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Bleve
Guest
7am, 6 degrees, ride the tandem to the boule', meet up with a few
others along the way also riding in to do it. The tandem on my own,
is a barge, I'm glad it has a triple, although I didn't use it up the
hills on Whitehorse Rd, it was good to know it was there if necessary.
Arrive at the ITT, meet up with Rob, my stoker for the TT, we set up
the tandem stoker seat for him and enter ($10 for the team! that's
half price each, and twice the fun!). We do a practice run, it's a
barge, it's a truck ... it's a Big Blue Bus!
ITT time, and we go pretty hard, not a great time, but we only get
caught by one rider, on a hilly course on a great big heavy
bargebike. It's a handfull, on the descents it drops like a missile,
on the flats .. we don't know, the boule has no flats, and up
hills ... urgh! We managed to get around the turnaround at the
roundabout without having to get off it. 19:43 for the 12 or so k.
Tom Leaper wins it, Jono Lovelock wins the juniors(!), Bridie
O'Donnell wins the women (by 5 minutes!). Not a big turnout, but I
think it'll grow. BBN/HCC have the results within 15 mins of the end
of the trials to the amazement of the few who raced the DB Tour and
the last 1:20 ITT that BBN ran.
We won our class - first tandem (also, last tandem and only
tandem ...).
others along the way also riding in to do it. The tandem on my own,
is a barge, I'm glad it has a triple, although I didn't use it up the
hills on Whitehorse Rd, it was good to know it was there if necessary.
Arrive at the ITT, meet up with Rob, my stoker for the TT, we set up
the tandem stoker seat for him and enter ($10 for the team! that's
half price each, and twice the fun!). We do a practice run, it's a
barge, it's a truck ... it's a Big Blue Bus!
ITT time, and we go pretty hard, not a great time, but we only get
caught by one rider, on a hilly course on a great big heavy
bargebike. It's a handfull, on the descents it drops like a missile,
on the flats .. we don't know, the boule has no flats, and up
hills ... urgh! We managed to get around the turnaround at the
roundabout without having to get off it. 19:43 for the 12 or so k.
Tom Leaper wins it, Jono Lovelock wins the juniors(!), Bridie
O'Donnell wins the women (by 5 minutes!). Not a big turnout, but I
think it'll grow. BBN/HCC have the results within 15 mins of the end
of the trials to the amazement of the few who raced the DB Tour and
the last 1:20 ITT that BBN ran.
We won our class - first tandem (also, last tandem and only
tandem ...).