2015 Herne Hill Track League

Recovery is important

Probably the best thread to ask this. Possibly racing sprint at the derny champs in July, would be a first time at Herne Hill. Have a set of mavics with pista evo cl fitted, would it be mad to ride these? Other option is just keep the training wheels on for the day.

A couple of people ride Evo CLs at track league but I think they're pushing their luck to be honest. The track itself is fine but the warm up track and safety zone can be gritty.

Cool, probably not worth the risk then. At the keirin 2014 my pal had his front tyre blow full pelt down at HH, took a right chunk of carbon out of his 5 spoke!

I recently got my red card and I'm thinking of coming to league for the first time tonight.

Re: Madison night - I've not practiced enough madison to ride it as a race. Is there still a full programme of other races on nights with a special event? How many races do the non-specials usually get?

IIRC just one of the A cat races gets sacrificed for the madison, if you're riding for the first time then you'll be in the Cs and you should still get the usual number of races.

I the Madison night I went to had a combined c&b scratch to make room. Still got 4 races as usual as a c cat.

Results up within two hours of TL finishing tonight Dan. If you'd like to drive me home, make me dinner and mix me a drink, then maybe I can get it down to under an hour...

Nice work on the 'rationalisation' of the points too.

Makes much more sense.

I don't think you want @dan mixing you a drink though, last night he was on a cocktail of Coopers, Stongbow and Kettle chips.

Yeah, played around with a few ways of doing it...and this seemed best.

Oh and quality beery heckling from the stands by @youramericanlover (I think) and another last night.

Correct! Myself and @lucyh came to see some racing, was great night for it, though just watching Madison makes me nervous.

Mid season special tomorrow. Reverse win-and-out, Kierin, Marymoor crawl and stupidly long points race. It's going to hurt.

I thought that was on the 1st July?

So it is... bummer. I was ready for Kierin.

Carry on...

Sorry - missed this.

As appealing as your proposal sounds, I think perhaps I'll just pipe down and stop being such a gobshite. How does that sound? ;)

Could be the first outing for your new POWER WHEELS OF BLING

maybe

That will be sprint league this Saturday I hope...

Might do sprint league as well actually. A few sprint efforts will do me good.

If only I had some new wheels to try out......

Ooh sprint friend!

How are you feeling this morning @dan? Not too bad I hope.

Reminded me a bit of this...only in the space of about 3 seconds and at 30mph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8

Just coincidence that there's a bloke with a wispy beard in the background for both mechanical failures?!

That's pretty much what I saw before I kicked him in the head on my way down to the grass

Spectalularly scary if nothing else.

@damon is still grumbling about loosing his break too :)

Oh and if your number is 246, I have it as you left it in the track centre last night. I will bring it along next week and leave it with George at sign on.
You're also down as TBC on the results sheet......

Edit - its a Temp number, I'll give it to George next week

I'm OK. Pretty sore and my road rash is quite bad. Turns out I hit my shoulder and both hips pretty hard too. Sleep last night was pretty much non-existent.
Still, feel like I got off reasonably lightly.

You did bounce very hard, a lot of times.