2014 Sydney Classic Bicycle Show - 22 March 2014

[familyguy]

Mines in the 69-80. No chance! But will be good to get out there. Gotta source a stand yet. Might see if the LBS has a spare...

Jim

[marc2131]

2days to go and we have almost 50 bicycles entered in the Concours event alone. Registrations are still turning up. I believe we will close entries at COB Friday 21 march.
The swap meet vintage bicycle stalls officially stand at 20 at the moment. I got a call this evening from a BMX enthusiast claiming he intends to get another 12 more BMX parts sellers to turn up. So potentially, we may have 32 stalls in all!
Hope the weather holds out. Even have a penny farthing pursuit style race around the velodrome that afternoon.
Lots of food and coffee stalls for everyone.

[bigfriendlyvegan]

Marc,
What time does the racing start? I'm keen to see the penny farthing race, but can't spend all day at Tempe.

[utedeej]

Marc,
What time does the racing start? I'm keen to see the penny farthing race, but can't spend all day at Tempe.

I agree, would be great even if there was a draft of a program, as I'm only doing the day trip up and haven't got all day.

[Johnj]

What time does the racing start? I'm keen to see the penny farthing race, but can't spend all day at Tempe.

I believe the Penny Pursuit will be on somewhere between 1pm and 2pm. Neither Gokulan nor Ray have raced a penny on a velodrome before, so it could be a bit alarming. If you're planning on buying junk er rare collectible cycling memorabilia, 11am would be the best time to get there. We hope to present the concours prizes a bit after 2pm.

[utedeej]

What time does the racing start? I'm keen to see the penny farthing race, but can't spend all day at Tempe.

I believe the Penny Pursuit will be on somewhere between 1pm and 2pm. Neither Gokulan nor Ray have raced a penny on a velodrome before, so it could be a bit alarming. If you're planning on buying junk er rare collectible cycling memorabilia, 11am would be the best time to get there. We hope to present the concours prizes a bit after 2pm.

Thanks Johnj

[HLC]

Cleaned up both my bikes today. Looking forward to it. Not sure what time i'll get down. Probably early so i can raid all the stalls ha ha

[minhyy]

thanks to the organisers and vendors for planning the show, lots of goodies on offer and (mostly) steel

some pics from today - please contact me for usage permission if you want to re-use them elsewhere
















penny farthing sprint was mad

[Eleri]

penny farthing sprint was mad

Yes, especially as the pursuant had no way of actually passing once he caught up so was doomed to come 2nd!

[marc2131]

A great time was had by all.
Had over 50 bicycles in the Concours event and an amazing array of 23 vintage bike stalls, incredible. The velodrome infield was busy indeed.

Part of the 50 bikes in the Concours display


Judges JohnJ and Roger Rabbit (sound familiar?) at work


Stretch on his Penny


Ray during the Penny Pursuit race, which he won! Well done Gokulan.


Some of the 23 bicycles stalls






Some of the prizes for the Concours event and track races


The new/old Dulwich Hill BC Penny Pursuit 'Perpetual' Trophy. This is an old trophy from 1888 and was used as a doorstop for many years by a late, long time DHBC member. This years race was won by Ray. He will look after this trophy until March 2015.


Lots more photos and a video to follow.

Regards
marc

[utedeej]

Had a cracking day thanks all and a particular thanks to the organisers for a well run event. Was also great to put a face to many forum users. Was a long drive back home, so I haven't had a chance to look at my new bits an pieces. I'm looking forward to the morning, when i can check everything out.

Will definitely have to bring some bikes up next year for concourse, but mine will just be padding compared to some of the absolute beauties that were there.

Cheers

[familyguy]

Great day out. Should've bought some portable shade though!

Got to talk to a few peeps, but missed a few (I was wandering about in the red Reynolds 532 shirt). Should get my pics up in the next day or so.

Jim

[Clydesdale Scot]

Great day out. Should've bought some portable shade though!

Got to talk to a few peeps, but missed a few (I was wandering about in the red Reynolds 532 shirt). Should get my pics up in the next day or so.

Jim

argh
Jim
your shirt was noticed, should have identified yourself.
!
Doing tomorrows ride?

[utedeej]

Great day out. Should've bought some portable shade though!

Got to talk to a few peeps, but missed a few (I was wandering about in the red Reynolds 532 shirt). Should get my pics up in the next day or so.

Jim

argh
Jim
your shirt was noticed, should have identified yourself.
!
Doing tomorrows ride?

Double arghh. Was hoping to say hello. Bike looked fantastic Jim - job well done.

[jonbays]

I enjoyed my day out there so thanks to all concerned. Was B hot though!

Interesting to talk to Geoff Scott about frame building and see his latest work. So much more goes into the design and building of the frames than you imagine and I hope we keep the skills and art of it all going to the next generation.

[marc2131]

Had our L'Eroica moment today.
We held a post-Sydney Classic Bicycle Show bike ride. A hardy and hearty bunch set off from Canterbury Velodrome on a vintage (steel) steeds. We rode to Bicentennial Park at Homebush for coffee and then returned to Tempe and the Concordia Club for a well earned meal and cleansing ale.

Many BNA regulars; Peter B (aka Human Being), QuangV (aka Quang Vuong), Philip (aka Cyldesdale Scot), Andy W (aka Saro), Marc R (aka Marc2131) and JohnJ (aka JohnJ).

[munga]

dayne's tomma?

[HLC]

thanks to the organisers and vendors for planning the show, lots of goodies on offer and (mostly) steel

some pics from today - please contact me for usage permission if you want to re-use them elsewhere

This bike is mine! (the funny bike behind was mine too - and actually won best track!)

Highlight of the show for me was having Geoff Scott confirm that my funny bike was actually one of his. Ben/Spirito had a chat to him and he wandered over to have a look, and yep, confirmed it. He said it was of the era somewhere between the 84 Olympics and the 88 Olympics when his 'Gefsco's' were ridden in the Pursuit / ITT events.

Consequently, it took out Best Track Surprisingly. Super stoked.


Picture is awesome BTW, am going to save it for myself, cheers!

[familyguy]

My brief set of pics: https://plus.google.com/photos/11527799 ... 38KcpsKDYw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I've got the story of the white and orange trike, but I need to clean up the image though. Very trick little ride.

Jim

[Saro28]

Well done for the presentation of your bikes and for the awards too. Ben told me your story, WOW, so cool to have that confirmed.
I too had confirmation from GS for my Clamont, also built by his hands and now personally autographed.

[QuangVuong]

I had a good day out yesterday. And enjoyed this morning's ride. It was good to meet a bunch of BNA members in real life, and to see a lot of nice vintage bikes. I was surprised to see a BT Superbike there. I wasnt really expecting any other carbon bikes there, but to think there'd be the Superbike.


Pano by Quang.Vuong, on Flickr

BT Superbike, my fav for the day

BT Superbike by Quang.Vuong, on Flickr

And here was my entry, my 87 Kestrel 4000. The only carbon frame in the 81-95 category.

Kestrel 4000 by Quang.Vuong, on Flickr

Anyway, I took pics of pretty much all the road and track frames, which can be viewed here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79475697@ ... 784103413/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[hiflange]

Looovvve these copper Wiliers I've seen them with a stencil logo before but never the script. Looks like a great day. Time we did something in Perth hey sandgropers!

[utedeej]

I had a good day out yesterday. And enjoyed this morning's ride. It was good to meet a bunch of BNA members in real life, and to see a lot of nice vintage bikes. I was surprised to see a BT Superbike there. I wasnt really expecting any other carbon bikes there, but to think they'd be the Superbike.


BT Superbike, my fav for the day

And here was my entry, my 87 Kestrel 4000. The only carbon frame in the 81-95 category.

Anyway, I took pics of pretty much all the road and track frames, which can be viewed here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79475697@ ... 784103413/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Great work Quang, some nice pics. I was half way up the freeway when i remembered that i'd forgotten the camera.

Nice to finally catch up with you too.

[HLC]

I had a good day out yesterday. And enjoyed this morning's ride. It was good to meet a bunch of BNA members in real life, and to see a lot of nice vintage bikes. I was surprised to see a BT Superbike there. I wasnt really expecting any other carbon bikes there, but to think they'd be the Superbike.



Anyway, I took pics of pretty much all the road and track frames, which can be viewed here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79475697@ ... 784103413/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Your Kestrel was one of my and my mates fav's for the day. Looks great, well done. Love all the kooky early carbon stuff!

[familyguy]

Cycle Exif gallery with some links within: http://www.cycleexif.com/2014-sydney-cl ... cycle-show" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jim