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Post by crummy on Mar 17, 2008 9:28:40 GMT 10
Small report to follow......
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Post by Lewy on Mar 17, 2008 9:59:54 GMT 10
And some photos might appear one day
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Post by crummy on Mar 17, 2008 11:29:58 GMT 10
With Easter just around the corner, a quick change was made to bring Round 3 of the SCUM XC Series forward a week, as not to clash with the long weekend. The short notice had ment some of the usuals couldn’t make it, even still Rego was busy from 0730 right through to the start of the race.
Conditions were near on perfect, the cool early morning air was being burnt quickly away with the rising of the sun into a cloudless sky. The track was dry, mostly hard-packed and slightly dusty. The counter-clockwise direction was chosen meaning quite a few of the corners shaped tighter instead of the preferred skinny to wide. But this wasn’t going to slow anyone down, no doubt every category was going to be fast.
Once again I found myself lined up with the elite riders, on the inside for the first corner and away from the gravel on the left of the fire-road (tip for July players). Having ridden with these guys before the big ring was selected. It was to be a sprint down the straight into the single track and as far as I could hold it.
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Post by crummy on Mar 17, 2008 19:02:27 GMT 10
Well it didn’t last for to long, I held the cracking pace till the log roll-over after the fire-trail cross. Hopping to the B line. Taking with me the inexperienced trek rider A.A, we must have something, as I found him behind me at Coondoo too. Not to hold anyone up, he scooted off down the track further to catch up with the power-train.
I was wearing my HR monitor again to keep an eye on effort, I was way over my 8hr limit but was keen to test the water for 2hrs. On the second lap I flew by the carbon ridge rig with Paul kneeling beside, he had the situation under control. Later that lap I spotted Brad and pulled up behind him. It seemed like the first lap madness had taken its next victim. I took the lead further down the trail.
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Post by crummy on Mar 17, 2008 19:39:43 GMT 10
The Goose was setup very similar to my previous bike. The distances were as close as I could get them, with just the length from my seat to the bars slightly more. It felt familiar and very comfortable. Being a Cabbage race I felt confident to lockout the fork with the blow off set to medium and rear shock to pro-pedal. It gave the bike stability. With stability came confidence and with that, speed. The bike feels fast, even on Saturday as I played with the settings and meandered around the track, the slightest touch would send the bike flat-out down the trail. We all know silver is the next fastest colour to red. The bike looks the package with the black forks, bars, brakes, wheels, cranks, seat and pole. Just out of curiosity and because Dave T keeps on going on about how his new rig is 'getting down' in the weight department, I weighted it. Unofficially it snatched 11.5kg, maybe tomorrow I'll head down to Dave's to weigh in. So this is the second Goose I have bought, the first is still ridden daily, commuter/trainer, I look forward to getting some daily use out of the new Goose.
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Post by dunkman on Mar 18, 2008 7:53:22 GMT 10
It was a great turn out, plenty of families too.
Well done to the guys on rego/timing, it looks like everything went really smoothly. Also to the guys that did the track work, it was sweet on the day.
Everyone was nice friendly out there, and it was a great fun track.
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Post by Between the Tape... on Mar 18, 2008 10:38:09 GMT 10
The Goose was setup very similar to my previous bike. The distances were as close as I could get them, with just the length from my seat to the bars slightly more. It felt familiar and very comfortable. Being a Cabbage race I felt confident to lockout the fork with the blow off set to medium and rear shock to pro-pedal. It gave the bike stability. With stability came confidence and with that, speed. The bike feels fast, even on Saturday as I played with the settings and meandered around the track, the slightest touch would send the bike flat-out down the trail. We all know silver is the next fastest colour to red. The bike looks the package with the black forks, bars, brakes, wheels, cranks, seat and pole. Just out of curiosity and because Dave T keeps on going on about how his new rig is 'getting down' in the weight department, I weighted it. Unofficially it snatched 11.5kg, maybe tomorrow I'll head down to Dave's to weigh in. So this is the second Goose I have bought, the first is still ridden daily, commuter/trainer, I look forward to getting some daily use out of the new Goose. What can I say...........you are what you ride! ;D |
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Post by Lewy on Mar 18, 2008 11:42:40 GMT 10
The Goose was setup very similar to my previous bike. The distances were as close as I could get them, with just the length from my seat to the bars slightly more. It felt familiar and very comfortable. Being a Cabbage race I felt confident to lockout the fork with the blow off set to medium and rear shock to pro-pedal. It gave the bike stability. With stability came confidence and with that, speed. The bike feels fast, even on Saturday as I played with the settings and meandered around the track, the slightest touch would send the bike flat-out down the trail. We all know silver is the next fastest colour to red. The bike looks the package with the black forks, bars, brakes, wheels, cranks, seat and pole. Just out of curiosity and because Dave T keeps on going on about how his new rig is 'getting down' in the weight department, I weighted it. Unofficially it snatched 11.5kg, maybe tomorrow I'll head down to Dave's to weigh in. So this is the second Goose I have bought, the first is still ridden daily, commuter/trainer, I look forward to getting some daily use out of the new Goose. What can I say...........you are what you ride! ;D Ha Ha. Its very tempting to use my Admin powers ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Lewy on Mar 18, 2008 11:44:34 GMT 10
It was a great turn out, plenty of families too. Well done to the guys on rego/timing, it looks like everything went really smoothly. Also to the guys that did the track work, it was sweet on the day. Everyone was nice friendly out there, and it was a great fun track. Yes it did seem to run smoothly. Even with 60 entries and a first timer on the computer ;D |
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Post by crummy on Mar 18, 2008 12:13:23 GMT 10
Back on the Report for the Race,
Brad was all keen on me to lead out every lap, this was suss, and I was having enough trouble keep the laps up to the 17min speed. For the last two laps I tried to keep a check on my output and keep up with my new nemesis. It didn’t take much for him to put a bit of distance on me with a short sprint up the incline after the fire trail crossover, just a couple of seconds.
The move panned out to quite obvious breaking out of the single track for the last time as Brad double checked his gap, near four seconds. I had left all my eggs in the basket for a sprint down the trail. Too many eggs and I couldn’t make the gap. Brad had his hard-tail flat-out all the way to the line. Well done.
Big thanks to the volunteers at rego and on the computer,
Nice work by the Sport B guys with less than a minute between the top four places.
And well done to all the kids (under 17s) for getting out there.
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Post by crummy on Mar 19, 2008 15:54:58 GMT 10
ps
a name change is on the cards,
you better start-a run-an ..... while I thinka bout it.
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Post by greasyreas on Mar 19, 2008 17:11:54 GMT 10
sounded like a good day, i wish i could of made it, but NO mother's!!, i was so annoyed had to clean up the shed (but mum made me clean it out as it a bike shed now so we had to move the bikes of the veranda so there was some satisfaction of having a shed didecated to bikes) and then i had uni assignments to do, the weather was perfect for the race. o well best i can do is hope for better luck next time, lewy how was your ride im asuuming u rode the single speed there as thats the perfect track for it?
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Post by Between the Tape... on Mar 20, 2008 8:43:50 GMT 10
ps a name change is on the cards, you better start-a run-an ..... while I thinka bout it. WTF?? |
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Post by Lewy on Mar 20, 2008 10:29:51 GMT 10
I might just change Crummys name to  ;D |
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Post by Megs on Mar 21, 2008 10:12:47 GMT 10
Yeah, another good race and thanks everyone for giving all the littlies plenty of room when overtaking. Sascha (just turned 7) enjoyed her first proper race - at the end she proudly informed us about her "mechanical" on course. Thanks heaps for offering to help her, Lewy. She said her chain came off so she just put it back on - no worries. I reckon I was as proud of her fixing her own bike as I was of her riding the race. ;D By the way, it looks like Andrew Arthur got the new track record, not Troy. His 2nd lap was a flying 15:54  but nobody seems to have noticed! Sorry for bringing it up Troy!  |
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but nobody seems to have noticed! Sorry for bringing it up Troy! 