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Oakie
31st March 2012, 09:06
This makes the normal Christchurch commute look like a bloody stroll in Hagley Park with my 82 year old mum. :shit: Respect!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQwdt9Jv-AE
Laava
31st March 2012, 09:16
Nice one!...........
ellipsis
31st March 2012, 09:33
....hate to burst their bubble, but when I grew up in the port, thats how we used to ride our 26 inch bone breakers with only a back pedal brake and the only people yelling were our mums screaming at us to get home for tea...and that was just to get to the shop...:blink:
schrodingers cat
31st March 2012, 10:15
This from Chile

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Padmei
31st March 2012, 17:47
awesome thanks for posting. That was a big jump that last one.
merv
31st March 2012, 18:57
Great course.
tigertim20
31st March 2012, 19:07
crazy cunts! looks like good fun
DrunkenMistake
31st March 2012, 19:08
Looks awesome! but I didnt think Lyttleton had hills any more..... :innocent:
schrodingers cat
31st March 2012, 19:11
Looks awesome! but I didnt think Lyttleton had hills any more..... :innocent:

Thats right. And Dunedin is one of New Zealands most temperate climates
Oakie
31st March 2012, 19:14
Looks awesome! but I didnt think Lyttleton had hills any more..... :innocent:
They're still there. Just a metre lower than they used to be I believe. (Oh, and some of the boulders are now at the bottom or hiding in houses.)
Grumph
31st March 2012, 19:26
....hate to burst their bubble, but when I grew up in the port, thats how we used to ride our 26 inch bone breakers with only a back pedal brake and the only people yelling were our mums screaming at us to get home for tea...and that was just to get to the shop...:blink:

Dead right...and when i worked there and had to take a land Rover down some of those tracks, I'd often be passed by the current generation of scrubby infants on their bikes...I'd back a Lyttelton kid over some of the poncy downhill racers
ellipsis
1st April 2012, 17:06
....we picked up a lot of damage at times and I bet there are bits of gravel in me still,from them days...I think the first bike I built out of bits that the older brothers didn't want , had a girls Rudge frame...couldn't wait for a new boys frame to turn up, an older bro turned up with a BSA frame, I was a happy little Lyttelton lout then, I beat a bit of old electrical conduit into either end of the bars and cut them off about six inches past...speedway bars, just like Ole Olson and Ronnie Moore....yeehaaaa..