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Congratulations to Justin Granger who has qualified in Canada. It was dramatic but he did it - having to walk the last 3 kms with stomach cramps and a dodgy ankle. He finished 15th male pro from a field of 33. With many ahead of him already qualified or not wanting the Hawaii thrill he automatically qualified this morning. He gets to race pro for the first time in Hawaii having raced age group in 1996 and 1997.

Congratulations to the Trailwalkers from STEAM who competed in 3 teams: 146 - "We Are Thai" - Julie Avakian, Michael Avakian, Anne Newman, Malcolm Henderson; 252 "O'Connor", Tom O'Connor, Paula Wylie, Brenda Hamill, and Robert Middledorp; and team 401 "Carlton Draught Big Canoes", Bianca van Woesik, Phil Thomson de Zylva, John Murphy and Stuart Webster. The event started with a warmer than expected day resulting in dehydration for Paula who had to pull out at 50 km, and Phil who completed the course, but "wasn't feeling the best". A great effort to get 8th complete team, 2nd mixed team for Carlton Draught Big Canoes; and 41st complete team, 6th over 40 team for We Are Thai; and 216th team for O'Connor. There were 380 teams of 4 started! See full results at http://www.oxfam.org.au/trailwalker/sydney/results/2004category.html and an interesting trailwalker story at http://forums.transitions.org.au/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=6775&s=8c38b3dbbe0.

SATURDAY 4TH of September CRITERIUM EXPERIENCE TRAINING.

This saturday there will be more fun experiencing what can happen in a cycle race we will meet again at 6.45am at the caravan & ride out to the container terminal. Normally we arrive back at the park 9.30am judging by the group last week everyone learnt a lot & had a great time.total distance 60k.

SUNDAY 5TH of September - Calga or Waterfall

INDIVIDUAL TIME TRIAL CALGA there are three and a half options :

1. Meet at Turramurra cyclery at 7am we then ride to Calga which is 50k then do the TT 25k & ride back - total dist 125km. Turramurra is doing their own ride so this ride to Calga will be only for Steam members & guests.

1a. Meet at Turramurra and ride to Calga with no time trial – 100km total distance.

2. Meet us at Pie in the Sky (at the top of the Brooklyn hill) ride down to Calga and do time trial and ride back – total distance 75km

3. Meet us at Calga at 8:30am and do time trial – total distance 25km

Sign on cost of entry $10.00. Please advise Daniele if you are intending to meet us at Calga, Brooklyn or at Turramurra. e-mail: ciclismo@tpg.com.au (m) 431 973 651

WATERFALL RIDE!!!

Rod's group will turn at sutherland for people who haven't done the ride or want to ride short total dist 60k. For people who would like to go further to Waterfall - 90k they can continue on but will be on their own from Sutherland. Their should be enough people going on to Waterfall to make a reasonable sized group. Don't forget - the group leaves at 6:15 am from the centre of the park.

Annual General Meeting

The STEAM AGM will be held at 3:00 PM, 19th September 2004 in Kerry and Tony Freeman's house, 6 Derby St, Vaucluse. Please RSVP to me at r.gorman@unsw.edu.au if you can come so that we can cater for a few drinks and snacks. Afterwards we are planning to wander down the road to the Watson's Bay Hotel for a few drinks and BBQ.

Travelling to compete in far away places can be complicated by the difficulties with transporting bicycles safely on aircraft. The obvious solution is a hard case bike box but, up to now, these have been very expensive in

Australia

and many find it difficult to justify the cost given the relatively infrequent use.

I would like to announce an initiative designed to solve this problem. I have identified the biggest selling hard case bike box in Europe and have arranged for an initial container load to be shipped to

Australia

and sold directly to clubs in quantities of five or more for $450 each. This price is lower than the retail price in the UK (GBP 195) and includes GST (delivery charges from the Sydney warehouse are additional). Its external dimensions are 1180 (base) x 730 (top) x 850 x 275mm with a net weight of 9.4kg.

The box (pictured here) is made of ABS plastic and comes with two wheel covers, spare bike box wheels and a two-year manufacturer’s warranty. More information is available on the manufacturer’s web site (B&W International).

Order Quantity	Price (incl. GST, excl. delivery)
5 or more	$450
4	$480
3	$510
2	$540
1	$570

Freight charges from the Sydney warehouse are still being negotiated with various carriers and will be advised as soon as possible. Alternatively, pick up can be arranged.

I am partnering with the exclusive licensee of B&W’s products in

Australia

, PB Baumann Tools Australia. As the name suggests, this company’s core business is hand tools but management is keen to break into this market and will be handling all of the logistics and invoicing (including processing Visa, Mastercard and Bankcard payments).

Addendum – Other offerings within

Australia

(from Internet search)

The cheapest hard case bike boxes appear to be from this web site with these same boxes being offered elsewhere for more:

Team	Title	Time	All Pl.	Compl.	Cat	age	Place	Cat Pl.	Age Pl.
401	Carlton Draught Big Canoes	19 hrs : 11 min	14	4	mixed	Open	8	2	6
146	We Are Thai	24 hrs : 07 min	82	4	mixed	>40	41		6
252	O'connor	31 hrs : 08 min	216	3	mixed	>50

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