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Old 12-20-05 | 04:59 AM
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Originally Posted by 531Aussie
my new "training partner", Max Rainsford was telling me how crap the Blackburn Velodrome was; saying the banks weren't steep enough for the tightness of the bends -- not for someone of his speed, at least. He said he once popped a rear tyre there and slid 40m around the bend
I vaguely know 'Hollywood '. The old man knows him fairly well, raced him in the 'aces' for a season or two in the mid to late '80's. He's a crack you up laughing sort of bloke. I'm not entirely sure he means to though...

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