Ridewiser

Joan turned 80years last week she still does Ridewiser Ergo on Monday nights annual ticket stylin - even on the holidays!

She's amazing 🤩

Ridewiser Mascot Teddy Bears

He's telling the kids they all need to keep exercising ! lol 😂

Milestone photo moment, captured!

Former Australian representative c*cling team-mate of mine, Jamie Kelly, as he arrived onto the top 2km of the 27km epic 'Back of Donna' ascent from Launching Place to the summit last Sunday 24th March. This spot is where the road switches back from 14km of dirt to fast bitumen, and his speed went up again from 12 to 24kph ; )

After 2 years of training with Jamie who is riding with hemiplegia post-stroke in 2017 (so just the right leg is fully working), he successfully achieved this remarkable feat to climb the whole 27km unassisted on his 14kg recumbent tric*cle, and then descend 19km carefully into Warburton.

(note that tric*cles keep you stuck to the exact contours of the road surface all the time as having 3 wheels means you can't lean the bike through the turns!?)

Then after an hour off, feeling energised again after a coffee to ride another 24 km back to the cars in Seville along on the rail-trail meant it was 75 km total with 1100 mtrs climbing.

Yes, that's a 14.6 mtr/km ride route difficulty level, which is getting scarily close to my elite level courses that range from 17-19.

..and I have 2 legs working.

Incredibly, Jamie then said he feels more motivated and excited now about the prospect of improving even further than he used to feel back in 1991 when we were tackling the 2 year specialised Olympic training program for Barcelona selections.

His next goal is a 5-year challenge that I actually proposed to him in 2022, to try conquering the Mt Hotham alpine climb. Now he's hoping to have a crack in early 2025...!

Hotham is a much more difficult 30km ascent with frequently steeper gradients of 10-13% compared with the friendly 4-7% steady gradients of Donna Buang's backway route!

Oliver’s !!!

Amazing performance by the Kelly Gang team and special guest star Jamie Kelly (who yes, rides it with one leg!?) to finish CADELS RIDE 113KM and still finish all together through a day of mechanicals, bingles, blowups and bloody hard hillclimbs 🐴 🏁 ❤️ ‼️

Today in the c*cling studio we had ‘Sit Pretty’ training drills 🤣😂 🐶🐶 Ridewiser-wise, it is a lot like telling the riders to keep composed while under pressure. And some people (just like the bike riders) think that it’s about more talking, when really it’s not.

This is awesome!

This is the first time I’ve EVER seen footage of me and the 100km racing team competing in the Barcelona Olympic TTT !

That’s us looking swish alright, until I got a flat and we lost 40 seconds (team was trained to wait in this instance!?) and our result fell outside the top 10 - terrible reality check after being 2nd on world seeding TTT squads coming into the games.

It was the first and last TTT puncture we had over 2 years of FT squad preparations and tour racing and wind-tunnel testing and altitude adaptation - you name it we did it.

And then (at 2:35 in this video) almost hooking Darren Lawson on the line trying to get an extra second as we drew up alongside on the finish line for a time - we were desperate men by that stage [sigh]

They were extreme moments indeed…

Thanks to Tim McGrath for finding & posting this remarkable historic footage
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End of an Era: Barcelona Olympic 100km Team Time Trial The 1992 Barcelona Olympics marked the end of an era for the epic 100km TTT road c*cling event at the Games. It was the last time that c*cling enthusiasts ar...

22years old
April 1991
Canberra A.I.S.
The most accurate way to determine how much lactic acid was precipitated into your muscles after a 40km time-trial @45-49kph average was to have ear-lobe blood🩸sampling analysed within minutes to see how efficient the body was at working in the red and producing toxins,

…or what level of pain you could tolerate!? courtesy of Heiko Salzwedel’s East German training regime we were lucky enough to participate in!

Some of us could produce and tolerate quite high levels of lactic, such as 12-14 millimol in the blood.

(NB: everyday fit people doing hard work-outs might get as high as 3-4mmol)

Incredibly, the Oarsome Foursome and other international level Olympic rowers of our time were able to reach 17-18 mmol using four-limb exertions!!!

🇦🇺 Thanks to Craig Ianna for locating this photo 📸🤣