Competition Rollers

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Originally posted by byron27
have been having a gander at the competition roller section on the bikecult site ( http://www.bikecult.com/works/rollers.html ) and it has renewed my interest in setting up some "goldsprint" contests in perth. Does anyone has any info on these rollers or anyone who makes, hires, sells them?
How easy are they to make?

thanks

How does roller racing work?? What are the rules of engagement, how are places determined, etc?? Looks like a lot of errrr FUN!!! 😄

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Originally posted by warrwych
How does roller racing work?? What are the rules of engagement, how are places determined, etc?? Looks like a lot of errrr FUN!!! 😄

Looking at the site, it appears that a couple of riders setup on
the machines and then it's a sprint to cover 400 or 500m. The
rollers are hooked to the distance scale that sits behind the
riders and shows their progress over the distance.
First one to get their arrow to the 500m mark wins the 'race'.
I think they were doing this at the Bike Show in Melbourne
last year (or the year before?).

I'd like to see a similar one that compares cadence of two riders,
for a pedal-rpm battle 🙂

hippy

Yep, hippy has the right idea.
I raced on them in Vienna a couple of years ago. The setup was in a pub and it was the best fun!. A sure winner if setup in pubs over here i reckon. For the record, i took an early lead in my race but the rapid cadence combined with a bellyful of beer had a little disagreement mid sprint and i was pipped by a teutonic viking lad on the line.

Cadence would definitely add some spice!

Hippy, did you see the size of the gearing some guys were winning with?
63x17........now that is some development......

Apparently the record for 500m is in the region of 14 seconds. 120kph anyone??

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Originally posted by byron27
Yep, hippy has the right idea.
I raced on them in Vienna a couple of years ago. The setup was in a pub and it was the best fun!. A sure winner if setup in pubs over here i reckon. For the record, i took an early lead in my race but the rapid cadence combined with a bellyful of beer had a little disagreement mid sprint and i was pipped by a teutonic viking lad on the line.

Cadence would definitely add some spice!

Hippy, did you see the size of the gearing some guys were winning with?
63x17........now that is some development......

Apparently the record for 500m is in the region of 14 seconds. 120kph anyone??

Thanks Hippy and Byron27 - makes sense now ;-P

Sounds like a heap of fun (beered up or not! hehehe). I am just imaging it at the local pub - I think u'd get guys in their kids peddle cars/trucks trying to run the rollerbike guys over!!!!!

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Originally posted by byron27
Hippy, did you see the size of the gearing some guys were >winning with? 63x17........now that is some development......

No, but, cool 🙂 With no wind resistance and less rolling
resistance, the disadvantage of having to start a large gear
would be negated by the speed with which you could 'cross the
line'.

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Apparently the record for 500m is in the region of 14 seconds. >120kph anyone??

128.57.. those 8.57kph make all the difference.. ;-P

Where did you hear/read/sight this record?

You wouldn't want the rollers to suddenly seize would
you?!? :S

hippy

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Where did you hear/read/sight this record?

Based upon the times listed on the bikecult site. The best time i saw was approx. 14 seconds.

Now, if we can only get Sean Eddie and Shane Kely set up on one of those machines........that is a contest i would pay good money to see!!

I have this vision of smoke appearing from the back of the rollers and the little dials flying around at the speed of light!

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Sounds like a heap of fun (beered up or not! hehehe). I am
just imaging it at the local pub - I think u'd get guys in
their kids peddle cars/trucks trying to run the rollerbike
guys over!!!!!

Chanell 7's World of Sport on a Sunday morning (way back
when) used to have a roller competition each week, along
with the woodchop competition. Those were the token efforts
in order to claim World of Sport rather than World of
Football. But as a kid I used to love the roller competition
(and the totally crappy prizes the winner would get). DaveB

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Originally posted by byron27
Does anyone has any info on these rollers or anyone who makes, hires, sells them?

thanks

Jump over to this forum. We are in the process of researching locally available rollers.

http://www.cyclingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=997429#post997429

Rod