Goldsprint.com Roller Racing and Goldsprints http://www.goldsprint.com Roller Racing and Goldsprints Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:07:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Roller Racing Art http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/22/roller-racing-art/ http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/22/roller-racing-art/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:14:19 +0000 admin http://www.goldsprint.com/?p=368 This from Adams Carvalho:

 

]]> http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/22/roller-racing-art/feed/ 0 Rollapaluza National Series 2013 Launched http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/15/rollapaluza-national-series-2013-launched/ http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/15/rollapaluza-national-series-2013-launched/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:18:31 +0000 admin http://www.goldsprint.com/?p=363 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.

Rollapaluza National Series 2013

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More details here.

]]> http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/07/weekly-goldsprint-series-at-velocult-in-portland-usa/feed/ 0 More roller-racing history http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/07/more-roller-racing-history/ http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/07/more-roller-racing-history/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:54:53 +0000 admin http://www.goldsprint.com/?p=358 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.

]]> http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/07/more-roller-racing-history/feed/ 0 BSCA National Schools roller-racing championships (UK) http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/07/bsca-national-schools-roller-racing-championships-uk/ http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/07/bsca-national-schools-roller-racing-championships-uk/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:43:55 +0000 admin http://www.goldsprint.com/?p=349 rollers poster 2013

]]> http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/02/07/bsca-national-schools-roller-racing-championships-uk/feed/ 0 Rollapaluza back in Berlin http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/01/13/rollapaluza-back-in-berlin/ http://www.goldsprint.com/2013/01/13/rollapaluza-back-in-berlin/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:09:44 +0000 admin http://www.goldsprint.com/?p=346 Keirin Cycle Culture Cafe, Oberbaumstraße 5  10997 Berlin

19th January 2013, 21.00 FREE!!! Prizes from Keirin, Rollapaluza and Kryptonite

More details : On Facebook

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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.

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]]> http://www.goldsprint.com/2012/08/01/rollapaluza-adidasundergorund-video/feed/ 0 First hand account of roller-racing at the Cardiff Empire cinema in 1940s http://www.goldsprint.com/2012/02/11/first-hand-account-of-roller-racing-at-the-cardiff-empire-cinema-in-1940s/ http://www.goldsprint.com/2012/02/11/first-hand-account-of-roller-racing-at-the-cardiff-empire-cinema-in-1940s/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:02:56 +0000 admin http://www.goldsprint.com/?p=329 “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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