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Torslanda

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #25 on: 20 March, 2009, 11:14:58 pm »
Quote from: Charlotte on 20 March, 2009, 11:04:22 am
Will you all please just stop it?  >:(

It's at the other end of the country.  I have enough bikes.  My stoker won't fit.  I've just sold a load of tandem parts.  There's no more room in the SEEKRIT BUNKER. I don't want to die without having climbed Alpe d'Huez.

Fatters - you have it.

Please?


Charlotte? Hun?

It might be at the other end of the country but in a couple of weeks you are coming up to Manchester for a Gruppenfuhrers' committee meeting. If you were to ask very nicely I could be persuaded to assist you in the picking up of this gorgeous creation that you don't want and haven't got room for . . .  <searches for 'innocent, whistling smiley'/>

Honest! It's no bother, I'm not working that day and Mrs Torslanda - she of the horned helmet and heavy metal breastplate - says I would only be under her feet so we could, at a pinch, get to Embra and back in a shade over six hours or so.

Should I shut up? Or just keep running?

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Jaded

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #26 on: 20 March, 2009, 11:38:10 pm »
Quote from: clarion on 20 March, 2009, 11:05:41 am
Quote from: Charlotte on 20 March, 2009, 11:04:22 am
My stoker won't fit. 


Clincher.


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Hilldodger

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #27 on: 21 March, 2009, 09:01:04 am »
Just think how cool it'll be when you can track stand like at the beginning of this clip :)

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ml4HN3B51kc&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Ml4HN3B51kc&rel=1</a>
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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #28 on: 21 March, 2009, 10:36:51 am »
Quote from: Charlotte on 20 March, 2009, 11:04:22 am
Will you all please just stop it?  >:(

It's at the other end of the country.  I have enough bikes.  My stoker won't fit.  I've just sold a load of tandem parts.  There's no more room in the SEEKRIT BUNKER. I don't want to die without having climbed Alpe d'Huez.

Fatters - you have it.

Please?


I'll volunteer to be a stoker if you buy it  ;) :demon:
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Julian

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #29 on: 21 March, 2009, 10:47:34 am »
:'(

Too big for me by far.

Perhaps we should hire one at a track before we go off buying them, hmmm?
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HTFB

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #30 on: 21 March, 2009, 11:35:18 am »
Remember that you can stoke a larger frame than you'd buy for yourself, since you never need to put a foot down. And careful saddle choice can gain you an inch or two---we have a Brooks B18, which sits lower over the frame than anything else, on a 25"/23" tandem, and it fits my beloved 5'3" stoker perfectly. Admittedly it doesn't look terribly tracktastic. And her view is mostly of my arse.
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Charlotte

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #31 on: 21 March, 2009, 01:20:40 pm »
Quote from: torslanda on 20 March, 2009, 11:14:58 pm
Should I shut up? Or just keep running?

::-)

You're all gits and I'm going to die poor and surrounded by bicycles...
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Zipperhead

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #32 on: 21 March, 2009, 02:03:06 pm »
Quote from: Charlotte on 21 March, 2009, 01:20:40 pm
You're all gits and I'm going to die poor and surrounded by bicycles...

Better to die poor and happy than rich and miserable. But don't forget to update your will, after all what use would all those bicycles be to your family (and most of them are too big for Liz)
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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #33 on: 21 March, 2009, 04:34:29 pm »
Quote from: Charlotte on 21 March, 2009, 01:20:40 pm
Quote from: torslanda on 20 March, 2009, 11:14:58 pm
Should I shut up? Or just keep running?

::-)

You're all gits and I'm going to die poor and surrounded by bicycles...

Better than surrounded by cats - bicycles won't eat your face.  ;)
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blackburnrod

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #34 on: 22 March, 2009, 02:32:36 pm »
The riders in the photo a few posts back are John Patston (front) and John Woodburn.If my memory is correct they were both suspended by the RTTC for falsifying entry forms for the National 100.During the period of suspension they attacked a number of RRA records on the tandem.
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Fixedwheelnut

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #35 on: 22 March, 2009, 03:56:19 pm »
Quote from: Charlotte on 21 March, 2009, 01:20:40 pm
Quote from: torslanda on 20 March, 2009, 11:14:58 pm
Should I shut up? Or just keep running?

::-)

You're all gits and I'm going to die poor and surrounded by bicycles...

 I can think of only one other senario to add to that,  that would make it perfect  ;) ;D
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IanDG

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #36 on: 22 March, 2009, 04:17:26 pm »
Quote from: blackburnrod on 22 March, 2009, 02:32:36 pm
The riders in the photo a few posts back are John Patston (front) and John Woodburn.If my memory is correct they were both suspended by the RTTC for falsifying entry forms for the National 100.During the period of suspension they attacked a number of RRA records on the tandem.

John Patston rode for Worcester St Johns in the late 70's/early 80s. A very clever head combined with talent. He beat me on many occasions.

I remember in the Worcester St Johns RR (1980 I think) he attacked from the gun and went away. I formed a chasing group with Ian Fagan and Steve Beech, but he just kept going away from us. After the race I heard one of his kids say ' Mummy, why was daddy riding so close behind Gerry's car during the race?'  ;D
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Charlotte

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #37 on: 22 March, 2009, 04:54:58 pm »
Quote from: Fixedwheelnut on 22 March, 2009, 03:56:19 pm
Quote from: Charlotte on 21 March, 2009, 01:20:40 pm
Quote from: torslanda on 20 March, 2009, 11:14:58 pm
Should I shut up? Or just keep running?

::-)

You're all gits and I'm going to die poor and surrounded by bicycles...

 I can think of only one other senario to add to that,  that would make it perfect  ;) ;D

I've said it before and I'll say it again - you're a nasty man, Wheelnut  ::-)

Although you're quite right of course...
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Fixedwheelnut

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #38 on: 22 March, 2009, 07:48:49 pm »
 :-* :-*
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PaulR

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #39 on: 23 March, 2009, 11:47:31 am »
Quote from: Ian H on 20 March, 2009, 01:25:21 pm
Quote from: PaulR on 20 March, 2009, 11:32:47 am
 

There's another one (a Ken Bird rather than a Bob Jackson) lurking in a shed in Forest Hill.  Would you like me to pester its owner to dig it out and dust it down?


This one, perchance?


I gather the Ken Bird tandem in Forest Hill is the twin sister of the one pictured.  Where did your picture come from, Ian?
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Ian H

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #40 on: 23 March, 2009, 11:57:08 am »
Quote from: PaulR on 23 March, 2009, 11:47:31 am
Where did your picture come from, Ian?

It's out of an old Penguin paperback Book of the Bicycle. I should perhaps have acknowledged copyright.
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PaulR

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #41 on: 23 March, 2009, 11:59:10 am »
Thanks Ian - the owner of the twin sister bike was curious.  I'm going to see if he can be tempted to dust it down.
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Thing2

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #42 on: 23 March, 2009, 10:27:15 pm »
I think we need a tandem track day.

I think it would be FUN!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I also think it would be utterly terrifying, especially for us stokers. I'm up for it!  :)

Emma
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IanDG

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #43 on: 23 March, 2009, 11:23:14 pm »
Quote from: Thing2 on 23 March, 2009, 10:27:15 pm
I think we need a tandem track day.

I think it would be FUN!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I also think it would be utterly terrifying, especially for us stokers. I'm up for it!  :)

Emma

Indeed it is terrifying. I had Paul Sydenham take me around Harvey Haddon Stadium once. He's the guy on the back of the manchester Wheelers tandem in these pics - a previous national tandem sprint champion -  When he wound it up, I soiled my chamois,  I was so scared :-[
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Martin109

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #44 on: 16 April, 2009, 04:03:14 pm »
Quote from: Thing2 on 23 March, 2009, 10:27:15 pm
I think we need a tandem track day.

I think it would be FUN!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I also think it would be utterly terrifying, especially for us stokers. I'm up for it!  :)

Emma


Rob Gullen organises track sessions, mostly at Newport, and very good they are too, but wouldn't there be an issue about obtaining enough track tandems, or can they be hired too?
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sg37409

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #45 on: 17 April, 2009, 12:07:06 am »
On holiday last year in Brittany, there was a velodrome run wot you brung open night.
We went up to it on the triplet (good night), but didn't have the balls to try to get an entry. They all seemed a bit serious to tackle on the Me'N'U2. I'd have had to get the kids to talk them off their game.
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PaulR

Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #46 on: 23 January, 2010, 09:33:13 am »
Quote from: PaulR on 23 March, 2009, 11:59:10 am
Thanks Ian - the owner of the twin sister bike was curious.  I'm going to see if he can be tempted to dust it down.
Sorry it's been a while.  And sorry it's not a fixed tandem, but here's the twin sister bike in action in 1980 on the A21
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Charlotte

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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #47 on: 23 January, 2010, 09:48:51 pm »
Eat my shorts  :D
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Re: WibblegibberJacksontracktandem!
« Reply #48 on: 23 January, 2010, 10:12:30 pm »
It's in Edinburgh? I'm sure one of us could store it for you until you can pick it up. Not me, but I'll volunteer one of the others!
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