Bicycle Cafe

Anyone tried the new Bicycle Cafe - Look Mum No Hands- yet?

It is at 41 Old Street url http://www.lookmumnohands.com/

When I went there yesterday they were Paris-Brest-Paris race live

Zeb

Liege-Bastogne-Liege

PBP isn't a race.

This place has been mentioned in the coffee thread.

PBP isn't a race.

No, it's much harder than that.

No, it's much harder than that.

If it was a race again it would be immense.

Actually do they have a upper speed limit, like 32kph or whatever the UK Audaxes do?
Has anyone beaten it?

52 hours in 1901..
"The 1901 Paris-Brest was sponsored not only by Le Petit Journal but L'Auto-Velo, edited by Henri Desgrange. For the first time, professionals were segregated from the "touriste-routier" group (in which a 65-year-old finished in just over 200 hours). The newspapers organized a telegraph system to relay results to their Paris presses, and the public followed the exploits of Maurice Garin, who won in just over 52 hours over 112 other professionals."

Oppi sub-50..
The 1931 professional event saw victory by Australian Hubert Opperman with a sprint on the finish velodrome after his long solo breakaway was neutralized just outside Paris. Opperman's finishing time was a record 49 hours 21 minutes, despite constant rain. His diet included 12 pounds of celery, which he thought an important energy source (celery's energy content is minuscule, but it may have been a source of fluid and salt).

Three years later, the 1951 event saw a record of 38 hours 55 minutes. This is unlikely to fall. It was the last time PBP was raced by professionals and from then on the course used smaller roads and more hills. Maurice Diot set this record. He won a sprint over breakaway companion Eduoard Muller after waiting for Muller to fix a puncture in Trappes, 22 km from the finish.

30kph is the limit now on the audaxing. I reckon they should organise it as a race at least one more time. A massive showboat of a race at the end of a season for all the pro's to have a big blow out and show what modern racers are capable of.

They can't get enough drugs for that kind of distance.. why do you think the Tour has been getting shorter and shorter over the years? I blame border control.

I've done the Liege-Baston route on a holiday (didn't go back again), really nice ride, deceptively hilly. Shame Vinokourov won it this year, not sure how much I trust that guy.

Cycled past this yesterday with Clara, she pointed it out to me as I was cycling with no hands. Definitely going to check it out.

she pointed it out to me as I was cycling with no hands.

I went there today for lunch.

Really nice sandwiches, I had a roast beef with rocket and horseradish, and a tomato/basil/mozzarella. £2 each. Also a really nice blueberry muffin.

They were really friendly, prices seemed reasonable for the area, and of course the workshop and big screen cycling is nice to have.

I will be going there again [/advert]

i think this was set up by jonny's friend's friend

Went there for the opening - one of the North chaps knows the chap behind it
I understand he used to work at Sigma

http://twitter.com/1ookmumnohands

Definitely friendly - I wish them the best

Close to hipster highway/silk route/where the cool kids are...