Ultimate Race of Truth
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Was pootling round town on a Boris Bike at lunchtime, trying to see how many scalps I could get, and it occurred to me that as the bikes are all identical we have the opportunity to do some competition on a totally level playing field.
All we need to do is nominate a course (or maybe a handful of different courses) somewhere within Zone 1, and competitors can post their best times. No excuses about equipment, all times have to be set on a Boris Bike.
Anyone up for this?
EDIT: Official course #1: One lap of Regents Park (either direction)
All we need to do is nominate a course (or maybe a handful of different courses) somewhere within Zone 1, and competitors can post their best times. No excuses about equipment, all times have to be set on a Boris Bike.
Anyone up for this?
EDIT: Official course #1: One lap of Regents Park (either direction)
Pannier, 120rpm.
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Why not?
Laps of Hyde Park maybe?0 -
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I'm in....
Actually I think this will be interesting....
Who knows Fiziks?
Will big boys cope with the massive mass of Boris Bikes or will the whippets still prevail.....
My Fizique is more Fat Boy than Chris Hoy but I live in hope that the teeny weenies won't have the beans to push the pig iron along.....
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What would Thora Hurd do?0 -
sounds like there's scope for rules and perhaps an online tracker. I will become rich off the sponsorship!!
My start at the rules:
- you must use a Boris bike as you find it (no adjusting tyre pressures, extra oiling)
- you must log the time of day against a race claim (no 2am dashes to get the record)
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davmaggs wrote:sounds like there's scope for rules and perhaps an online tracker. I will become rich off the sponsorship!!
My start at the rules:
- you must use a Boris bike as you find it (no adjusting tyre pressures, extra oiling)
- you must log the time of day against a race claim (no 2am dashes to get the record)
any more
I will lie about my time unless someone watches me who I can't pay off in cheap and filthy "favours" - therefore it's no-one here....
I think we need a mass le-mans start....
Or an endurance race..... How many laps of Hyde Park can be done whilst I drink myself insensible - that kind of thing....Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
What would Thora Hurd do?0 -
We could even say you must take a picture of your boris bike receipt to prove your claims!
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lost_in_thought wrote:We could even say you must take a picture of your boris bike receipt to prove your claims!
See it's evloving already. The time to get the bike out and back to the docking station provides the audit trail plus the chance for a record to be ruined by outside forces.
Give it a few days and a lazy journo from a free paper will steal this and write it up as something that is happening.0 -
I think the race should include undocking and docking the bike...
EDIT: like the brompton races where you have to unfold it...0 -
This is an amazingly good idea.lost_in_thought wrote:I think the race should include undocking and docking the bike...
EDIT: like the brompton races where you have to unfold it...
This is also a good idea, you could submit your reciepts to an independant adjudicator.
I might have to travel down to london to have a go at this. 4 am Monday morning should be about right :twisted:Saracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
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So we need two separate disciplines, how about this:
1. TT. Time between two nominated docking stations, as determined by receipt. Any route allowed.
2. SCR. Mass start in the ASL at VBR, go when the lights turn green. Along Embankment to Cheyne Walk, right onto NKR, right again down Edith Grove, back along Embankment and finish outside the Morpeth.
Bikes must be used as found (no changes to tyre pressure).
Normal SCR rules to be obeyed (no cycling on pavement, RLJ-ing etc)Pannier, 120rpm.0 -
Should we be pushing this as an Olympic sport ?0
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I like it!
Where shall we have the first TT route?0 -
great idea, I'm in
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Jay dubbleU wrote:Should we be pushing this as an Olympic sport ?
Now that would be stonking publicity shot at the 2012 Olympics... all the cyclist entrants tearing 'round London on a Boris BikeChunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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We should call it Clique RacingPurveyor of sonic doom
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Should we have teh first TT as an out-and-out speed run, e.g. along the Embankment, or a slower navigational run, eg through the one-way hell of Mayfair?0 -
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lost_in_thought wrote:
Should we have teh first TT as an out-and-out speed run, e.g. along the Embankment, or a slower navigational run, eg through the one-way hell of Mayfair?0 -
JonGinge wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:
Should we have teh first TT as an out-and-out speed run, e.g. along the Embankment, or a slower navigational run, eg through the one-way hell of Mayfair?
True true, just an example! I don't know that we'll find any bit of London where someone doesn't have a navigational advantage!
I also think we should precede the Facebook race with our own... the Mall is a great place to do it!0 -
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put myself as a 'maybe'B'Twin Sport 1
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Kieran_Burns wrote:Jay dubbleU wrote:Should we be pushing this as an Olympic sport ?
Now that would be stonking publicity shot at the 2012 Olympics... all the cyclist entrants tearing 'round London on a Boris Bike
+1! And could be a go-er for the Smithfield Nocturne.
Anyway, I'm in.FCN 2-4.
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I want to do this. I'm not sure how it can be achieved practically, but I want to do it. And if someone sets up a receipt based TT championship, I'm totally in. Good for the spin, I'd imagine.0
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What about a lap of Regent's Park? That's got to be possible surely? BTW - can we not include the time that it takes to get the sodding bike out of the sodding stands - my 2 keys have worked a grand total of once over the space of this week....http://www.georgesfoundation.org
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