01-31-2007, 03:53 PM
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#15 (permalink)
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DougC wrote:
> Bill Baka wrote:
>> This one is my pet. Since all the car freaks like to do drag races,
>> both at stop lights and at a track, why not have the same event for
>> bicycle riders......
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>> New sport anyone?
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>> Bill Baka
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> Maybe not /totally/ new.
> Ever heard of formula one bicycle racing? It was asphalt-track racing on
> multispeed 20" wheel teardrop-tube funny-bikes, that a lot of former BMX
> riders competed in. Sanctioned races only ran 1988-1990. I remember
> seeing a bike in the LBS at the time, I think Haro and GT made bikes for
> it.
>
> I searched online for any images of F-1 bikes for a long time and got
> absolutely nothing--most people have never even heard of it, or aren't
> old enough to remember it.
>
> The ONLY mention of this racing I have ever been able to find online is
> in the Wikipedia entry for Tinker Juarez:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_...#Miscellaneous
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> I emailed Tinker at his website and he said he'd send me some bike pics
> but never got around to it apparently.
> ~
I remember Tinker but not F-1, maybe because Tinker was mentioned so
much in cycling magazines. Doesn't asphalt-track racing imply a road
course with multiple turns and laps, or is/was it different for
bicycles? Were the bikes made for serious cornering or what?
Now YOU have ME curious.
Bill Baka
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