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Originally Posted by fuji86 (Post 11193958)

Great, that must've been a heck of an experience ? My biggest fear is riding in traffic like that. Would be awesome to have the track to yourself or a section/lane (top or bottom 1/2) of it to carve out and not look at some dude's spandex covered @zz ? And the class ? A lot of people in it ? Smaller class would probably acclimate a cyclist to the pack/traffic ?

There was 30 or so in the class split up into like 4 groups... I got stuck behind people which is scary since they sometimes go slower than you. I also got stuck in the front of our practice paceline for way too many laps... that sucked...

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Originally Posted by adriano (Post 11194005)

the velodrome is nine miles away, and it took you how many months to get around to going there?

Way too many months... Work and school, work and school... rince and repeat... I had to get a day off...

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Originally Posted by Dr. Banzai (Post 11196208)

Pedaling - I go to the indoor velodrome here to put in laps when it's pissing rain or freezing cold out.

I wish we had an indoor one here, then I could ride past August...

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Originally Posted by Cynikal (Post 11197633)

I know Team Beer (my team) makes a group run to Hellyer every now and then. I haven't done it yet but I plan too. Dean has a portable velodrome ready and is currently looking for a space for it. If anyone knows of a large industrial space that would work let me know. I'm helping him with the non-profit creation (I had experience with the creation of the Bike kitchen.)

A couple people from Team Beer were actually there the day I went. A portable velodrome? How does that work? No **** you were a founder of the Bike Kitchen?!

I'm not really sure how the portable velodrome thing works. I'm actually really excited to see. I was in the original group of 9 that started the Kitchen and them after a couple of years had to back off due to time constraints. It was (and still is) a great project and organization and I was happy to be a part of it.

3 hours... I believe the closest track to me is somewhere south of the border.

my local velodrome is 15minutes from my house. I went there with school two years ago and it convinced me to buy a fixed gear. Im glad my school did it.

I took my first track development class tonight, also at Alpenrose. Those turns look steep from the stands, and even steeper from the apron. Holy $h!t that first lap around the track is freaky. So is the first time you pull up in the corner then drop back down at the end of a paceline. After a few more laps it gets really, really fun. Until your lungs catch on fire.

What a rush!

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Originally Posted by six30nine (Post 11235640)

+100. I would have been out there but I am recovering from a crash last weekend... :notamused: