trackdropouts fixed gear bristol

I like the sound of this, will try and come along. Do you know if you have to pay to be a member as it mentions joining their 'club'

looks nuts il stick to south bristol 

ed t said:I like the sound of this, will try and come along. Do you know if you have to pay to be a member as it mentions joining their 'club'

Ed, I think they can have 5 people along who are not members. Any more than that and they invalidate insurance. Not sure what they do if there's more than 5. The only ride I've been on everyone was members. I'll ask what happens if there's larger numbers as apparently there's a bit of interest in this one. It's a bit different to their usual rides.

Adam EF said:

georgie-boy said:looks nuts il stick to south bristol 

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Totterdown?

brislington so only down the road

pj said:

it's admirable.

i'm a bit peeved that the chap seems to think he's the first person to advocate a ride up bristol hills, but that's just me. this clearly has a different purpose.

he has chosen some steep ones. i'll ride it. kick off my year the way i mean to go on, riding up hills, repeatedly, at high speed.

I don't think he thinks he's the first. He is aware of the Hillycats and other hill climb events that have happened before. I think he thinks that the general public don't believe it's possible to ride up hills in Bristol or that people believe anyone ever has, particularly reporters / journalists writing about Bristol Cycling City.

Be good to see you there. We have hope!

I can scan it this evening – I still have a copy of it pinned to the fridge.

I have no idea how steep these hills are, but from the above posts it seems they are pretty steep, I guess if I am going to have any chance I will need to gear down from my 42/16 any recommendations?

Thanks

Post edited 2:36 am – December 16, 2009 by pj

you can post to it, by all means, thanks for the comments.

going to do more writing about hillclimbs probably tomorrow.

try tejvan.

http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/…..-up-hills/

jim henderson (frightening rider)

there's a great page somewhere about the boardman years, riding fixed, when manchester wheelers dominated. i'll try and find it.

list of winners:

http://website.lineone.net/~ji…..story.html

pj said:

it's admirable.

i'm a bit peeved that the chap seems to think he's the first person to advocate a ride up bristol hills, but that's just me. this clearly has a different purpose.

he has chosen some steep ones. i'll ride it. kick off my year the way i mean to go on, riding up hills, repeatedly, at high speed.

No, we're not the first to advocate some hill work. The mountain biker's secret "steps of Bristol" is an undeground event on Boxing Days past that worked the more technical descents of Kingsdown is a mythical classic that I would love to see revived. Also I'm thinking of a separate, shorter event some other day "Bastard Hills of Kingsdown with Small Children attached to your bicycle". Adam's one small child will give him an edge over my 8 year old unless that specific piece of luggage works, and the three children my friend tows up Nugent Hill every school day will act as a good handicap too.

The January 10 event isn't a race, though I'm sure if you want to try sprinting to the top of any of the hills then you'll have people to race with  -9-tree, marborough and the cliftonwood ones are all pretty brutal. There will be some fit people out there to make it hard, though not me, obviously. My physiotherapist doesn't allow me to push hard on the ascents. I will be in the group of geared bikers abusing the little ring to go up the hills too slowly.

We will all regroup at the top and bottom of each climb, nobody is keeping scores. There may even be a coffee stop at some point.

We're talking to the CTC insurers about how to handle more participants, we should be able to sort something out where non-members have to pay something minimal so they'll be happy. We aren't trying to run this as a for-profit event or even a recruitment drive. That said, if you do want to join the Bristol Cycling Campaign you will be very welcome, you not only get a quarterly printed magazine, you get discount at many of the good bike shops and you can help make Bristol a better city to cycle round, whether it is a pootle to the supermarket, a child-towing special or a sprint up the hills.

-Steve

anyway, i said in my response 'this clearly has a different purpose'. and it sounds like fun. i'm not some kind of asshole trying to exert a claim over stuff that doesn't even exist. just to clear up any ambiguity.