eMTB Build Costs

This is just a little page to outline the total build cost on my homemade mid mount eMTB

Mid frame swap

Bearing Swap

HAL sensor issue

Crank Issue (original crank)

Build Costs

Rat Bike!

GNG Electric Mid Motor bearing replacement - more info

Changing the bearings on my two week old GNGElectric bicycle motor.

Howto repair XT shifters.

My first tech blog

Short XC Single Track Loop - Belrose 720P

Quarry Track (Sydney) MTB

Playing with the new helmet Cam... The mount needs some work!

LED lights on my Vespa

hot new club

CCOMTB - 2011 - Round 1

Status: Finished
Grade: B

What a race, and what a turn out! It looked like there were about 15 people in A grade alone. Great Nobmob turn out too, hopefully those that haven't been before can see what a great race it is and will attend some more. Well done to Ray for what looked like 5th place in A grade - what a demon. Logan, hope your cuts heal OK, they looked pretty nasty but nothing a pommy victory at the cricket wouldn't solve eh?

I started at the back of the pack in B grade, and had great fun once I decided to back the first lap pace off a bit. No idea what place I came, Gazza said I came in after him but I can't see how, I felt like I was pretty coozie on the last 2 laps. I was expecting to blow up hard given that I've been zero training since the new little man was born (who has great quad development at 7 weeks old incidentally) but I felt in pretty good shape. I had a chance to ride behind a 29er for some of it, those bikes certainly seem to make sense at a track like Ourimbah, he was certainly rolling over the rough stuff and making it look easy.

No events really.. big traffic jam at the top of the drop on the first lap, looks like someone didn't ride the lap before hand , I lost the rear end on Small meadows, I couldn't get rid of the smile in the grave yard, oh and I loved the end of the the roller coaster now that it misses magic carpet. It sounds like magic carpet is about to get some pretty choice upgrades - can't wait for round 2.

CCOMTB - 2010 final results

For my record keeping, the final results have been posted up:

Final results : http://www.ccomtb.com.au/results/Final%20XC%20Rankings%202010.pdf

What a great year, never thought I could get first place in B grade, but I guess showing up to as many races as possible really pays off. I'm really going to try and do some next year as well.

Edit: Managed to get to the first round of CCOMTB XC 2011, and picked up my trophy

CCOMTB - Club Race - 2010 Round 10 - 6 hour Final

Status:

Finished

Laps:

9

Time:

06:20:16

Position (Overall):

8

Hard. Phew, what a race.

This was my last for a while with a baby on the way my races are taking a back seat. This was also the last race of the CCOMTB season and I managed to do all but one so wanted to go well. I started too hard after telling eveyone I was going to go easy and realised I was in for a hard race by the end of lap two. I just couldn't drink enough water and by lap 5 was showing the signs of dehydration. I pretty much had a rest after every lap from then on. Timing was good though, managed to time the cut off just after passing through the gate so squeezed another (very slow) lap in. On that lap I ran over a snake and narrowly avoided a rider coming the wrong way at the bottom of browns! The scare almost made me forget the cramps.

How some people do solo 8 hours around here I don't know.

The CCOMTB season has been great, recommended to everyone for good hard racing, friendly people and of course some of the best trails around.

CCOMTB - Club Race - 2010 Round 9 REVERSE LOOP

Status: Finished

Laps: 3

Race Category: B Grade Men

Great but hard race. Like a different track in reverse, but really good fun, and some big hucks. Still waiting for the result but I'm told I was 3rd or 4th.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/48763936

Top Step

CCOMTB - Club Race - 2010 Round 8

Status:Finished

Laps: 3

Time: 01:45:07

Race Category: B Grade Men

Position (Category): 4

Great race this weekend. Come on Gazza, the championship's yours to loose now.

JetBlack 12 Hours WSMTB Race

Team:

Mixed Nuts

Status:

Finished

Laps:

23

Time:

12:25:52

Race Category:

Masters/Team/4

Position (Category): 1

Entering this race with man down might have been seen as in a negative light but as we won our class in the most recent 24 hour JetBlack race we thought we had a good chance of at least making the podium of Masters 4s. I was in a team with Carlgroover and Whisperer. Carlgroover was positive we had first place in the bag before even starting!.

We started off in the lead and kept it all the way through. There isn't much to say about our laps really, they were pretty uneventful other than the usual things that happen at races. Steve had a puncture after putting a hole in a side-wall on one of his laps but fixed it in record time so we only lost around 8 minutes I think. On my first lap I got lost twice (which can be seen from my GPS track) which brought me in a couple of minutes slow. There were a LOT of people getting lost on that lap, I do think the signs could have been better, yellow arrows on a white back ground are hard to read at speed.

I really liked the track. For me there was a good mix of everything, and I think the longer fast stretches worked well with my current "training program". The downhill was great fun and Whisperer manages to set up camp with a great view, providing some excellent near misses, some riders getting very loose over a jump next to a barb wire fence. I did see one off there, some chap on a crosser who was thankfully ok.

We never backed off as the second place team were pretty close after the puncture but obviously we are all happy with the result considering there were only 3 of us.

Kudos to Gav for coming in third on the first lap and setting the fastest night lap (I think) of 27 something. No mean feat on that track.

Man it was cold but the vibe around the massive fire was great. All in all, a top event :)

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/43562981

CCOMTB - Club Race - 2010 Round 7 NIGHT RACE

Status: Finished

Laps: 4

Time: 01:12:27

Race Category: B Grade Men

Position (Category): 7

Hard at night when you have rubbish lights.

Dirtworks Classic 2010

Status:

Finished

Time:

05:28:28

Position (Overall):

198

Race Category:

100km Male Masters

Position (Category):

57

Anyone see that inconsiderate idiot that cramped on the canoe bridge and held up stacks of people for about 5 minutes? That was me
Sincere apologies to anyone behind me. There really was nothing I could do, movement was not an option, I have never had cramp that bad.

I thought I was on for a cracker of a time up till then too, as it was, with the 5 odd mins. lost on the bridge and from having cramp for the remainder of the ride, loosing loads of places etc. I was only in 2 mins. slower than last year. I suppose I could be pleased with that, if it wasn't for the shame.

Note to self; one 70kay training ride on the road is not enough for the DW.

Hats off to all that took part this year, you are all legends.

CCOMTB - Club Race - 2010 Round 4

Status:

Finished

Laps:

3

Time:

01:37:01

Race Category:

B Grade Men

Position (Category):

11

Track was perfect today, nice and tacky mostly everywhere. Happy with the 1:37 mins in light of the lack of training recently, I don't think that is far off my old times. It was good to get some hill training done after the race as well.

Well done to Steve and Gazza for a nobmob 1, 2. Sorry I wasn't around to make it a 3 as well, but this is one hellish competitive race

CCOMTB - Club Race - 2010 Round 3 DEMTEL CHALLENGE

Status:

Finished

Laps:

3

Time:

01:37:53

Race Category:

B Grade Men

Position (Category):

11

Actually I shouldn't call it hell, it was completely expected. It really felt like there was a lot of climbing for this race but in fact it was only 694m in total. The downhill section after Demtel was fine, I was expecting all sorts of surprises but most people I saw took it all very slowly and it was all pretty straight forward. I got a pretty rubbish start but I'm not going to use it as an excuse, I just need to do more interval training.

Well done to the fast guys that finished in front of me (how competitive is this little group getting!), and bad luck to the DNFers.

CCOMTB - Club Race - 2010 Round 2

Status:

Finished

Laps:

3

Time:

01:37:18

Race Category:

B Grade Men

Position (Category):

12

Due to injury I haven't been training for 2 weeks and it really showed today. I found it hard to keep with the leaders on the first lap and I wasn't enjoying the pace one bit, None the less my HR was often up around 97% so I wasn't slacking off. I made a couple of silly mistakes and was getting a bit loose so I was much happier when I backed off to around 90% HR.

Bad luck to Gazza for getting a flat front tyre on the first lap. When I got to him he was about the throw the towel in but I chucked my seat bag at him and yelled something about thinking about the points. I only found out at the end he didn't even have a pump!! Sorry Gazza, I tried

Great to see Wazza racing the whole last lap bashing handlebars with some young gun. At the end he looked like he had given it everything, they were glued together on the line.

There were a lot more riders this weekend so I'm not expecting top ten, but it's good to have my race number for the year - 27

Temp: Around 28 I think.
Hydration: 1.2 Litres
Energy: 1.5 Gels (not enough)
Track: Just about perfect.