Keirin School
June 10th, 2007 |Australian track rider Ben Kersten is attending the International Japanese Keirin school.
Because gambling is the biggest reason Keirin is so popular in Japan, the punters call the shots. They don’t think that just because you’re doing 75km/h, in lycra, on a banked track, in a group, and it rains, that you shouldn’t race. To make the ludicrous seem a little less so, they have come up with a world only design: the track is sprayed with a very fine sand paper making it pretty normal and safe on the banking in the rain.
Here is what it looks like when you crash on that surface.
You can see his diary entries here.
