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Still at my desk. December 7

Monday, 07 December 2009 08:58

Another week gone and I'm still stuck at my desk. I went into town on Friday, just for the chance to get out of the house really, and ended up with my leg swollen and aching. I can't resist running this pic from Longest day last year. Look at how I could bend my leg! Check the weight on the right knee!

Good times.

I'm just tidying up another research piece (like the neck brace article in #31), this time on SPOT versus EPIRB. It's an interesting subject. This type of story takes an enormous amount of time to do properly, and it's tempting to just head out with the camera, shoot a stack more pics and knock over another ride or test story. But these are subjects I think important, especially these days where people are spruiking all kinds of ill-informed opinions on the web. I find it interesting, too.

Chad Reed won the Brisbane SuperX and therefore the title, which I don't expect will surprise anyone. I haven't received a press release yet, but that's what happened. After James Stewart announced he wasn't coming to Australia my interest waned, I admit. There was a brief moment when I hoped Marmont might get up for the title, but it didn't happen.

I thought it curious that OneHD ran a preview to the 2009 SuperX yesterday, complete with footage from 2008, track maps and an interview with James Stewart saying how much he was looking forward to coming to Australia. I can't work out whether the digital channels are so desperate for programming they'll run any nonsense, or whether OneHD had a work-experience programmer for the day. It's not just that the programme was late and the series had started. The whole series was frigging finished! And they ran a preview!

For the misty-eyed romantics, Advrider has a thread running on Honest Muz. If you know who I'm talking about, you'll enjoy some of the old cartoons and editorial up there. If not, it might be worth a look to get a feel for a time when legends were formed in Australian dirt bike magazines.

Longest Day looks to be struggling for starters this year. Mick Crutch - who stopped on the same Strzeleckie dune as me last year - has been on the phone saying he has no-one to ride with. I hope he finds enough blokes to form a posse. I won't be there until next year now, and I think that's the worst thing of all about this stupid broken leg.

Got work to do.

TF