Down at the track
Written by Bruce Rollerson
When I turned old earlier this year, some of my old school friends were kind enough to give me a couple of tickets to the Perth track cycling grand prix. There are some pretty good riders this year as the world championships are on in Melbourne in a couple of weeks. We got a lift out with Mike Ng
Mike
And Uncle Jason
Uncle
Burger time! (Thanks Uncle Jason)
We stopped for a burger on the way out there and then settled in for a night of track racing. I’d never been to the track before and found it a pretty enjoyable evening. Those corner banks are a lot steeper than they seem on television. There was a Japanese team of pretty young guys who were a bit out of their depth but tried hard and there was one Japanese guy, Watanabe, who had his own entourage and looked pretty strong. I think he won the pursuit (I could be wrong about this) and was looking good in the keirin but a couple of dutch guys got the jump on him in the final and he got trapped in by riders around him so didn’t have a chance. We enjoyed cheering for him, anyway. And cheering for everyone else, for that matter. I’m looking forward to going again.
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Those photos of mike & jase are great rollo!
I’ve finally got through last night’s photos. Now I can start looking at the ones I got of you today. Congratulations on the win.
A Japanese team of pretty young guys? I bet that’s what Kazuko thought of them too.
Yeah, they were pretty cute those teenage boys.
You see why the world still needs proof-readers?
Well, to be fair to you the lack of a comma makes it reasonably clear that you were referring to their age. Pretty, young boys would have been much more suspect I think. However, I think the words pretty, young, and boys should never be in a succession in a sentence, no matter the punctuation.
Bloody brilliant photos Mr. Bailey, er, I mean Rollerson. And what you perhaps lack in prettiness, those young Japanese lads surely lack in worldly wisdom…and wisdom always wins my friend…..oh, and I’m not saying you’re not pretty, it’s just that it would be, well, weird for me to say that. So I am not saying it. Again, just for the record. You’re not pretty.
Maybe not pretty but, as I say to the bathroom mirror every morning, I am a Very Handsome and Successful man.
Ahahaha, hilarous James!
Great read as usual Bruce, keep these adventures coming 🙂 The photos are great – I think I need to switch to Nikon – bah ha ha!
However, as usual, yours are much better so I’m linking to the ones on BookFace here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150627198627611.379659.594102610&type=1
I think your hands may be too petite for Nikon.
They are crackin’ good photos Bruce. I especially liked ‘Burger Time’. It’s very evocative.
I’m thrilled you had a good night out.
Yes. Kazuko looks like I’ve just made another of my hilarious jokes. Thanks very much for the tickets. It was a very fun night out.
I forgot to ask if the fat bloke on the motorbike managed to beat the cyclists in his heat (I think this may indicate just how little I really know about cycling).
He was putting in all the work early in the races but seemed to run out of steam with a couple of laps to go each time. Poor tactics, if you ask me.