How much does it cost?
$20 – please bring cash on the night. Do I need a licence? Yes, at least a silver licence is required. Who is running the session? The session is run by Cycling Victoria, with Carl Brewer as the coach in charge of the session. It is not run by a club and members of any CA affiliated club are welcome. What equipment will I need? A well maintained track bike, with a warmup gea
r around 80"-84" and a high 80's to mid 90" gear as a minimum. You can bring more gears if you want to use them. Tyres suitable for DISC. We recommend the Vittoria Diamante Pro Pista or Pro Lite, or the Veloflex Record. You will need to be able to change your own gears, although if you're unsure of how to do this, you will be able to get some help. We don't have the time on the night to deal with hire bikes and you can't change gears on them, so we expect that you will have your own bike. Do I need to come every week? No – you're more than welcome to attend when it suits you and when the theme is one you're interested in. We know Friday nights are hard and you live in the real world. Will I need rollers? No, but you're welcome to bring them and use them if you like between efforts. Are juniors permitted? J17's and above are, but due to the nature of the training we'll be doing, which includes high speed bunch riding behind a motorbike at times, most J15's and below will not be able to keep up on their restricted gearing. J15's and J13's are very well catered for by club coaching programs. Have Friday off, go to the movies! I've got a coach and a program already, is this session any use to me? Yes, this program is designed to augment the usual training plans and programs prescribed by most coaches, it is highly skills-focused and should compliment your program. Your coach is welcome to attend and assist also. Do I need to be any good already? We aren't set up to cater for absolute beginners to the track, but anyone who can do basic rolling turns in a bunch and manage distance between themselves and other riders in a bunch on the track is skilled enough to attend. I can't make it this week and it's a theme I want to practice, what can you do to help? We'll be repeating themes regularly, with a seasonal bias, so for example, as we move into summer, we'll loop through keirin skills every 4 or so weeks, at the end of summer, we'll do more sessions on other winter-y stuff. I can't get to DISC until after 6:30pm, can I still train? Yes, but you will then need to bring rollers or have some other form of off-track warmup (many sprinters do an off bike warmup!) - if you can't make it before 7pm it's probably too late though as you'll miss a lot of the briefing for the evening's training. We know Friday nights are a challenge! I'm a coach, or a coaching candidate, can I come along? Yes, this session is not just for riders, it's also aimed at coach development and training, we very much want to involve club coaches and coaching candidates – if you're looking to get mentored hours for your qualification this is a great opportunity. Also, we'd like the help! There's a dedicated sprint program happening at the same time, can I have a go at that? Yes, but we insist on you doing one or the other, but not both, on the same night. We'd love you to try some pure sprint stuff, one of the things we hope to achieve is to encourage more of you to try sprint cycling. I have more questions, where do I ask? We have a page : "Track Torque", like it and ask us questions there. We'll get back to you as quickly as we
can. https://www.facebook.com/tracktorque is where you'll find us.
