ahh, that'd feel like home again

Are you racing at Braeside this Sunday? East vs South?

hmmmmmm.....9am? Don't think so

do you know if I can use my license at Eastern Vets?

So go up a cog before you get into the corner, stay off the brakes, and stand as soon as the guy in front gets on the gas again.

Squeaking was probably the new tyre beading squirming on the rim, not the road surface. Add 10psi on Thursday so the tube presses the clincher harder onto the rim.

hmmmm....interesting.

You're a motorbike guy, aren't cha?

I reckon motorbikers know more about tyres than anyone.

that's what Danno said. Seems to happen more with Pro Races than any other tyre I've had.

I've raced there with Blackburn a while ago. Pertty technical course, and even less fun when it starts to rain! But better than Kew Boulevard circuit in the wet That's a no go zone if there is any chance of it being rain affected.

and don't go to the back of the pack, you'll be sprinting your arse off all day.

Used to be a motorbike guy. Ended up costing me to much in crashes and lost licences so I gave them up for a while. That was about 5 years ago now. Love to get another one. Just need a better paying job.

But yeah, I used to know what worked on motorbikes. Still trying to learn on the pushies.

Yeah. Mine are squeaky buggers when put back on the rim.

Yep, they told me that I can race in any Vet club.

yeah, found that out the hard way... well, sort of... I noticed a couple of things riding in the pack that surprised me.
First was that they were all much more tentative going into turns than I expected, and I noticed that when I'd dropped off the back (did that quite a bit) I could get back to the pack after a couple of turns, mainly through corner speed.
I'm not trying to sound like a smartarse or anything... my mate commented on the same thing. (we're A&B grade road racers so entry speed and corner speed are what we do)
The other thing was that the other guys didn't like getting too close. I was expecting a fair bit of biff, but it was nothing like that at all.

Generally speaking the guys doing club racing realise that that is all it is. There's no point being off work for a bike race unless the bike race is work.

But if you want biff you only have to ask (or provoke it) One guy in our race didn't roll through for a turn, so I made him 'uncomfortable' for a few laps. He returned the favour on the fastest corner by giving me the big squeeze. All good fun.

true, and if you bump the wrong person and they come down, you may never hear the end of it.

Odin, I ahd a track day RGV for a while, only ran it a few times.

I some times pedal through under folks and stuff in crits, (forget that you don't have to make dirty passes through corners like in BMX) and get abused, relax and ride normal again. Fun though. Chasing the bunch down every straight to get back on sucks, as it goes over and over again. Unlike the one lap full on sprint BMX race, you just want to spew your guts out after one of those.

LOL, no, not really. There used to be quite a bit of it in SuperSport, I never invited it, it was just part of it. It was mainly from reading comments on BF that I was expecting it though. I'm glad it was quite civilised as I had enough on my plate just hanging in there.


Now you're talking biffo... proddy riders are insane. They lean on you mid corner, grab your legs and try to hit your kill switch... did you ever think about racing it?

I raced BMX in 80/81 for Mac Cycles (Boronia)...was pretty average at it. Where/when did you race?
Wish I could spin my legs like that again.

I raced in Europe as a kid. Here in Aust, I have been to most tracks in/around Sydney and Canberra, been to QLD and VIC once or twice, but switched off when they told me the suburbs I was in. In Australia I first went to Metro West, which was next door to Liverpool City Raceway. Awsome. Ended up joining up with Manly/Warringah club, mum wanted to live near the beach.

First race would have been around 81ish (would have been 8 or 9) Last race was in 2003, out at Liverpool. I was also very average at it, rode skateparks etc as well during the 80 - mid 90's.

Oh yeah, Proddies are nuts. I have never raced motocycles. Only ever went and cruised around the track. Mate had farings for his ex-proddy, so I whacked em on and went for it.

I once went out in the B grade bunch and thought I was doing good. I was so terrible at it, Wanye Gardener was riding along with the b graders and guys were having a crack at him non stop.

I have no trailer or van so matured into a zx7r road bike, will prob have it for good now. Road riding motorcycles is scary stuff.

Don't know how you guys can do it. At least when I ride bicycles I know I'm coming home and will still have a license, clean undies etc.

you done the run from Berowra to Calga yet? Fun bit of road in a car, mix of fun and hard work on a bike, imagine it would be heaps o' fun on a tree-seeker.

Wow, you kept at it for a long time... longer than mosy guys I know. A group of us threw racing in for freestyle around '82.
Been to VBMX yet?


I've got to admit that as much fun as it was, I was always sooo relieved driving home on a Sunday afternoon that I was still in one piece. I think half the fun was being sh*t scared

Yeah I have been riding on the "Old Road" a bit, so many guys up there on a sat or sun. Too much for me, I dont like someone slipping through under me in a corner when I am doing around 100 kays, they must be doing 130ish and dragging the knee. On the road it is crazy. Had a GTI golf & Pug 306, so cars are fun up there too. The run out to the pub at wolombi is a good'un.

Rather cycle up there anyday.

Sounds like a good way to get used to all of those surges
Cheers

Wow, I kind of wish I never saw that. No work will ever get done now. I rode more freestyle too, than race. Had a performer (with the sinlge bend). I wanted to be like Fiola so much.

Did you ever go to any comp's in Canberra, the Big B comps in the late 80's.

No, I only rode around Melbin, even had to ride to my race meets cos the folks didn't like it *start the violins*
I raced a Supergoose, then a Supergoose II that I used for freestyle. There's a lot of mad buggers at VBMX but their resto's are awesome. Remember Stu Thomsen and Harry Leary? They're both members (still racing) and post there a bit.

didn't we all?

Even if my moto couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding?

Blast from the past!

The Leary, not a bloody lookback, It's a Leary. I think I have a copie of BMX Action from 84 with him naming the jump after himself. He had a great style.