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CM 30/6/06: Lizzie flies flag for pedal power
On the front page of todays Courier Mail:
After circumnavigating Australia I wouldn't have thought the bar ends would still point skyward and the tyres still knobbies, but good on her. http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/s...99-952,00.html Text: ---- Lizzie flies flag for pedal power June 29, 2006 LIZZIE Ferstl is on a mission, on a red mountain bike pedalling steady, to join up the last dots on her map of Australia. "Some might think I'm a nutcase," grins the 67-year-old Victorian grandmother. "But I'm on a mission." Lizzie discovered the joys of long-distance biking some six years ago. Her doctor recommended cycling to help combat arthritis but may not have meant three-month cycle expeditions each year, including one tough run from Cairns to the tip of Cape York. "Now that was hard yakka," she said. This time around Lizzie is again cycling north, heading out of Ayr yesterday morning on her heart-worn highway from Brisbane to Cairns. She will return to Townsville on the bus, then get back on her bike for the haul from Townsville to Darwin, maybe making 70km a day. "When I get to the Three Ways (on the Northern Territory's Stuart Highway) I'll have circumnavigated Australia, joined the dots this trip," Lizzie says. "But anyone can do this, once you do get your mind around the idea." Lizzie tows around 30kg of gear, and bush camps rough from time to time. Top speed is about 50km/h - downhill. Back home, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, husband Josef waits with patience. "He doesn't worry anymore. I get back and he says 'how was it' and I say 'good' and that's the end of it. "But you would not believe the things I see. People haven't got a clue what they're passing every day," she says. ---- |
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CM 30/6/06: Lizzie flies flag for pedal power
Andrew Wrote: On the front page of todays Courier Mail: After circumnavigating Australia I wouldn't have thought the bar ends would still point skyward and the tyres still knobbies, but good on her. http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/s...99-952,00.html Damn good story, especially after that 'Hinchcliffe palavar' (http://www.woj.com.au/HinchcliffeTorqueFeb06.pdf) from a few months ago. Onya Lizzie! -- cfsmtb |
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CM 30/6/06: Lizzie flies flag for pedal power
Andrew Wrote: On the front page of todays Courier Mail: After circumnavigating Australia I wouldn't have thought the bar ends would still point skyward and the tyres still knobbies, but good on her. http://www.couriermail.news.com.au/s...99-952,00.html Text: ---- Lizzie flies flag for pedal power June 29, 2006 LIZZIE Ferstl is on a mission, on a red mountain bike pedalling steady, to join up the last dots on her map of Australia. "Some might think I'm a nutcase," grins the 67-year-old Victorian grandmother. "But I'm on a mission." Lizzie discovered the joys of long-distance biking some six years ago. Her doctor recommended cycling to help combat arthritis but may not have meant three-month cycle expeditions each year, including one tough run from Cairns to the tip of Cape York. "Now that was hard yakka," she said. This time around Lizzie is again cycling north, heading out of Ayr yesterday morning on her heart-worn highway from Brisbane to Cairns. She will return to Townsville on the bus, then get back on her bike for the haul from Townsville to Darwin, maybe making 70km a day. "When I get to the Three Ways (on the Northern Territory's Stuart Highway) I'll have circumnavigated Australia, joined the dots this trip," Lizzie says. "But anyone can do this, once you do get your mind around the idea." Lizzie tows around 30kg of gear, and bush camps rough from time to time. Top speed is about 50km/h - downhill. Back home, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, husband Josef waits with patience. "He doesn't worry anymore. I get back and he says 'how was it' and I say 'good' and that's the end of it. "But you would not believe the things I see. People haven't got a clue what they're passing every day," she says. ---- eat your heart out Jeannie Longo - Lizzie is my new role model!! Fantastic stuff -go girl! -- warrwych |
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CM 30/6/06: Lizzie flies flag for pedal power
warrwych Wrote: eat your heart out Jeannie Longo - Lizzie is my new role model!! Fantastic stuff -go girl! Staying on the topic of amazing cycling ladies, we just might be up for '07 'Salute to Irene Plowman' (http://www.audax.org.au/melbourne.htm), early days yet, but who's interested? -- cfsmtb |
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CM 30/6/06: Lizzie flies flag for pedal power
cfsmtb wrote: warrwych Wrote: eat your heart out Jeannie Longo - Lizzie is my new role model!! Fantastic stuff -go girl! Staying on the topic of amazing cycling ladies, we just might be up for '07 'Salute to Irene Plowman' (http://www.audax.org.au/melbourne.htm), early days yet, but who's interested? -- cfsmtb Staying on the effect of cyling women. This is an interesting article! http://www.hyperhistory.org/index.ph...id=742&op=page With great quotes like this "On both counts - mobility and fashion - there was a lot of resistance. Women on bikes were said to be frivolous types who had abandoned feminine dignity. Critics expressed their doubts about a woman's capacity to control a bicycle. They expressed their horror at the idea of a woman moving so fast in a busy street. Conservative moralists worried that bicycles allowed women, unchaperoned and vulnerable, to have chance encounters with men. The bicycle, said the wowsers, was both physically and morally too dangerous for women." And this, doesn;t seem like we have come too far given some of cfsmtb's stories! "The nastiest of the Bulletin's attacks appeared in the letters columns. One letter asked: 'Should that breeched abstraction, chivalry, hold good when a scraggy she-male in baggy knickers astride an uncertain bike violently collides with your person?' The answer was NO. Women in such circumstances did not deserve chivalry. Presumably they deserved to be treated badly. " |
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CM 30/6/06: Lizzie flies flag for pedal power
PiledHigher Wrote: And this, doesn;t seem like we have come too far given some of cfsmtb's stories! "The nastiest of the Bulletin's attacks appeared in the letters columns. One letter asked: 'Should that breeched abstraction, chivalry, hold good when a scraggy she-male in baggy knickers astride an uncertain bike violently collides with your person?' The answer was NO. Women in such circumstances did not deserve chivalry. Presumably they deserved to be treated badly. " Meh! I hope this letterwriters descendants aren't living in SEQ! -- cfsmtb |
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