• Who was our fastest riders at the Roller Race?
    And are they willing to pit themselves against other teams?

    Details (dug out from the murky end of my inbox, sorry Therese!):

    Hi David,

    I spoke to you ages ago with regards to putting a team together for the next roller race. I now have a venue and a date - Saturday 19th April in Waterloo.

    I am looking to have 10 teams made up of 2 - 3 riders. I currently have a media team, a team from London Dynamo, courier, single track and a team from Brighton confirmed.

    In return for a team, I would ask the riders of the team to sell a 20 tickets (in total), which will cost £7 or £8. And for the Fixed Gear forum to promote the event.

    I am really asking for help with regards to selling tickets, because I have to make sure to get enough people to the venue (The event costs us £5K plus to stage and we have always made a loss on these roller races. Last time, we were made most of the money back by selling the roller race t-shirts online).

    The other reason is that I want the riders to get people to come and support their team. We just staged a roller race in Portland in extension of the Handbuilt Bike Show. There were 14 Portland teams taking part and the venue was packed. People cued around the block to get in. AND the atmosphere was fantastic.

    Below are some pix from Portland.

    Let me know what you think,

    Therese

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dontbecreepy/sets/72157603886006649/

    Therese Bjorn

    R A P H A

    I've not doubt that we'd have enough people buy tickets... but we'd need a team of 2 or 3 riders who can punch holes in the other teams.

    I can say not to be intimidated by the Dynamos, they have only 1 track rider and all of the rest are crit races and time triallists... basically they're not good for all-out blistering power for the 20 seconds it takes to race rollers.

    Who should represent us then?

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