Posted on February 22nd, 2013 in Flyers
Rollapaluza hit the road for their UK tour for the fourth year in row.
Full Details om their site here. Or follow updates on facebook.
More details here.
Some great research, images and quotes from Carlton Reid of “roads were not built for cars”.
“Indoor roller racing – called Goldsprints to some – became immensely popular in the 1930s and could pack out dance-halls and ballrooms right through until the late 1950s”
Full Article here.
Keirin Cycle Culture Cafe, Oberbaumstraße 5 10997 Berlin
19th January 2013, 21.00 FREE!!! Prizes from Keirin, Rollapaluza and Kryptonite
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Posted on September 06th, 2012 in Movies
Over 300 competitors took part in Friedrichshafen, Germany apparently!
Posted on August 17th, 2012 in Events
Top North American pros and past masters gathered at the Boulder Theatre for this fund raising event.
Eric Young overcame Olympian Taylor Phinney to win the event, however the claims of world record times are somewhat erroneous. As far as we know the record sits with Manfred Nuscheler.
Event report and photos here.
Posted on August 01st, 2012 in Movies
“roller racing that sometimes took place on the stage of the Empire, usually just prior to the main film of the evening”
Bernice Maynard tells the story of roller-racing in the Cinema on Walesonline.co.uk
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This just in from the Ravito Rouleaux Sprint, held at Veloscope in the South of France, nice movie!
Posted on December 14th, 2011 in Movies
Just found this video of the Drink Floyd event, note crash in race that starts at 1m27s!
Friday December 9th, 8pm – midnight.
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Ex-couriers Gary and Mo of Keirin Cycle Culture Café, have invited Rollapaluza Germany to their beautiful shop this Friday. After a few test events and a party for Scott Bikes at Eurobike 2011 this will be the first public event for the German Rollapaluza team.
Read more, plus event details.
Rollapaluza Germany : Facebook event : Café Keirin Cycle Culture Cafe
Tags: berlin, courier, fixed gear, fixed wheel, germany, goldsprint, goldsprints, keirin, rollapaluza, roller race, roller racing
originally from cyclingnews.com
Olympic cyclist Lea rules roller race in New York
Landis and Ellis turn out for CRCA fundraiser
US Olympian Bobby Lea took to the rollers in New York at the Drink Floyd- Roller Race Benefit ,Thursday, to help raise funds for the CRCA Junior Development Program. Lea, who competed at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, emerged victorious in an evening of roller racing in downtown New York, beating local track rider Matt Diefenbach in a thrilling final.
The event, organised by nyvelocity.com raised close to $1,000 dollars and attracted a number of high profile guests including Floyd Landis, Slipstream Sports owner Doug Ellis and Tour of Battenkill organiser, Dieter Drake.
“It was a fun night for a great cause, and we’re very grateful for Floyd coming out and supporting it, as well as Bobby Lea and all the other racers,” said Andy Shen from nyvelocity.com.
Competitors set down 500 meter time trials before competing in a set of head-to-heads. Losers from the heats had the chance to through a repechage before the semi-finals and final. You can make further donations for the development team, here.
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Looks like this event was held on the Bikeworks NYC rig, lots of info on their site here.
Posted on July 26th, 2011 in Movies
We featured a similar Dutch static velodrome on Goldsprint.com here, a while ago we thought it may be the sameone still occasionally used on Dutch TV, but here we have recent footage, the TV one has banking!
