Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club

have we had this tandem vid up?

1993 Track Cycling World Championships - Tandem Races
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS3BLySqep8

Victoria Pendleton on a penny

She can ride my penny anytime.

is that a fan on the bars? nice bars by the way

It's her helmet. She prefers keeping her bars "nice" instead of her head.

OK, anyone got a 'nice' photo of a girl with a helmet on? Show her how to do it!

OK, anyone got a 'nice' photo of a girl with a helmet on? Show her how to do it!

racing or
non-racing....
Cyclepassion calendar 2009 - March. Also there were those Limar ads 5-6yrs ago.

Cyclepassion calendar 2009 - March. Also there were those Limar ads 5-6yrs ago.

Good call T-bone

except the Cyclepassion Calendar gels don't have helmets on...

however, Limar has got at least one recent one.

Good call T-bone

except the Cyclepassion Calendar gels don't have helmets on...

I did say March 2009.

more stupid than awesome

The explanation

http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a100/t ... 529276.mp4

I'm going to try and get a ride on this next month...anybody got a good contact?

Meanwhile the rest of us, (well, mainly just me probably,) are waiting until September when this little cool little toy goes on sale in London.

Toff, that's so sad. :{)

At least there won't be any disqualifications for not holding their line....

Doesn't there have to be a crossover so they race the same distance?

And why is a brit racing another brit?

That way a brit has to win, I guess...

These games fellows are pretty clever

how awesome is this bike!!!

It is, what distance?

That bike is Francesco Moser breaking the hour record in 1988, setting a distance of 50.644km (as stated in the picture, Mike).

Most people instantly recognise that the back wheel is huge, at a diameter of 1.03 metres, but look at the front wheel. It's actually bigger than a standard 700c track wheel too. Most people don't see that due to the massive size of the rear wheel.

Other cool features of the bike:

- Look at the seat tube, which is actually 2 seat tubes. It needed to be split to accomodate the massive rear wheel.
- Look at the short headtube, which allows room for the longer than standard front forks, as well as a low profile position.
- Moser rode a gear of 47 x 17, which the papers calculated to be about 100 inches after factoring the big wheel size.
- If you look carefully, you can see one of the first instances of a heart rate monitor mounted on a bike. it's the black square on top of the stem.
- Moser was 36 years old when he rode this bike, and broke his previous world record of 51.15 km.

Bigger picture here.
Also, good paper snippets here and here.

Toff, that's so sad. :{)

At least there won't be any disqualifications for not holding their line....

Doesn't there have to be a crossover so they race the same distance?

There is no crossover, so the guy at the top of the track travels further. I am guessing here, but I would think that the guy at the top of the track can go faster since he is subjected to lower centrifical forces, and therefore less likely to fly off the track. This should even out the odds.

If my guess is correct, then I would still choose to race on the lower track. If the rider on the high track tried to overtake you, you could speed up, and fly off the track into him. If you both fly off, then it's a no race and you don't lose. In my experience what is more likely to happen though, is that the outside car (or in this cas, the high bike) gets knocked off the track, and the impact tends to knock the inside car (low bike) back onto the track to enable him to keep going and win the race.

Also, Karzie, what's this: :{)

Is it a sad face, or a guy with a moustache and a happy face???

lol at this thread! id say its karzie smiling!

Timyone wins the prize!

... but you shaved it off

... but you shaved it off

Under a little duress, but it's shadow remains on my Sukshma sarira

It's magical. It came back overnight.

:{)

Under a little duress, but it's shadow remains on my Sukshma sarira

It's magical. It came back overnight.

:{)

Before you know it, it will be November again

You mean, only MO-ments away?

No, I'll be on my holiday before that. Time will seem to go very slowly soon, as I relinquish all my habits and routine and submerge into the eddies, currents and torrents of the chaotic life flow, never knowing what will be around the next corner or what the next hour will bring.

It's hard to believe that lauren Fignon lost the 1987 TDF by 8 seconds due to technological advances in aerodynamics when you see the sort of bike he tried to break the hour record on.

Pick the parts of this bike that haven't been banned by the UCI...

While on the subject of Lauren Fignon, this pic is one of my favourites.


Fignon wins the 1984 TDF. Renault say thanks to him by giving him a top of the line Renault 25. He trades it in for a Ferrari!!!

Keep stumbling on these things...

Apparently Moser put a modified version of his TT bike into production.

AND... the new Red Bull short circuit velodrome

Léon Georget. This guy had class!

His nickname was... wait for it... Big Red!

New Koga Track Bike...based on their road TT frame

Cool picture or Simon L. Photo's were taken by Simon who was the photgrapher down at the track on Monday night and his website is http://www.sweatandgears.com. He had a few good ideas when i bumped into him on a ride out to kurnell a few weeks ago. He has a 20 something days in july theme going on as one of those ideas.

With a blur of Nathan coming around the top!!

Great pic, I love that they are both smiling too!

not a pic
but stuff i'm working on now that i've mastered the track stand...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyKHvck9 ... re=related

Teach me to track stand! I suck

I'll teach you vic. Good skill to have!

Robert Forsterman

Oooh now that's a man with muscles I can respect.

I want to touch his thighs



Apologies is this is classified as inappropriate under the new forum guidelines

I want to touch his thighs

You would have to catch him first, but don't worry, he's only good for 1K

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F%C3%B6rstemann

Even the other track sprinters comment on how ripped Fosterman is.

how does he not snap that bike in half?

Awesome match sprint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ1j8sXtMqI
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Back problemzzz!!!

Back problemzzz!!!

Long armzzz???

It's possible he/she has proportionally long arms and legs, but for someone of my built a setup like this, well, I just can't comprehend it. I couldn't touch the pedals or reach the bars!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/backroompr ... 00/?ref=nf

this is a home made velodrome that my friend found at a trippy desert arts festival!!
(built at Burning Man by one of the bike themed camps.)

I have a dream...










though we dont have that much room around the bottom, and I dont know how much effort that would be having all those kids!
maybe just take them to Lidcombe Friday nights!

http://www.fixedgearfever.com/modules.p ... sc&start=0
doping?...

my new idol. dude looks like a viking.

FFWD page on fb has some amazingly euro track pics.

http://www.facebook.com/ffwdwheels?sk=photos

Blast from the past...


Sprint qualifying 2009


Christmas carnivals 2009


Muswellbrook 2007

Gym in the middle!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLl5fvrw0BY&sns=fb
world cup highlights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLl5fvrw0BY&sns=fb
world cup highlights

There's something very strange about that track, it doesn't appear to transition from the corner into the straight very well and seems to make it very difficult to stay low and ride a straight line. In the madison when they miss the change, the crash seems to start because they can't stay down the track then half riders crash because they keep rising up the track untill they hit the fence, unexpectantly. Then as the Australia comes around in the final sprint he flies up the track, same with CLara Sanchez in the sprint.

Remids me of Muswellbrook where when you come out of the corner and you hit the fence if you don't straighten your bike up well enough or are riding too big a gear.

Justin's sick photo from the Halloween omnium.

Broken chain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=504U_9yH ... re=related

321 rpm

http://youtu.be/z8aEVDDRPbo

I find that hard to believe.

Yea that really doesnt look like 300 + rpm. Also if he was a real track cyclist he would realise that you can spin much quicker whilst holding onto the top of the bars rather than being in the drops.

I think his speedo has hit max & estimated that cadence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 2-QrCeOs#!
Not a track video but they are on fixies

Far out that looks amazing! We should try some bike polo hey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... eVaaDnefq0#!

crashes etc (road)

check out the bit about 50 seconds into it?! how funny is that, the rider was just trying to hit the person away from him! then the spectator throws him off a massive bridge?!

Here's an odd one, it looks like the velodrome is made of a shiny surface like vinyl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSsD_pnF ... re=related

A south american explanation for the madison swing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=iDCXs62XGlU

Finally an incredible atmosphere at the Gent six.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&featu ... jICtnzyF9s

i want those legs...
too bad the kit totally sucks

WTF!!!
where is that!

I'm guessing that its one of the six day tracks, such as Ghent or somewhere similar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQnBiOq ... r_embedded

Good leg speed.

Impressive. Being an SRM bike it would be pretty accurate too. I don't think stopping dead would have been good for his legs though.

I remember watching Kirichenko in that kilo. He started off powering out of the starting machine, but the handlebar only broke when he was sitting down in his "tuck" position, putting almost no weight on the bars. Kirichenko does not sit up from his tuck position, but instead brings the broken handlebar up to his face to inspect it. Then he gives a slight shrug of his shoulders, throws the broken bar piece down on the track, and powers on towards the finish, clutching the stem with his right hand. The whole time, he never comes out of his tuck position, and never slows down. From memory, he still finished 3rd in the World Championships behind an East German and Martin Vinnicombe.

He also won gold in the 1988 Olympics the year before.

WTF???

you know you're a beast when your chainring is a big as your wheels. awesome!

I don't know whats cooler, his chainring or that porsche.

Big Chainring! Pffft... Try Alfred Letourner's 1941 bikes used to break the (drafting) land speed record...


No brakes on these bikes either, although to be fair, a tiny single pivot rear caliper will take a long time to slow you down from 220 km/h

Also I reckon these bikes have either 1.5 inch or 2 inch pitch!

when i grow up...

Haha. Sargeant Shultz riding a bike with no seat, motorpacing a 3 year old wearing a leather helmet and cycling clogs. But none of those things are the freakiest thing about the picture. I can't believe that kid is riding a proper "Stayer" bike, where the forks have been reversed, so that the bike remains stable, and countersteers at speeds in excess of 60 km/h!

Is that Rene Enders? Geez thats impressive...

Yep, that's Rene.

http://vimeo.com/12844053

That was good - thanks Alex! I never thought of a velodrome as installation art.

Continuing with the leg related theme, we have the competition of legs between the German sprinters. Time to vote



A. Forstemann



B. Enders

Forstemann wins feet down. He's got proper bicycle muscles.

No podium shoes?

I'm a big believer in quality of leg over quantity of leg, so I vote Enders. That said Enders definitely doesn't lack quantity, and Forstemann certainly has good quality. Best pics yet nice one alex!

can't vote untill i can compair glute muscles as well

Forsterman

I spend too much time on the web