CCCC (I'm starting to sound like a CCCC evangelist, despite being a BBN member!) ran their second race on a vehicle testing ground on Sunday - at the Holden PG at Lang Lang.
Amazing facility - wanky security guards and warnings about cameras - like anyone cares what the next dunnydore will look like anyway? But an interesting network of roads including a huge banked track. We got to race on the banked track and some connecting roads, which made for some very interesting racing indeed. 10km laps,Flat course, but yours trully had the 'flu and was bloody useless! Overall a very good place to race.
Them (CCCC) using vehicle testing grounds makes for some bloody good race venues.
CCCC (I'm starting to sound like a CCCC evangelist, despite being a BBN member!) ran their second race on a vehicle testing ground on Sunday - at the Holden PG at Lang Lang.
Amazing facility - wanky security guards and warnings about cameras - like anyone cares what the next dunnydore will look like anyway? But an interesting network of roads including a huge banked track. We got to race on the banked track and some connecting roads, which made for some very interesting racing indeed. 10km laps,Flat course, but yours trully had the 'flu and was bloody useless! Overall a very good place to race.
Them (CCCC) using vehicle testing grounds makes for some bloody good race venues.
Flat smooth banked track...... gee Carl, didn't you get dizzy riding around in circles?????
Flat smooth banked track...... gee Carl, didn't you get dizzy riding around in circles?????
We didn't just ride around in circles. The track was maybe 4km on the *huge* banked track, and 6km on the connecting roads. Imagine a really big version of METEC.
And by golly, a lot of B graders don't know how to ride quickly through tight corners or over muddy road or railway lines (the course has 2 railway crossings! They're simulated, ie: just 4 bits of train track, no actual railway goes through there) Riders were slowing down over the train tracks, every lap I'd get 3 or 4 bikelengths up the bunch at the crossings as they all slowed down for it! Same for the muddy road just before we turned back onto the banked track.
Flat smooth banked track...... gee Carl, didn't you get dizzy riding around in circles?????
We didn't just ride around in circles. The track was maybe 4km on the *huge* banked track, and 6km on the connecting roads. Imagine a really big version of METEC.
And by golly, a lot of B graders don't know how to ride quickly through tight corners or over muddy road or railway lines (the course has 2 railway crossings! They're simulated, ie: just 4 bits of train track, no actual railway goes through there) Riders were slowing down over the train tracks, every lap I'd get 3 or 4 bikelengths up the bunch at the crossings as they all slowed down for it! Same for the muddy road just before we turned back onto the banked track.
Maybe they weren't locals. In Brisbane, only tourists know how to deal with wet weather or mud. The locals just hide indoors.
wanky security guards and warnings about cameras - like anyone cares what the next dunnydore will look like anyway?
Oh they care all right. I've a colleague who used to work at Holden. Someone took a picture of the next Commadore and posted it on the web, next thing Holden knew sales on Commadores nose dived for six months 'cause everyone wanted the new one. -- Cheers Euan
wanky security guards and warnings about cameras - like anyone cares what the next dunnydore will look like anyway?
Oh they care all right. I've a colleague who used to work at Holden. Someone took a picture of the next Commadore and posted it on the web, next thing Holden knew sales on Commadores nose dived for six months 'cause everyone wanted the new one.
wanky security guards and warnings about cameras - like anyone cares what the next dunnydore will look like anyway?
Oh they care all right. I've a colleague who used to work at Holden. Someone took a picture of the next Commadore and posted it on the web, next thing Holden knew sales on Commadores nose dived for six months 'cause everyone wanted the new one.
It's still just a shopping trolley. [censored] 🙂
It is bizarre that we live in a culture where the favorite car for an 18 yr old man is one of the two family cars!
CCCC (I'm starting to sound like a CCCC evangelist, despite being a BBN member!) ran their second race on a vehicle testing ground on Sunday - at the Holden PG at Lang Lang.
Amazing facility - Them (CCCC) using vehicle testing grounds makes for some bloody good race venues.
Carl who is CCCC? Lang Lang was the site of the last attempt at the Australian HPV speed record in 1984. Steele Bishop "only" got to 78kmh in a fully faired vehicle before the outrigger wheels caught fire! alphalink.com.auhpv.htmlOpen ↗
Carl who is CCCC? Lang Lang was the site of the last attempt at the Australian HPV speed record in 1984. Steele Bishop "only" got to 78kmh in a fully faired vehicle before the outrigger wheels caught fire! alphalink.com.auhpv.htmlOpen ↗
Carl who is CCCC? Lang Lang was the site of the last attempt at the Australian HPV speed record in 1984. Steele Bishop "only" got to 78kmh in a fully faired vehicle before the outrigger wheels caught fire! http://www.alphalink.com.au/%7Eferret/hpv.html
It would be good to have a go at the record again some time if Lang Lang is available for events.
Pete
Caulfield-Carnegie Cycling Club
78kph? you sure? Alajet hits low 70's in the sprints on tour regularly...
But not for very long, and the difference between 70 and 78km/h is a *lot*.
We got the greenspeed "beserk" HPV up to 60 pretty easily around the BBN velodrome one afternoon, with a bunch of untrained (in HPV's with 105mm cranks) road riders. It should be capable of around 80 or so, judging by the drag coefficient it had *before* we destroyed it at Wonthaggi!
Carl who is CCCC? Lang Lang was the site of the last attempt at the Australian HPV speed record in 1984. Steele Bishop "only" got to 78kmh in a fully faired vehicle before the outrigger wheels caught fire! http://www.alphalink.com.au/%7Eferret/hpv.html
Greetings, Absolutely sure. 78.91 km/h, on the flat no assistance, I was there. Regards, Ray.
and that was the record? those wooly socks are very bad aerodynamically 😄 Im amazed that a lowslung faired bent couldnt beat that. Put a chris Hoy on one (in fact i think they did this recently with the UK pursuit team versus one guy on a bent and the 'bent' passed em after 1.5k...) and i recon you'd give it a shake, easy peazy.
a couple of 'Alpines' ago i got passed (blown off the road would describe it better) by a guy absolutely flying on this incredibly sexy CF 'bent' thingy. i think i was sitting on about 85kph at the time and he past me as if i was standing still! Mind you we woz flyin down Falls at the time... 🙄
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:05:37 +1000, Carl Brewer <[email hidden]>
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CCCC (I'm starting to sound like a CCCC evangelist, despite being a BBN member!) ran their second race on a vehicle testing ground on Sunday - at the Holden PG at Lang Lang.
Amazing facility - wanky security guards and warnings about cameras - like anyone cares what the next dunnydore will look like anyway? But an interesting network of roads including a huge banked track. We got to race on the banked track and some connecting roads, which made for some very interesting racing indeed. 10km laps,Flat course, but yours trully had the 'flu and was bloody useless! Overall a very good place to race.
Them (CCCC) using vehicle testing grounds makes for some bloody good race venues.
photos & race report are online now (Mal Sawford does a great job ...)
