BR104 - Happy 2nd birthday

[Gags]

"ritcho" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> DaveB Wrote:
> > Rode the 4km from home to the start point. Had a chat to the others.
> > Realised cones on the front wheel needed tightening (should have done
> > a
> > test ride after servicing the wheel). Tried to fix it with one cone
> > spanner. gave up and went home. Hope everybody else had a better ride
> > than that.
> >
> > daveB
>
> It was certainly eventful! I counted the following:
>
> 1 DNF due to dud front hub bearing adjustment;
> 1 DNF due to dead BB (Gags)
> 1 weird dislocated shoulder without actually crashing (FD)
> 1 rear wheel slide around a roundabout (me)
> 1 front wheel, rear wheel, full body slide around the same roundabout
> (TimC, apparently uninjured, except for a bit of grazing - really
> smooth road to slide on)
> 1 really fast run into Hurstbridge (sitting on Gpl's wheel ha ha ha)
>
> Log another one...
>
> Ritch
> --
> ritcho
>
That BB is giving me the *****.......stupid italian thread keeps on coming
undone!!! It is a Syncros BB that basically has an axle through the middle
and then two lots of bearings that screw in on each side and have an
external lockring. I have locked the RHS of the BB as tight as I could with
a C spanner and pin spanner to the point that I am just shy of rounding off
the notches and holes on the BB and yet it still comes undone as soon as I
start putting some decent pressure on it on a climb. I am either going to
put some sort of loctite on it (a weak thread locker) or just turf it and go
for a sealed Chorus BB so that I don't run the risk of getting it stuck in
my frame due to the loctite.

Might have to check out prices tonight.

Gags

 

[Gags]

"DaveB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Rode the 4km from home to the start point. Had a chat to the others.
> Realised cones on the front wheel needed tightening (should have done a
> test ride after servicing the wheel). Tried to fix it with one cone
> spanner. gave up and went home. Hope everybody else had a better ride
> than that.
>
> daveB

Dave, you mentioned that you had seen a couple of hard waste bikes and then
they were gone 10 min later.....on the way home up Main Rd, I saw a truck
with a mini skip on the back that had a mountain bike in it....couldn't
catch up to ask if I could have a look though (I need to source a cheap
36hole mtb rim for the SS as the rear one is just about had it after 11 or
so years of use).

Might have to find out when an upcoming hard waste collection is and trawl
the appropriate suburbs.

Gags

 

[Resound]

>
> Phillip Island weather - perfect. Good racing on a dry, fast track.
> A couple of crashes in B grade, nasty one in the sprint finish.
> If I see one of those Leongatha kids throwing random hooks again,
> they're getting punted into the ditch. Don't they have bunches in
> Leongatha? Insane ...
>

Random hooks? They're throwing punches or swerving around?

 

[Bleve]

Resound wrote:
> >
> > Phillip Island weather - perfect. Good racing on a dry, fast track.
> > A couple of crashes in B grade, nasty one in the sprint finish.
> > If I see one of those Leongatha kids throwing random hooks again,
> > they're getting punted into the ditch. Don't they have bunches in
> > Leongatha? Insane ...
> >
>
> Random hooks? They're throwing punches or swerving around?

a hook is where you push someone up the track, and a chop is where you
drop down on them - it's a tracky thing, but it translates to road
roughly. These kids were overlapping wheels quite badly and swerving
wildly - thus hooking the riders behind them and beside them a lot.

Deserving of a good beating behind the bikeshed - you expect that sort
of errant riding in grade, not B grade.

 

[DaveB]

Gags wrote:
> Might have to find out when an upcoming hard waste collection is and trawl
> the appropriate suburbs.
>

We should go together. You can stop eddiec from stealing all the good
bikes while I load them up.

DaveB

 

[gplama]

Llama, you should have come ... you missed a good race. Still, it's
easy to be the king of the BR I guess ...

You've not been on a BR have you? Hill acceleration repeats and attacks were the order of the day.. it left me totally shagged.. well, after a 8km walk post the BR I was...

BR104 honors list goes to...

TimC: For your ever increasing speed and ability to suck wheel. Can't wait 'till you start throwing down the challange and attacking.

Ess: Someone I had to keep an eye on, all day... and who I _had_ to respond to when you attacked on our race into Diamond Creek.

Ritcho: For holding my wheel when I dropped the hammer attempting to drop everyone - I thought it was TimC back there but when you didnt shake off after about 30 seconds I had to sit back down and come up with anohter plan..

Failed attack of the day goes to FlyingDutch... who took off with only a few 100m to the next hill, TimC responded.. all while Ritcho, Ess, and I rolled through rolling them in the process... hornets nest indeed.. thats when the fun started

 

[Bleve]

gplama wrote:
> Bleve Wrote:
> >
> > Llama, you should have come ... you missed a good race. Still, it's
> > easy to be the king of the BR I guess ...
>
> You've not been on a BR have you? Hill acceleration repeats and
> attacks were the order of the day.. it left me totally shagged.. well,
> after a 8km walk post the BR I was...

Not one of yours, no. I'd be a mile off the back, it's got a hill in
it!
I know how strong you are and the potential you have. It seems a shame
to hide it away when you could really test yourself against people of
your own standard. Golly, I just want to smack you around until you see
sense, and put it on the line where you risk not being the top dog.
You've got a lion's engine, Dorothy can help you find the courage

 

[TimC]

On 2006-06-19, Bleve (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> It seems a shame to hide it away when you could really test yourself
> against people of your own standard.

Awww, come on! He revels in chasing down commuters on the bouli!

--
TimC
The Sell Dervers are balanced behind another Sell Derver, and both
have their data protected from Badness by a Dedundant Array of
Inexpensive Risks -- Aquarion in ASR revealing the secrets of RAID

 

[Bleve]

TimC wrote:
> On 2006-06-19, Bleve (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> > It seems a shame to hide it away when you could really test yourself
> > against people of your own standard.
>
> Awww, come on! He revels in chasing down commuters on the bouli!

*exactly*

 

[Jono L]

gplama wrote:
> Bleve Wrote:
> >
> > Llama, you should have come ... you missed a good race. Still, it's
> > easy to be the king of the BR I guess ...
>
> You've not been on a BR have you? Hill acceleration repeats and
> attacks were the order of the day.. it left me totally shagged.. well,
> after a 8km walk post the BR I was...

Not one of yours, no. I'd be a mile off the back, it's got a hill in
it!
I know how strong you are and the potential you have. It seems a shame
to hide it away when you could really test yourself against people of
your own standard. Golly, I just want to smack you around until you see
sense, and put it on the line where you risk not being the top dog.
You've got a lion's engine, Dorothy can help you find the courage

Oh, oh oh!!! I second that! OK, Lama, lancefield handicap this saturday NO EXCUSES!!!

And Bleve, Sweet Jesus these F**************ING Christ! Leongatha kids **** me to tears too, every race at glenvale that come form the outsisde and cut in leaving a path of destruction behind them. We need a F***ing inquiry to rid them from our races!!! BTW was one of them wearing number 41? My mate in B said No.41 caused 3 crashes! I figured he *must* be from Leongatha.

Anyway, A grade was nice, 40.8 ave for 90k's pretty easy with lots of sitting in!

Jono

 

[Bleve]

Jono L wrote:


> And Bleve, Sweet Jesus these F**************ING Christ! Leongatha kids
> **** me to tears too, every race at glenvale that come form the
> outsisde and cut in leaving a path of destruction behind them. We need
> a F***ing inquiry to rid them from our races!!! BTW was one of them
> wearing number 41? My mate in B said No.41 caused 3 crashes! I figured
> he *must* be from Leongatha.

I don't know what numbers they were, and I was out of it by the last
lap anyway (job done, toast), but when I was stuck behind them a couple
of times I was *stunned* at how badly they rode in the bunch.

 

[warrwych]

Jono L wrote:


> And Bleve, Sweet Jesus these F**************ING Christ! Leongatha kids
> **** me to tears too, every race at glenvale that come form the
> outsisde and cut in leaving a path of destruction behind them. We need
> a F***ing inquiry to rid them from our races!!! BTW was one of them
> wearing number 41? My mate in B said No.41 caused 3 crashes! I figured
> he *must* be from Leongatha.

I don't know what numbers they were, and I was out of it by the last
lap anyway (job done, toast), but when I was stuck behind them a couple
of times I was *stunned* at how badly they rode in the bunch.

how about submitting something in writing to the commissaire/s????? Or at least an informal verbal to them either before or after the race. If enough people speak up, something may be done.... maybe....

 

[Bleve]

warrwych wrote:
> Bleve Wrote:
> > Jono L wrote:
> >
> >
> > > And Bleve, Sweet Jesus these F**************ING Christ! Leongatha
> > kids
> > > **** me to tears too, every race at glenvale that come form the
> > > outsisde and cut in leaving a path of destruction behind them. We
> > need
> > > a F***ing inquiry to rid them from our races!!! BTW was one of them
> > > wearing number 41? My mate in B said No.41 caused 3 crashes! I
> > figured
> > > he *must* be from Leongatha.
> >
> > I don't know what numbers they were, and I was out of it by the last
> > lap anyway (job done, toast), but when I was stuck behind them a
> > couple
> > of times I was *stunned* at how badly they rode in the bunch.
>
> how about submitting something in writing to the commissaire/s????? Or
> at least an informal verbal to them either before or after the race. If
> enough people speak up, something may be done.... maybe....

Or a polite letter to their club, suggesting that they invest in some
bunch riding skill lessons. Before someone gets irate and does give
them a beating... hrm.

I'll have a think about it.

 

[Jono L]

A beating is always the easy option