35th Anniversary of the sport

[petitpal]

By the way, just watched that vid in it's entirety. Absolutley fantastic - best bike vid I've seen for a long time. Not only the subject mater but also the camera placement - felt like being there. Exhausted just watching it.

 

[FairfaxPat]

Here's how Repack looked a week later, this time aboard a 70 year old Schwinn. ---- Looks great! What happened to the bottom of the run? I don't see the finish line!

 

[scooderdude]

Haha! It's 10' from my rear wheel. My hands were so cramped from squeezing completely gone brakes I couldn't even hold on anymore. Well, I could have gone the extra 10', but didn't think that extra 1 second would much matter.

 

[mikee]

i have to agree with petitpal there scooterdude thats a superb bit of film

hell you were motoring there too , what you hitting there 40 mph +

big thumbs up smilley

mike

 

[rumpfy]

Scooder is no slouch down a mountain.

 

[mikee]

your not wrong there

cool bike too

 

[scooderdude]

Thanks all! Not sure the speeds, but I'm sure they weren't as high as I hit the week prior on a FS rig with actual disc brakes (but absolutely the wrong tires).

I have to give thanks to Alan Bonds for inspiration for the bike. It was originally built as a Larkspur Canyon bomber analog using a Morrow coaster rear hub and Suzue BMX hub up front sans brake. I used AB's website as my cookbook to build it, changing a few things along the way.

I raced that bike once with the coaster build on a local DH/Super-D course near Monterey and missed the podium by one spot (4th). The next race I had these wheels and was on the podium. But that course was much less steep, and the brakes had a chance to cool between turns, although the speeds were every bit as high. However on the lower part of Repack, I was losing the brakes due to the consistant steepness of the hairpin section. They were cooked. I couldn't have stopped the bike at all in any reasonable distance.

 

[The Ken]

Great video Scooder - Looking forward to the Anniversary - we're doing a night ride at this end.

 

[Ductape]

Big day tomorrow...

Are you ready?

 

[andrewl]

Well its the 21st here so I'm heading out on my epic ride in a few minutes...