Bike Nights thoughts #fb
January 18th, 2010 |
Sounds like everyone had a pretty fun time at Bike Night #1, glad to hear it!
We had the original idea to make the night super organized with very structured individual events during the course of the evening, but it seemed like everyone was more interested in having a good time and just getting a good workout, which worked out great.
The rolling resistance is really high on that surface and I think most were pretty surprised by how much work it was to keep the momentum going. This caused most of those in attendance to be pretty much worn out after an hour and a half. So I think we are going to back things off and make the event from 11pm to 12:30am pm. We are also looking to move the Sunday night events to Friday instead.
Other ideas we had is a reduced entry fee for Category 4/5 riders and women in order to fill those races. If we get enough women to show up we can run a separate women’s event.
Hope to see you at the next event, I will let you know if we end up adjusting the date and moving the next event to Friday night.
6 Responses to “Bike Nights thoughts #fb”
“from 11pm to 12:30pm” – if people are worn out after 1.5 hours, they’re certainly going to be work out after 13.5 hours!
“worn out” that is.
It was a ton of fun.
Too bad not many velodrome supporters didn’t show up to a) show support for an indoor velodrome, b) have a nice workout and c) engage in fun activity.
It should be noted that many track aficionados did show up. Hell, 7 members of Behind-Bars/LGR took to the start line.
@Steven: ha ha, spelling errors are worse than time errors.
Looked fun, Anybody using a Mountain Bike? Or would that be to slow going up against CX bikes?
@Mark: one could probably use a MTB, though no one did. you would probably want really thin tires as MTB tires would be too slow.