2009-03-18 Wed - Rollapaluza league Grand Finale

Spring, Summer and winter League Winspar!

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great photos Fred

[quote=snowy_again;584225]Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter League, Winspar!

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Double fixed. Tsk, you can't get it right ... ;)

I enjoyed popping round last night even though the action was already finished. Had a lot of great snatched conversation and the moment when Matt and Guy descended on Tim's bike was fairly priceless. Total bike geekery personality interest bypass. :)

Looks like a great night, was sorry I had to miss it, but roll on the next time!

Congratulations to Matt and Stelle, who it looks from the photos might have been eligible for matching his'n'hers prizes, as well?

How mental was that not long had I arrived and was straight on the bike not quite ready for it and was in shock the longest 1k ride of my life !!
Well done all great night too !
As always Fred wicked photos

lovely evening always! x

loving the useful slogans on the stickers:
"when I wake up I'll be pregnant"
"Don't worry it's not burlesque I just flat out strip"
"It's alright I'm drunk"

I gave the stickers to my two year old daughter.......they were removed by 'mummy' moments later, thank god she isn't five.

I enjoyed popping round last night even though the action was already finished. Had a lot of great snatched conversation and the moment when Matt and Guy descended on Tim's bike was fairly priceless. Total bike geekery personality interest bypass. :)

You've just reminded me of this, it was, as you say, a priceless moment.
Good night, good people. When do we do it again?

great photos Fred!

great photos Fred!

+1

I get 'saddle sore' after the 1k events, still hurts this morning.

5km is a long way to sprint. chamois creme and bibs next time? ;)

(i know exactly how you feel, too).

Anyone know if the London Paper article about the night has come out yet?

I haven't been anywhere near a copy for many, many days so don't know if it's been and gone.

will be week before easter

Here is a graph I plotted using the data from the Rollapaluza web site, showing the times for each round of the 500m competition across each of the three weeks of the league.

Clearly the trend is that the times slowed down as the weeks progressed. There are various theories as to why this might be, including the temperature in the room and the floor surface.

The graph also shows that qualifying times are among the fastest times of the night for each individual rider, and that times tend to decrease from round 1 (after qualifying) as we move towards the final, but slow up again in the final, presumably because the riders are tired.

When the 1000m data is published, I'll try to do a similar thing with it. Note that I only chose the a few riders across the league to avoid cluttering the graph too much. I suppose plotting data for every rider would help build up a more convincing picture, but it would be quite time consuming!

Here is a graph I plotted using the data from the Rollapaluza web site, showing the times for each round of the 500m competition across each of the three weeks of the league.

Clearly the trend is that the times slowed down as the weeks progressed. There are various theories as to why this might be, including the temperature in the room and the floor surface.

The graph also shows that qualifying times are among the fastest times of the night for each individual rider, and that times tend to decrease from round 1 (after qualifying) as we move towards the final, but slow up again in the final, presumably because the riders are tired.

When the 1000m data is published, I'll try to do a similar thing with it. Note that I only chose the a few riders across the league to avoid cluttering the graph too much. I suppose plotting data for every rider would help build up a more convincing picture, but it would be quite time consuming!

I think you get slower because you get more and more drunk as the night goes on.

That's across weeks Jimbilly.. not 1 night! :P

Its all the same! I just get more drunk throughout the year!

Looking forward to xmas highfive! :)

nice work Illy!

i reckon that my qualifier is normally one of my quickest cos i'm fresh (duh) and want to ride fast to qualify as high as possible, knowing that I have ages to recover (I always get there pretty early).

my next ride is usually slower because if i qualify high up (top 4 or 5), i'm against a rider who is a fair bit slower, and I can usually play tactical and do just enough to get through comfortably.

from the quarter finals onwards the racing gets much tougher, so you generally have to go hard, but you're getting tired. if you make the semis it's about the last chance to get quicker because by then the legs are sore and the recovery time between races is a matter of a few minutes, which is not enough!

by that stage you then have either a final or a losers' final, i'm usually pretty fucked by that stage and unlikely to get quicker.

interesting that the times got slower through the league. the rig definitely feels slower some nights, too.

This marks the beginning of the appliance of sports science to Rollapaluza.

British Cycling will be all over it before you can say 'Ready, steady, go!'

:)

Would it not be more interesting to use normal rollers instead of static ones?

If my memory serves me well(tm), racers on free (normal?) rollers would have someone holding the forks.

^ ha!

Would it not be more interesting to use normal rollers instead of static ones?

You ought to come along to a Rollapaluza race and find out.

The fork clamps allow the racers to have very fast standing starts as well as enabling them to reach higher cadences.

There are benefits to either system, but fork clamps allow for more inclusive racing.