Category Archives: Bike
Rollapaluza ?Brief Encounter? Mixed Doubles
www.rollapaluza.com – details & entry here
An evening of Boy / Girl team roller-racing, music and beer.
Hosted by Greg Mclaren (Lucha Libre London) with the Rollapaluza DJs
Friday September 25th, 7pm ?til midnight
Bethnal Green Working Men?s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB
Come as your favourite classic film couple, there will be prizes for the best dressed competitors!
Indoor bike parking
BBC4 – This is Scotland (2/3) – "Harassed Tweed"
www.bbc.co.uk – harassed tweed
Around the 3:50 myself and a bunch of londonfgss.com riders make it onto BBC4! 🙂
SkyRide 2009
I was holding Mal’s hand in this but the bastards cut her out. They were something like 65,000 riders enjoying the closed roads in London. It was nodder central but Mal and I were quite prepared to ride sub-10kph in the lovely weather. We rode in from Ealing and back out again and Mal’s traffic-fear is way down compared to when we did the Hovis ride in 2007. She’s riding her Langster around without me too which is great. After the ride I listened to Chris Hoy speak although passed on getting his autograph and then it was off to West Kebab for race fuel. Bright times 🙂
Space – Cars vs. Bikes vs. Buses
Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.
This poster, from the City of Munster in Germany, has been making its way around the internet this past week. Now, either an internet star or slut, it carries a simple message about congestion, urban planning and people: cars are great, but can really suck in certain situations and people will just deal with it anyway.
We often hear in the comments sections of transit posts about Wilshire Blvd. that the “billion” buses on the street are the problem. Just imagine all those bus riders in their car behind, next, in front and all around you. In fact, that could 30,000 extra cars.
Or just imagine if there were park-and-ride lots along Wilshire and the majority of people took buses. Then the only traffic the bus would sit through was of their own kind.
And then imagine if money actually existed to fund the Purple Line ‘subway to the sea.’
Image from the City of Munster, Germany Planning Office (h/t MetroRiderLA)
(original poached from here: laist.com – same number of)
See also: pedshed.net
Skid Vicious 2, aka New Skids on the Block
Skid Vicious 2, aka New Skids on the Block. $200 for longest skid.
European Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships
The EHBPCs will take place on August 1st and 2nd 2009. There?s an EHBPC itinerary here.
The games will take place at the Marlborough Playground, Union St in Borough, SE1. There will be two courts for simultaneous games to take place on. There is also plenty of space for bike parking, food and drinks, toilet facilities etc.
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Croydon Cycle Works News
In an attempt to butter me up before our Tour de Pyrenees, so I don’t embarrass him riding over those French hills, Mick has made an appeal to my ego and published the hippy blog in his newsletter.
It’s less than a week now before I head to France with the Croydon Cycle Works groupies. My “training” this weekend consisted of attending Jason & Lizzie’s wedding (congrats you two!), drrnnknningg far too much, 5am bedtime and Sunday spent getting home (thanks Gabe & Ang) and catching up on Le Tour.
Rollapaluza gets national series
After kick-starting the roller-racing resurgence in recent years Rollapaluza have decided to launch a nation-wide quest to find Britain?s King of Spin and Queen of Cadence.
The series will comprise of stand-alone regional events, each one identical to the Rollapaluza nights they have become known for with DJs and unique atmosphere. These regional events will also act as qualifiers for a ?Grand Finale? in London, with huge crowds and great prizes promised.
The regions will be: Scotland, Wales, North and Midlands, South West, London and East, South
Rollapaluza are known for their inclusive approach to cycling competition and all competitors will compete on identical Condor bikes and the standard Rollapaluza gearing.
There will also be a national youth competition, with the younger competitors taking part in the afternoon, before the evening event commences.
After refurbishing four vintage rigs Rollapaluza now manufacture their own Roller race rigs all of which are produced to be identical. This means that for possibly the first time ever roller-racers can be assured that they are competing on a nation-wide level playing field and as Rollapaluza are now opening up international franchises with these same rigs there is even potential for future world-wide challenges.
Olympians Chris Hoy and Craig Maclean have raced Rollapaluza, but the current 500m record is held by rising British track star Matt Crampton with 17.90 seconds. There will be a special prize to the rider who sets the fastest time of the series and a bonus if that time is a new record.
Expect to see Rollapaluza near you in the second half of 2009
To keep updated on all that?s happening in the series visit the event page here: www.rollapaluza.com/nationals
If you would like more info or wish to offer sponsorship or support please email: nationals@rollapaluza.com
Planet-X Stealth Pro Carbon TT
With ?250 knocked off the price of these framesets, bringing the price to ?500, I couldn’t afford not to buy one, could I?!