Freeway Bike Ride 2007 couple of youtube clips

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Freeway Bike Ride 2007 couple of youtube clips

Postby gdl_gdl » Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:06 pm

Check the rider in yellow on the left at the 1.28m mark! I don't know who the poster is but he managed to capture me for a few seconds in the tunnel! :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s38cwB3g4wg

Also footage of a crash that occurred last week (nothing too dramatic so don't expect any blood, guts and severed limbs!) :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M22udVUtzc

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Gary

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Postby Mulger bill » Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:23 am

Thanks Gary :D

Nice footage, pity the bloke with the camera looked away at the wrong time.

That crash was "nothing too dramatic"? :shock: OooooooooooooKkkkkkkkk then.

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Postby sevenof25 » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:13 pm

Hey Gary,

nice footage man!!

What group was the crash in?

I started at the back of the B group and got to just behind the A's at the finish

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Postby gdl_gdl » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:52 pm

Hi Stu,

It was in the B Group. It happened about 1 min in front of me and was cleared pretty quickly.

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Gary

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Postby sevenof25 » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:07 pm

I'm going to try and organise a camera myself for next year. Fine footage. I might even be fit enough to start with the A's next year.

Who took the footage, anyone on this site?

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Postby Noids » Sun May 06, 2007 2:37 pm

Newbie question, but at the end of the first video there is a rider on the right on tri bars. I was under the impression that it was bad etiquette to use these in a group, esp. a big grp like the freeway ride?

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Postby gdl_gdl » Sun May 06, 2007 8:36 pm

Re Tri Bars, I believe they are officially "banned" from the Freeway Ride and the Great Bike Ride...however they don't seem to enforce the ban as I saw plenty of them at both of the above events. I think part of the reason will be that the events are full of volunteer helpers on the day who just turn a blind eye or aren't aware of the rules.

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Postby mikesbytes » Sun May 06, 2007 9:03 pm

I still don't understand the ban on tri bars. If its street legal then how can they ban them?

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Postby sevenof25 » Sun May 06, 2007 9:23 pm

mikesbytes wrote:I still don't understand the ban on tri bars. If its street legal then how can they ban them?
I agree.

Using them in a group ride and having them on are two distinctly different things.

I used them on the ride but not in a group.

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Postby sevenof25 » Sun May 06, 2007 9:27 pm

all about being mindful really, isn't it. I wouldn't (and didn't) be using them whilst overtaking or navigating through heavy traffic

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Postby heavymetal » Tue May 08, 2007 10:59 pm

gdl_gdl wrote:Re Tri Bars, I believe they are officially "banned" from the Freeway Ride and the Great Bike Ride...however they don't seem to enforce the ban as I saw plenty of them at both of the above events. I think part of the reason will be that the events are full of volunteer helpers on the day who just turn a blind eye or aren't aware of the rules.

Cheers,

Gary
And my argument with them is - what about touring bars :lol:

Mine look like tri bars or aero bars, but are actually touring bars :D

Without them I have nowhere to mount the cameras.

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Postby Noids » Wed May 09, 2007 1:43 am

Grats on the 1000th post Kev ;)

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Postby heavymetal » Wed May 09, 2007 9:03 pm

Noids wrote:Grats on the 1000th post Kev ;)
Thanks, but I never noticed. I gave up trying to catch Richard some months ago. :D

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Postby mikesbytes » Wed May 09, 2007 10:44 pm

I noticed the other day that Richard and I had exactly the same number of posts at 1951 each. Richard came to the board 6 months after me and was the #1 poster in 6 months.

Good to see you crack the 1000 Kev.
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Postby heavymetal » Thu May 10, 2007 10:29 am

mikesbytes wrote:I noticed the other day that Richard and I had exactly the same number of posts at 1951 each. Richard came to the board 6 months after me and was the #1 poster in 6 months.

Good to see you crack the 1000 Kev.
Thanks Mike.

I'm wondering, with Richard being an Admin, whether he bumped his post count up by a lot. :D :D :D


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Postby mikesbytes » Thu May 10, 2007 10:36 pm

heavymetal wrote:
mikesbytes wrote:I noticed the other day that Richard and I had exactly the same number of posts at 1951 each. Richard came to the board 6 months after me and was the #1 poster in 6 months.

Good to see you crack the 1000 Kev.
Thanks Mike.

I'm wondering, with Richard being an Admin, whether he bumped his post count up by a lot. :D :D :D


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Whatever the truth is about the post count, he definitely used the most disk space.

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