2014-06-07 London Nocturne

Park. Finish line.

On the big corner with crash barriers, west Smithfield

in Il Botglio
spaghetti vongole later and ready to watch. oh its the intermission

Gone, missed Boris race awesome seeing you guys, will link vids when home

Fun afternoon. Pretty sure I spotted laner racing.
I hope the rider who crashed during the Kermesse is ok. Shocked to see the race go past within half a meter of his head while he was on the ground.

Really good day/evening out, once again it reminded me how great forum gathers can be, you guys really are great. Much rep to all the racers and those who made it out.

Brace yourselves, pictures are coming

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More/bigger pictures in the flickr album, should you want to see them.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/94111848@N08/sets/72157645064619684/

Remember don't ride bikes with no brakes....

A few more

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so did we get any places on the track race?
also, how did Howard & Petor do in the Boris-bike race?

got there at 7:30 with the missus, watched a few moments of what was supposed to be the Brooks Retro Crit, only to see carbon frames! went for some pasta, then met Chris (whomustnotbementionedonhere) who explained about the crash/delay, then watched women's elite & men's elite crit. Nice ride home with mrs conker (not toooooo slow).

Nice to see so many faces from now and then

Thank you everyone for cheering me on! It was great!

Despite more than an hour delay / sitting at the start line after warming properly our race was cut short to just 15 minutes. I've attacked early, as there was not much time to hang about. Sometime soon after that my seat post started slipping little by little on every bump and went all the way down by the end of the race. Really gutted, as I had a big chance to be in top 3. The only thing I can do is come back stronger and more prepared next year and hopefully that race inspired some of you to race next year.

http://stuff.domhay.com/2014-06-08-110555.jpg

Nice one, Dom! :)

Track Bike Criterium
1 Paolo Bravini Team Cinelli Chrome 14:59
2 Wayne Crombie East London Velo
3 George Garnier The 5th Floor CC
4 Alessandro Bruzza Team Cinelli Chrome
5 Dimitri Demishev Rollapaluza
6 Giovanni Bocchi Team Cinelli Chrome
7 Francesco Martucci Back2back/Rapid Inside
8 Alex Blomeley Unassigned
9 Matthew Theobalds CS Grupetto
10 Neil Phillips TMCC
11 Giorgio Rubasalami Team Cinelli Chrome
12 Taki Theodoracopulos Red Hook
13 Timothy Pulleyn Restrap
14 Carlos Beltran Commuters team
15 Brendan Drewett Fareham Wheelers CC
16 David Trimble Red Hook
17 Reece Wood RagPicker
18 Edgars Aizbalts Druid Cycles
19 Ho Ke LFGSS CC
20 Rob Borek DAS RAD KLUB BRISTOL
21 Daren Austin Twickenham CC
22 CHAZ KIMBLE VC LONDRES
23 Paul Evans LFGSS CC
24 Tim Wilkey DAS RAD KLUB BRISTOL
25 Stefania baldi Team Desgena
26 Lucy Walker Leeds University
27 Joseph Ashkarian

more

The Marshall with the red flag was getting well aggro when several people suggested he might like to use the flag to alert riders to the prone cyclist on the ground.

WAC.

Didn't have the best of starts and before lap one was over the group was completely spilt and therefore we were racing in the small group at the back, generally good day out and still hate crits btw, sorry I didn't get to see more forum guys that evening my mate crashed in the retro bike race and I had to gather his stuff and attend to his injuries.

Anyways here are some photos of the day from my end, sorry to the limited amount of photos this time, (not great at multi-tasking)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/108803424@N07/

Ride Report.
Cocked up the unfolding and then in my haste to try and catch up I shifted gear going over the bump on the back straight and lost the chain off the front ring. Game Over.

Consoled myself with free beer in VIP area.

hi Ho
saw you briefly at a distance but didn't want to loose my place next to the finishing line. missed your race tho. cant open the pics on my phone

Hey Ian, yeah by the time I finally got around to the raphe café most people left! =(

Was hanging near the finish/podium late on and someone skanked three Tyskie in a carrier I put down by my wheels.

Scummy shithead nicking £2.50's worth of shite lager. What is the world coming to?!

Good race. Pretty pissed off with the sudden 2nd change of timings... After waiting an hour at the start line, getting told it was going to be shorted to 15 minute +3 laps to then suddentl find it was 10 minutes +3 laps? Missed the sprint... Still chuffed with 13th!

Good to bump into you, hms! Made it back later after taking care of the wee one

Bikefitting thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Good to bump into you, hms! Made it back later after taking care of the wee one

Bumping into people was a theme of the day: HoKe, Sparkes, Laner, TTM, Bruno, the LBK guys and Tao GH..
Interviewed Fran Millar and Rod Ellingworth wearing my forum cap too...

Ride Report.
Cocked up the unfolding and then in my haste to try and catch up I shifted gear going over the bump on the back straight and lost the chain off the front ring. Game Over.

Consoled myself with free beer in VIP area.

Bummer!! This happened right in front of where we were watching! Bad luck dude :(

On the bright side FREE BEER :)

Bikefitting thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Dat ass.

I headed down for a couple of hours and ran into a few forum types, as well as spotting Ho and Dimi fixie skidding around, and some fat banker with nose piercing on a carbon bike in the fat bankers' race.

My efforts to support weren't appreciated by the missus who told me 'you can't just shout out "ho" in public'.

It was nice to see a few familiar faces in the crowd, including Seven04 and his youth club as we left.

Any news on the London Dynamo rider?