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You're talking about jumping the gun, right? The only person who cheated more than you was Buffalo Bill. Disgraceful behaviour.

That's only in the short history you are knowledgeable of, when it was just a courier event there was plenty of underhand behaviour knocking around, none of which was mine either. I've never cheated....might have to after all this physio ends though.

......I was being facetious, static cycling is worse than road/track/MTB. There is no movement in your lower back at all sat on a Turbo, grinding away.

It's good for your back......DO IT!

hillbilly, you possess a natural talent that seems to be augmented by cider. The rest of us have to work on our twiddling and try and curb the drink in order to do well.

Skully, the London round of the National Series is at LMNH on 8th Feb. full details of the whole series is here, www.rollapaluza.com/nationals

Thanks andyp

As MilesJS says the start is very important, reaction times can be all the difference for the fastest racers. You need to be up to full speed within 2 revolutions max.

The best way to train, I think & as a few have pointed out on here is to replicate a race...ie from a standing start on a turbo with very little resistance accelerate to your max cadence and hold it for 20-22 secs (depending on how fast you are). I used to stick a few of these sprints into my daily TT sessions and it massively improved my max cadence, though I know of others who have done similar and not seen the same improvements.

It isn't about power it is about how fast you can spin, some top riders are putting out well over 1000watts when they kick at the start but a there are plenty of very fast riders that put out 2-400w less.

We have been privileged enough to have some of the fastest sprinters in the world on our rigs, below is a video of Craig Maclean riding a 500m race, he is smooth as a Werther's Original, up to speed very quickly and his upper body hardly moves. The only thing he forgot to do was drink beer before or after the race, which would obviously improve his performance massively.

http://youtu.be/Jgyq8Zkp10Y

There will be very soon.

S'right, everyone pays £5 to get in and anyone can race.

There will be soon, we just have to finalise a few other bits and bobs.

Additional entertainment then.

^ They were scared of you lot & rightly so.

The Birmingham event is on....Thursday 23rd, Spotted Dog, Digbeth and Red Kite Cycles are sponsoring.

Thomas, you will just have to miss footy that night, it is an inferior sport anyway [/endlie]

s'zakly what I thought....

That is generally why Trackies and BMX riders do well at our events, they (over) train their cadence as it affects their racing.

The GB track team have what they refer to as a clown bike which has 100mm cranks which they use to over train their cadence. Chris Hoy had the record on that a couple of years ago with a peak of 311 and all the top sprinters peak at over 300, which is far more than they ever get to in a race.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfYMiO6FBr4&feature=related

Posting about Guitar Slim made me think about another of my old favourites....

Rogerfermative....probably being a bit enthusiastic myself going for such a length of time out of the flat so soon!

Yep, I will have to get up a walk around periodically but it's a goer. Shall we get some nosh first, perhaps in one of the restaurants there?

Having been dragged back to this forum to voyeuristically look at the negative things......I forgot there were a few threads I enjoyed too.

BD Still good for Thursday?

Do a few sessions on the rollers though and see what difference it makes, I went from mid pack to very fast through by doing short intervals on a turbo. I can get it back* fairly quickly too with a week or two's worth of TT sessions.

• Not at the moment as I am recovering from a discectomy op & I can barely walk let alone cycle yet.........soon though.
  

That puts you squarely in pro territory, the highest we have event had is 247rpm* and that was Matt Crampton. Craig Maclean, Chris Hoy, Pete Mitchell, Matt Rotherham and a whole host of others haven't managed to reach Crampton's maximum.

I'm not saying you can't/won't but if you do you are in the very top percentile of cycling athletes that have been on our rollers.

Test your legs over 20s not 30s, if you can maintain that high a cadence you will cover 500m in a lot less than 30s.

*on average for 500m

I have held 180rpm for a minute, is this acceptable or do I need to go faster?

No and yes, respectively.

The races are not a minute long and the winners average around 200-220 depending on how fast they are.

^ He's got plenty of time, it'll be a great way to disburse the hog fest that is Christmas. Get on the turbo and do intervals including 23 second sprints in a low gear and you will see an improvement.

Feb.

There will be Cliveo....even though I know you are not here to read this.

I am in the final throws of organising this years National Series. There will be at very least a Qualifier and the Finale for that series of events in London, starting in February.

Thanks Christy, it was a pleasure. Hopefully this time with a little more warning we can generate a bigger crowd.

Thanks, I've been PM'd too so I am in contact with a few venues now. I will let you know how we progress.