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BBN/HCC Yarra Boule TT report

Bleve · 2007-06-04T02:15:17+00:00

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 ...).

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 02:15 UTC #1

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 ...).

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gplama
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4 June 2007, 03:22 UTC #2

Bleve said:
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 ...).
Nice work. It conflicted with the ATTA time trial at Steels Creek... 12kms vs 33kms... give me 33 any day, hilly or flat! I should be there next time for some hilly pain.
cheers,
lama

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 03:33 UTC #3

On Jun 4, 1:22 pm, gplama <gplama.2rm...@no-
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Bleve said:
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.
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We won our class - first tandem (also, last tandem and only
tandem ...).
Nice work. It conflicted with the ATTA time trial at Steels Creek...
12kms vs 33kms... give me 33 any day, hilly or flat! I should be there
next time for some hilly pain.
heh!
Jaywoo came to DISC on Sunday arvo, and drilled us all new orifices.
Wow, he's strong these days...

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just us
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4 June 2007, 04:24 UTC #4

LOLl Bleve - very hard to ride in with folks on singles when you are on a
tandem isnt it? We have never ridden with another tandem, but leave our
mates for dead on the downhills and the flats. Bugger is they catch us on
the uphills! Riding on your own is not so much fun - been there done that
and I got heckled from the traffic who thought it was the funniest thing
they had ever seen I am sure. Good to see someone using a tandem.
Kathy

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JayWoo
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4 June 2007, 04:24 UTC #5

Bleve said:
On Jun 4, 1:22 pm, gplama <gplama.2rm...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
Bleve said:
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.
Quoted message said:
We won our class - first tandem (also, last tandem and only
tandem ...).
Nice work. It conflicted with the ATTA time trial at Steels Creek...
12kms vs 33kms... give me 33 any day, hilly or flat! I should be there
next time for some hilly pain.
heh!
Jaywoo came to DISC on Sunday arvo, and drilled us all new orifices.
Wow, he's strong these days...
As long as you are putting your 100%, then the training isn't wasted I reckon. $10 well spent. Didn't you gain the most laps Bleve? Twoz great to be back bangin' it out on the boards🙂 Just got the shift change here at work so I should be racing Thursday night, YAY!
Jay "DISC, the most under utilised awesome hunk of wood around" Woo

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 04:35 UTC #6

On Jun 4, 2:24 pm, JayWoo <JayWoo.2rm...@no-
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Bleve said:
On Jun 4, 1:22 pm, gplama <gplama.2rm...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
Bleve Wrote:
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
> Not a big turnout, but I
> think it'll grow. BBN/HCC have the results within 15 mins of the

end
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> of the trials to the amazement of the few who raced the DB Tour and
> the last 1:20 ITT that BBN ran.
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Quoted message said:
> We won our class - first tandem (also, last tandem and only
> tandem ...).
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
Nice work. It conflicted with the ATTA time trial at Steels Creek...
12kms vs 33kms... give me 33 any day, hilly or flat! I should be

there
Quoted message said:
next time for some hilly pain.
Quoted message said:
heh!
Quoted message said:
Jaywoo came to DISC on Sunday arvo, and drilled us all new orifices.
Wow, he's strong these days...
As long as you are putting your 100%, then the training isn't wasted I
reckon. $10 well spent. Didn't you gain the most laps Bleve?
Yes, but I only took one solo, the rest were with help. All yours
were solo - in my feeble defence I had done 5 flying 100's and a 20
minute E3 (the boule!) already, but even if fresh, when you came past,
I doubt I'd have been able to latch on. You were flying ... the boards
were burnt ...
Twoz great
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to be back bangin' it out on the boards🙂 Just got the shift change here
at work so I should be racing Thursday night, YAY!
w00t!
B grade for you, at least ...
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Jay "DISC, the most under utilised awesome hunk of wood around" Woo
Isn't it a disgrace, how little it gets used? Track riders are a
bunch of sooks and whingers!

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 04:41 UTC #7

just us said:
LOLl Bleve - very hard to ride in with folks on singles when you are on a
tandem isnt it?
I found it ok, on my own on it. They all need to know to give you a
lot of room though. They are fairly slow to respond and two-up I'm
yet to master starting and stopping. There's lots of good howto's on
the 'net, just need the time to play around with it more and practice
the technique.
We have never ridden with another tandem, but leave our
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mates for dead on the downhills and the flats. Bugger is they catch us on
the uphills! Riding on your own is not so much fun - been there done that
and I got heckled from the traffic who thought it was the funniest thing
they had ever seen I am sure.
Yeah, that gets old pretty quickly 🙂 But, they *do* look funny ridden
solo, to be fair.
Mine's a Trek (what a surprise ...) T1000 :
http://www2.trekbikes.com.au/catalogue.cgi?rm=product&product_id=17&category_id=3&subcategory_id=33
I need to get it a setback seatpost, even with the seat all the way
back it's too far forward and it feels like I'm on my trackbike 🙂

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JayWoo
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4 June 2007, 05:34 UTC #8

Bleve said:
On Jun 4, 2:24 pm, JayWoo <JayWoo.2rm...@no-
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w00t!
B grade for you, at least ...
I'm hoping they will let me in A for maximum hurt!
Bleve said:

Isn't it a disgrace, how little it gets used? Track riders are a
bunch of sooks and whingers!
Or, it's the best kept secret😉
Jay "Wasn't this a thread on TTing the Boule?!😄" Woo

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warrwych
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4 June 2007, 05:45 UTC #9

Bleve said:
O
Isn't it a disgrace, how little it gets used? Track riders are a
bunch of sooks and whingers!
can you quantify "how little", cos I am really curious as to what constitutes "enough" in your terms. It gets used every night of the week for racing and/or training, plus regular gigs Saturdays & Sunday mornings. I would have thought that reasonable for a minority subset of a minority sport.

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 06:01 UTC #10

On Jun 4, 3:45 pm, warrwych <warrwych.2rn...@no-
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Bleve said:
O
Quoted message said:
Isn't it a disgrace, how little it gets used? Track riders are a
bunch of sooks and whingers!
can you quantify "how little", cos I am really curious as to what
constitutes "enough" in your terms. It gets used every night of the
week for racing and/or training, plus regular gigs Saturdays & Sunday
mornings. I would have thought that reasonable for a minority subset
of a minority sport.
They're easy to smoke out, too 🙂

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JayWoo
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4 June 2007, 06:18 UTC #11

warrwych said:
can you quantify "how little", cos I am really curious as to what constitutes "enough" in your terms. It gets used every night of the week for racing and/or training, plus regular gigs Saturdays & Sunday mornings. I would have thought that reasonable for a minority subset of a minority sport.
Spose I was coming more from a cyclist perspective. I've found it not only buckets of fun, but a great way to mix up my training. Last winter on any given Sunday Masters training sesh, there was anywhere between 2 to 10 with the norm being 6ish. I guess me thinking it great doesn't mean others do. As I said, best kept secret😄
Though I do think the time table is a bit whack too with all the "DISC AVAILABLE FOR CONTRACTED HIRE" over the weekend. Most people work during the week and I would have thought find it hard to use it during the 9-5 week day "CASUAL USERS" block.
vic.cycling.org.auDISCavailabilty.htm

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 07:55 UTC #12

On Jun 4, 4:18 pm, JayWoo <JayWoo.2rn...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
warrwych said:
can you quantify "how little", cos I am really curious as to what
constitutes "enough" in your terms. It gets used every night of the
week for racing and/or training, plus regular gigs Saturdays & Sunday
mornings. I would have thought that reasonable for a minority subset of
a minority sport.
Spose I was coming more from a cyclist perspective. I've found it not
only buckets of fun, but a great way to mix up my training. Last winter
on any given Sunday Masters training sesh, there was anywhere between 2
to 10 with the norm being 6ish. I guess me thinking it great doesn't
mean others do. As I said, best kept secret😄
Though I do think the time table is a bit whack too with all the "DISC
AVAILABLE FOR CONTRACTED HIRE" over the weekend.
If you want to use it on w'ends, let me know, I have access (I took
the time to organise access, and permission to use the motorbike).
It's $50 p/h for up to 10 riders, then an extra $5 per rider per
hour. An extra $20 p/h for the lights (I think this is good, it
makes you think twice about the energy you're using, and during the
day you don't need them anyway). I can be convinced to open it at
"odd" hours if given sufficient notice, as can many other coaches who
have organised access passes and such. Simon Quick has access, so does
Stu Vaughan, Liz Randall etc. Liz isn't a coach, but she has access
anyway, I'm not sure how that works, maybe you don't even need to be a
coach to get the pass? Most of the Melbourne clubs have access, as
far as I know, in some form or other and it's not that hard to find
someone prepared to open it up for you. Steve Peterson(?) at CSV is
very helpful.

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4 June 2007, 08:04 UTC #13

Bleve said:
We won our class - first tandem (also, last tandem and only
tandem ...).
Hi Bleve, I raced a tandem at the Steels Creek TT on the same day and
my mates raced another, we got 3rd and 4th for the 16km course (http://
www.atta.asn.au/results/results2_7k/vic6_07.html). Next event is a
team time trial, fancy 3 tandems in a team...?

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JayWoo
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4 June 2007, 08:13 UTC #14

Bleve said:

If you want to use it on w'ends, let me know, I have access (I took
the time to organise access, and permission to use the motorbike).
Cool. Thanks for the 'heads up'.

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Dave
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4 June 2007, 08:37 UTC #15

Bleve said:
Yeah, that gets old pretty quickly 🙂 But, they *do* look funny ridden
solo, to be fair.
For true style points you need to tie ropes to the handlebars and ride
from the back seat. Or sit on the front seat and bunnyhop one.
Dave - who has done both, as well as holding the handlebars and using the
back pedals.
--
Dave Hughes | [email hidden]
You're a classic example of that inverse
ratio between the size of the mouth and the
size of the brain - Doctor Who

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just us
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4 June 2007, 10:04 UTC #16

Photo of our trusty old Burley. The history of it is that a couple of
Americans came to Australia with it new way back when.( I think it must be
going on at least 18yrs old if not more) They rode it from Sydney to Cairns,
then my brother bought it off them. We inherited it when Bro went overseas,
he has since spent a mint on a new one and thinks the old Burley is now [censored]
lol. We have had many a moment on the old girl, from Touring to Cooktown, to
riding to Karumba and long hauls all over Far north Qld - she is a beast 🙂
http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?srv=img01&img=/8/6/4/f_DSCN2262m_9287096.jpg
Kathy

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 10:06 UTC #17

Dave said:
Bleve said:
Yeah, that gets old pretty quickly 🙂 But, they *do* look funny ridden
solo, to be fair.
For true style points you need to tie ropes to the handlebars and ride
from the back seat. Or sit on the front seat and bunnyhop one.
That would be entertaining! Requiring of flat, quiet roads ... not
many around here!
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Dave - who has done both, as well as holding the handlebars and using the
back pedals.
heh! Superman. Where is Obree when you need him?

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PiledHigher
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4 June 2007, 10:20 UTC #18

Bleve,
Do you know what the session marked VIS/BBN is?

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Gags
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4 June 2007, 11:41 UTC #19

"Bleve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:
On Jun 4, 2:24 pm, JayWoo <JayWoo.2rm...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
Bleve Wrote:
Yes, but I only took one solo, the rest were with help. All yours
were solo - in my feeble defence I had done 5 flying 100's and a 20
minute E3 (the boule!) already, but even if fresh, when you came past,
I doubt I'd have been able to latch on. You were flying ... the boards
were burnt ...
I was planning on getting along to the Masters session on Sunday to get back
in the swing of things before hopefully making it for a race on Thursday
Night this week but something else came up at the last minute.
Regarding the Masters Training Session:
1. Does it go for the full 3 hours?
2. How many usually show up?
3. How is the session usually structured?
Cheers,
Gags

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Bleve
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4 June 2007, 12:22 UTC #20

Gags said:
"Bleve" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On Jun 4, 2:24 pm, JayWoo <JayWoo.2rm...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com said:
Bleve Wrote:
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Yes, but I only took one solo, the rest were with help. All yours
were solo - in my feeble defence I had done 5 flying 100's and a 20
minute E3 (the boule!) already, but even if fresh, when you came past,
I doubt I'd have been able to latch on. You were flying ... the boards
were burnt ...
I was planning on getting along to the Masters session on Sunday to get back
in the swing of things before hopefully making it for a race on Thursday
Night this week but something else came up at the last minute.
Regarding the Masters Training Session:
1. Does it go for the full 3 hours?
yes
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2. How many usually show up?
I've been going for ~6 weeks, top attendance was 12, worst was 2
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3. How is the session usually structured?
warmup, some sprint stuff, a 'kieren', a 50 lap 'take a lap when you
can' ride, and a warmdown, is
what we did this sunday.
You can, within reason do your own thing if you have your own plan, or
you can mix it in with the rest - I do a bit of both.

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