eastern creek enduro

spook said:

anyone else from aus.bicycle riding in the eastern creek 12 hour this
weekend?

i've decided to make my racing debut doing the 12 hours solo ...
probably not the smartest idea i've ever had especially coupled with
having only owned and ridden a road bike for the past month, though i've
been doing a lot of k's offroad over the past couple of years so i do
feel somewhat prepared.

anyone got any tips or hints going into sundays event?

i'll try and post pics and a review of the event sometime next week.

brett

Doing it solo is the only way to go I reckon.

Marty

"spook" wrote in message ...

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anyone else from aus.bicycle riding in the eastern creek 12 hour this
weekend?

I'm not riding, but intend to get there in the afternoon to give some support to a couple of guys I know in a team all riding
Birdys.

Quoted message said:

i've decided to make my racing debut doing the 12 hours solo ...
probably not the smartest idea i've ever had especially coupled with
having only owned and ridden a road bike for the past month, though i've
been doing a lot of k's offroad over the past couple of years so i do
feel somewhat prepared.

anyone got any tips or hints going into sundays event?

The obvious - just take it easy, keep well hydrated, eat some food. A change of riding clothes can be nice. Have fun!

What are you riding?

Parbs

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What are you riding?

Parbs

2001 Cannondale R2000 all standard other than an SLR saddle and a set of
mavic cosmic elites. basically too much bike for me :-)

spook said:

anyone else from aus.bicycle riding in the eastern creek 12 hour this
weekend?

anyone got any tips or hints going into sundays event?

i'll try and post pics and a review of the event sometime next week.

brett

Don't forget the lube (not chain).
How will you take pics if you are riding for 12 hours?
If you say "on the bike" - keep well away from me please.

Pete (Low and aero)

Poiter said:

Don't forget the lube (not chain).
How will you take pics if you are riding for 12 hours?
If you say "on the bike" - keep well away from me please.

Pete (Low and aero)

good idea on the lube!! pics via my wife who i probably wont be able to
drag out of bed at the crack of dawn but will show up i'm sure at a more
civilized hour ... no thoughts of pics from the saddle

for when youre off the bike on your breaks - track pants to retain leg warmth, comfy shoes/sandals if youre doing much walking.

Just got back from Sydney this morning and boy, am I feeling ordinary.
I soloed on my RecumbEnt and did 350km.
There's about a 50metre height differential between top and bottom and this started to tell around 3pm.
My average speed went from 38kmh for the first few laps down to around 29kmh at the end.
Lots of roadie team packs doing hot laps then pitting and changing for fresh riders.
It was a pretty good day for riding aksherley with overcast conditions and a cool wind.
In the solos, top two blokes were on Road bikes doing lots of pack sucking.
Next three were Low recumbEnts doing it all on their lonesome.
Ian Humphries from Flying Furntiture did a very good job on his M5Carbon bent
http://www.ozhpv.org.au/images/112-1240_IMG.JPG holding down 3rd place only 1:20 behind second place.
Irony was the prize that Ian got for 3rd place was a carbon seat post.
Ian scratched his head and thought "what am I gunna do with this?"

I'm going back to sleep under my desk now.
Pete

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Just got back from Sydney this morning and boy, am I feeling ordinary.
I soloed on my Recumbent and did 350km.

Nice effort

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There's about a 50metre height differential between top and bottom and
this started to tell around 3pm.
My average speed went from 38kmh for the first few laps down to around
29kmh at the end.
Lots of roadie team packs doing hot laps then pitting and changing for
fresh riders.

I was a bit surprised there wasn't more of this, there seemed to be only two bunches of any real size going around, mostly just
seemed to be small groups of 4 or less.

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It was a pretty good day for riding aksherley with overcast conditions
and a cool wind.
In the solos, top two blokes were on Road bikes doing lots of pack sucking.
Next three were Low recumbEnts doing it all on their lonesome.
Ian Humphries from Flying Furntiture did a very good job on his
M5Carbon bent http://www.ozhpv.org.au/images/112-1240_IMG.JPG
holding down 3rd place only 1:20 behind second place.
Irony was the prize that Ian got for 3rd place was a carbon seat post.
Ian scratched his head and thought "what am I gunna do with this?"

That was funny.

I wandered in to lend support to the guys racing Birdy after a club XC race in the morning. I took lots of photos

A few here http://www.users.bigpond.com/rob.parbery/ec12hr/

After a couple of hours watching I was wishing I was out having a ride it looked like fun.

There was a nasty crash in Pit Lane, from accounts it sounded like the guy was looking down at his ankle trying to remove his
transponder and somehow lost control of his steering which turned sharply and then wheel just collapsed sending him face first into
the concrete. Was very glad he hadn't hit somebody as there were a few little kids wandering around. St Johns were on the seen
pretty quick and the ambos took him away. I hope he's OK.

Rob