Have you known Hilton senior to look like anything but a lump o' lard?

He's been built like Boony ever since I first saw him, which was about '87, rumbling around Carnegie
on that motorbike with his Fonzie helmet on.

Big unit. Like John Nicholson.

eh, you got me on that one

Unless he had a nickname I'd know

I used to design bike tops for Kelly. That's your trivia for the day.

World Sprint champ in 1976....more Comm Games medals than Thorpey. He was my track coach as a junior.

did they pay you? Lol....

SH1T...never heard of him, but I seem to know a lot about John Kennedy..........go figure

Bit of a legend out at Blackburn. I used to do my ergo sessions looking up at a poster of him riding high around the banking with his patented "bolt-on" pedals.

Ha, and I thought that was a Vinnicombe invention.....D'OH

got any lying around?

Still got my old VHS tape (channel 9, Ray Martin commentating.....sheesh) of Vinnicombe riding to gold at the 1990 Comm Games....getting into his bolted on Duegis on that beautiful Clamont track frame.


BTW...Nicho was also World Champ in 1975. I sold him short!!!

SBR are not me mates.......they just came up with a deal on the 486 that no-one else would go near....so...$ being what they are!.....when i was in the final stages of pumping 'em for a better price, they offered me a full SBR kit...told me it was worth $300.....I said, nah, but you can take the $300 off
the price & we'll do it!...he had 'nowhere' to go then...so i got me discount.

Speaking of Hilton Jnr, i was watching that DVD 'the hard road' last night, the one the seppo's are always on about, he's a member of the team thats featured in it..'Net zero' or something...not a bad doco. they got absolutely spanked by hincapie in the US Pro RR. It's typical yank stuff though, the narrator makes some outrageous statements though, like, "the US pro road race in philledelphia is one of the most prestigous 1 day races in the world".......ummmm ok, s'pose it might be '1 of them'....ranked about 97 i reckon!

hitchy

COOOOOOOOL!!

Guys like you, that are right into their racing (at one time, at least), usually race well into their
late thirties; what gives?

I meant Groupe Sportif

It was time to get a life and realise I wasn't Stuart O'Grady.

I didn't want to be 31, working at Fitzroy Cycles 4 days a week and still living with my Mum.

I think USPRO champs is still the richest one-day prize in the world.....but I know what I'd prefer on my palmares between a win there or at Flanders.

good blokes...in fact excellent blokes.....did i mention that they are 'absolutely grouse blokes' (even though they ripped tiger off).....ya never know who's reading this stuff.....& they do have 585's......when you 'eventually' come for a ride, I'll tell you what they had to 'say' about a certain bike shop!....(the laws of libel prevent publication here! )

Hitchy

now I'll have to get my substantial arse into gear.....

I've got a "funny" story about Cecil Walker, too

the field wasn't that flash...postal fielded a team of 2nd stringers, (apart from george), coupla blokes from CSC (lesser lights), they had 'mercury', 'saturn' etc but no-one else of note...just the fact theat young hilton got a start means they weren't overly endowed with 'names'.....some old bloke...a kiwi, graham miller, 42 or something (anyone ever heard of him?) was rippin' it up early...probably says lotsa bout the standard

Hitchy

you guys looked at some of the '05 Kervellos?

https://www.cervelo.com/bikes/2005%20...st-Centaur.jpg

https://www.cervelo.com/bikes/2005%20...arbon-full.jpg

Sorry about my dodgey emails, Hitchoheyoh.

I wrote "sh1te" on there, and I also put on a couple of those
childish Incredimail faces

It's OK Hitchy, you don't have to be defensive...if you want to hang out with the SBR boys, that's your decision. It doesn't matter what we think.

As it happens, Graeme Miller is also on my vid from the '90 Comm Games, winning an excellent road race. He's done a cupla Sun Tours and is an absolute god in NZL cycling.

Tough, tough bike rider.

never heard of him...he's was the leader of the 'net zero' team, pretty much the star of the doco.......goes alright for an old bloke too!

hitchy