Sat 19th April - Rapha Roller Race, 7pm > Half midnight

oh I'm so with you on the peanutbuttertoastthingummy. Can i just point out to anyone who missed it AGATA RULES! Go team trixie! Having resigned myself to being totally shit on my first go I was rather surprised not to be but then pissed off to not come last (at least DFL is a statement) and not do better than I did and go out in the second round.

badtmy I'm with you on the crack,can't wait til someone hooks me up with some more rolleraction. Kudos to Kimberley from London Dynamo too (2nd), she'd never been on rollers before tonight.

I'm feeling lots of love..not very drunk either, believe it or not...

Qualifying round times:
the fast track kid 19.78
babydinotrackboy 20.65
mikec 20.73
bmmf 20.89
jos 21.10
badtmy 21.20
somebody 22.72
apologies to anyone i've missed, i don't know everyone's forum names.

fuck me that shits fast

http://www.vimeo.com/918873

nice vid, what did you shoot it on?

Just my camera, it's a little Leica/Panasonic point and click things.

Another one:
http://www.vimeo.com/918916

who won the mens final???? left at 11 had other stuff to do! Did terminator boy win!

Christ, I've got a hangover! Missed my last train home by nanoseconds, rode home from Rochester and got lost (again), got in at 2am. Glad it wasn't raining.

Those rollers outside were very slow, the bloke in front of me had been on the indoor ones a bit earlier, his time was a second slower outside. My time was 22.6, I thought I'd be in with a shout of the "have a go" challenge but obviously not!

David, I did see you and my t-shirt over your shoulder, but as you were more than 10 feet away from me at the time I couldn't get to you!! Sorry to hear about your crash.

It was a really good night and the qualifying times were quick.
I was very upset as I had that guy in the bag and my fucking foot slipped out the pedal!

Oh well, such is life, better experience for next time. Though I was consoled by snapping up a great couple of bargains from Rapha.

The place was very packed, hopefully they will arrange a bigger place next time
No riding for me today. I have a monster hangover

unlucky mikec thought you had him! I saw that you had a problem with the pedal that sucks!!!

Had a great night good laugh!!

I don't think they collected any glasses all night.....

yeah great night.

thanks to vb for organising us.

well done to mikec and tim. great times.

off for some fresh air now.

+1

Plus the usual big thanks to Winspar and the rest of the RP gang.

Just remembered, I woke up on the sofa at 6:30 this morning with my jeans still rolled up my legs.

and yes, pete mitchell won the final easily. he just sat on the guy for the first 600m and then blasted him.
not that surprising, really.

yeah, he knew all along what he was doing...

pot chaser ?

Think you guys have underestimated how good Ian the other guy in the final is, he is a regular road and track racer who has won some national series races if i remember rightly!

Oh and Pete's legs are killing him today! we are just off for a 2 hours warm down ride ;-)

Full qualification times are up now:
http://www.rollapaluza.com/?p=56
and pictures here:
http://www.rollapaluza.com/?p=55
a lengthy full report with knockout round results is being written right now!

Think you guys have underestimated how good Ian the other guy in the final is, he is a regular road and track racer who has won some national series races if i remember rightly!

not at all, he was lightning quick as well! would love to see the times in his semi-final against charlie...

winston, any plans to rig up some sort of electronic timing?

Bummed to miss this - looks like it was fun. My mate Moff turned up and did pretty well on all accounts, he's into 4 cross but I'm trying to get him on a fixer.

Arrrggghhh!!! I bloody knew it!

1 Matthew Moff 22.41
2 Seb 22.6
3 Hillbilly 22.71
4 Janky James 22.84
5 Tom P too fast 22.97
6 Nick in a skinsuit 23.06
7 Andy Casson 23.06
8 Justin Jaruis 23.09

2nd wasn't someone called Seb, it was someone called Sam, i.e. me!

Oh well, by the time the have a go rollers were inside I was well and truly pissed up, so I would have probably thrown up all over the stage.

I heard the have a go ones were a bit heavier?

Apparently so. Someone (possibly Nick in a skinsuit) who had been on the qualifying rollers inside rode outside just before me, he claimed he was a second slower.

i've posted some photos here
very patchy coverage of the night. most of them were taken during qualifying when the place was empty enough to get a proper view.
some ok shots there, anyway. a couple of good sex faces (not including the wrestler mask).

Sam.. you DID qualify! 2nd!
http://www.rollapaluza.com/?p=56

Think you guys have underestimated how good Ian the other guy in the final is, he is a regular road and track racer who has won some national series races if i remember rightly!
Oh and Pete's legs are killing him today! we are just off for a 2 hours warm down ride ;-)

Ian and his mate from La Fuga were out on the L2P training ride today.. 150k+
Had a bit of a chat with (damn I'm shit with names!) about their plans for a sportive/ride tour company. They used to race in Europe but with time constraints are racing crits rather than road races. We're talking national series crits though. No slouch!