# rock n roller racing! FLYER UP! \[18th october\]
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143
**Category:** Melbourne
**Created:** [September 7, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143 "2009-09-07T05:00:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/1 "2009-09-07T05:00:10Z")
you gots to be a part of it.
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### Author:  [@tallshipahoy](https://fixed.org.au/u/tallshipahoy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/2 "2009-09-07T05:43:17Z")
awesome so keen to try this…
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### Author:  [@nikcee](https://fixed.org.au/u/nikcee)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/3 "2009-09-07T15:48:00Z")
finally sorted a date huh… 😉
this is always good times for anyone who hasnt been! (especially if damoh and brendan get to race each other :evil:)
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### Author:  [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/4 "2009-09-07T16:24:44Z")
racing will be handicapped. bikes will be bolted down. anyone could win. even damoh. even you.
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### Author:  [@kiwicyclist](https://fixed.org.au/u/kiwicyclist)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/5 "2009-09-07T17:37:29Z")
Bolted down bikes - bummer - I’ll miss the smell of burning rubber…
This is great fun so get on it if you haven’t been before.
SW
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### Author:  [@nikcee](https://fixed.org.au/u/nikcee)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/6 "2009-09-07T19:58:20Z")
I’ll be encouraging the crankys crew to turn up and that has to mean at least some burning rubber (benzy did just get 3rd @ new skids 😉) and for once ianHX wont be flaunting helmet laws 🕶
for those that are concerned about their sprinting ability… the handicapping seems to always mean the favorites have a hard time. 😃
for those that believe they are ‘too fast, too furious’ for the regular rides, heres your chance to prove you have the legs in an open competition.
for everyone else its a good time…
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### Author:  [@TheBigOx](https://fixed.org.au/u/TheBigOx)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/7 "2009-09-07T20:26:40Z")
This is why I hate Fuken working on Sundays… I will show after the deed…
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### Author:  [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/8 "2009-09-07T20:38:06Z")
> [@TheBigOx](#):
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> I will show after the deed…
i just hope there will still be some vegan parmas left!
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### Author:  [@TheBigOx](https://fixed.org.au/u/TheBigOx)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/9 "2009-09-07T22:22:13Z")
> [@xbrendanx](#):
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> > [@TheBigOx](#):
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> > I will show after the deed…
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> i just hope there will still be some vegan parmas left!
If I stick my foot in yer arse, you can’t shit so you should feel full for quite a long time… Plus I can move quick for a Fat Fuk…
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### Author:  [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/10 "2009-09-08T00:41:44Z")
this is true. i’ve seen you spinning… try to get the arvo off!
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### Author:  [@guido](https://fixed.org.au/u/guido)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/11 "2009-09-08T02:55:06Z")
how does rocknroller racing work?
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### Author:  [@cam\_green](https://fixed.org.au/u/cam_green)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/12 "2009-09-08T04:44:40Z")
choice. so much fun last time around.
cant wait!
p.s if your ride a 56, ill be having a wee chat with you on the night…(nic/brendan)
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### Author:  [@alex4point0](https://fixed.org.au/u/alex4point0)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 5:32am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/13 "2009-09-08T05:32:58Z")
some background:
> **[Goldsprint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsprint)**
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> A Goldsprint is a bicycle rollers racing and social event. Riders on stationary bikes compete against each other in front of spectators.
> While roller racing has a history going back to the beginning of cycling, Goldsprints are fairly new and closely related to bicycle messenger culture. It began in Zurich, Switzerland as part of the 1999 Cycle Messenger World Championships. At which point the name and the event were founded by Adrien Weber, a passionate cyclist and owner of the TurbinenBräu brew...
A roller racing event/structure named after a beer. Must be good.
and the dirty pinko commie open software version [http://www.opensprints.org/](http://www.opensprints.org/)
I have a soldering iron if anyone wants to throw a kit together. I thought it was an electronic hotdog warmer.
what’s the name of that flash bicycle race game … how hard would it be to cobble an ‘excitebike’ style retro pixel arrangement together … !?
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### Author:  [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/14 "2009-09-08T06:32:18Z")
> [@bray.](#):
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> how does rocknroller racing work?
two people on the bikes with the forks bolted down riding on rollers against each other. a big clock behind them with two hands. each hand represents the progress of a rider.
there will be qualification rounds where you do one timed ‘lap’. your handicap will be based on your qualification time. you will then face off against other riders until we have a winner.
there may also be real rollers there, for a special roller challenge. working on that.
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### Author:  [@nikcee](https://fixed.org.au/u/nikcee)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/15 "2009-09-08T19:19:46Z")
> [@xbrendanx](#):
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> there may also be real rollers there, for a special roller challenge. working on that.
chooka challenge?
does anyone even dare?
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### Author:  [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/16 "2009-09-08T19:31:31Z")
> [@nikcee](#):
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> chooka challenge?
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> does anyone even dare?
more like the roller racing version of the hour challenge: the minute challenge…
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### Author:  [@benzy](https://fixed.org.au/u/benzy)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/17 "2009-09-08T20:32:09Z")
Killer fun,cant wait.
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### Author:  [@cam\_green](https://fixed.org.au/u/cam_green)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/18 "2009-09-10T01:21:53Z")
just read ‘bolt down rollers’…
half the fun is not falling off ‘real’ rollers!
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### Author:  [@brendan](https://fixed.org.au/u/brendan)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/19 "2009-09-10T02:25:02Z")
there will be real roller racing as well - for the more experienced.
anyways - big news!
i spoke to chooka today, and he told me anyone who could achieve the chooka challenge will win $100, donated by chooka himself!
the chooka challenge is:
four laps of the clock (1600 metres) in less than one minute and two seconds, on the real rollers.
or put simply:
a mile in a minute.
get practicing! brunswick run roller training at their clubrooms on thursday nights:
[http://brunswickcyclingclub.com/training/thursday-night-spin/](http://brunswickcyclingclub.com/training/thursday-night-spin/)
it’s a hundred bucks! for one minute’s work!
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### Author:  [@beaker](https://fixed.org.au/u/beaker)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/rock-n-roller-racing-flyer-up-18th-october/41143/20 "2009-09-10T16:05:11Z")
Dammit. I really wanna go to this, but I’ll be plodding my way round the bay that day (and maybe eating some hay, or making things out of clay, or, oh fuck it.)
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