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  • I love this - he's drilled just about everything!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris531/3202039998/in/set-72157603595434172/

    "Just to add to the entry posted on my behalf by Chris 531 (above).
    I can add:
    The bike was 100% Inspired by the Alf Engers machine that I had seen in the UK "Cycling" magazine's during the early 1970's. In Australia during the 1970's there was no weekly TT racing at all and so the average road rider would contest perhaps only 2 TT races per year and those would be in the club and state championship events that were offered.
    I drilled the seat piller like the Engers machine and like-wise copied the pedal slots from a Ken Bird TT bike article that I had read in "Cycling".
    Chainring and crank spider holes including a hole in each chainring tooth were copied from the Engers machine along with the drilling of the rear Campagnolo Record changer, the handlebar drilling and the Weinman junior brake modifications. The bike having been built in Australia was not a genuine SHORTER bike but rather a modified track bike, the track bike ends were modified to take the Campagnolo gears by Australian Olympic cycling machanic Bob Farley. I identified the bike as an ALAN SHORTER bike only because my TT hero Alf Engers rode a SHORTER brand bicycle in the early 1970's
    I used this bike to to win the Victorin State under 18 years 25 km TT championship in 1975 ( geee... I think it was 1975 anyhow) I do remember that I rode the 25 Km in 35:01.
    Thanks to Dave Holiday and Derek Cottington and forever thanks to the TT "King" himself - Alf Engers for those inspiring years."

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