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Title: aussie wins world track
Post by: jags on March 01, 2014, 01:57:55 PM
Tony will be happy to know Australia has just won the team world track championships.there good at that those Aussie lads.s
Title: Re: aussie wins world track
Post by: ianshearin on March 01, 2014, 04:20:34 PM
Just watched it on TV, never really been into it but i really enjoyed it. Looking forward to Olympics now to spur on the Brits.
Title: Re: aussie wins world track
Post by: jags on March 01, 2014, 04:50:15 PM
nor me Ian but it's exciting stuff at times these guys can certainly move a bike pretty fast.
Title: Re: aussie wins world track
Post by: ianshearin on March 01, 2014, 08:48:24 PM
I mean seriously, how close do they get to each other at that speed.. its insane  ;D
Title: Re: aussie wins world track
Post by: rualexander on March 03, 2014, 09:06:19 PM
Quote from: jags on March 01, 2014, 01:57:55 PM
Tony will be happy to know Australia has just won the team world track championships.there good at that those Aussie lads.s

Tony as in nztony?
A kiwi happy at the aussies winning something?
Not so sure about that jags. That's like a Scot being happy at England winning something!
Title: Re: aussie wins world track
Post by: jags on March 03, 2014, 09:11:46 PM
Rual it was only when i posted that i realized that Tony was a kiwi ;D ;D.
i'm a geek. ::)

but Tony was a good track rider in his day so i'm sure he enjoyed the worlds anyway.


jags.
Title: Re: aussie wins world track
Post by: nztony on March 05, 2014, 10:36:30 AM
Jags,

I sure did enjoy seeing NZ picking up a Gold Medal at the world championships, wonderful stuff:
http://www.bikenz.org.nz/Story?Action=View&Story_id=509

I must admit to being envious of the the brand new Avantidrome opening in Cambridge (NZ) this week (or was it last week,) a 250m Indoor Velodrome - we didn't have such things back in my day in the 1980s. When I was training in the 1980s, for an important competition I had to fly to Brisabane, Australia from New Zealand to train on an outdoor velordrome, as the one I used in Auckland, New Zealand would have been out of action for over half the time with winter rain. I think I lost just one day training in Brisbane due to weather. These days the guys can train whenever they want and never have to lose a day due to bad weather, but that is progress. I guess the guys from the 1960s and 1970s that I had it good in the 1980s, so nothing changes.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3197/2953585323_a5322cf461_z.jpg?zz=1)
Training in the dry weather in Australia

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3065/2953572075_fbfb4ef7d9.jpg)
For Jags - that is a Kiwi on my helmet, not a Kangaroo ;-)
Title: Re: aussie wins world track
Post by: jags on March 05, 2014, 12:16:44 PM
Hard as NAILS. ;)