The Tempe 250 challange

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Postby lindsay » 15 Apr 2008, 20:21

Your* mission is to beat 22.5 seconds for a standing start 250 meter TT. The prize for the first person to do so is this little fella, donated by Anna Papas who caught him while spectating the 2001 Tour de France -

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*open to all DHBC riders who have less than 3 l's in their last name.

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Postby timyone » 15 Apr 2008, 20:37

lol!! man would either of the rules out riders be able to beat it?
theres no L's in morgan...
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Postby lindsay » 16 Apr 2008, 07:57

You've never heard the legend of Sticks el'Morgan'll? He's out to...
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Postby FAswad » 16 Apr 2008, 08:56

Could do it on my roadie - Paris Roubaix style! :D
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Postby weiyun » 16 Apr 2008, 09:19

Could do it on my roadie - Paris Roubaix style! :D
I suspect you'll soon be known as "Fouad Aswad lll"
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Postby othy » 16 Apr 2008, 09:31

Time for me to try and push more then 86 inches.
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Postby mikesbytes » 16 Apr 2008, 10:21

Louie, you done me by 0.01 seconds. Us old fella's can't keep up.
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Postby mikesbytes » 16 Apr 2008, 10:32

Time for me to try and push more then 86 inches.
Tim, comparing your splits with mine, I'm not 100% sure that a taller gear would of got you a faster time, as I have beaten you to the 65mtr mark on a taller gear.

I would say that you need to focus on getting those pedals moving quicker off the line and then go to a taller gear.
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Postby T-Bone » 16 Apr 2008, 15:57

Is this incentive for me to get back to the track???

Hopefully everything will be right for me to get there next week.
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Postby timyone » 16 Apr 2008, 16:18

lol man doing it on a road bike would seriously make it easier!! easy gear for the start, then massive to finnish!!

yeah too big a gear isnt too good for starts, my faster times used to allways be on my smaller gear. But yeah i think im close to the same on 96 now, its only really good for the end of the metres
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Postby FAswad » 17 Apr 2008, 09:42

So you are doubting my abilities by blaming it on the gears? Gimme your track bike and I'll show ya!! :D
lol man doing it on a road bike would seriously make it easier!! easy gear for the start, then massive to finnish!!
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Postby mikesbytes » 17 Apr 2008, 09:44

So you are doubting my abilities by blaming it on the gears? Gimme your track bike and I'll show ya!! :D
Bring your pedals
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Postby timyone » 17 Apr 2008, 13:15

lol
nah im cool with the fact that you could do it on a track bike :D
im all for getting you onto the track :D
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Postby FAswad » 17 Apr 2008, 21:33

Just playin with ya. Probably couldnt do it anyways!
lol
nah im cool with the fact that you could do it on a track bike :D
im all for getting you onto the track :D
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Postby lindsay » 08 May 2008, 08:22

Round 2 of the 250 challenge saw some sizzilling hot laps... however the little guy is staying where he is at my house for now. Notables were Alex who's knocking on the door of sub 23 seconds, Michael L with his new bike giving it all he had, Emmie for her 3 blast off's from the start line & Simon S for giving good ol' big red a shake.

Here's the times -

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Postby timyone » 08 May 2008, 08:27

i would tell every one that the secret is going down to 92, but i dont think that works unless your on 94 or 6 all ready.

Man that daral lad killed us. Theo can do aloot faster than that.

But yeah my excuse is im using this time of year for working on other bits of it all :D
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Postby micklan » 08 May 2008, 09:39

Hillbrick has 86.4 (48/15) - what are we looking for ? to increase speed on back straight or quick off the mark.
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Postby timyone » 08 May 2008, 11:19

small will be quick off the mark, bigger will be better for top speed, but or do weights plus bigger for both :D
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Postby micklan » 08 May 2008, 11:36

Round 2 of the 250 challenge saw some sizzilling hot laps... however the little guy is staying where he is at my house for now. Notables were Alex who's knocking on the door of sub 23 seconds, Michael L with his new bike giving it all he had, Emmie for her 3 blast off's from the start line & Simon S for giving good ol' big red a shake.
Lindsay - thanks very much for organizing the starts (rider ready etc), and timing the rides for the TT250

[That big red power plant thing needs a couple of starters to hold it] :x
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Postby lindsay » 15 May 2008, 09:21

Round 3 & the little guy's still at home with me... Well done to our 2 new riders John & Tate who did some solid laps. Alex, your still a-knocking on 22 but not this time. Emmie *****PB***** @ 24.83.

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Postby timyone » 20 May 2008, 12:00

Ive heard a rumour that our aim for this event is 18 seconds...
i heard some thing about that being possible on 82 gearing
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Postby timyone » 03 Jul 2008, 00:01

man every one notice patrick Bolan, formerly Brad cox's record 250 start time on the RAW email?
19.47 seconds set by Patrick Bolan on 2nd of September 2005
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Postby timyone » 03 Jul 2008, 00:04

man looking at these times i was alot faster last time!
Are the new ones gonna be posted?
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Postby lindsay » 03 Jul 2008, 10:40

With a stiff Nor-wester blowing the 250 challenge (22.5 sec) seemed to be blown away with it. But wait... was that DH rider screaming around the track propelled by the inert gas Argon riding into a PB & sub 22.5... well sadly we'll never know due to a stop watch malfunction :( Hard luck Alex but if you did it, you'll do it again.

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Well done to Simon S who's knocked 1.1 seconds off his time in a month :D Congratulations mate, a good acheivement.
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