Other side up on Car Parts

Posted by Malcolm Gunn on 28 February 2010 | 8 Comments

 

About once a year, the planets align in a sinister way that has me sprawled along some dusty track, wondering what happened or else cursing my inattention to the terrain and its attendant hazards.  On Sunday that happened as I hurried down the track known locally as Car Parts Extension.  I was in a hurry because I was between events.  The national downhill competition was in full swing at Long Gully and down in the CBD the final stage in the NZ Womens Cycle Tour was about to start.  There can't be a better way to appreciate the diversity of the sport of cycling than to watch both these events in a single afternoon.  At Long Gully, riders clad in protective gear hurtle down a dusty track in a nor'westerly gale, occasionally stacking in a cloud of dust only to resume defiantly to the appreciation of the crowd below.  There is loud music and plenty of strutting between runs.  Meanwhile on the smooth tarmac of the CBD, the country's best women road riders go head to head with visiting overseas teams in the cat-and-mouse tactical battle that is so much part of road racing. One is about gravity and traction against time, the other is jockeying for position for shelter, sprint points and getting away from the peleton, chasing down escapers and being first across the line.

So it was with an arresting sense of deja vu that I found myself looking up through the trees after my front wheel balked at a renegade tree root and asked the impossible (follow me) of the rest of the bike.  Only casualty was pride so I dusted myself off and headed down to watch the criterium, grateful that nobody had witnessed my short flight.

 

 


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