Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

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Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby millynumb68 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 3:42 pm

I know this is probably going to end up on the "it all seemed like a bit of fun at the time" pile for me, but I'm contemplating going solo on this one.... unless someone can successfully talk me out of it.. (READ;...... Please Do!!)

http://www.token12hour.com/

The torture starts at 0900 on 6th March..... :twisted:
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Re: Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby JV911 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:04 pm

weird - i had a dream about this last night in which we were discussing whether 4 riders would do 4 x 1hr stints or a 1 x 3hr stint...maybe its an omen :shock:
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Re: Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby millynumb68 » Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:48 pm

JV911 wrote:weird - i had a dream about this last night in which we were discussing whether 4 riders would do 4 x 1hr stints or a 1 x 3hr stint...maybe its an omen :shock:
.........or eight 1/2hr stints....? :wink:

mine was more like a nightmare...... :shock:
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Re: Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby Burt 'Pigeon Racer' Jones » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:50 pm

I'm in.

4 man team at this stage, but I would consider going solo if I had to.

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Re: Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby ausrandoman » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:07 pm

One thing I don't get about this event

From the web site: "Lights will consist of a min 15w light for the front be it LED or HID"

Huh?

Having lights, yeah, good idea, but does 15W make sense? Even Audax doesn't demand this much light.

Is there something I don't get?
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Re: Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby snedden9485 » Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:42 am

Done this race yesterday. Awesome. Our team had 3 teams of 4 entered in the race (2 x mens open and one mixed 180 years combined age).

We managed to get our main team up for the overall win and the mixed team got up for the win also. We sacrifced the second open team for the main team at the 10 hour mark, a shame because we were still in the lead lap and had some strong riders, but it was important to keep the main team out in front. My race format was that i went out 2nd after 90 mins. What a start, the bunch flew past us and had to chase at speeds between 45 - 50 km/h for a lap (5.5km i think) to bridge the gap with two other guys. Talk about in the bin, i nearly popped on my first lap! Apparantly an attack had just went and we were chasing it.

After getting on the bunch it was ok and i stayed out for 90 mins before another change. The race all stayed together until about the 5 hr mark, when one of our main guys broke away with another guy and pulled a big lead on the bunch. Over the next few hours, our main team stayed out and managed to get a lap on the field which was great. . I went out for another 90 min around the 8 hour mark. So the main goal was then to get rid of the other leader who came across the break. At around the 8 or so hour mark, our team broke again and went solo for an hour or two, pulling time on the field. The #2 team was still sitting pretty in the race, but we pulled them back later to help out the leader. Then we had the fun job of doing 30 min TT efforts to hold off the hard chasing Central Coast boys. I went out with about an hour to go for about 30 mins with our main guy. I had the fun job of swapping off turns with him in the dark. Great fun! The bunch was cracking along chasing, but we managed to hold them off with time. Another quick change and some more hard laps. The end result was the main team won by about 3 minutes and the mixed team won comfortably! A very well run event and a great atmosphere. According to announcers, we done around 500km in 12 hours, so an avg speed of about 42km/h.

Still cant believe those top solo guys. Freaks!
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Postby misterpms » Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:08 am

snedden9485 wrote: ...
Still cant believe those top solo guys. Freaks!
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1st place did 95 laps in 12 hours!
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Postby Burt 'Pigeon Racer' Jones » Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:14 pm

Richard Vollebregt's a f*king machine!

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Postby Kev365428 » Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:34 pm

Burt 'Pigeon Racer' Jones wrote:Richard Vollebregt's a f*king machine!
Too right, except machine will eventually break.

Two years running now for Richard.

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Postby bunchridefinder » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:18 pm

snedden9485 wrote:Done this race yesterday. Awesome. Our team had 3 teams of 4 entered in the race (2 x mens open and one mixed 180 years combined age).



After getting on the bunch it was ok and i stayed out for 90 mins before another change. The race all stayed together until about the 5 hr mark, when one of our main guys broke away with another guy and pulled a big lead on the bunch. Over the next few hours, our main team stayed out and managed to get a lap on the field which was great. . I went out for another 90 min around the 8 hour mark. So the main goal was then to get rid of the other leader who came across the break. At around the 8 or so hour mark, our team broke again and went solo for an hour or two, pulling time on the field. The #2 team was still sitting pretty in the race, but we pulled them back later to help out the leader. Then we had the fun job of doing 30 min TT efforts to hold off the hard chasing Central Coast boys. I went out with about an hour to go for about 30 mins with our main guy. I had the fun job of swapping off turns with him in the dark. Great fun! The bunch was cracking along chasing, but we managed to hold them off with time. Another quick change and some more hard laps. The end result was the main team won by about 3 minutes and the mixed team won comfortably! A very well run event and a great atmosphere. According to announcers, we done around 500km in 12 hours, so an avg speed of about 42km/h.

Still cant believe those top solo guys. Freaks!
So effectively you had an 8 man team entered in the 4man team division... is that what this race is about? having as many teams in the 4 man team division to all work for one team?? I think you and your mates need to have a good hard look at yourselves.

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Postby snedden9485 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:08 pm

Whatever mate. It is teams event and that's how it us ridden. Various other teams had people other than their 4 man team working for them.
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Postby bunchridefinder » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:20 pm

snedden9485 wrote:Whatever mate. It is teams event and that's how it us ridden. Various other teams had people other than their 4 man team working for them.
It is a event for 4 people not a multi teams event, if you get dropped/lapped in a crit can you recover, miss a few laps and then help your team mate maintain a break? No.

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Postby trek52 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:44 pm

I was involved in yesterdays race whilst what happened was not cheating I do not beleive it was in the spirit of the race. What is to stop someone next year bringing 50 people out there to stay fresh all day then time trial around with one team on their wheel for the last 2 hours at 50km/h. To me that would wreck the event for everyone.

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Postby Burt 'Pigeon Racer' Jones » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:47 pm

bunchridefinder wrote:So effectively you had an 8 man team entered in the 4man team division... is that what this race is about? having as many teams in the 4 man team division to all work for one team?? I think you and your mates need to have a good hard look at yourselves.
Whoops. Sounds like someone missed out on a plastic trophy.

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Postby Pax » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:51 pm

Super impressed to hear that Lisa Robinson who I am riding with in the Sea 2 Summit ( viewtopic.php?f=12&t=23620 )with in 2 weeks came 3rd in the Women's Solo division.

By impressed I mean totally intimidated of course :shock:

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Re: Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby snedden9485 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:20 pm

Burt 'Pigeon Racer' Jones wrote:
bunchridefinder wrote:So effectively you had an 8 man team entered in the 4man team division... is that what this race is about? having as many teams in the 4 man team division to all work for one team?? I think you and your mates need to have a good hard look at yourselves.
Whoops. Sounds like someone missed out on a plastic trophy.
I don't care what is said, we rode hard. We wrent the only ones using tactics
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Re: Token 12hr - Who's up for it?

Postby martinjs » Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:13 pm

I think all of the people who even went into the event did a dam fine job. Sounds like some of you could almost go pro. :shock: :D

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