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) :D 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 :D

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* :rolleyes:
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.

:D didn't we all?

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

Blast from the past! :D

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.

I had on of those. Fat fkn thing tried to kill me. Frame was way bent out of the factory. Take your hands off the bars and the thing would dive for the scrub. Took it back to Kawasaki a few times. Junior mechanics said it was farked, but the seniors ones wouldn't have a bar of getting it straightened, the prcks. So I took it to a track day at Eastern Creek, promptly highsided it, and the thing was much better after that. :D

The roo I hit with the thing put it back out of shape though. :(

Gosh I remember that name Stu Thomsen.
Is it possible I saw him race the COS in Brisbane about 1980?
By the way, one of the shops here has a replica Mongoose from back then for 58000 yen ($665 Aust.) The problem it doesn't have red anodised Araya Wheels which I think they had.
It looks very similar to this minigoose:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y21...anoDay1004.jpg

The shop also has an old gold JAG frame in there which brings back fond memories.
Steve.

yeah, coz you can still take corners at 70kph........if ya want :)

have you guys seen the Ghost Rider DVD, where the guy rides his Hayabusa on a Stockhom freeway at 300+kmh?

nice pic of that mongoose, brings back some memories. I should hunt down some pics of my first good bike from under the house. I had a skyway TA with black graphite tuffs with the gold campy hubs & shimano alloy cranks. My good friend had the full campy BMX group.

I have seen some of that video, he overtakes trucks and busses on the shoulder at 300 kays. Someones got to do it.

Badsac, I always thought that a big fat heavy bike just meant it stuck to the road better + the mrs likes the handles to hold onto.

or do what that bloke in sydney got busted for...doing over 200kmh in the sydney harbour tunnel, repeatedly.

I reckon I had the same article but in BMX Plus!
And what about the Judge (Tim Judge?)

I like the minigoose, my brother was more serious about it than I was;
Some of the Bikes;
DK Firebird
PK Ripper
Haro sport (chrome Ltd ed)
Haro Master
Skyway TA
Hutch Trickstar (candy red)
etc...

Brothers Current
2-hip Pork
T-1

Here's one for the A&S board....

"An Australian woman was knocked off her bike and killed in a London street, possibly because she couldn't hear traffic noise because of her iPod music device, friends say.

Patricia McMillan was knocked from her bike and thrown under the wheels of a lorry near her home in Acton, west London, on February 2.

The 32-year-old law student had been on her way to a part-time job as a waitress in Kensington when the crash happened.

McMillan's best friend, Jacques Poullard, told the Evening Standard newspaper today she may still have been alive if she hadn't been listening to the Apple iPod.

"She was obsessed by that thing. It wasn't that she was careless. I bought her the bike three years ago and it was how she travelled everywhere.

"I never said anything to her about wearing the iPod but now I think if she hadn't had it on she might have heard the lorry.

"I hope people will think twice about cycling while wearing headphones."

The Judge, was a one footed table top no?

Man, I had a trickstar. Worked with my dad for the whole summer holidays to get it, I think it rained for 2 months after that too.

I had a sport team, master, gt pro performer, dyno pro compe, then I loose count as all those bashgaurd things came out and street thrashing wrecked bikes in weeks/days sometimes. Went through them quickly. wish I kept some of them. I only have one bike now, no parts, nothing, it's Luke Madills bike from Melbourne worlds in 98, it's got canti brake cable stops on it. When my new son grows up, I may upgade to something more modern.

Any else enjoy the old knobby hobby?

and in the only in America file....

An enjoyable trip to a Texas cinema to watch Health Ledger in Brokeback Mountain ended badly for an Australian woman who had the nerve to shush a fellow movie-goer who was talking on her mobile phone.

Former Sunshine Coast councillor Pauline Clayton ended up being escorted from the cinema by police, arrested and charged with assault, according to newspaper reports.

Ms Clayton now faces a fine of up to $675.

She said she was enjoying the film, which was about halfway through, when a woman's mobile phone rang - and she answered it and began talking.

Ms Clayton put her finger to her mouth, signalling to the woman to quieten down then touched her on the shoulder twice.

The other woman then stood up and started shouting expletives at Ms Clayton before storming out of the movie.

Police arrived and escorted Ms Clayton out of the theatre.

The other woman told police Ms Clayton had been "invading her private space" and accused her of assault.

Ms Clayton was charged and must appear in a Texas court next week, but her accuser is not off the hook - she must also appear in court over her behaviour.

Yep, i had a pic of Tim doing a Judge on a trickstar over the Hutch team!
When I left for Oz I cleard out our garage and found a set of GT forkstands, the flip up ones!
There was a NOS/NIP Skyway TA and parts on ebay recently. very tempted.
Sad thing is now I'm looking at buying Dura-ace ES parts to build up an old roadie. reading this makes me want a BMX!