Top bloke, Eddie (of course he would be with a name like that! )

I met him about 15 years ago through Scott Steward when they both rode for the tiny Polli-Mobiexport team.....nice Alan carbons with C-Record, w/ delta brakes and those 3kg each SGR pedals

It's in Sydney!?!

Fer christsake, someone buy that thing and do it up!!!!

If it was a 62, I'd get it in a heartbeat

My last track bike had a 40 spoke rear Fiamme. I wonder if anyone notided

I need a track bike like a hole in the head. Maybe Jock could build it for his daughter.

its around the right size for me, probably a bit heavy on the $$ side given its history to warrant for a track bike that i may hardly ever use.

got myself a few years old cannondale R800 today on loan from a mate while the carbon is being assesed on the lemond, should be interesting to compare them.

Nice bike for one of your squids Jock..

https://cgi.ebay.com.au/Hillbrick-Tra...ayphotohosting

Or Bryce Quirk's old bike. Very nice.

https://cgi.ebay.com.au/57-cm-Bianchi...QQcmdZViewItem

Went for $510!!! cheap as. I nearly put in a bid for it but........................

Geez, pretty good value.... shame it was so far away..

Wow! Thats awesome.



In a related note, I went back to the shop *again* today to have another look, and have another sit on the bike etc.

The guy will give it to me for 10% off if I want it.

Theft! Good on 'em, whoever won it.

I can't complain tho. I got a shiny new track bike in my garage. Maybe I should go and play with it some more

Felts aint due till end Oct

$ burnin hole!

Looks like you get a second chance: https://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI....Pr2_PcY_BID_IT

Huh, this e-bay newbie is confused... how come its back? didnt $510 win it?

How would you get it down here? I've got a mate in Brisbane..?

How come it's back? Either the seller has a bucketload of em and is offloading them one-by-one to maximise the return (and can see when interest is waning) OR they are placing the highest bid (shill bidding) if it's not reaching what they think is a fair value. Either way you can't lose if you stick to what you think is a fair price to pay for it.

Best way to get to down to Sydney would be to have someone local pick it up then go up one weekend yourself, or get you local guy to plonk it on a McCafferys coach or similar (that tip came from berny I think)

Fly up, and ride it home.

ebay.....

Check this out
https://cgi.ebay.com.au/1978-Malvern-...QQcmdZViewItem

I had one when I was a kid, without the gear lever. Probably knock a couple of hundred off for that!

Yeah man!!! The kid down the street had one of those and I was so jealous. I wanted a gearstick but my thing was just a stinking single speed. If only I knew then how cool singlespeeds were going to become...

BMX was just getting popular when I got mine, so the Malvern Star dragstar was very UNCOOL .
Dad wouldn't let me have a BMX.

Then again, he brought me a second hand George Mcdonald built track bike when I was 9 so he can't have been all bad

Me neither. But my poor old dad sprung for a knobby on the back of my old single speed dragster. That was good enough for me to be like a pig in sh1t.

Hey, I haven't asked a stupid question for a week or two, so I better remedy that. Haven't ridden since the weekend so I got guilty and went out today on my usual afternoon run. It's into 10 km into town then out the other side to a village 15 km out, then turn around and back home again. There was a howling crosswind going out which was pissing me off so I was only dawdling along. I was feeling fresh though and pissed off that I was dogging it, so when I turned I decided to go as hard as I could all the way back into town to see if I could keep it up. Well since I was feeling fresh I made it, but geez my legs were locking up with lactic, and it was like I was trying to expel my lungs. Anyway, back into town and it was a bit cold so I wiped my nose and the thing was bleeding. Now I never get bleeding noses so this was something interesting for me. Talking to my old man tonight, and he was winding me up with stoies about if race horses get bleeding noses they spell them for 3 months, then if they get one again, they retire them. If true makes me think a bleeding nose from effort isn't such a good thing???

So what's the go? You dudes ever get a bleeding nose from having a good crack on your bike (as opposed to having a good crack at digging boogers out of the thing)?

What's that come out to? They're good solid bikes though. My sisters got the Giant version (OCR3) which she's probably put 10k km on, and she's never had any trouble.

I've had em from trying to equalize my ears while diving
but not while riding.
lots of wind? dry? could just be you dried
out yer honker huffin and puffin?

I've worked it out. When stopping at the coffee shop at the half way point make sure you take the spoon out of the cup

Nah, since it was a bit cold, the nose was running most of the time. I was flinging a few bushies to boot so she wasn't to dry. Maybe I was getting a bit vigorous with the projectiles? Else it could be those dang spoons again.

Saccy, I could think of worse things than having to retire to stud!!