Commuter Cup Racing
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby Strawburger » Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:48 pm
I did have a condender though. Carbon roadie in lycra was pretty keen to make a point. He passed me on the way to the anzac bridge so i sat on his wheel. He gave it everything heading up then started freewheeling on the way down. I apologised on my way past him on the way down as i was on my fixie and couldn't slow to his pace. He then passed me when we hit lilyfield road so once again i sat on his wheel. As we headed up the hill he started to slow again, so guess what? Yes i passed him again! This time the message may have sunk in that i wasn't going away as he kept his distance for the rest of our trip
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby westab » Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:04 am
Very happy to see some action - there appear to be more people out and about now so maybe more action happening soon.
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby goneriding » Wed Aug 15, 2012 9:24 am
I got caught and passed on the Canada Bay run and then was able to return the favour going through Five Dock. Our ways then parted as I go around Iron Cove to Birkenhead Point before playing with the traffic on Victoria Rd.
As I was passing the Lilyfield overpass he came off the overpass and it was on for the ANZAC Bridge! He managed to get my wheel on the approach to the bridge and then hang on until 2/3rd's the way up and then I can only assume that there was a pop of some kind as he disappeared off my wheel.
It's always nice to have more than one bite of the cherry
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby FuzzyDropbear » Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:06 pm
Had to upload a low quality version of it because my home internet connection is dang slow...
I had a couple of opportunities to overtake but didn't because of traffic, I had hoped to overtake going down the last hill, but rekon I did pretty well catching up
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby mikesbytes » Fri Aug 24, 2012 10:18 am
Ha ha, definitely made yourself a targetStrawburger wrote:I was a bit of a target coming home tonight from Nth Syd to DH via Lilyfield Rd. I'd just bought a TT helmet and was stuck as to how to get it home... So i wore it and strapped my usual helmet around the stem. The amount of riders that gave it a little bit extra was alarming! Fortunately i am coming into some form so most riders were blown away.
I did have a condender though. Carbon roadie in lycra was pretty keen to make a point. He passed me on the way to the anzac bridge so i sat on his wheel. He gave it everything heading up then started freewheeling on the way down. I apologised on my way past him on the way down as i was on my fixie and couldn't slow to his pace. He then passed me when we hit lilyfield road so once again i sat on his wheel. As we headed up the hill he started to slow again, so guess what? Yes i passed him again! This time the message may have sunk in that i wasn't going away as he kept his distance for the rest of our trip
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby Rhubarb » Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:35 pm
You wanna try commuting in a bright red and white velomobile !!!Strawburger wrote:I was a bit of a target coming home tonight ....
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby landscapecadmonkey » Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:32 pm
If that is Ballarat, and im pretty sure it might be, that must be one cold SOB place in winter. I was wearing full winter (QLD) cycle gear there in March.FuzzyDropbear wrote:Last tuesday, while testing out my new helmet cam, managed to capture some SCR action on the way home.
Had to upload a low quality version of it because my home internet connection is dang slow...
I had a couple of opportunities to overtake but didn't because of traffic, I had hoped to overtake going down the last hill, but rekon I did pretty well catching up
So hats off to you for even being on the bike in August.
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby FuzzyDropbear » Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:22 pm
Had another race this morning, although it wasn't really a race, spotted an older gent on a bike about a block away from me so had to give it the beans to catch up, when I caught up to him I realised he wasn't riding that fast, but it was hard to pass cause he was wobbling all over the road.. So no, it wasn't a real race, but hey, still counts!
Not sure if this is classed as commuter racing. We were commuting home, the long way, well past the bmx track and a mate and I decided to have a few laps, haven't uploaded the full race video, but here was warm up lap no. 1..... Got off lightly this time, only managed to bent a brake lever.... Didn't realize they hadn't packed the first jump down since they'd modified it... lol.
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby KonaCommuter » Tue Aug 28, 2012 5:43 pm
Yeah, my standards are low
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby nickobec » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:53 pm
Today fully committed to CCR, riding steel commuter with guards, rack and panniers, dressed in baggies, then two flats which required catching train and missing storm cell on last past of ride.
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby nickobec » Fri Sep 07, 2012 4:06 pm
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby find_bruce » Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:00 pm
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby goneriding » Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:11 pm
That was nasty! I had a couple of couple of contenders on my tail on the way up from the City side. CC at low speed. Still managed to pull a win!find_bruce wrote:Some very slow CCR action on the way home - 50k gusting headwind on the Anzac Bridge meant no one was going anywhere fast. Caught one but the other got away.
The Harbour Bridge wasn't much better either as rather than a headwind there was a nice crosswind!
To add to the pain I was in a hurry tonight so had to push all the way home! Still hurting!
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby rkelsen » Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:56 am
Haha!KonaCommuter wrote:I totally owned this Commuter today.
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Yeah, my standards are low
Have you been out MAMIL hunting on it yet? It's fun...
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby rdp_au » Mon Sep 10, 2012 3:18 pm
Moral of the story: if you use momentum to pass someone at the bottom of a hill, it’s best to have the wherewithal to make it stick on the climb up the other side.
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Clip-in Cup
Postby ft_critical » Thu Sep 20, 2012 8:25 am
The ‘Clip-in Cup’ is often a precursor, or even a necessary enabler to a successful Commuter Cup Race. Some of the sounds associated with the Clip-in Cup are:
1. Shhhh, shhhh, shhhh – the trackstand,
2. Click – the sound of a single clip-in,
3. Click, clunk – the sound of a missed clip-in,
4. Click, clunk, grrr – the sound of a cleat striking the road under force as a result of a mis-clip
A dark, spring evening; we are four random cyclists waiting beneath a 400m, 4% grade, light-to-light section of city-fringe dual-carriageway. I roll behind a muscular commuter on a drop-bar racer with an 80’s aluminium loop tri-bar. Click, clunk, he missed the left. Click, sorted that. I am now riding on his three-quarter left. Click, clunk, grrr. Click, clunk; he missed the right clip-in. In a Clip-in Cup variation, we have click, clunk, grrr and the embellishment "oh, for fxxks sake!!” I am now directly beside him. I look over at him in the half-light of the street lamps, “Embarrassing isn’t it,” and smile at him in an understanding way. He kind of nods.
I am riding at the same pace as him, and I am riding very tight to his bars. A tri-fail clip-in saga is probably a bit ego-deflating. I can feel his mind rummaging around for a solution. The solution he extracts is of course ‘overcompensation.’ He now rummages in a different section of the mind, one also requiring the agreement of the body. He extracts from his sporting tool kit, ‘THE HAMMER,’ which he precedes to ‘DROP’ furiously. It turns out that he doesn’t have a very large hammer, not any sort of sledge hammer for sure, more the sort of small hammer you would keep in the kitchen drawer for craftwork. Five to seven vigorous, groan accompanied, pedal stompings later, he resumes his seat. But he is now 5m ahead of his shame.
Well, he would be, but for the fact that I notice he is wearing knicks. Now knicks, as we know, come in two main varieties. Bib and non-bib. These were a type I had not previously seen though – Hipster knicks. They were worn low down, barely covering the buttock, but with some snazzy boxers emblazoned with a shinny, blingy brand on the wide elastic waistband.
‘Nice shorts,’ I ventured. His response seemed to indicate that our friendly chat had ended and that, as he had dropped my weak ass, I should be more politely and quietly vanquished.
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby JustJames » Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:41 am
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby JustJames » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:31 pm
Shock and awe beats wheelsucking every time.
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby hannos » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:22 am
I think I need to do more riding...
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby Comedian » Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:25 am
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Re: Commuter Cup Racing
Postby jasonc » Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:29 am
I reckon I got a few CCR points that day...
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