Replying on behalf of Miyata610 ....

No website for the Central Coast Century. There is an ad in the "Push On" section of the current Australian Cyclist.

Contact Howard Kerrsmith for details kerrsmith@bigpond.com.

I can photocopy and fax the page to you - send me a private message with your details

cheers,
Nada

For all you guys wanting to improve your times - check out the "50mph uphill" thread under Road Cycling. Clearly, the Giant Cypress SL is the way to go.

Haven't laughed so much in a long while. Seppos, gotta love 'em.

Nada

thanks Nada, got the email back from Howard on the details.

[edit] details on this website also...

http://www.rotaryerina.org.au/cycle.htm

Belgian Boony is a big softie wuss !! And he wins the farken thing anyway....

Boonen didn’t enjoy this one so much though. "The bunch wasn’t riding fast and I was cold, I was so cold that I asked the organisers to cancel the last lap," he revealed.

The answer to my prayers. And to think I've been wasting my time with all that training. :mad: ;)

did a few hours work for uni today (packing boxes), had to a bit of travel and I got paid for it! Paid to go cycling, does that make me a pro now? ;)

turning pro success. Now comes the hard sukky bit where it takes ages to taste success on the bike again.

haha lol

So Jan (my better half) found an old frame on the side of the road and brought it home. It's not a bad thing and I think I'll do a SS fixy. Cupla questions; should I leave the old BB shells and the headset bearing cups in for sand blasting? Shells will protect threads. Why can't I have F&R brakes? Frame is drilled and bosses are there. What gearing should I have?
Any other suggestions would be most greatfully recieved.

In order (this is my limilted knowledge and I dont ride fg but eventually will) I thought you needed a track bb.
Sand the damn thing. It doesnt take too long, (unless you have access to a sand blaster, I found out after I sanded my frame down I did have access to one, I wasnt happy)
You can have front and back brakes, but back brakes arent necessary at all really. A lot of debate about front brakes though, just depends on how confident you are, I guess.
For gearing it really depends on how much muscle you have, how far you want to ride, how hilly your area is etc. But a good gear calculator is here
and the thread that goes with it is here
basically go for a ratio that is close to how many gear inches you want but has the most about of skid patches. So your entire tyre is a flatspot and not just one spot of it is, ie less tyrewear.

I hope that helps

what sorta frame?

check the rear spacing? 130mm? 120mm?
brakes - your choice, front is all you really need but you can go for both to be fully roadworthy.
gearing? depends on how you like hills and sore knees. In terms of gear inches anywhere around 70 would be OK to start at.
make the chainline as straight as possible.
not much else to know except go for it.

Woohoo! Won the Tuesday night crit!!
Good race with plenty of attacks and the pace was pretty high (had a go at it meself) Came down to a bunch sprint again... I was 6th wheel onto the straight, pulled out into the wind and spun me legs orf.
Won by about a bike length @ 50km/h.

Sheet that was fun :D

nice one odin. Bet that felt good.

Cheers mate, me legs don't ;)

Well done Odin. It's a great feeling having a win.

I was pissed up the pub one night and was bull****ting as per usual. I told some chicks I work with that winning a bike race is better than sex. One of them says something like 'you mustn't be very good at sex then'. I told the know-it-all bag I was an absolute champion in the sack, and then asked how many friggin bike races had she won. :D :p

:roflmao: :roflmao:

erm... classic :D

Regarding brakes on a SS fixy, you only need a front because you can brake the rear wheel with back-pressure and along with a front brake its enough. Regarding gear ratio's, try riding around in one gear only on your road bike and see what you feel comfortable with and then select a slightly higher gear for fixed as fixed gears are very efficient. You can easily climb hills in a bigger gear on a fixy than you would on a multi-speed road bike and the most hazardous thing by far is getting your cadence pushed up to high on a downhill run so low gears can be a pain. It can be a little of six of one, half dozen of the other though as a lower gear is easier to to regulate with back-pressure on a downhill run. Anyway this is where brakes on a fixy are priceless.

EDIT: I guess I had a preference for a front brake only when I used to ride a fixy on the road because it was my race bike that I fitted a brake to for road training and I didn't need too much hassle to remove it for racing. I had a split clamp flatbar lever fitted on the top of the bar and a short cable to the front brake. Undo two bolts and the whole setup was off.

Regards, Anthony

If you're using drop bars you might want front and back brakes just for the hoods. Doesn't matter do much if you go with bull horns or a straight bar.

Thanks guys. The frame is a steel, lugged 'Bennett' which I think was 80's Speedwell. It has nice tapered forks, seat and chainstays which have chromed lowers. Rear dropouts are forward entry (road) but are quite horizontal which should help.
Do I run two chain rings for variation?

no, one ring only, chainline needs to be straight, 2 isn't needed anyway.

Bennetts pop up everywhere. were they super popular back in the day? i know that Jock has one, I found one out the front of my next door neighbors in a scrap heap that i restored, there must be millions of them! pitty that mine is too big for me :(

With only seven days until the Empire Games opening ceremony it's time to fluff up the cushions on the lounge, retrain the dog/children in beer fetching techniques, stock up on batteries for the remote, and clean the heads on the VCR.

Here's the program for the cycling for those with Foxtel: http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Comp...Sport/Cycling/

Everyone else will just have to put up with the limited supply that they get from Channel 9.

And if you have decent broadband you could try bigpond tv : http://m2006.bigpond.com/

Seems to werk ok ATM, might get swamped during the games tho

Reliable crates were bennetts. I gave mine to the rebirthing centre so someone could get good use out of it. I think Aussie531 still has one

I'll miss the track cycling, I'll be pedalling my own assos off round the top half of the North Island http://www.twincoast-cycle.co.nz/, but I'll be back home in front of the telly for the road and MTB stuff.

Go you good thing Sarah Ulmer