Tour De France Tipping - riders listing

As of last night the Velogames website had started listing riders on the website. To make your team you have to select 9 riders from the 100 points you are given. I can't remember the exact break down of riders that you need but it is something; You need to select 2 overall riders, 2 climbers, 1 sprinter, 3 domestiques and 1 rider from any category. The details are listed on the website http://www.velogames.com/tdf09riders.php

As expected, Contador is the strong favourite so he costs an expensive 26 points (more than a quarter of the budget for a team), the Evans for 20 points and a bit of surprise is Armstrong, also at 20 points while Sastre is a relative bargain at 18 points. Cav, the hot selection for the sprints is 20 points while you can pick up the Norwegian God of thunder for about 14 points. Boonen is not on the list yet, court case pending.

So start selecting your teams. I haven't set up the league yet as that wasn't open yet, but you can start working out your team(s).

Good luck - M Gates

BASTARDI JERSEY CONCEPT

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Thanks to the graphic brilliance of in Bastardi's own in house graphic designer; Steve B. we have a concept drawn up for a group jersey!

Let us know what you think!

We will put out a call of interest to confirm some numbers.
Thanks to FS, DB, WK, & SB for their imput into the design. - FS

BARGIN BOX - Toll kit

The Super-B 98600 Tool Box:

COST: AROUND $99 THIS WEEK!

1 x HG CASSETTE LOCK RING SOCKET (Suits Shimano/SRAM cassettes )
1 x CARTRIDGE B.B. TOOL (Shimano Internal bearing type)
1 x 4/5/6mm HEX KEY WRENCH
1 x 2/2.5/3mm HEX KEY WRENCH
1 x CROSS KEY WRENCH
2 x 65mm L DOUBLE WAY BIT
1 x CHAIN RIVET EXTRACTOR 7/8/9/10 Speed compatible
1 x INNER CABLE PULLER
1 x CHAIN CLEANER
1 x BIKE BRUSH
1 x CABLE CUTTER
3 x SPOKE WRENCH FOR 0.127,0.130,0.136 NIPPLE
3 x TYRE LEVERS
1 x COTTERLESS CRANK TOOL
1 x CHAINRING NUT WRENCH
1 x 8mm HEX KEY
1 x SLIDING HANDLE
2 x 13/14/15/16mm HUB CONE SPANNERS
1 x 30/32/36/40mm HEADSET WRENCH
1 x OPEN-END WRENCH 8/9mm
1 x OPEN-END WRENCH 10/13mm
1 x OPEN-END WRENCH 14/15mm
1 x PEDAL WRENCH
1 x CHAIN WHIP (To hold cassette while loosening locking ring)
1 x TUBE REPAIR KIT
1 x CRANK EXTRACTOR NUT (For JIS/Square Taper BB axles only)
1 x CARRY BOX

NOTE: this does not include a Bottom Bracket tool suitable for Shimano external B.B's. which is most post 2007-2008 bikes running shimano.

http://www.torpedo7.com.au/products/SBTOKNN98/title/SUPER-B-Bike-Tool-Box---98600

Tour De France Tipping

The Tour is only just over a week away and the anticipation is growing. To help celebrate the action this year we are looking at setting up a Bastardi tipping competition. We have decided to use a online system that we can create our own league and the website will look after itself. The website site is http://www.velogames.com/ but at the moment the tour competition is not yet up and running, but you can still check out the site and see how it works. I will request our own league and send the details on when I have them.

Prizes
According to the website there is no prize (there is no entry cost) but bastardi's will have a $10 each prize pool. winner takes all!!!

Rules
Basically all you need to do is select 9 riders as your team and hope for the best. If one of your riders pulls out or is done for drugs during the tour you are not allowed to substitute them. You can only change riders if one of your selected riders does not make the teams final roster and you need to change before kick off next Saturday.

According to the website, each person can have only one team, but if you would like to register a team under partners name, then that is ok, I presume you will just need a different email address and password..

Scoring is detailed on the website so check it out, might help you select your team. The scoring system is quite complex and riders can earn points for being in breakaways, helping their team leader, wearing the yellow jersey, sprint and mountain points and of course, final overall position.

Hint
If you don't know the website http://www.cyclingnews.com/ then I highly recommend checking it out. It will give you all the latest goss and list who is on what team. Important to look at if you are wanting to select riders like Boonen or Valverde who may or may not be riding (depending on court cases), and was Contador really about to change teams??

Cheers and good luck
Michael Gates

Bastardi's,

THIS WEEK we would like to start the rides @ 8.00am from Hindmarsh Sq.
This is due to the amount of light around early in the morning and general cold conditions.

Bastardi's will ENTER A TEAM in to the challenge ride, I’ll keep you posted.

We have re-vamped the logo and and JERSEY in the pipe line, will keep you posted on developments.

Frank Smith
roll'n in Eddy style

Farrah Fawcett R.I.P.

A new beginning

The time has come for a new BG era - we are on line and to commemorate, we figured that the time has come for new colors and the orange one was cool because no one else has them - plenty of red ones around like Cibo and LaSquadra.


These are the options we looked at.