2014-07-19 (Sat) - LFGSS CC London Velodrome Day

They're Condor Lavoro's I think. Photoben rode one earlier, he can tell you what they're like.

I've booked a taster session for before (April), so assuming that is sufficient.

Nope, that's just stage 1 of the 4 stage qualification procedure.

See this just above your post:

Trying to organise accreditation for this is a nightmare. I will almost have to take 4 days off just to sort it out

Would be nice if there could be a single 2 hour session to get people used to riding other tracks through all 4 stages on one day, instead of throwing people with years of experience at HH etc. in with total noobs.

Would be nice if there could be a single 2 hour session to get people used to riding other tracks through all 4 stages on one day, instead of throwing people with years of experience at HH etc. in with total noobs.

Indeed. As with many others on here, I suspect, I've done many, many hours on indoor velodromes and feel confident a 2 hour session at the Pringle would be more than sufficient.

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I don't want to cause mayhem or have people annoyed because I might be shit.

You won't even get on the track at any other session until you have your certificate proving you're safe to be let loose without stabilisers:-)

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Pretty sure 90% of the taster is going to be riding fixed+clipless for people who have never done that before, the actual riding on banked boards close to other people you can pick up pretty quickly as long as you're not starving your brain of oxygen to maintain 20mph

I need to submit the count of riders that will attend as well as the number of coaches we need to hire and bikes we need to hire.

Not everyone that has signed up will participate, and I'm strongly inclined to limit it to 60 people.

This will NOT be based on the first 60 above, it will be based on the first 60 to pay when we sell entry tickets (which we must do to cover the cost of the track hire).

The tickets will include bike hire at the velodrome and entry.

By limiting it to 60, every rider who buys a ticket will get a good few turns on the track and participate in several races.

Ideally, everyone will have done their induction sessions in advance so we can dedicate all 3 hours to riding and having fun with a fairly tight but not overly aggressive schedule.

I'll also put us down for 100 spectators (allowing friends and family and random others to come).

And for the pre-requisite number of coaches that we are obliged to take for that number of riders.

Any suggestions that these numbers are wrong should be made today.

Max number of unaccredited riders in any session = 16x number of hours.
i.e. 48 for a 3 hour club session.

Not sure where you got the idea you'll be running races?

I think the assumption is that everybody will get their accreditation before the LFGSS Velodrome Day

Then you're booking a race event and not a club training session?
Different kettle o' fish.

David, you should have received a communication regarding this booking. Give me a shout if you need anything clarified.

This sounds like a ballache!

Try a different saddle

Adamo

Then you're booking a race event and not a club training session?
Different kettle o' fish.

David, you should have received a communication regarding this booking. Give me a shout if you need anything clarified.

We've been offered a "Club Session".

Not once in the contract is there the mention of "race" or "training"... so now you've confused me.

The contract does not appear to either stipulate, nor restrict, the way in which the club would use the track during the event (outside of standard caveats about insurance, etc).

I'll ping you the contract I've received right now.

1. Velocio
   
2. roboto
   dimi3.
   
3. Vince
   
4. Hoke
   
5. Temp
   
6. Branwen
   
7. danb
   
8. JD
   10.Laner
   11.Coppithat
   
9. Blackfoot
   
10. villa-ru
    
11. Eyebrows
    
12. 6pt (but may be on tour)
    
13. veLLo
    
14. dicki
    
15. Skinny
    
16. h-j
    
17. Hairnetnic
    
18. Mands
    
19. Mikec
    
20. PQR
    
21. Modan
    
22. Cazakstan
    
23. allensea
    
24. Tibbs
    
25. Dr Cake
    
26. hats
    
27. danstuff
    
28. hippy (for Metrocammell)
    
29. Opiumia (subject to induction!)
    
30. Tommy
    
31. Crispin Glover (subject to cost)
    
32. MA3K
    
33. KRZ
    
34. Snake Fist
    
35. BlueQuinn (on the red Quinn. Or the White Cinelli.)
    
36. steves (and up for joining others for induction sessions...)
    
37. econodog
    
38. almac68
    
39. Husy
    
40. Joe Smith
    
41. Moserism
    
42. Brown
    
43. Dumps
    
44. BisonIncandenza
    
45. Sumo
    
46. BGA
    
47. Bundo
    
48. dbr
    
49. cjr
    
50. radmichello (likely as a spectator)
    
51. Blue6
    
52. ActonMan
    
53. Wobby
    
54. Chung (if in the country)
    
55. keanulooser (induction and bike hire needed)
    
56. Digger (work dependent)
    60.Roymund
    
57. Dramatic Hammer
    
58. Torker (subject to accreditation and bike hire)
    
59. HatBeard
    
60. Scoot
    
61. Jezston
    
62. T4
    
63. dublinkevin
    
64. malandro
    
65. ive2dogs
    
66. Seven04
    
67. arantrek
    
68. V-L
    

Wouldn't mind taking a look myself

There is no way I will have time to do the accreditation, just going to come down with my slingshot.

Accreditation is so booked out seems the only chance anyone will get is if they take a day off (or rather 4 - to cover the 4 stages). Chances of that happening for me - Zero to None.

The booking is confirmed, you won't need accreditation beforehand.

There are some changes.

When the sessions were initially announced the velodrome had not hired the coaches and structured the sessions.

So I booked (and communicated to you guys) a slot believing it was pretty much ours to do with as we pleased.

That's not the case.

What is the case is that now the coaches have been hired and the safety, insurance and other policies all set in place... the club sessions fall into two groups: 1) Club practise, 2) Race.

The race sessions are not what we booked, in that they are entirely different things with different levels of obligation on us, and different price structures and everything being pretty out of our reach without far more sponsorship to cover costs, and organisation and promotion.

What we have is a club practise session, and the stipulation of this is that it's only safe to have 16 riders on the track each hour, and for the sessions to follow some structured format.

Meaning in the 3 hour slot, we can have 48 riders, each of whom will get 1 hour on the track.

It's training, and we will open up the 48 places and will allocate them based on how far in your accreditation you've progressed.

This way you'll be training from your current accreditation level, or will start the accreditation.

Training will give you a good go on the track, and should include flying laps and practise sprints and stuff if each hour progresses smoothly.

All of this also means... you don't have to be accredited in advance... but if you are going through accreditation you can work towards completing part of it within the session.

This is really good news. We'll played.

Puts away slingshot.

Oh that is brilliant!

Well done David.

cool, it's going to be good to finally get on that wood!

I'm hoping to have a couple of stages of accreditation sorted by then as well.

Awesome! Now I don't have to worry about taking multiple days off work!

Fantastic news. Thank you for working so hard for a bunch of internet avatars.