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will it be a goldsprint for sure?
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Thursday 28th October 6.30pm
THE WHITWORTH PUB
(Wilmslow road, Rusholme- opp. Edinburgh Bike Co-op)Cyclists Supper- Bring and share vegan food for a feast!
if you are up for helping to make some food together during the day please get in touch- info@ibikemcr.org.ukFollowed by OpenSprints from Great Northern Rollers
Opensprints is an open source bicycle rollers racing and social event coming from the DIY bike scene.Goldsprints was first started in Zurich with bike messengers, riders on stationary bikes compete against each other in front of spectators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldsprintWe use top of the range purpose built Kreitler Rollers and Revolution Track Bikes kindly supplied by Edinburgh Bike Co-op
Loads of amazing prizes + kudos to be won!
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Hey guys and girls, thanks for coming on thursday. It was a great evening with some exciting racing, great free food from the MCR cycling community and tunes from Anna and Dan's amazing pedal powered system. We have now done two full events on the much improved Goldsprints FX system which is way more accurate timings-wise and replaces the old bar display that we used before with a clockface, I hope you all agree that it is an improvement!
Pics and times will be up on www.greatnorthernrollers.org in the next day or so and we will be announcing new events shortly so keep your eyes peeled!
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GNR were out in Liverppol on Friday for the launch of the first ever BFF North which was great fun and produced some worthy winners in front of an enthusiastic and fun crowd.
Results at www.greatnorthernrollers.orgWe are happy to announce that as part of the I BIKE MCR festival, we are putting on another Manchester Goldsprints night at The Gas Lamp:
**Wednesday 13th April **
**Roller Racing with Great Northern Rollers. 7pm The Gaslamp, 50a Bridge Street, M3 3BW. **
**Static bike racing competition, lots of fun for riders and spectators. **
2 track bikes on rollers are clamped to the ground whilst riders sprint head to head over 500m (same distance as 2 laps of mcr velodrome). We project the riders progress as a clockface behind the competitors as they sweat it out.
Mens and Womens categories.
Amazing prizes to be won!
**£3 entry to race ** -
next public event is:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread67897.html
should be a ball and loads of other great things going on!
A great cause to lend your support to so get down and we'll see you there! -
Great Northern Rollers Presents an evening of roller racing in support of the opening of Pedal MCR, a new community bike workshop.
Saturday 9th July. Register at 5.30pm, Race at 6pm
Pedal MCR, The Boathouse by the lake, Platt Fields Park, M14This is our first ever TEAM ROLLER RACING EVENT.
Get into a team of 3 people with colleagues or friends and race on static bikes on rollers to be the fastest team (Individuals from each team will race other team members, team with fastest average times go through to semi and then final, fastest overall team wins)
If you can't find team members in advance, we're sure there'll be other people on the day you can hook up with.
Register your team by emailing greatnorthernrollers@riseup.net or on the day at 5.30pm
£2 donation per rider for entry
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Pedal MCR present an evening of roller racing and bike community socialising at our workshop in Platt Fields Park on FRIDAY 13th JULY
From 7pm we shall be serving food and drinks and registration to race shall be open.Free entry to event
£3 to race- profits to Pedal MCR/GNRGreat Northern Rollers was established a few years ago to provide roller racing fun for I Bike MCR and other non profit orgs and schools in MCR and further afield.
Basically two people ride head to head on track bikes that are firmly fastened onto rollers. You ride as fast as you can over 500m (a projected clock will tell you how far you have travelled). The winner goes to the next round. We'll have some great prizes up for grabs too.
See a past event here: https://vimeo.com/22354917
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**If you don't know who we are: [www.greatnorthernrollers.org**](http://www.greatnorthernrollers.org)
next event is: Thursday 28th October 6.30pm
Cyclists Supper- Bring and share vegan food for a feast!
if you are up for helping to make some food together during the day please get in touch- info@ibikemcr.org.uk
Followed by OpenSprints from Great Northern Rollers
Opensprints is an open source bicycle rollers racing and social event coming from the DIY bike scene. It's exactly the same as Goldsprints, which was first started in Zurich with bike messengers, riders on stationary bikes compete against each other in front of spectators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsprint
We use top of the range purpose built Kreitler Rollers and Revolution Track Bikes kindly supplied by Edinburgh Bike Co-op
Loads of amazing prizes + kudos to be won!
After + during the roller racing we can all go downstairs to REGGAE THURSDAY where we can dance around for free to some amazing tunes...
http://www.facebook.com/reggaethursdays