Gong Ride 2012
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Gong Ride 2012
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Postby Xplora » Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:52 pm
Wonder how the throng of bikes copes with the big descents?
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Postby find_bruce » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:34 pm
when I last rode it a few years ago, they had cop cars descending at regular intervals to keep the speed down - about 40km/h if I remember correctly.Xplora wrote:Actually the return journey looks like absolute murder... slow climbs and fast descents means heartbreaking climbs and less entertaining descents
Wonder how the throng of bikes copes with the big descents?
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Postby AndrewBurns » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:49 pm
40 :S Sounds like a good way to cook your brakes.find_bruce wrote: when I last rode it a few years ago, they had cop cars descending at regular intervals to keep the speed down - about 40km/h if I remember correctly.
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Postby trailgumby » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:11 pm
I had severe arm pump by the time I got to the bottom of RNP ... and I had hydraulic discs.
In the organisers' defence, though, there were a *lot* of people crashed on that descent who needed medical help. I wondered at the time about people's competence but when I caught up with the tail end of the next bunch up the climb, the number of people making like road-going windscreen wipers without bothering to check behind them provided the explanation.
I've been wary of doing the event since.
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Postby grantw » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:44 pm
Could talk myself into doing it again, but would ride up from the gong and come back with the circus for the 180. Riding through the park at 4am, should be interesting.
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Postby Ozkaban » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:00 am
I will do a few extra k's before the start to make it a century at least, but I'm not sure how best to ride to St Peters. I'm coming from up Hornsby way and will drive/train at least part of the way. Not keen on riding through the city. Is there a good way to get there? Cooks River cycleway looks like a pretty round-about way of getting there (after driving to Homebush).
How do most people get there? Just train to St Peters stn?
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Re: Gong Ride 2012
Postby baralah » Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:02 pm
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Re: Gong Ride 2012
Postby Addictr3 » Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:09 pm
lets start our own groupXplora wrote:Honestly, the idea of being paced the whole way down the hills is a huge turnoff... I WANT to burn down at 70+. If I can't, why bother doing the Gong Ride? Why not just go for "a ride"? I don't need an event to do fundraising for charity
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Re: Gong Ride 2012
Postby silentbutdeadly » Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:28 pm
In 1987, I remember getting kicked off my pannier loaded MTB (for an onwards journey to Jervis Bay) when someone decided that I wasn't allowed to hold my line whilst passing parked cars in Rockdale because it slowed them up for a tenth of a second whilst they decided to cut through empty spaces...
The ride is lovely but a few of the people suck...the Gong ride is up there with one of the least pleasant non-competitive mass rides in the country. But then what's my opinion worth, eh?
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Re: Gong Ride 2012
Postby Mugglechops » Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:54 pm
Got to agree with you there. The pro peleton of wayne kerrs are out in forcesilentbutdeadly wrote: The ride is lovely but a few of the people suck...the Gong ride is up there with one of the least pleasant non-competitive mass rides in the country.
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