[PR] Bicycle Christmas Party

Victor

Bicycle Christmas Party
Thursday 17 December 2009
The Pod, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
Adjacent Harcourt Luas stop, Green Line.
Doors open 8pm. Late bar.
€6 entry


DJ Seán & friends
International cycling films
Live dual "Gold Sprint" bicycles
Bicycle themed raffle and spot prizes
Designer bicycle t-shirts for sale


Hosted by:
Dublin Cycling Campaign
cycling ireland
cyclist.ie
Dublin Messengers
Bicycle Polo Association of Ireland
kerry bicycle festival
rothar


www.dublincycling.ie

flickerx

Victor wrote: »

Live dual "Gold Sprint" bicycles

Oh yes. boards.ie vs dublinfgss is go...

petethedrummer

Bikerbhoy

Sounds good whats the craic with tickets ? Pre purchase OR at the door on the night ?

flickerx

Is that what you guys look like when you go out in a group ride?

Chips Lovell

flickerx wrote: »

Is that what you guys look like when you go out in a group ride?

We've better legs.

TinyExplosions

dublinfgss are going DOWN! Boardsies ftw

petethedrummer

Who does Psycholist belong to? or is there a third 'proper cyclist' category?

flickerx

Who's that, the guy who won last time? I dont think he would count for either side.

petethedrummer

He definitely posts here ALOT, you don't seem too enthusiastic, we'll have him so.

blorg

That's 2 to Boards, 0 to the fakengers.

flickerx

Does he? Maybe I'm just not looking in the right threads. I thought he only joined boards (and dublinfgss) just after the event last time.

I think I'm going to call on the DCC for mandatory urine and blood testing for you lot beforehand.

Karma

no drug tests, you just have to look at yourself in the mirror the next day(probably while shavng your legs) :P

Chips Lovell

Karma wrote: »

you just have to look at yourself in the mirror the next day(probably while shavng your legs) :P

Like Tom?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYGyhe3OBik

flickerx

Right, who is going to this?
Do boards have any representation at all?

poochiem

aw sounds great. won't be there sadly.

Karma

I will be there, or there could be some bike problems:)

petethedrummer

I'll be there. Does qualifying start at 8 or earlier? I don't know if I can stay for long but I'll be busting a gut on the first run to see how quick I can go. Anything after that is bonus.

dubmess

We'll probably start qualifying form 8.30 for an hour and a half or so, and take the top 8 times like we did before.

flickerx

pete PM me your phone number, i'll text you when i get in there (about 9pm)

petethedrummer

YESSSSSSSSSSS. I feel like a combination of this



and this

Chips Lovell

Did you win?

flickerx

yes, he did. respect. dublinfgss gave him a run for his money though


hmm 6am.
i might not make the boards drinks.

Lumen

flickerx wrote: »

yes, he did. respect. dublinfgss gave him a run for his money though

Nice one Pete!

This is getting a bit embarassing. I think the couriers need to re-think their doping strategies.

dubmess

Lumen wrote: »

Nice one Pete!

This is getting a bit embarassing. I think the couriers need to re-think their doping strategies.

Couriers only flourish at racing when there's traffic involved I'm afraid...

Congrats to Pete, his fastest time of the night 24.94 is the fastest time so far in Dublin, and our first sub 25 second time.
Respect to Stein from the fixed gear forum however, his qualifying run of 25.61 is the third fastest time posted in Dublin so far... Pete also holds second spot with 25.16 in the final last night.

Full results will be up on dublinmessengers.org soon(ish).

petethedrummer

Right er 'race' report:

The first Goldsprints session I did a few things wrong. From trying a few 30 second sprints up the Malahide road, I presumed I would just hold my breath and go bananas until someone told me to stop. But on the first run when I thought it should be over I was only 15 seconds in and my legs felt incredibly burny. And didn't really recover from it. My times were:
Heat 1: 25.83
Heat 2: 26.something
Heat 3: 25.81

This time round I consciously made an effort to breathe the whole way through. I think being relaxed also helps, as for the second heat last night I was relaxed and talking to Karma during it and got the same time as my first run when I was fresh and busting a gut. Also holding the top of the bars definitely helps, there's no wind so I don't understand why alot of guys were on the drops. My times were:

Heat 1: 24.94
Heat 2: 24.94
Heat 3: 25.06
Heat 4: 25.16

What it means in real terms and for racing next year, I don't know, I would guess nothing. As happend in the tour of Louth, there's no point having a sprint if your legs are going to completely cramp up in the last few hundred metres from the effort of getting there. I had done NONE of the pulling that day and was hanging on for dear life in the group behind Blorg and Niceonetom. Also, it would be nice to see how a decent club sprinter or a sprinter from sundrive would get on. Probably demolish my times.

Anyways it was a great bit of fun. Credit to Karma for setting up the bikes and getting this whole off the ground.

dubmess

Apologies Pete, you actually have the three fastest times recorded! All from last night.

Full list of results is now up here:
http://www.dublinmessengers.org/2009/12/dublin-cycling-xmas-party-goldsprints.html

flickerx

Hey come on, no fair! You said my first run was just a tester to see if the thing was working right! I wasnt trying at all.

Lumen

flickerx wrote: »

Hey come on, no fair! You said my first run was just a tester to see if the thing was working right! I wasnt trying at all.

You mean "Flickerx: 38.51"? No-one would have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out.

Chips Lovell

Great pic of Pete on that site.

dubmess

flickerx wrote: »

Hey come on, no fair! You said my first run was just a tester to see if the thing was working right! I wasnt trying at all.

... and I asked if you wanted to go again and you said 'no way!'
To be fair you gave up about half way through so it's probably not a fair representation...