Posted on December 14th, 2011 in Movies
Just found this video of the Drink Floyd event, note crash in race that starts at 1m27s!
Posted on July 18th, 2011 in Movies
For some reason this doesn’t appear to be displaying on our homepage, click on post title above to watch movie!
Posted on July 12th, 2011 in Movies
Posted on April 12th, 2011 in Movies
This guy’s pedal speed is impressive, but out of the saddle too!
Seem to remember a Dutch mate telling me that his exact same set was regularly used on Dutch TV Spotted by: www.ridetheblackline.com Prints available: Social History Shop
On the wall of Suicycles, Hamburg. Photo copyright Goldsprint.com with thanks to Suicycles
In 1987 British track cyclist Dave le Grys (aka “Legro”) smashed the previous world roller race record with a time of 126.6mph on the BBC “Record Breakers” show. The previous record of 102 mph had been set in 1982. Dave chose a gear of 232 inches for his attempt with a custom made TA / [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2011 in Legends
I don’t know how we missed this during our research on Manfred, but here it is on Swiss TV. “Pascal Richard is well behind” is what I think she says, and the Olympic champion doesn’t look best pleased about it either! And while we’re at it, here is Manfred powering 100 electric razors.
Posted on December 10th, 2010 in Movies
Austrian couriers, Tour de France pros, Endurance superstars and Air Race pilots gathered to compete in the small village of Fuschl am See in the foothills of the Austrian Alps in the first ever “Battle Cranks” roller race event, here is the official video and TV Report: Battle Cranks 2010: The Crankiest Bits from HerrNick [...]
Cliff Nicholson and Rod Scott, members of the record breaking team share their memories of the attempt. Harlow Cycling Club was lucky, in having amongst its members an engineer. During 1961, Ken Wall beavered away (completely unknown to the majority of the Club Members until he formally presented them to the Club at its Annual [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2010 in Movies
The First Belgian ROLLAPALUZA – The movie from Fixerati Concept Cyclery on Vimeo.
Manfred has held seven Guinness world records for roller racing related cycling. He has won over 80 roller races most of these between 1983 and 1990, in June1984 he won six events (and six bikes) in one month! The records Manfred has set are pretty mind-blowing, will he come out of retirement to take on [...]
Posted on October 16th, 2010 in Movies
in Japan.
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 [...]
