London FG SS Roller Race - Saturday 15th December

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All of the details for the night are in the first post of this discussion.

Sat Dec 15th

Rollapaluza IX -mas party in association with LondonFGSS.com

7pm-2am
Waterloo Action Centre
14 Baylis Road
London SE1 7AA

A classic Rollapaluza night of Rock and Roller Racing....an Open event for all London Cyclists,. Roller Racing, bands, DJs and BEER!

info@rollapaluza.com
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Winston asked me if we'd be interested in having a London FG SS Roller Race some time later in the year.

I've been meaning to run the idea past whoever I met out and about at the Snow or some place, but work has overtaken me and I've not seen much of anyone this past week. So how about we just use the forum!

The original message is:

Do you think that you and the guys on the forum would be interested in having your own roller race? for you and other cyclists like yourselves in London....we could probbaly come up with some ideas similar to the Rapha roller challenge type format to get others involved too.

It would probably be a fiver to get in plus £2 to race and pub price bar and would need about 200 attendees in total to be viable...

maybe September? if things went really well we would, of course, consider donating a proportion of revenue over a certain amount to a chosen charity.

This is just an idea we've discussed, so if you want to talk to some of the guys without putting it on the forum then get back to me with your thoughts?

Winston

I'm out of the country for a sizeable chunk of September (12th to 30th), so selfishly I would opt to do it later. October is a no-no from Winston, but November could be a go.

What do you all think to the idea?
Do you think we can get the numbers required (200)?

And because I'm admin, I get to sticky this.

I'm in. What's the distance?

good idea.

If we advertise it properly we might get 200..but that IS a lot

it would also be good to have it in waterloo as that's easy for out of towners to get the train to (I'm thinking nationwide man, not just london, we need 200)

I'd love to have ago at this, once you get a date I could post it up on ACF aswell.
There are quite a few London fixie riders on there who would be up for this, Sam might even bring Beartrix along for some entertainment.

i'll do it. But I am NOT being stoker again. I felt like I'd gone under a bus for two days after the Pre-event night.

Yeah, I'd be up for it. October's probably a no-no for me too (except the last weekend), but November sounds good. I'm sure we'd get 100 off the forum, and then there's all the +1s :)

I'd be well up for that, because I'll have moved to London for uni by then. :)

I'm up for it, whenever it is. Keep us posted!

Sounds good. I saw that guy and his sounds system on Critical Mass last month.

So November sounds good and a lot of people think we can make the numbers?

Would we be willing to do some kind of street promotion thing to help make up the other numbers? Perhaps posters inside a couple of cycle shops and skater/surf shops too?

Yeah I vote November as well, september is a little too close at the moment too bussy.

David K So November sounds good and a lot of people think we can make the numbers?

Would we be willing to do some kind of street promotion thing to help make up the other numbers? Perhaps posters inside a couple of cycle shops and skater/surf shops too?

Maybe we could try and do a quick flyer and print like last time if possible and drop some off round bike shops e.t.c like you say. The only thing would be a quick turn around on the flyer front.

If we did some street promotion where would you think would be a good place to go? Seems like trying to grab random cylist on the street could be difficult.

I think fixedwheelnut on the AFC forum and maybe if we email a few other cycling groups and ask them to spread the word. Trageted marketing rather than sit in the street trying to grab randoms

back from Holiday....Apparently October looks like most likely month right now, will update..

that's 200 attendees.....not 200 racers.....by the way...

Yup, if I'm in The Smoke, count me in!

What details should be on the flyer? I'm sure the London FGSS design team can probably knock something up fairly quickly.

Obviously time and place are as yet undecided. Colours black and white for photocopying/printing cheap. Anyone got copyright on some pics of previous roller races?

Whats heppening about Adians charity gig? Could we mix the two up? Proffits to Adians charity?

Yeah, I'd be in for it and my birthday is in November - could work out nicely. I can invite random non-bikers and pretend it is just a birthday party and that I have loadss of mates :-)

TheBrick(Tommy) Whats heppening about Adians charity gig? Could we mix the two up? Proffits to Adians charity?

Ask Adian, i had some sponsors all lined up for the prizes and everything

Some promotion could be done at the Rollapaluza come-and-try-it at Old Street in late September, during the car-free weekend.

We've got five takers at ACF all ready, when you get a date and venue set I'll update the details over there :)

Why hasn't anyone started a list for this? Step up the game fellas!

1. vodkahippy
   

hippy Why hasn't anyone started a list for this? Step up the game fellas!

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1. Vodkahippy
   
2. Fixedwheelnut
   
3. Sam
   
4. Charlotte
   
5. Mikey
   
6. Gus69
   

1. Vodkahippy
   
2. Fixedwheelnut
   
3. Sam
   
4. Charlotte
   
5. Mikey
   
6. Gus69
   
7. smeear
   
   
   

oh good a list....what am i signing up for?

1. Vodkahippy
   
2. Fixedwheelnut
   
3. Sam
   
4. Charlotte
   
5. Mikey
   
6. Gus69
   
7. smeear
   
8. Stef
   
   

dont know...just play along Smeear

I'm confused :(

Is this a list for the roller race?