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Conference noted::bicycle

Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

518.0. "ROLLER RACES AT BICYCLE ALLEY" by CHEAPR::NORTON () Thu Jan 14 1988 08:53

    Bicycle Alley in Worcester, home of the Worcester Road Club, has
    expressed an interest in starting roller races on a weekly basis
    at the store.  But there's been a serious lack of interest.  (They're
    calling them roller races, but they'll actually be using wind trainers,
    so you don't have to worry about riding through their walls.)  
    
    Seems to me it would be a lot more fun to do this as a group rather
    than alone at home.  Anything that makes indoor training fun is
    probably worth the trip to Worcester!                    
    
    Would anybody be interested?
    
    Kathy
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518.1When is a roller not a, ....never_mind MENTOR::REGIt was 20 years ago next MayThu Jan 14 1988 10:4010
    
    	I think you have identified the problem and its solution.  The
    serious lack of interest (lack of serious interest ?) is probably
    *DUE TO* the fact that these are not roller races.  I for one might
    be interested, if they were real.  CdH, where are you ?
    How about a roller and a wind trainer category ?
    
    	Reg
518.2Event MarketingAKOV11::POLLARDThu Jan 14 1988 13:579
    	I believe that Paul Randazzo runs roller races (on a Kreitler
    with the resistance blower attached) at his shop in Tyngsboro. 
    Since I live on the south shore, I haven't bothered to show up,
    but I am willing to spread the rumor.  The regular crowd sounds
    like a truly hard-core bunch.  
    	The moral of the story may be that it is possible to  generate 
    interest in this sort of event.  You end up with a racing-oriented
    crowd, though.  Rollers are an accessory of racing hipness, along 
    with "Give me Campy or Give me Death", sew-ups, and helmet aversion.
518.3great for additional push to train harder....APLVEW::DEBRIAEEricaceaous to the extreme...Wed Feb 07 1996 10:048
    
    	There used to be roller races in Cambridge and at Frank's Spoke and
    	Wheel in Framingham. Does anyone know if these are still running
    	(last I knew Frank stopped his), or where one can go today for
    	roller races???

    	-Erik
518.4WMOIS::GIROUARD_CWed Feb 07 1996 12:311
    don't know. i know Landry's had them too a while back.