Reverse in Barcelona

just spent a few hours experimenting and put this together from some clips taken off a still camera last summer. It's a face to bike, video thread all in one, i hope you like it!

cheers! :)

YouTube - reverse

nice,whats the track?

shorts! you bastard do you have any idea how cold it is in the civilized world?

aidan nice,whats the track?

I don't know! I was listening to a black market funk mixtape when I was putting it together ans thought it would go well. I'd like to find out

chris crash shorts! you bastard do you have any idea how cold it is in the civilized world?

haha, and it was a cloudy day!

cool.
have you been to the velodrome in the north of the city yet? i was thinking of having a look next time i'm out (if there was any event/racing/training going on).
you must be the only fixed in the city, i never see any there.

mabey i should learn spanish.

MrSmith cool.
have you been to the velodrome in the north of the city yet? i was thinking of having a look next time i'm out (if there was any event/racing/training going on).
you must be the only fixed in the city, i never see any there.

Yeah Mr. Smith we´ve "spoken" about the velodrome a long time ago, back in the days of when the LFGSS spoke cards were being printed and distributed. I´ve been there many times but never seen any events, maybe I need to wake up earlier, but the track is available for practice.

As far as me being the only one, there are quite a few of us here, but pretty much all foreigners. I don´t think the spanish get why you´d want a "road" bike with one gear, let alone fixed!

(Are there any of those spoke cards knocking around, still waiting to get me mitts on one ;)

was planning on being in BCN before it gets too hot out there, i'll give you a shout and see if i can round up some cards beforehand.

my friends boyfriend rides mtb out there and he thought i was mad for riding a ss mtb, having walked up tribedabo(sp?) i can see why.

MrSmith was planning on being in BCN before it gets too hot out there, i'll give you a shout and see if i can round up some cards beforehand.

my friends boyfriend rides mtb out there and he thought i was mad for riding a ss mtb, having walked up tribedabo(sp?) i can see why.

Cool, sounds good, whisper me when when the time comes, and yeah, Tibidabo is a fairly killer climb, but rewarded with lots of nice singletrack when you get to the top!

redeye, I've got a bunch, and work depending, will be getting some laminated ones from clefty, once we manage to meet up, whisper me your address, or email it, check my profile for email address, and I'll pop some in the post for you.

ha you semitropical bastard i was in shorts today, and will be tomorrow. snow monday :(

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.