Journal – letters from Baumland

Tag Racing

A minute to win it.

Take something, an idea, a notion, a concept, then boil it down and refine it until it is the purest essence of the original. For cycling that essence is the track bike, seen recently beneath the heel of many a young dandy, and every four years brought fourth into the spotlight through the Olympics. As [...]

Jayco Cup – Neil Robinson Series Leader in Sport

Last weekend the first Jayco Cup round for the series was run at the You Yangs. Neil Robinson and Steven Caddy from Baum fronted up in their race kit. David from the workshop was also there as a marshal. Neil raced the XCO (Cross Country Olympic) on Saturday and both Neil and Steve raced XCC [...]

It doesn’t get much better than this…

Yesterday I came 2nd in Masters in the Dirworks 100 and got treated to a spectacular show of nature – a pounding hail storm.  A great race result and a post race spectacle – that is my idea of a great day. I headed up to Woodend the night before the race to camp.  This ensured a [...]

The ex-employee… stuck in Baumland!

Well you may have seen my name mentioned in the letters from Baum land from time to time, and may have wondered how I fit into the ‘Baum world’…. Hi, I’m Ryan Moody and I’m an ex Baum employee… I know it sounds like I’m attending my first ‘bike industry anonymous’ meeting, but it’s true.  [...]