Studley Park. Follows the Yarra on and off all the way to Warrandyte.

That would have been my guess. There's a couple of spots just near there where if you get it wrong you get a free bike wash

cool, much like Wissahickon Park in Philly. Inner city park, wicked singletrack, comes with spurts of the homeless. Even heard 1 or 2 stories of bike theft at gunpoint by the local crack house kids. Well maybe Studley is not exactly like that.

Do you reckon this style of fork will ever catch on?

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extra rake for relaxed handling - I like it

Maybe not crackheads, but there is a chance that you may happen across some interesting "wildlife" on the various tracks around the area. There is also a closed road loop with a sharp little climb just near there (crits are raced there mid week during summer) and the I have heard the circuit referred to as p**f hill Which explained why there is always cars parked just out of the area & gents wandering "aimlessly" off into the surrounding bush.

Badsac can point anyone to the equivalent "hill" in Bathurst as I recall

i guy i used to work with used to work out daily at an outdoor gym setup in a park in sydney. being a strapping middle aged greek guy, he used to work out sans shirt. about 100m away was a toilet block which was frequented by blokes who prefer blokes.

he used to reguly also get approached and asked if he was "curious" to find out / experience the happenings in the toilet block..... AFAIK he declined....

Its worse at Westgate Park where they hold the Thursday Night Dirt Crits.

do you guys get dirt crits all year round? we get ripped off here and only get them in daylight savings. i loved short track!

Yeah, it's called Mt Panorama. It's worse in October though.

yup, been telling ford fans that all my life!

Ford and Holden in the epic struggle for totally average. What a hoot.

Meh. Gave up watching Bathurst years ago for this very reason. It was far more interesting when there was a bit more variety despite the blatantly pathetic attempts to penalise other manufacturers by making them weigh their cars down.

Yeah, it was much more fun when the Sierra Cosworths and Skyline GTRs were kicking the locals arses.

You call that a car? *WALLOP* You can that engineering? *WALLOP*

Thanks for playing.

You know what is good to watch? The 2ltr class and WRC. Everything else you can keep.

Nah, I'm into MotoGP these days - the 125cc class makes for some very entertaining watching.

mmmmmmm, motorbikes

In order of interest - WRC, MotoGP, 2L Touring, MotoX, Formula Ford & Pacific, V8s, A1, F1, followed by Cart/Indy/Nascar and all those other turn left only motorsports.

Any motorsport where you can be competitive in a Skoda has got to be good

im more of an international motorsport fan. in order of preference : world superbike, Moto GP, F1, CCWS, NASCAR, V8 Supertaxis. ill watch anything motorsport if its on TV.

A1 was good in principle, but the pit stop rules were just stupid. that and the fact that alan jones owns the aus franchise although i did take some comfort in the fact that christian jones was consistently hopeless.

My fave Bathurst race car was the Moffatt RX-7, he never won but I liked the way a naturally aspirated 1.3L rotary could pace the big V8s.

give me an R32 anyday heaviest race car to ever race the mountain and on modern rubber would smash the record again..... Aus had the fastest R32's in the world thanks to the aus made hollenger (sp)gearbox, which was the only thing that would hold togeather in the things over a race distance.

Group C was the ducks nuts as well.

Bathurst isn't bathurst without the big V8's careening towards something the size of a ford escort or toyota corolla. Those little mobile chicanes made the racing much more interesting, and dangerous/exciting.

And then there was the year some dill drove a stock standard volvo around on stock standard radials just to prove it could go the distance. That was hilarious (for about a lap). Alan Moffit was shooting flames out of every orifice whenever he spoke about it

I still can't believe they raced those awful flying bricks

hehe, I remember DJ running into the back of that thing (Mark Petch Volvo I think it was) while on the two-way at Calder. He was yelling "Bloody Swedish block of flats!!"

+10

oh yeah, go the Volvo !!!