Cornering fast ...

On 2005-08-09, Bleve (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

http://www.aboc.com.au/images/galleries/skills/mcewen-corner.jpg
http://www.aboc.com.au/images/galleries/skills/cornering.jpg

No fair supergluing your bike onto the ground at and angle, then
getting on and striking a pose with muscles tensed for the camera.

--
TimC

Quoted message said:

cat ~/.signature

Passing cosmic ray (core dumped)

Bleve said:

The recent thread on the Kew crit (and its famous corner) lead me to
have a grovel through some photos I took at last summer's Bay Series
crits. These two are from the Geelong foreshore hotdog course, and
they show just how much you can lean a roadbike into a corner.

The alert may recognise some of the riders 🙂

http://www.aboc.com.au/images/galleries/skills/mcewen-corner.jpg
http://www.aboc.com.au/images/galleries/skills/cornering.jpg

This pic of Jobst Brandt always makes me gag slightly.

sheldonbrown.comtiretest.jpgOpen ↗

"Bleve" wrote in message ..

Quoted message said:

The recent thread on the Kew crit (and its famous corner) lead me to
have a grovel through some photos I took at last summer's Bay Series
crits. These two are from the Geelong foreshore hotdog course, and
they show just how much you can lean a roadbike into a corner.

*Into a corner with a nice surface!...

cheers,
GPL
:always dodging the mid corner bump at Kew:

"Bleve" wrote in message ..

Quoted message said:

The recent thread on the Kew crit (and its famous corner) lead me to
have a grovel through some photos I took at last summer's Bay Series
crits. These two are from the Geelong foreshore hotdog course, and
they show just how much you can lean a roadbike into a corner.

*Into a corner with a nice surface!...

cheers,
GPL
:always dodging the mid corner bump at Kew:

Bleve said:

The recent thread on the Kew crit (and its famous corner) lead me to
have a grovel through some photos I took at last summer's Bay Series
crits. These two are from the Geelong foreshore hotdog course, and
they show just how much you can lean a roadbike into a corner.

The alert may recognise some of the riders 🙂

http://www.aboc.com.au/images/galleries/skills/mcewen-corner.jpg
http://www.aboc.com.au/images/galleries/skills/cornering.jpg

Here's a another one...
http://members.westnet.com.au/angrydwarf/lean.jpg

THis was taken a couple of years ago at the...thinking...Bay Series I
think, outside Crown Casino.

--
Nick

On 2005-08-09, NoZX6R (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Here's a another one...
http://members.westnet.com.au/angrydwarf/lean.jpg

THis was taken a couple of years ago at the...thinking...Bay Series I
think, outside Crown Casino.

I hope they straighten up before the tram tracks.

--
TimC

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Quoted message said:

Imagine what a tipped over tractor-trailer formerly
full of potatoes looks like.

Not half as messy as a truckload of oranges.

Or a hovercraft full of eels. -- Tanuki on ASR

TimC said:

On 2005-08-09, NoZX6R (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Here's a another one...
http://members.westnet.com.au/angrydwarf/lean.jpg

THis was taken a couple of years ago at the...thinking...Bay Series I
think, outside Crown Casino.

I hope they straighten up before the tram tracks.

--
TimC

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Imagine what a tipped over tractor-trailer formerly
full of potatoes looks like.

Not half as messy as a truckload of oranges.

Or a hovercraft full of eels. -- Tanuki on ASR

They weren't fully straigtening, there was some carnage for some of the interstaters not used to tram tracks!

Resound said:

This pic of Jobst Brandt always makes me gag slightly.

sheldonbrown.comtiretest.jpgOpen ↗

Woah! Get a load of the size of that head tube. :eek:

Spider1977 said:

Woah! Get a load of the size of that head tube. :eek:

Yeah, I thought that as well. He must be a tall lad. My head tube is that short that the top and down tube lugs on the fixie are cut into each other. My gf's bike barely has room for top and down tubes. It must suck trying to find a bike when you start getting down to about the 5' even height range.

Resound said:

Yeah, I thought that as well. He must be a tall lad. My head tube is that short that the top and down tube lugs on the fixie are cut into each other. My gf's bike barely has room for top and down tubes. It must suck trying to find a bike when you start getting down to about the 5' even height range.

Peter Moore has some cool lookin lil' roadbikes aimed at the 'gravitationally challenged' or even kids. i think they are using 650c wheels or possibly even smaller(?)

flyingdutch said:

Resound said:

Yeah, I thought that as well. He must be a tall lad. My head tube is
that short that the top and down tube lugs on the fixie are cut into
each other. My gf's bike barely has room for top and down tubes. It
must suck trying to find a bike when you start getting down to about
the 5' even height range.

Peter Moore has some cool lookin lil' roadbikes aimed at the
'gravitationally challenged' or even kids. i think they are using 650c
wheels or possibly even smaller(?)

The smaller Trek frames (the WSD ones in particular) come with
650c wheels too.

BTW, I got offered at job at my LBS! It'll pay rubbush money,
but be a bit of fun on Sundays and I'll get to learn a lot more
about bike repairs & maintenance (and more practice truing wheels ...)

In article <[email hidden]>,

flyingdutch said:

Peter Moore has some cool lookin lil' roadbikes aimed at the
'gravitationally challenged' or even kids. i think they are using 650c
wheels or possibly even smaller(?)

Giant have a 24" model for 2006...

--
Shane Stanley

quote='Bleve'flyingdutch said:

Resound said:

Yeah, I thought that as well. He must be a tall lad. My head tube is
that short that the top and down tube lugs on the fixie are cut into
each other. My gf's bike barely has room for top and down tubes. It
must suck trying to find a bike when you start getting down to about
the 5' even height range.

Peter Moore has some cool lookin lil' roadbikes aimed at the
'gravitationally challenged' or even kids. i think they are using 650c
wheels or possibly even smaller(?)

The smaller Trek frames (the WSD ones in particular) come with
650c wheels too.

BTW, I got offered at job at my LBS! It'll pay rubbush money,
but be a bit of fun on Sundays and I'll get to learn a lot more
about bike repairs & maintenance (and more practice truing wheels ...)[/QUOTE]

I've heard/read mixed things about 650 wheels. Some claim the overall reduction in performance with the smaller diameter just isn't worth it, others say they're great and if you're a shortarse and want decent frame geometry they're virtually required. I do wonder what tyre availability's like.

Congrats on the job too...sounds like a cool thing.

Bleve said:

BTW, I got offered at job at my LBS! It'll pay rubbush money,
but be a bit of fun on Sundays and I'll get to learn a lot more
about bike repairs & maintenance (and more practice truing wheels ...)

coolio!

they even have 'bents there to pootle about on, dont they?
seem to be one of the few shops around that has some different stuff lying around too
AND it's just down the road from Bunnings!!!

F"mmmmmm. Bunnniiinggggsss"Dutch

PS werent you going the wrong way on the pontoons last night

flyingdutch said:

Bleve said:

BTW, I got offered at job at my LBS! It'll pay rubbush money,
but be a bit of fun on Sundays and I'll get to learn a lot more
about bike repairs & maintenance (and more practice truing wheels ...)

coolio!

they even have 'bents there to pootle about on, dont they?

yep. Peter makes his own and sells Greenspeeds.

Quoted message said:

seem to be one of the few shops around that has some different stuff
lying around too
AND it's just down the road from Bunnings!!!

Lots of stock, even *2* tandems.

Quoted message said:

F"mmmmmm. Bunnniiinggggsss"Dutch

PS werent you going the wrong way on the pontoons last night

Not if I was riding to Williamstown from Vermont 🙂

Quoted message said:

--
flyingdutch

quote='Bleve'flyingdutch said:

Bleve said:

BTW, I got offered at job at my LBS! It'll pay rubbush money,
but be a bit of fun on Sundays and I'll get to learn a lot more
about bike repairs & maintenance (and more practice truing wheels ...)

coolio!

they even have 'bents there to pootle about on, dont they?

yep. Peter makes his own and sells Greenspeeds.

Quoted message said:

seem to be one of the few shops around that has some different stuff
lying around too
AND it's just down the road from Bunnings!!!

Lots of stock, even *2* tandems.

Quoted message said:

F"mmmmmm. Bunnniiinggggsss"Dutch

PS werent you going the wrong way on the pontoons last night

Not if I was riding to Williamstown from Vermont 🙂

Quoted message said:

--
flyingdutch

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This was posted at 3:40am(!) - how late is this new "part-time" job?

Ritch

ritcho said:

This was posted at 3:40am(!) - how late is this new "part-time" job?

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