Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - DCC/Chicago: Thursday Night Race, a video

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absntr
07-29-05, 01:26 PM
Put together a quick film and recap of last night's 4 block loop, 3 heats, 3 final heats, winner takes 2 slices and pop race.

A lot of fun.

Watch it (http://dcc.absenter.org/mov/thursday_night_race.wmv) (4.86MB)

http://dcc.absenter.org/foto/misc/race.jpg

monkey
07-29-05, 01:55 PM
Man, I swear I'm not that slow!
padelsbach
07-29-05, 01:58 PM
looks like fun. who won?

absntr
07-29-05, 02:03 PM
Bodegabandit - fast!

Monkey - well it was the second heat and you and Ira had it going in the first heat.
Ira in Chi
07-29-05, 02:11 PM
Naz, you didn't tape the final heat :( I'm not in there at all?!
BostonFixed
07-29-05, 02:12 PM
Can you post a .mpg or file type that is compatible with my quicktime?
absntr
07-29-05, 02:23 PM
Naz, you didn't tape the final heat :( I'm not in there at all?!

Ira - sorry! I wanted to but then I was responsible for starting that heat and timing it! Next time for sure.
calculator
07-29-05, 02:26 PM
Nicely done. It even shows off my sloppy sidways racestart trackstand 'skillz'. Can't wait to do it again.
Ira in Chi
07-29-05, 02:39 PM
I did some calculations using the google pedometer- the course was a 1 mile loop, and the average speed of the best finishers was around 25mph. Pretty good, considering the rough terrain and tight corners.

The route was (clockwise): Damen(staring/finish @ Carol), Fulton, Leavitt, Hubbard.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.888653,-87.679664&spn=0.005668,0.006554&t=h&hl=en
3niktac
07-29-05, 03:14 PM
BostonFixed, are you on a mac? If so download VLC. It works great for crap like wmv.
absntr
07-29-05, 03:19 PM
Can you post a .mpg or file type that is compatible with my quicktime?

Maybe over the weekend - I didn't have time to do any rendering for a better format.

Or lik 3niktac said, use VLC player.
Fugazi Dave
07-29-05, 04:15 PM
VLC is awesome to have anyway - makes watching AVI files a cinch without using DIVX Doctor or the like. It doesn't like all .wmv files, but it's doing OK with this one.
bodegabandit
07-29-05, 09:24 PM
Hey thanks Fred and Naz(and everyone else) for the event. Had a great time hopefully we can do it again sometime.
simple312
07-29-05, 11:57 PM
thanks for the race and the video. first time.

all i have to say is -- training
and the obvious, my need to lose about 50lbs and get closer to remotely being in shape.
ryan_c
07-30-05, 12:15 AM
That was a blast!!

Can't wait to do something similar in the future.
Also, it was cool seeing so many new people out.
beat_pedalr
07-30-05, 05:49 AM
i had a great time also...thanks!
Jose Cuervo
08-02-05, 09:12 AM
Looks like fun. I'll have to make it to the next one.