Nah, hes doin' an X-Up. I'm sure he brought it back in time.that is one broken collarobone for sure! om! gotta hurt
trix on da trackHow the hell did that even happen?
It's probably better than NOT having that leather helmet onGood thing he had that leather helmet on.
You haven't watched a pursuit race then have you.Watching velodrome races is like watching nascar races. It is boring as hell until someone crashes.
Just for the record...it was the most scared I've been on a bike..EVER. Riding in that pack of nitwits and nutbags weaving and wobbling at a frantic pace was a 10 on the pucker chart!
Yeah it's much better to fall on a steep track. You tend to get jacked up much less.OK...now I would have to say that is 100% safer than the damn near flat track races at the Mellowdrome. One dude at the Mellowdrome clipped his pedal on the ground in turn 4 and highsided....
Granted...most of us are not on fixed gears with no brakes...but I think I'd rather fall on that vanderdrome than at the mellowdrome...
I know (hope?) you're joking, but I think it's a her.Nah, hes doin' an X-Up. I'm sure he brought it back in time.
I'm not an expert on it brothuh man...but I smell sarcasm.Yeah it's much better to fall on a steep track. You tend to get jacked up much less.
In my experience it's easier to fall on a steeper track as any little touch gets you really unstable.
There was no B-group. The Vandedrome was only up 2 or three times, once for the Goodwill games, once in Jersey for something having to do with the USBHOF and Tour of Sommerville, and maybe somewhere in the Midwest for a while. My friend JD actually owns it now. For the last few years we've been trying to raise money to add some more length to the straights to make it a little more accessible to people without track experience.I'm not an expert on it brothuh man...but I smell sarcasm.
Seriously...falling on the mellowdrome track would SUCK compared to falling on a banked wooden track. I understand you could go squirting down track into the infield like a lawn dart of course of the big bank.
And I realize it might be more squirrely trying to manuver on that bank, but falling in one of the near flat asphalt turns on the mellowdrome is the same as eating it on an open road mid-pack.
What speeds do they hit in B group on that thing? It looks insane!
Maybe that's why I feel from a similar one near my placeBut yeah, you needed to maintain 17 mph to even stay on the track... such fun!
It was a great idea that never got going. I was in Chicago right after they built it for the summer in Grant park, we actually got to have some night racing during the Taste of Chicago, that was a blast.There was no B-group. The Vandedrome was only up 2 or three times, once for the Goodwill games, once in Jersey for something having to do with the USBHOF and Tour of Sommerville, and maybe somewhere in the Midwest for a while. My friend JD actually owns it now. For the last few years we've been trying to raise money to add some more length to the straights to make it a little more accessible to people without track experience.
A whole bunch of us just go back from a ride where we were grousing about wishing we actually had the track up and running. We'll see what happens this winter, as what we really want is a permanent indoor facility. Track is becoming a winter sport thanks to the UCI....
But yeah, you needed to maintain 17 mph to even stay on the track... such fun!
Because most roadies are attorneys and settle out of court to buy their next Tarmac.Roadies never mention that there are much more broken collar bones/fall on their side then in our case.
But a dj guy that broke all his bones will tell you the same
Getting space for parks is easy down South. People have been living around here for nearly 300 years. Not much "cheap" land. An indoor track is a whole 'nother ball game too. You need money to erect the structure, and then a budget to run programing to keep the lights on. So far the only indoor track in the US has been a writeoff for a Fortune 500 company. We likely won't be so luckyBecause most roadies are attorneys and settle out of court to buy their next Tarmac.
Hey Mickey...if you watch that dinky vid of the Mellowdrome, you'll notice they built a full scale County park w/ volleyball, basketball, roller hockey, playground inside it. They built a handicap bridge across the track...peep that at a NASCAR race...
Oh..and my offer to design that DH bike we were talking about still stands....
I saw that crash in person. It was at world champs a year or two ago down at the new track in carson and it was not pretty.Yeah, I'd rather t-bone a tree ANY day!!!
getting money is not though...we poor.Getting space for parks is easy down South. People have been living around here for nearly 300 years. Not much "cheap" land. An indoor track is a whole 'nother ball game too. You need money to erect the structure, and then a budget to run programing to keep the lights on. So far the only indoor track in the US has been a writeoff for a Fortune 500 company. We likely won't be so lucky
In case you're not aware, those are tubular tires, which are glued to the rim. It's hard to know if the crash was caused by a glue failure, but it's not hard to imagine that a tubular would peel right off upon a hard crash or evasive maneuver, like yanking your bars hard to the side because of (or to avoid) a crash. So, maybe one guy had a glue failure, causing him to crash into the other, and in going down or trying to avoid it, his tire peeled off. Or, maybe they both crashed and in the process of going down their tires came off. It's possible they both had glue failures at the same time but I suspect not.I don't get what happened in those pictures? Both the french and australian rider just had tires fall off, at the same time?
I think the laws of physics are suspended within velodromes.