Rodney

Rodney is my bicycle.  His name is a great tribute to the American hero Caesar Rodney.  Caesar Rodney was a great American lawyer and politician who was born in 1728 to Caesar Sr. and Mary Crawford Rodney.  His Grandfather, William Rodney, came to American in the 1680's.  Caesar Rodney fought in the French and Indian war (yew!) and also signed the Declaration of Independence (mega Shaka). It is this personification of courage and bravery, to escape and go to a new place,  to fight the French and Indians, to sign Declarations of independence, that gave me the inspiration to carry on such a legacy name, and thus the name Rodney is remembered through my bicycle.

Does your bikes name have a picture on the coin of the first state?

Today, me and Rod had a good day together.  He hadn't been cleaned by his old owner, so I decided to give him a lil' clean up.  There was about 5 years of grease built up on the chain, deraileur, crank, etc. and it took the better part of the afternoon to get him clean.  Ended up getting some nice oil to put on the chain and had to make sure all was well so went for a ride to visit my friend Tom.  Also, I felt guilty because I ate a whole box of Tim-Tams and was feeling sick :(....

So I decided to go on a short ride..

to Double  BAY!

Was able to stop on the way home a snap this one.  its nice..

On Repeat

This song has recently been one of the catchiest tunes I have heard in a while.  It has the same happiness as "we dont speak ameracano"  but none of the repeatitive, house beats which that song became famous for.  I would urge you to check out Damn Arms: Destination- Cassian remix.  Its a lovely, upbeat tune, which couldbe described as Cut- Copy meets Basement Jaxx, with the synthy, clean beats that are well thought out and executed with computer science.  Listen Here now:


And while your at it, be sure to remember this great banger from Holy Ghost!: Hold on, which is along the same lines of sunny-day happiness and is worth putting on repeat:

Bike to Coogee

recently, with the addition of my bicycle, I have been able to esplore all of Sydney.  The city is actually quite small and a 3o minute bike ride can get you pretty much anywhere.  I have been esploring the beaches along the southern coast, such as Bondi, Bronte, Tamarama, Coogee and recently Maroubra. 

The ride to cooge takes about 20 minutes and is about 7 ks or 5 miles.  It is an easy ride, relativly flat and mostly with bike lanes.  There are also some nice stops along the way:

  

Once I got to Coogee, I met up with my freind Ryan Pawell.  He is another transplant from Corona Del Mar who moved out here to get his masters.  We decided to take advantage of the free bbqs Australia has and had a good ol fashion cook out:

Another good, cheap feast! 

Dining table feast

And for under 5 dollars!

Kongs Banana Hoard

So appearently Donky and Diddy Kong have been looking for thier banana hoard all over australia, but I was lucky enough to be the one who found it!  It was just off of circular quay:

More info can be found here about it:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/12/australia-donkey-kongs-country/