Archive for September, 2010
In the early days of “Goldsprints”, a London female Cycle courier dominated them all, winning the women’s event in the first three, the now famous Zurich 1999 (CMWC) Goldsprints, New York Metroploco 2000 and London Goldsprints 2000. Crissi went on to win multiple Goldsprints and Rollapaluzas remaining unbeaten until 2004. However Crissi wasn’t just a [...]
This classic image taken in 1901 shows American cycling pioneer Charles “Mile a Minute” Murphy competing in a roller race aginst Tom Butler. Though more famous for his one mile in one minute speed record behind a train (see links below) this image and a near identical one of him with Frank Albert show that [...]
Don’t often hear of roller racing or goldsprints in South America, but have just come across this nice flyer. Can’t, as yet find any results or photos of the event.
Posted on September 06th, 2010 in Movies
These videos found in the UK’s Pathé New Archive from 1945 and 1950 ROLLER RACING Your browser does not support iframes. ROLLER CYCLING Your browser does not support iframes.
Previous Rollapaluza winner Matt Rotherham shows how it’s done on the free rollers: Also a previous Rollapaluza winner Mark Burgess (blue) and Matt Rotherham (red) face off on the Mildenhall rollers. In pictures, which feature roller-race legend Max Pendleton:
