Vintage alleycat ideas, please

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  • I'm turning over the idea of organising a vintage-only alleycat race for the springtime, here in Minneapolis. Thus far, this is what I've come up with:

    • 1977 cut-off date. Nothing made after that.
    • All frames must be steel (Easily checked with a magnet)
    • Geared bicyles welcome, but limited to internally geared hubs, or derailleurs and 10 speeds. Not 12, not 14. 10 speeds.
    • No index shifting, friction only.
    • SS/fixed bikes must have cottered or one-piece cranks.
    • Points awarded/time slashed for mechanical oddities. Anyone with a Positron derailleur gets a minute off their overall time, anyone using the Integer freewheeling crankset gets a minute off. Like that.
    • No dual-pivot sidepull brakes. They bug me.


    I'm having trouble coming up with ideas for checkpoint tasks. I don't want to make them annoying, but they should be challenging. Any and all ideas welcomed, though if it's fookin stoopid, it will of course be mocked.

    Thanks,
    Blight

  • Jules Verne's - Around the World in 80 days.

  • sure 12 speed was available before 1977

  • As were cotterless cranks.

  • Yes, but not common. Look, I'm not saying it has to make perfect sense. I'm just trying to get a certain "feel" going here. I may relent and accede to 12 speeds, if the rest of the bike is in good form. I'm just trying to not have people show up on a 5-year-old Surly LHT and call it "vintage."

    OOooh, inch-sized tires only! No 700C allowed!

    C'mon, c'mon, make with the jibber-jabber for checkpoint tasks! Do all my hard work for me!

  • i dont think you'll have that many entrants so no need to wory about checkpoints..

  • Especially if you're having to ask a bunch of retards in London for advice...

  • Especially if you're having to ask a bunch of retards in London for advice...

    He probably knows that some of them are vintage. ;P

  • Especially if you're having to ask a bunch of retards in London for advice...
    You lot of windowlickers are different to my lot of windowlickers. Just as retarded, but the spelling's different.

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Vintage alleycat ideas, please

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