Longrider
Anywhere ..... just go anywhere!
You never cease to amaze! Pre-lycra days when you rode in lightweight hessian or was that canvas?
My cousin in Canada, Phil White, co-started and has now sold Cervelo which started making Olympic rule testing 'Barrachi' track bikes using the design cues he had from an Aero Engineering degree, going on to full Tour de France team sponsorship etc.
History - cervelo.com
Cervélo Cycles was created in 1995 when two engineers, Phil White and Gérard Vroomen, decided to market their work developing faster time-trial bikes. Having been involved in bicycle and human-powered vehicle design since 1986, they started a bike design from scratch when a top-ranked Italian pro cyclist approached Gérard to design the fastest possible time-trial bike for him.
Pete, Hessian clothing?
I do still have a wool road "gurnsey" and wool "Weinmann" knicks. My "Swift" track bike built by Mr Carl Rogers at Williams, Dredge and Hayden is Reynolds 531 tubing and Nervex (shaped and filed) lugs .... even now a beautiful if redundant piece of technology. Unfortunately my Road bike was stolen years ago but I fondly remember the beauty of its Campagnollo "Grand Sport" equipment. I actually won the inaugural Southern NSW Junior Track Championship at the opening of the now old Canberra Velodrome. The concrete was still green on the opening day and there were lots of falls. Most of us had been riding flat tracks but I had a bit of experience from the old Camperdown track and surprisingly Moree had built a 6 to the mile velodrome by digging a big hole and adding bitumen ....... great days. Got told as I was training for the Seoul Olympics that I could never ride for Australia because up to 16 years old I was a member of the League of Wheelmen - the Pro Body even though they had let me into the Amateurs under amnesty .... bloody cream puffs (we used to call them).
Next time you ride this way I'll show you the bottom shed ..... beside the Aladdins cave of metric motorcycle parts there are my youthful dreams .... but they went on ... 18 years ago when I moved up here I gave up being the High Development Coach at Lidcombe Cycle Club in Sydney.
I have only worn hessian when I dress up as a Nun .... to quote Black Adder .... I just love the feeling of the hessian underthings.