Hi Gang,
I have not been following this thread very closely so forgive me if this was already mentioned. At my home track (Kissena) the guys who didn't do hand slings used a rubber hand grip off their kid sisters bike as a jamming tool. Every so often some guys would get tangled up doing a hand sling and Al Toefield (who ran the track) would ban the practice for the rest of the season. The guys who were not good at them were happy and the guys who were good at them were just as disappointed as their kid sisters.
Regards, Jamie
Jamie Swan Centerport Cycles Inc. 245 Main St. Northport, N.Y. 11768 631-262-0909 http://www.centerportcycles.com (mapped) http://www.cabinfeverliquidations.com http://www.limws.org http://www.liatca.org
On Feb 3, 2006, at 3:33 PM, ternst wrote:
> I enjoyed the translation, adds nicely to what I wrote in a prior post.
> We didn't use wood because it was too hard for a jamming tool and
> didn't mold nicely to our hand in a tight grab.
> Also if you fell hard on the tool in a spill the wood was most
> unforgiving on your hip, banging on the track and subsequent sliding
> down the track onto the flat was quite enough, thank you, without
> adding insult to injury.
> Some guys didn't have a team short with jamming tool pocket, placed
> the tool inside their shorts and took tape and wrapped around the tool
> on the outside of the trunks holding the jamming tool in place.
> Occasionally the single layer short material got pulled too hard and
> rrrip, occasioning the genteel ladies among the spectators to hold
> ther hand(s) over their eyes. I'll bet they peeked through their
> fingers.
> The lycra stuff did come in but it was not nearly as nice as the wool
> stuff that the topline Italian and others made.
> That's progress.
> Ted Ernst
> Palos Verdes Estates, CA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Maaslands"
> <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
> To: "CR Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:26 AM
> Subject: [CR]Madison change
>
>
>> Sergio wrote:
>>
>>> I asked a friend of mine who has been a good track cyclist, and is
>>> now
>>> an instructor
>>> at an Italian velodrome. Here is his reply on the Madison change.
>>>
>>> Feel free to publish it to the List, possibly with a translation .
>>> Andea Costa told me he does not mind at all, of course.
>>
>> The attached response of Andrea did not get forwarded to the list, so
>> I am including a translation below:
>>
>> "When I rode the Padova 6-day race as a cadet in 1982, alongside
>> "Bicio"
>> De Lazzari, I wore the shorts with the "salami". They were already
>> made out of Lycra or similar elastified material by then, with a
>> single layer in the legs and triple or even quadruple layer around
>> the waist. I remember having received them personally from Nane
>> Pinarello in his shop in Treviso; on the left side, there was an
>> internal compartment, similar to a long narrow pocket, that held the
>> so-called "salami." The salami was fashioned out of a piece of wood
>> that was then wrapped in a tensile medical bandage and then finished
>> off with medical tape once it was the size and shape of your hand.
>> They generally were about 12 cm long.
>>
>> The Salami was used for the changeover. At the time it cadets and
>> juniors were not permitted to use handslings. Then with time, things
>> did pass over to hand slings, as you effectively had to get very
>> close to your partner, and on steep tracks, could actually fall due
>> to the rear of the slung rider's bike becoming completely unweighted.
>>
>> I remember well the first sling that I gave to Bicio who weighed 10
>> kg less than me, his rear wheel came at least 10 cm down the banking,
>> luckily Padova was not a super steep track."
>>
>> Steven Maasland
>> Moorestown, NJ