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5 Days In Korea
Read more →Ray, Harry, Martin, Ferg and myself (Hal) returned from the USA in early May uncertain of the future of Red Hook Crit (RHC) and facing a long cold winter in Melbourne. At this stage dates for any future RHC events had not been announced and we were on the lookout for track bike crits we could race. We had heard about King Of Track (KOT) in Korea but again, a 2018 date hadn't been announced. We were essentially in a holding pattern. Finally KOT announced a date and immediately Kevin from Engine 11 and Haeng, KOT Director asked if we...
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The HBC Studio
Read more →Take a look through the HBC Studio, our showroom, clubhouse and workspace. Enjoy!
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Tracklocross Returns To Mt Beauty
Read more →Tracklocross returns to Mt Beauty for another year. Just down the valley from our home in the Kiewa Valley, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to enjoy a weekend of racing and riding in one of Australia’s most beautiful locations. Potentially finding a loophole in the rules, Hal decided to race his fixed gear gravel machine in the Open category for another year. The Open race is for people who want to ride a bike that is not a CX bike. Some pretty heavy rain on Friday night made for a wet, muddy and fun course for racing on Saturday. ...
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RED HOOK CRIT BROOKLYN 2018
Read more →Red Hook Crit 2018 is done. The day started with a slow roll over a mist cloaked Williamsburg bridge and along the waterfront to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. For Hal and Ray this was their third trip to the race, Harry and Fergus their second and for Martin everything about this type of racing in the states was new. It was the culmination of 12 months of training and racing and we had travelled a very long way to ride in this bike race. Racing started early and on a new layout the pace was very very sharp. There...
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Mission Crit, Design And Racing
Read more →12 months ago Ray, James, Ferg, Harry and myself (Hal) packed up our track bikes and flew halfway around the world to race the Mission Crit in San Francisco and the the Red Hook Crit in New York City. Check out or Blog post Racing Track Bikes In The Mission And Red Hook for some background. Anyway a few months ago Clare and James, organisers of the Mission Crit got in touch and asked if we would like to be involved designing the graphics for this years event. Obviously we said yes! After some discussion with Clare and James...
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Shimano Supercrit
Read more →12 months ago Hal, Ray and Harry were lining up on the start line of B grade Support race at the Shimano Supercrit. They managed to get Hal on the podium with a 3rd place. We then hung around to watch the A grade support race and even that looked levels above what we thought we could achieve. Jump ahead 12 months to Sunday at 1:30pm Hal, Ray, Harry and Steve are sitting on the start line of Elite Teams Supercrit alongside their experienced teammate Jonathan Cantwell. There has been a lot of progress in the last 12 months and...