Fallen Tree

Tamyka Bell wrote:

hippy wrote:

Originally posted by ritcho Small fan heater + wet shoes + a few hours
in a small room = dried shoes. Not that it matters here in Sydney...

Larger gas heater w/ fan + wet shoes + large unit with no doors to seal
off huge open space = wet shoes + higher energy bill

I'm grew up elsewhere, I'm not afraid to say Melbourne's weather sucks!


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Fill your shoes with newspaper, I mean stuff 'em absolutely full. Really
helps to dry the shoes out. Then put them in front of a heater. Even
better, put them in a laundry with a clothes dryer venting onto them.
T
I aquired one of those old fashioned ladies hair dryers (blows warm
air into a plastic hat thing) as the air coming out of the hose is
warm, not hot, putting the end of the hose in the shoe works well,
Use it for drying shoes, ski boots, gloves.

Ted.
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"Gags" tba@tba wrote in message ...
Was on the way to work this morning at about 0600h......very dark except for
my light.....was cruising along a gravel part of the Yarra Trail with a nice
tail wind (couple of k's before Burke Rd) at prob about 30 km/h or so.
Wasn't really concentrating too hard and next thing I know there is a huge
tree all the way across the path about 8-10m in front of me. I grabbed the
rear brake, dropped a foot and threw the rear tyre out to the left.........I
was pretty lucky in that I managed to stop with at least half a metre to
spare, with the bike at right angles to the direction I was originally
travelling and parallel to the tree.

Scared the crap out of me as the tree sorta blended in with the dark
background and so I didn't see it until the last minute. Could have been
nasty!!

On the way home I stopped to check out my skid mark (the one on the trail,
not in my knicks) and I noticed that there was a couple of other ones as
well!!

Hopefully the council will get around to removing it before someone gets
hurt as it is way to big to move without cutting it up first.

Take care if you are riding the Yarra Trail early in the morning!!

Ride On,

Gags


I was in a small club race once in farmland around Bunbury (in WA).
It was three or four laps of about a twenty km circuit. The local
farmers were burning off along the road verge and there was an area
where we had to ride through a bit of smoke. Anyway, we were going
down this long stretch of straight road and I was taking a turn at the
front. My head was down and I was going for it. One of the guys at the
back of the group yelled something. I ignored it. Then he yelled again
louder to stop! I looked up and saw a small tree fallen across the
road. We skidded to a halt and shuffled around the fallen tree. Once
we got going again I apologised for my lack of attention but the guy
that yelled out said he had seen the tree fall in front of us just as
we got close to it. Lucky someone was watching! (However I AM known
for pointing out potholes too late.)

Marty