Glasgow Fixed Gear & Single-speed Easter Weekender
Friday 10th - Sunday 13th April 2009

We (glasgowfgss.com) are proud to announce a weekend of cycling events in Glasgow for dérailleur-less riders. We've got 4 main events (see flyer above), there's a £2 entry fee for the 3 competitive events and hopefully they'll be enough cash left over for booze and food on the Sunday.

We have an amazing box of prizes worth over £200 so far thanks to generous donations from Velo Solo, Urban Hunter, Bagaboo, Gear, Willy Bain, Billy Bilsland..

For those of you travelling from out of town there are a couches/floors available (post below if you can offer a berth or need one) and there's also the eurohostel in town.

All of the events start from George Square in the city centre.

Any questions, enquiries about rules or specifics etc please post them below.

****update****
Friday's sprints and Saturday's Clockwork Orange ride will now meet at 8pm instead of 9pm

Let me get this started then

1. Rabsda (all events) (might not be able to enter them if i have to marshal it though)

1. rabsda (all events)
2. rusty (all events)

will there be other types of wood we can BBQ off of also?

take it the ride out to loch lomond will be fixed?

I'll try to get the weekend off work, but even if not then I can do the evening events, so for now...

1. rabsda (all events)
2. rusty (all events)
3. euan (sprints+hillclimb)
4. krakow (sprints + clockwork orange run)

P.S. great work rabsda - kudos for getting this together so swiftly. I like the sound of the prize haul too.

rusty:

conn artist:will there be other types of wood we can BBQ off of also?

I don't get it. What does that mean?

conn artist:take it the ride out to loch lomond will be fixed?

Yes. It's a flat route, along a canal.

There is a typo in the flyer. the flyer indicates there will be a BBQ on the 'beech' which is a type of wood/tree. rabsda surely means 'beach' of the sandy or pebbley kind.

i will be up for the ride out to loch lomond and would be up for helping out a bit if i dont have too much uni work to do. not to sure about all*ycats just yet or sprints for that matter. i'm still not entirely confident with the fixed or with my bikes skills yet after breaking my arm last year my confidence has taken a major knock. in other words i need to HTFU.

It's a while away yet so you've plenty of time to get to grips with riding fixed. and yeah. HTFU!

plurabelle:Sounds brilliant, and the flyer looks great. I'm like conn artist, a wee bit trepidatious about the sprints/alleyc*ts, but who knows, by then I might not be. I'd love to do the loch lomond anyway, and my bike should be sorted by then. Yay.

we can be wimps together plurabelle. i will need to practice hard for the next month as it would be like a lamb to the slaughter going up against some of the more experianced riders.

I've been trying to learn to track stand for the sprints and hill climb and not really getting it. Though I seem to be picking up no handed seat trackstands slowly.

I'm not really going to compete in the all*y cat. I might just choose a station and take pictures. Or ride it in a more sedate (legal) manner.

Sounds awesome! Hope to take part, having a bit of bicycle bother.

1. rabsda (all events)
2. rusty (all events)
3. euan (sprints+hillclimb)(marshalling the all*ycat)
4. krakow (sprints + clockwork orange run)
5. islipaway (if bike is fixed)
6. plurabelle
7. conn artist

aye?

1. rabsda (all events)
2. rusty (all events)
3. euan (sprints+hillclimb)(marshalling the clockwork orange run)
4. krakow (sprints + clockwork orange run)
5. islipaway (if bike is fixed)
6. plurabelle (loch lomond and drinking)
7. conn artist
8.dickie (all events)

Aye.

1. rabsda (all events)
2. rusty (all events)
3. euan (sprints+hillclimb)(marshalling the clockwork orange run)
4. krakow (sprints + clockwork orange run)
5. islipaway (if bike is fixed)
6. plurabelle (loch lomond and drinking)
7. conn artist
8.dickie (all events)
9. Getafix

I should be able to make the sprint on friday night and maybe the alleyc*t but dont see me making the daytime events due to work.
Will look into gettin the sunday off though coz that sounds like a good ride, if i cant get the time off i may pop up to the loch after work on the motorbike or something (hey it aint got a dérailleur!)

here's some photos to get you ready for the hill climb:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/glasgows-steepest-hills

i'd employ one of these:

far more motivational i'd say.

By the way I made it up all the hills bar one on 46x15 so it's doable. It's not a race anyway so it's going to be one at a time up each hill if you have to get off then it's not the end of the world

Something like this could make an interesting addition to the sprints on the Friday night (replace the rollers with a road). Perhaps this could be an extra-curricular activity.

http://vimeo.com/873979

I'm going to try and print some posters off today as well

Would it be cool to have clockwork orange spoke cards to give out to participants? Have some ideas for making one but not if there's no interest...

http://www.houseofpistard.com/2009/03/courier-stuff-and-fakenger-stuff.html

The Glasgow Couriers used to easily kick London's arse when it came to putting on good events but recently, for various reasons, that's all dried up. So it's good to see there's people around to fill the void.

I'm planning out my route for Saturday evening. It's going to be mental riding my route through the city centre.

The dash to my chosen first stop is quite inspired I think.

We'll need someone at Blytheswood Square to identify the first person back with a complete manifest.