Bike and movies and that

The bike is aces. The fork is adjustable and at it's shortest setting turns faster than an italian who's just realised he's losing. The problem with this bike may be that it is too good. First time out I meet a group on the trail and tehy all dribble on my frame. Words such as "awesome" and "Sweeeet" are used. It's a bit like the stinky that way. When we were in the alps, people would look at our 2 bikes and think "Bloody hell, she's riding a cannondale XC bike down the alps, that can't be easy". They'd look at mine and think "Sweet bike, let me see you jump it off that shed, like they do in Roam".

It seems I now own 2 bikes more capaple than I am. Actually 3, if you consider that at least one individual world cup championship was won on a bike almost exactly the same as my (and Bubble's) Cannondale, but no-one remembers that these days anyways. Meantime I'm concentrating on how much fun the new bike is. I've been riding it in the Don Valley, which is a forested valley running right through the heart of Toronto. Local yout have developed a trail there, with small jumps and Northshore (dude) sections. Thankfully, I can do at least as much of it as the average rider in the woods, even if my bike could piss on all of it with a more capapble pilot. Practice practice.

If you've been following the tour you'll have heard that Vinikourov got caught vampiring (doping by giving himself a blood transfusion to increase red bloodcell count, as well as controlling the Thirst. Probably). Looks like the plucky Dane will take the race after surviving a severe bullying by the other contending team yesterday in a great diaplay of "you showed me all of your cards 2 days ago Contadore, now see a couple more of mine". I watched this with my father-in-law, who is a doctor. He can't understand how they do it, so I explained. "Ah, drugs, that'd help, i guess".

On to movies, and we've seen a few in the last days...

Natural City. A Korean flick about a swat team going after a group of renegade cyborgs. One of the team is in love with a cyborg himself and is working to the same aim as the dudes he is chasing, to cancel or otherwise circumvent the built in 3 year cyborg lifespan.... -HOLD ON- any of this sound in any way familiar? You're supposed to wait 50 years (or something) before using someone else's plot line wholesale and selling it as your own. At least our main prtagonist's name is R and not D. Visually (very) nice, otherwise bollocks

Last King of Scotland. Young, naive horny scotsman doctor type goes to Uganda to get away from his parents. Tries to shag everything that moves, mostly succeeding except with a very skinny Gillian Anderson (preferred her with a bit more meat on her bones, personally) who blows him off (meaning rejects, not.... oh never mind). Chance meeting with Idi Amin leads to further shinannegans. Amin turns out (*shock*) to be a total nutcase. What a very intense movie. The acting achieves all the heights that the media hypes it up and more. James McAvoy (horny naive Scots Doctor) who is generally ignored in preference of the all to believable Forrest "Get a proper name" Wittaker but portrays the innocent libido fuelled idealism of yout very well. Well worth a view

Borat. You know the plot of this one by now. Let me say I was expecting a lot and didn't get it. The Rodeo scene was a pearl, if the movie was 2 hours of Borat getting yanks to act like that then I'd say the premise of the movie was well served, but it isn't really. Falls way short of what it set out to do in my opinion. It is pure coincidence that Kermode happends to agree with me, we watched the film separately.

Zodiac. Retelling of a series of actual killings back in the 60's and 70's Yooess-of-ayyy, the taunts made by the killer to police and press. It centers on one man's obsession with solving the puzzle, a cartoonist played by the Donnie Darko dude. Plot is dictated by life so that's in the bag. They never caught the Zodiac killer so there is a lack of closure in the whole thing, which I do think was underplayed in the whole "Fuck, I spent my whole life on this thing, ruined my marriage and the bastard got away" kind of thing. Performances are all good, although I would have liked to have seen more from R Downey Jnr. All in a good movie this one, well worth a view. I especially liked the soft spoken cop (not the one who was Goose in Top gun, the other one)

Right, coffee, toast, bike. Have fun

Bomber out

Behold.

....Sweet Bike... It's got pegs*, it's got shocks, bet I can get some sweet air** on this thing

/edit; cfb seems not to work so click here for glorious bigness

Off out riding. Catch yer.

Bomber out

*may not be true. About the pegs.

**or the air