Sun June 29th, High-noon - LondonFgSs Spring Track Day Event at Herne Hill Velodrome

probably not the only people who are suffering today...

good day, thanks to joe for organizing it, if only germany or i had won some thing, next time i will have more gear inches

Hi everyone.
Here are some pics I took...
There is still few more to come...but I need some sleep :P

after spending the effort on the wrong parts of the races and loosing the football this image makes my day. bunch of seasoned track riders - epic

after spending the effort on the wrong parts of the races and loosing the football this image makes my day. bunch of seasoned track riders - epic
why is everyone else looking easy? :p

Props to the organisers. Great day. Great people.

big up joe for organising and everyone else for great support and positive vibes for all riders. It made the day to know people shouted for every bit of effort put it, even corny... btw what did you win?

hillbilly won a nice coat hanger

I didn't see you there mr smith

why is everyone else looking easy? :p

cos i am running on super tight cones.
stilled puzzled how mikec trashed most of us with zero aerodynamics. respect!

I didn't see you there mr smith

i was loitering with a camera on the 3rd corner.
i was sporting a cerise cap with rainbow stripe detail and rapha's finest wanker wear.

ah

that was an epic day and one of the best organised through this forum to date. big thanks to the Soul Master General - teenslain - for persevering and getting us out there.

just fuckin loved the racing and seeing everybody going at it. seemed like some serious speeds were getting hit.

big up to all the people who came along and cheered and all that.

simply awesome stuff.

btw, does anyone have the Race Programme - want to print one out as a momento.

Teens - can you post up the events and places?

Sounds like a great day. the picks are impressive. fk lot of lycra out there???
Good work Jim n Mike, looks like all that training and controlled diet paid off ;)

Jim - you do it on a hire bike??

cos i am running on super tight cones.
stilled puzzled how mikec trashed most of us with zero aerodynamics. respect!

he shaves his legs......

seemed like some serious speeds were getting hit.

It certainly appeared so.
Hard to judge as a spectator, but I'm sure I woulda been trashed.
Pajamas and I will be on the track nxt time - right Phil ? (lovely bike btw)
Nice to meet, yet more friendly faces - CHUG IT, i owe's ya pintage.

Good Times people !

Excellent day! Cheers Joe!
Maybe next time I'll try a bit more. ;)
MikeC and Jim, you guys ruled the day!

Met loads of folks at the pub afterwards and have promptly forgotten quite a few names...

Teens - can you post up the events and places?

Sounds like a great day. the picks are impressive. fk lot of lycra out there???
Good work Jim n Mike, looks like all that training and controlled diet paid off ;)

Jim - you do it on a hire bike??

Yup, bit tied-up right now but I'll post the results up when I'm having my lunch... Mikec pretty much won everything tho'! ;)

bit of wobbly footage... the 3 lap final.

LDNFGSS - Track Day on Vimeo

Whilst we're still basking in the post track day cigarette smoke, thought I'd pop in my tuppence worth on the races/race programme, so hopefully we can have an even better track day next time.
Obviously this is filtered through the prism of my mid to bottom table obscurity, but here goes.

Loved the Keirin, 3 Lap Sprint, and the Devil/Elimination. More of those next time round.
The scratch races were fun, if a little painful on the thighs, thought ten laps was abit long for the first scratch race, maybe 5-7 laps next time.
Also maybe we could do like a team pursuit/time trial, so we can get some more group rides going, so people have to work as a team to achieve a good time. And maybe longer, more structured gaps between the races. As there was a case of guys riding heats for the keirin and then having to jump straight into the final of the 3 lap sprint.

Just my quick thoughts. Onwards and upwards.

Looked awesome out there.
Pleased I came down to watch, though I was desperate to be riding.
Quite a contrast from the night rides to see you all clad in lycra!
And as for Dogs' De Rosa suit...amazing!
Few good bits at the jumble too...

I'll be sorting out my induction next week and get some experience together for the next one.
I'll post up some pics tomorrow too.

Well done to all of you. Good to meet Teenslain too. Seems he done a good job...;-)

thanks to teenslain for organising. really great day, loads of fun and as BMMF says... no crashes!

in terms of the race programme, i think it worked pretty well. I liked the longer distance scratch races, it's good to have them as there all ready a load of more sprint based events. Also, as cornelius says, longer or more organised gaps would be good... it wasn't much fun jumping from the keirin into the 3 lap dash final.

Really like the idea of a team pursuit, great to encourage people to work together a bit.

best pic ;)

"No talking at the back!" ;)

Looked awesome out there.
Quite a contrast from the night rides to see you all clad in lycra!

Yeah, apart from me. Good job I didn't make any of the photos, my sartorial inelegance would probably end up with someone describing me as a hobo. :)

Right, the results...

10 lap scratch race

1. mikec
   
2. hillbilly
   
3. BMMF
   
   

3 lap dash

1. mikec
   
2. hillbilly
   
3. trampsparadise
   
   

Devil

1. Kristian B (non-forumenger)
   
2. mikec
   
3. BMMF
   
   

Unknown distance

1. hillbilly
   
2. Kristian B
   
3. dogsballs
   
   

Keirin

1. mikec
   
2. hillbilly
   
3. Kristian B
   
4. trampsparadise
   
5. BMMF
   
6. Sainsbury's Ed
   
7. Jonny
   
8. oddsock
   
9. dogsballs
   
10. skoota
    
    

Final scratch race

1. Kristian B
   
2. BMMF
   
3. Michael Voight (non-forumenger)
   
   

Womens prize went to jacqui and her pink Mercian and the Rollapalooza CC membership went to Corny, I can't quite remember why now. ;)
Anyway, tons of fun and brilliant that so many people showed up... Spec-ta-cu-lar day! Waiting to hear back from HH about doing another one right after the August bank holiday... :D

Did anybody else actually have a chance of winning apart from hillbilly and mikec? Thats amazinf! :)