Friday, May 23, 2008

Rollapaluza

Now this is something I want to try. These sorts of races — basically, two bikes on rollers that drive distance calculators — have been around for decades. As reported in this month's issue of Cycling Plus (disclaimer: not identical to hard-copy version), Rollapaluza is catching on again in England. Basically it's a momentary stationary time trial. Really attractive elements: even the incredibly slow are done in less than a minute and lots of beer is involved. Now we just have to bring it over here.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I've heard these called goldsprints - a name that has the advantage of sounding like a Bond villain's sport.

Unknown said...

I just heard about an event I have to mention here - an Atlanta area bike group held an event at a local club where they set up the bikes and rollers ON THE BAR. I didn't make it, but I wish I had.