Red Hook Criterium London

If someone actually does something about it and organises one.

Pete, who organised the Nottingham one last year put a huge amount of effort in and only got about 25 riders, and said it just wasn't worth his effort to do it again this year. The event organisers he had to deal with were cunts though.

your definitely right, but organising a fixed gear crit from the ground up may be easier? Rather than dealing with cuntish organisers.

And yes we have learned something from those videos. We got free shit from companies hoping to sell to impressionable skidderz, so we DGAF.

Got it.

Heh, there was a great article about this last year in one of the blogs... Can't find it now though...
Was it one of Prolly's rants?

street keirin ftw - was there ever an lfgss one?

EDIT - (as the main event, without the accompanying alleycat)

The Full City guys tried to run one a year or so ago, not sure how successful it was.

They're still doing regular alley cats and checkpoint races. Check http://subtlecouriers.tumblr.com/ for more info on those.

We would like to do something like this soon (for all the guys in jeans with riser-bars..). For ease/fun it is probably going to be 30 minutes then last rider elimination.

Just scouting locations.

Percy Circus Velodrome ;)

yes yes - i knew you'd have something in the works!

There's some pictures and some words up on this blog: http://velo-city-girl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/the-red-hook-criterium-london-2015.html#more (apologies if someones already posted it)

This.

Anyone have a spare RHC yellow volunteer/crew t shirt for sale? or i can swap for an athlete one size m.

RHC are flogging off the London race jerseys etc, 40% off. Not a bad a price, and a fair selection of sizes still available.

http://www.wingedstore.com/red-hook-crit/red-hook-2015-london-jersey-423.html

Word on the street is that Amsterdam might host RHC this year instead of London. Nothing announced officially yet tho.

Not a bad idea TBH.

The last one was good, but they seemed to spend more time on marketing it to participants and sponsors than to the public... and too much happens in London for an event to get away with that.

In Amsterdam, they should be able to attract more attention to the event without necessarily upping their visitor marketing effort.

I don't think they've written off the London date just yet. I have emailed Trimble on a couple of occasions and it seems as though the guys at Greenwich Peninsula are keen to put it on again, but the changing course layout due to building works and cost of security at this type of in the UK isn't helping things.

Hosting cycling events (or anything outdoors for that matter) in London is hard, don't envy them.

There is only one place such an event in London should be. That is the Mall and around Bird Cage Walk. The problem shutting down that area is complicated, but it is something that happens a lot so they know how to do it. But its not cheap. The other problem is finding a point in the calendar to do it.

Do it on a Sunday and it's mostly closed already

That is very true. But you get the difference, its not just closing the area. Its putting up the barriers, etc etc. Look at how well the Brompton WC's were done last year. Brompton liked the venue and exposure so much, that they have chosen to do it again this year. Doing it on the same weekend as the Ride-100 means they get to split the costs. Redbull should do something similar.

I think the ethos of RHC is all about the riders anyway. These events usually attract a decent support from spectators without any formal advertising campaign. Location is king with the RHC and the Mall is way too formal, the event is supposed to be back street and on the edge of town, but London in 2016 is seriously lacking in that type of environment.