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@Gabba
I'm in Barcelona at the moment. My girlfriends place is almost at the corner of Av. Tibidabo and it's a great hilly area (if you like going up/down hill). It's only 5 minutes to the "ronda de dalt" and once you're there it takes 10 minutes to "Valle d'Ebrom" where the velodrome is.
The track was built for the 1992 and it's an open one (at the time it wasn't mandatory that the tracks were indoors for world championships. It's wooden though and very steep -around 43º- if compared to Herne Hill, for example).
Membership to the "Catalan Cycling Union" is a must if you wanna ride it, but it can be done there at the office. The Catalan Track Team was trainning last time I was there...
Riding downtown Barcelona is really choice and it's slowly becoming a bike friendly city.
There's a place called FORUM where there's the best spot in the world to ride fixed wheel. I'm trying to get people to make a video there. It's really the bollocks!
I'm staying here another week or two, so give me a shout if any of yous are around.