Cool track photo thread
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby brentono » Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:45 pm
Well before my time, but I can relate... can still recall as a junior racing in open competitions for $10
when we had just changed over to new play money... and that was pocket money to me.
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Postby cotterpin » Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:40 pm
Bought a road cap and still had change.
I've got an old 1941 Devonport Carnival program with some impresive names it. I'll post it up over the next week or so.
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Postby vaeske » Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:00 pm
saw those awesome art deco posters on fleabay! its great you can purchase them and hang 'em up!brentono wrote:Poster
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Postby CommuRider » Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:56 pm
So....technically, who won?mikesbytes wrote:
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Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:33 pm
RAW is starting soon commurider. Are you going to get out on the track?
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Postby CommuRider » Sat Jun 02, 2012 3:31 pm
Haven't had the time this year to even think of entering. I thought I could get away with some nights but even my volunteering commitments are falling by the way side because of work. I need a good dose of competitive spirit to get into the groove methinks. It would be a good excuse to get a track bike but I don't think a leisurely pace around the drome will be welcomed It is definitely on the list however.
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Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:05 pm
I've already arranged my schedule so I can be there. When I started my new job I told them I would need to leave early on Fridays. Being cyclists themselves, they understood.
To continue with the thread, here is me beating a small child.
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:18 pm
I know this feeling well CommuRider and must say depresses me greatly! I had hoped to be able too get back to racing this year or early next year but alas driving trucks and being away from home all week, stopped any hope of this happening.CommuRider wrote:Haven't had the time this year to even think of entering. I thought I could get away with some nights but even my volunteering commitments are falling by the way side because of work. I need a good dose of competitive spirit to get into the groove methinks. It would be a good excuse to get a track bike but I don't think a leisurely pace around the drome will be welcomed It is definitely on the list however.
Unfortunately for me, there is no in between with cycling. I'm either 100% or nothing at all a far as competing goes, I'm just too competitive by nature to do it half arsed.
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby CommuRider » Sat Jun 02, 2012 6:47 pm
Bfv, the poor kid...you ain't building his confidence! Le pauvre! My son loves to beat me when we're cycling around SOP...he gets all grumpy and whingy when I cruise downhill and pass him by.
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby bigfriendlyvegan » Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:16 pm
You really need to learn more about racing. These "kids" as you call them keep improving, even on their restricted gears. They get faster than the old slow adults (like me), then they get faster than the alpha-Mammils, then they get old enough to go off the restricted gearing. Then they win gold at the Olympics.CommuRider wrote:Bfv, the poor kid...you ain't building his confidence! Le pauvre! My son loves to beat me when we're cycling around SOP...he gets all grumpy and whingy when I cruise downhill and pass him by.
There were several others behind us when we crossed the line. He beat them all - except for me. That was my only win.
I don't feel sorry for these kids at all. I'm looking forward to saying I raced against them when they're on the podium in Paris.
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Postby CommuRider » Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:26 pm
bigfriendlyvegan wrote: There were several others behind us when we crossed the line. He beat them all - except for me. That was my only win.
Great. 10 year old boys and girls wanting to beat and chase down older rabbits.
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby cyclorama » Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:25 pm
You guys never heard of the Left Hand Drive Racing Series?...ozdavo wrote:Drives are on the wrong side... I guess someone scanned a negative backwardsBRLVR.v2 wrote:bigfriendlyvegan wrote:
WTheF???????
Anyone else see anything wrong with this pic?
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby cyclorama » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:04 pm
Here it is the right way round:
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby Jenny5 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:56 am
I love the image, thanks for sharing!brentono wrote:Sure Foobrentono wrote:... from the "Delhi" track in Ontario, CA during a 9-day event in 1952. 50 degree banks in the corners!
Older tracks tended to have longer straights and tighter bends (hence up and over 50degrees)
Made if fun in a bunch race, as you were in and out of bends so quick, that you quickly lose
which part in the track you are. Which means you must pay special attention to the laps.
Gforces are fun, too... you get pushed down, into the bend, and thrown out of it.
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby scotto » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:36 am
mikesbytes wrote:Wonder what the steepest bank out there is/was
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby brentono » Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:01 pm
one of the steepest bankings around, today, used for competition Track Cycling.
This velodrome is probably the oldest indoor cycling track in the UK (transported and rebuilt)
... and these blokes are not even racing-video (FME-scratch races can get exciting, to say the least)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzA9J1BT ... re=related[/youtube]
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Re: Cool track photo thread
Postby brentono » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:36 pm
No (tunnel stairs-blue)bigfriendlyvegan wrote:So, do you cross the track on the straight to get in and out?
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