DHBC Crit in training format!!! 16/05/10 IS ON!!!!!
- Simon Llewellyn
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G'day all, it's a work in progress with some whole new issues over the venue but the DHBC Criterium is set to return in 2010!! But without commissaires it will now be a training event. Which will mean the emphasis will be on teaching new riders to ride within criterium circuit.
Riders will need to enter through the pedestrian gates as the main gates will be locked. For driving you will need to park on the street.
Criterium: This Sunday 16/05/2010
Location: Dunc Gray Criterium circuit
Start time: 7:30am- 8am
Expected finish time: 8:30am-9:30am
Grades: Slowies (C), Middies (B), Fasties (A)
Coach: Super coach Lindsay Munks!!!
Cost: $5 for racing
Prize money: nil.
Distance: approx 30kms but based on your handicapp. Racing works so that riders are given an allocated start & thus an equal chance of winning!!!
The plan is that everybody meet at Mick Mazza's at 6:30am as usual & ride out together race & ride back as like last month. The route has been found to be suprisingly safer & quieter than expected.
If anybody chooses to drive out or is coming from another direction & doesn't know where dunc Gray is; here's the map:
http://www.nsw.cycling.org.au/default.asp?id=29416
Riders will need to enter through the pedestrian gates as the main gates will be locked. For driving you will need to park on the street.
Criterium: This Sunday 16/05/2010
Location: Dunc Gray Criterium circuit
Start time: 7:30am- 8am
Expected finish time: 8:30am-9:30am
Grades: Slowies (C), Middies (B), Fasties (A)
Coach: Super coach Lindsay Munks!!!
Cost: $5 for racing
Prize money: nil.
Distance: approx 30kms but based on your handicapp. Racing works so that riders are given an allocated start & thus an equal chance of winning!!!
The plan is that everybody meet at Mick Mazza's at 6:30am as usual & ride out together race & ride back as like last month. The route has been found to be suprisingly safer & quieter than expected.
If anybody chooses to drive out or is coming from another direction & doesn't know where dunc Gray is; here's the map:
http://www.nsw.cycling.org.au/default.asp?id=29416
Last edited by Simon Llewellyn on 13 May 2010, 17:41, edited 2 times in total.
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I hope that hamper is still on offer. If so its mine.
So is it training or racing? I am confused.
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its training where the aim is to beat others......
Ok. We'll put it back on our club diary.
I understand it to be on and it's on our club diary.
- Simon Llewellyn
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Aren't you away anyway???Is this on or not?
But the answer to your question at the moment is that since the tavern closed down there is no security. So as a result the gates are locked and there is no access. CNSW are supposed to ring me with a solution to the problem & until there's a solution there's no crit!
So watch this space & I will know definitely one way or the other by Friday night.
- Simon Llewellyn
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I got an answer today. The main gates will be locked so people driving will need to park out the front & walk/ride in. But there is apparently a pedestrian gate which will be opened from 7:30am which we can use.
So we will be riding!!! I have come up with a new team format to trial at this event which hopefully will be alot of fun!!!
See you all there.
So we will be riding!!! I have come up with a new team format to trial at this event which hopefully will be alot of fun!!!
See you all there.
Sounds great.
Unfortunately away this weekend, but will be there for the next.
Have fun!
Unfortunately away this weekend, but will be there for the next.
Have fun!
Not away but has competing engagements.
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So how did the "training ride" go?
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Well i somehow set my alarm for 7.10 rather than 6.10. So my crit involved going back to bed. Which given how sore my legs are probably isnt a bad thing.
John won, but I'm not sure if there was any foul play on the final turn.So how did the "training ride" go?
Sounded like Smith & Wesson to me....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVzwJUp7cS0
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Who was that who went down? are they ok?
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Who went down? were they hurt?
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Any ideas what actually happened? It sounded like a tubular going off, but as no one was riding them i suspect it was unlikely.
From what I could gather.....
He was on my wheel going in to the last corner, as he stood up to put the power down out of the corner, he slid out the rear. I think he then over corrected and he slid the bike along the opposite sidewall (ie. the side on the outside of the corner). This caused a HUUUUGE tear in the sidewall (clincher) and hence the pop and the fall. I think it sent Anthony high side off the bike too.
He was on my wheel going in to the last corner, as he stood up to put the power down out of the corner, he slid out the rear. I think he then over corrected and he slid the bike along the opposite sidewall (ie. the side on the outside of the corner). This caused a HUUUUGE tear in the sidewall (clincher) and hence the pop and the fall. I think it sent Anthony high side off the bike too.
I had a similar problem, though it was more turning the alarm off while half asleep, probably should have gotten to bed earlier.Well i somehow set my alarm for 7.10 rather than 6.10. So my crit involved going back to bed.
Glad to hear it all ran smoothly! Not so good about the crash, but luckily no serious injuries.
Were we watching a 1920s film restored in colour?
No Weiyun, it was just a long way away, and it's an edited zoom on mpeg from my still camera - so quality pretty poor.Were we watching a 1920s film restored in colour?
The audio was pretty good tho'!
Just a shame I didn't think to get a picture of the trashed tyre. Torn off the beading for 3/4 of the circumference.
That could have been the result of a pinch flat as well. I have had a pinch flat go off like a gunshot, and it does destroy the bead of the tyre.
James
James
John (NOOG - where did that nickname come from?) has it in a nutshell. I took the slight left hander a bit sharp to duck back into the slip stream and the rear slid out pretty badly. An overcorrection, a bit of a two-wheel slide and then a couple of metres of sliding on the right side wall of a recently replaced Vittoria Corsa Evo, a bang and then a high side launch onto the black stuff. It was no reflection on the tyres, however I think they must have been around the 100psi mark, as they shouldn't have squirmed as they did under power. Also, my left shoulder has historically been a little weakened due to archery, so I'll need to improve my muscle stability, by the looks, if I'm to improve my record.
Thanks for the video, I think someone mentioned some footage in HD too. Perhaps they'll think of it and hoy it online shortly.
Has anyone had any success patching decent chunks out of the new jerseys?
Thanks Simon for the lift and Geoff for the medical attention. I had a fun day out and am fortunate to only have grazing to the hip, leg, elbow and shoulder. Simon was sure I'd done my collarbone based on the gunshot and the flash of light
Hopefully I'll see you Wednesday with a new (much trendier) helmet and my single set of untattered cycle garb
Thanks for the video, I think someone mentioned some footage in HD too. Perhaps they'll think of it and hoy it online shortly.
Has anyone had any success patching decent chunks out of the new jerseys?
Thanks Simon for the lift and Geoff for the medical attention. I had a fun day out and am fortunate to only have grazing to the hip, leg, elbow and shoulder. Simon was sure I'd done my collarbone based on the gunshot and the flash of light
Hopefully I'll see you Wednesday with a new (much trendier) helmet and my single set of untattered cycle garb
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Be careful what you wish for.....Thanks for the video, I think someone mentioned some footage in HD too. Perhaps they'll think of it and hoy it online shortly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvryBSfDQdg
This is the non-HD version!
Anthony, that was the HD version. At least that's what it says on the camera. I was even further away than Geoff, and that's unfortunately as good as it gets.I think someone mentioned some footage in HD too. Perhaps they'll think of it and hoy it online shortly.
Next time, please crash a little closer to the camera!
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