Comments on: I Want a Track Bike

By: Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » Come Ride AND EAT with Me Tomorrow at the 100 Miles of Nowhere

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:28:19 +0000

[...] Or check it out: we even got some press coverage, when Tom Wick and his team motorpaced 100 miles in the Marymoor Velodrome (I get nostalgic whenever I think of the Marymoor velodrome). [...]

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 02:07:19 +0000

hey, I just finished a session at the Velodrome. I would highly reccomend the track lessons; it was GREAT.Sadly, I live in south Tacoma, so it was a very long trip up there. at least for my parents. I am 15, and I was not the youngest person there, surprisingly. You should do it! you can rent bikes too. (I could never afford another bike…I have a garage full of em..)

By: duane

duane — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:34:46 +0000

Sorry dug, can’t back you up, i’ve got Tivo and i’m not afraid to use it to get past crap i don’t want to watch.As for track racing, take the class and come out in the evenings with me! It’s a blast and a great workout!On Mondays they have beginner ‘racing’ – but it’s not so much about who finishes first, it’s more about them seeing how you do in a pack riding situation, do you follow the rules etc. After 3 monday nights (or more if you’re not doing so well), you get moved up to Wednesday nights and that’s real ‘Racing’. On Thursday nights, they do a training session – but rumor has it that tonight is the last one so, not sure on that, i’ll update you tomorrow. I’m going out there tonight. they also have the Kiddy Kilo for kids – my 3 year old was crushed that he couldn’t ride a few weeks ago so, I’ll have him out later this season.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 22:52:37 +0000

your tyler hero worship is silly. reminds me of last year when velonews and every other fawning psuedo-cycling journalist went ape shit trying to turn hamilton’s dead dog into jesus, or an actual child, or something. stop it. i have a theory about hamilton’s positive doping test results: the uci engineered the whole thing to rid the world of the feel-good dead dog lovin, broken collarbone race winnin, great american hero of believe it or not i’m walkin on air singin, totally nauseating antics of the man from marblehead. go anywhere, but just go.all right, maybe that was a little harsh. but i really really really hated those dog stories. somebody back me up on this.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:23:38 +0000

I never crashed doing it. It *was* hairy, though. But being 18 and fearless at the time, I thought it was quite a lot of fun. We didn’t do the ‘hand throw’, though. Most riders in those days wore special Madison shorts that were reinforced across the back and had a little pocket on the inside of the left side. They would put a dowel or a rolled up sock in that pocket to make a bump in the shorts. When you were going to throw your partner into the race, you would grab that bump and just yank them by the shorts into the race. The hand throw works better, but it’s harder to do. And the Madison technique is still useful sometimes on rides if someone is getting tired and lagging. I just tell them to hold on to the bars and I grab their seat and throw them down the road. I did that once for 10 miles to get a friend of mine to the finish of a 90-mile ride.

By: Fat Cyclist

Fat Cyclist — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 05:29:50 +0000

You’ve done Madisons? Is it as scary as it looks? Did you ever cross handlebars at the throws?Respect to you for doing that kind of racing. It looks hairy.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 02:00:44 +0000

Track riding is a unique experience. They didn’t have Keirin racing back in my day, but I did Madisons lots of times. It seemed like I always had a partner who outweighed me, so I got great momentum from the throws. It was a lot of fun.