Yeah thanks to Nhatt and Xander. Good effort on going to photocopy more manifests when you realised there were so many entrants! I like short and compact alleycats like that. Intense fun riding with Ricardo and the others, wrong way down Aldwych with a bunch of black-clad, light-less and dark skinned dudes was kind of sketchy but everyone seemed in control. Thanks again to the messengers I followed most of the way - would have gone nowhere without you guys, especially since I lost my A-Z at the 3rd checkpoint...
Re: that Hill... well I spent a week in Sydney over Xmas - including a hillclimb race with Safa Brian - so that only felt like a slight incline!
This is the route I expected the winners to take, going anti clockwise from the Foundry. 13 mile circuit. It does include a little contra-flow and cutting through Leicester Square which on a Friday night is maybe not a great idea but you could just go up round Shaftesbury Ave.
Had to drop out due to technical failure too. After riding around with a fucked bottom bracket all day I thought that it would surely last out the evening...nope, at one point it locked up and I forgot that on a fixed gear this means the rear wheel locks up too, nearly causing me to take out the poor fakenger who was following me with a hugely whipped out, barely controlled skid
we dropped out once we were north of great portland street. I saw the two W8's, was tired, a little pissed, it was late on a friday night, do i really want to be cycling rnd hyde park? or do i want to be in a pub?
thought the race would have been much better without those two drops, but thats just my humble opnion....
hmm.. i really wanted to come to this one but i had to work in manchester, looking at the route though i'm glad i missed it. theres no way i could have raced that route what with my shoulder/beer belly/fags&boozehabit. can't someone organise a pussy-cat? for us, um, pussys?
and good luck to Kryz with the shoulder. it takes a while to heal, but on the upside you get to upgrade to a faster lighter aftermarket collarbone;
That alleycat sounds like a good fun... well done Nhatt and Xander and whomever take a part and congrats. Shame I missed it. Just reading about it in Madrid with Pedro...the spanish one.
wooooow- nice turnout, big ups to organisers and racers alike. special bigups to the winners who donated their prizes. i'd say i regret not being there.... but... um... BLOC WEEKEND BLOC WEEKEND BLOC WEEKEND. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I'm glad it was a good time and a little bummed I couldn't make it. Tonight I will be attending a social event with a bunch of lawyers trying to hide my contempt that they can't kill two kegs of free beer even with a bike messengers help. It's a sad thing to see.Have fun, don't get hurt. Love, Kirk