Lyttelton Downhill Race 2012

[Oakie]

This makes the normal Christchurch commute look like a bloody stroll in Hagley Park with my 82 year old mum. Respect!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQwdt9Jv-AE

[Laava]

Nice one!...........

[ellipsis]

....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...

[schrodingers cat]

This from Chile

[Padmei]

awesome thanks for posting. That was a big jump that last one.

[merv]

Great course.

[tigertim20]

crazy cunts! looks like good fun

[DrunkenMistake]

Looks awesome! but I didnt think Lyttleton had hills any more.....

[schrodingers cat]

Looks awesome! but I didnt think Lyttleton had hills any more.....

Thats right. And Dunedin is one of New Zealands most temperate climates

[Oakie]

Looks awesome! but I didnt think Lyttleton had hills any more.....

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]

....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...

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]

....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..