thumbsup:

Very interesting to hear the photos described, and the little anecdotal stuff from along the adventure.

Awesome to see the auction was fairly successful and involved plenty of good humour :D
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Postby psychavoc on Sun 17/Aug/08 7:17pm

Yeah, great talk and good to get a bit more of a feel about what the race was like :) Reading the blogs and looking at photos can only tell you so much of the story!
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Postby Oli on Sun 17/Aug/08 7:25pm

Good stuff! A pity there weren't more people there for the auction part of it, though I'm sure the unsold gear will sell for good $$$ in the end...
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