summer sprint series is almost definatly a go-er, melb sprinters, I would appreciate your input

A month or so back I posted a brief headsup about a summer track
sprint series I was (am!) hoping to run at Blackburn. There's still
some details to be sorted, but anyone reading who might be interested
in participating, I'd much appreciate your input and contributions re
the format of the racing.

It will be a series of match sprints, run (probably!) twice a month
from Nov - Mar at the Blackburn velodrone. DISC is too steeply banked
for novice sprinters, and too expensive to use for this series.

We want to run it to fill a niche that's missing at the moment -
there's very little in the way of opportunities for track match
sprinting for anyone except elite riders in Melbourne - if you're not
Jobie, Shane or Todd, you don't get much chance to race match sprints,
so you don't get to get any better at it. I have a few lower grade
riders who really want to do match sprinting, but apart from club
champs once a year, that's it for them. So, we'll make an opportunity
for them. Simple Masters also don't get a chance to do it much. A
graded series might just provide them with the chance to do the races
they want to.

I have a site for it at the moment : http://sss.aboc.com.au which is
where the details are being put together and how we're hoping to do
it. This will be a graded series (probably 3 grades, according to the
maths we've done thus far, will be all we can fit in to an afternoon),
and we're hoping to run it on Sunday afternoons after Glenvale, so if
you want you can do both, at least, logistically it's possible,
although that would be a pretty big day at the office.

Mal Sawford from CCCC is happy for us to run it, not that it's really
anything to do with him, but out of courtesy I've kept him informed
and he's quite happy to not compete with it, but to co-operate and
support it, I'm still negotiating with John Nicholson at BBN, who will
-probably- not make life too difficult for us, and I have a sponsor
(you guessed it, Trek ) who is keen to support the series in some
way. I'm hoping they'll give us a T1 frame as a series aggregate prize
or something similar. John Lewis is dead keen to be involved and help
out (so we have the masters onside!) and I'm building a team to run
it.

So please, anyone interested in having a go at track match sprinting
or wanting to build their experience, have a look at the site and give
me some suggestions and feedback on how we're going with the format
etc. This is the first thing of this nature that I've organised, and I
want it to work and also to help restore BBN's reputation after the
battering it's taken post De Bortoli Tour. I believe it's best to
organise these things openly and to accept feedback and input from
interested parties, which is why I'm asking for your input.

Thanks

Carl

Carl - Awesome to see you filling the void with this style of racing.
Getting Trek behind it as a naming sponsor looks the goods too!

Fingers crossed a track bike finds its way into my home so I can bang
out some fast 200s!


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gplama

On Jun 25, 1:03 pm, gplama gplama.2sp...@no-
mx.forums.cyclingforums.com wrote:
Carl - Awesome to see you filling the void with this style of racing.
Getting Trek behind it as a naming sponsor looks the goods too!

We have to make it happen first before anyone hands out any applause,
I only have agreement in principle to run it from Nicko, and the devil
may be in the details, esp once club committees get involved. But,
I'm pushing as hard as I can to make it happen within the club.

Fingers crossed a track bike finds its way into my home so I can bang
out some fast 200s!

Track bikes are cheap - you can get a brand new, ready to race
hillbrick for less than $1k and a very nice Apollo/Raceline 'record'
for around $1500 or less if you shop around. Many roadies spend more
than that on replacing a groupset. And for racing at the BBN
velodrone you don't need fancy tyres, the bank is gentle and the
surface is rough.

btw, in case anyone was wondering (I doubt they are ... but anyway)
the reason DISC is closed today and yesterday arvo is to repaint the
duckboards.