Herne Hill Saturday Training

Good practice for 24km of stop-start riding through the quiet streets of a capital city on a holiday weekend on a track bike with a clamp-on brake?

I expect so. Glad it wasn't a wasted trip.

A track bike with a clamp-on brake? I should be so lucky.

Well, 'a fixed gear bike with a removable brake fitted'. It's all the same thing.

Try 'a town bike with a rack and mudguards, converted to fixed gear, that would not, under any circumstances, be allowed near a velodrome'. I was planning on hiring a bike for the session.

'Practice' was clearly a poor choice of word. 'Excercise' is what I meant.

I've ridden a fixed mountainbike with rack and mudguards at Herne Hill :D

Perhaps 'good practice' in the sense of appropriate/optimum procedure.

it dried up around noon and basic training was on at a quarter past one.

God damn

A pretty fast basics today especially with the sprints at the end. Nice to meet you skully and bmxed. 6pt Hoke etc sorry I didnt really get a chance to come over and say hi.

Its kool dude, i was practically dead and running on empty good to see your enjoying the training and enjoying the great weather too!

first intermediates on saturday - was great fun. particularly the second hour of points race-style training. was hanging all the way back to holloway afterwards

That points race stuff was horrible. In a good way, but still horrible.

I didn't hear you complain when you were overtaking me!

This week I won't trust 6pt telling me the track was too wet, the cad.

You should have seen his reaction when the coaches told him the session was on...

I was all ready to go back to bed :(

Roads in SE13 were soaking at 7.30am so I assumed track would be off and went out on my road bike thinking of heading to Richmond.

Roads seemed to be getting wetter as I got to Camberwell so headed north to Regents Park which was bone dry. And the track dried out by 10?

why you no come race the Back in Black meet in the afternoon, dubtap?
It was awesome!

And the track dried out by 10?

I swung by the track at 9 during a morning pootle and word was that it was too wet to ride. I relayed this to laner, went up to cadence for a coffee and then on a whim swung by the track on my way home at 9:50, with breakfast and a retreat to bed on my mind, only to find that it was all about to kick off. It was a hard one to call.

the suspected stolen dolan i mentioned earlier on the stolen bikes thread is now on ebay on a one day auction

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DOLAN-56cm-fixed-gear-bike-/110863900160?pt=UK_Bikes_GL&hash=item19d000de00

anybody recognise it?

Who's the right person to talk to about getting a banner up at HH? Can anyone remember the pricing?

It's around £230 for the year, including printing. More if placed on the home straight. No cycling club adverts allowed.
Phil from VCL is the man to speak to.

Wayne has his email adress....

Stellar, ta.

It's around £230 for the year, including printing. More if placed on the home straight. No cycling club adverts allowed.
Phil from VCL is the man to speak to.

Wayne has his email adress....

Less "no cycling clubs allowed", more companies can support the track with money, and clubs should support the track with volunteering.

£230 all in?

Could be possible. Anything to reduce the wind.

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