My Cycle speedway bike

the shop i work at is putting on a cycle speedway race next weekend, so i'm using a bike that has been sitting under my deck for two years or more...it's a gary fisher aquila or something like that. basicly i stripped it down and cleaned it...then i spray painted it flat black and then masked off little strippes of tape all over the bike (which took about an hour or two to do) to create a zebra like design and then painted over that with turquoise spray paint...after that i put the bike back together (minus the breaks and shifters) and now all it needs is some slick tires and it'll be ready for the race.

here's the pictures that i took of it

before

the bike hanging to dry

my dog guarding the bike while the paint was drying

and the finished product




also i took a picture of this... this bike was my friends and i somehow adopted it...and when i was taking it apart i noticed that he somehow managed to break the water bottle cage...how one does that, i'm not really sure

SkaredShtles said:

Looks like it's going to be a pretty rough ride, what with those skinny-a$$ tires.

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it's gonna be a rough ride even with the tires on....since everybody will be riding slicks...has anyone on here ever done a cycle speedway race??? any suggestions or anything like that....even though we're not taking the race seriously and there's no prize at the moment

it's mainly a british thing...you take four riders on mountain bikes and you remove the breaks and make them single speed, then place the 4 riders on an oval track usually 70-90 meters long and you have an all out battle sprint for x amount of laps...there's usually mutiple rounds and such

here's a video of one
cycle speedway race

Tame Ape said:

haha, it looks like a blast! I'd hate to nust that on concrete though, it looks dirt is a must.:biggrin:

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yeah, we'll most likely be riding on a baseball field or something like that

Sherpa said:

What shop do you work at?

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f.b.c.