€6.3m renovation of the Vigorelli to start this year

Milan has set aside €6.3m for a renovation project of the awesome Vigorelli velodrome. Only a couple of years ago the velodrome was approved to be demolished before The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities stepped in to save it. Work is scheduled to begin this August.

Moar RHC video! RedHookCrit /// Barcelona /// Chapter 02 /// The Happening

Sup an ale, remember summer...


RedHookCrit /// Barcelona /// Chapter 02 /// The Happening from Recios Media Crew on Vimeo.

Wolfpack Hustle: The Civic Center Crit 3 Los Angeles

The date is subject to change, but pencil it in and keep an eye out here for updates!

Red Hook Crit Milano & Barcelona 2014 Films

Another busy week on the films front with a couple of docs being put online for both the Milano and Barcelona races this year!



Barcelona Red Hook Criterium N°2 - The Documentary from Michele Colucci on Vimeo.



Red Hook Criterium Milano 2014 by Tito Capovilla from Tito Capovilla on Vimeo.

Also the Brooklyn video from a couple of months back in case you missed it...



RED HOOK CRIT - 2014 from UnbundledUnderground on Vimeo.

Knife Bike - Red Hook Crit Milano 2014

Another quality before/during/after video for RHC Milano 2014...



Knife Bike | Red Hook Crit /// Milano 2014 from Take Your Space on Vimeo.

Mianzi Rei - My Legs My Gears

This little film has been doing the rounds for the past couple of weeks and I keep meaning to put it up here before it get lost in the ether of internet history...



Mianzi Rei - My Legs My Gears from Colorado Media GmbH on Vimeo.

Rad Race - Last Man Standing - Berlin, March 21st 2015

The first signs of the spring-to-come have started to appear!
Rad Race will be hosting their Last Man Standing competition to coincide with Berlin Bicycle Week on March 21st. See last year's Berlin event below:




More info here

Track Or Treat 8 - Ladies FGC 30th Oct, Alleycat 31st Oct

Thursday October 30th – Ladies Track Crit – no brakes
Meet at downtown farmers market at 10pm

Friday October 31st – Alleycat
All downtown and uptown stops
time bonus for costume

Launch and Afterparty at Sunrise Cycles

All attendees must bring a six pack of their choice to enter the race or party!

More info here!

Mquadro cranks - RHC Milano 5

Here's a preview of the new 2015 Mquadro cranks RHC Milano 5 version.
Men's one will be 167.5 crank arms, women's are 165. Both with a 49t chainring.

Full retail versions will be available later on! 

The Red Hook Criterium Milano No. 5 Poster

The official, atmospheric poster for RHC Milano No. 5 has been released featuring an original drawing by Sam Trimble...

Stoked On Fixed Bikes #18 Online Now

If you havn't done so already (Well, I'm running mega behind on life atm!) take a good look through the fine SOFB #18 HERE

OC Brakeless - Nightmare Before Fixmas, CA 92802, 26th October

This is Race 1 of a 3 Race Alley Cat Series OC Brakeless are holding to end the year. There will be 1 race held in October, November and December.

-HELMET AND LIGHTS REQUIRED

-SMALL BAG OR HIP POUCH WILL BE NEEDED FOR THIS ONE BECAUSE YOU WILL BE PICKING UP ITEMS AND DELIVERING THEM. THE ITEMS WILL BE SMALL AND CAN ALSO FIT IN THE BACK OF YOUR JERSEY IF NEED BE.

-$5.00 REGISTRATION FEE

-MAP WITH ALL CHECKPOINTS WILL BE HANDED OUT AT THE DAY OF THE RACE.

-MEET AT PONDEROSA PARK LOCATED AT 2100 Haster St, Anaheim, CA 92802

REGISTRATION ENDS AT 5:30-5:45 SO GET THERE ON TIME.

More info HERE

Fixed Days 2015 to be hosted in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3rd, 4th & 5th July

The 5th Fixed Days event will be taking place in Rotterdam for 2015 to coincide with the TDF passing through. Guaranteed to be a fully packed program of Sprints, Alleycat, Criterium, Velodrome Chase, Bike Market, Bikepolo, FGFS, Parties and more!

Velo Sur Mer - The Great Art Heist Alleycat, Boscombe, 3rd October

Velo Sur Mer are running another old school format of Alley Cat Cycling, a test of speed and local geographical knowledge!
There will be a ton of great prizes from all over the world and will be awarding them to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, fastest fixed AND fastest female!
Prizes from:
State Bike Co
E H Works
Ass Savers
Brew Tea Co
Boscombe Bike Club
Jimmy's Iced Coffee
So come on down and join in the fastest paced part of the Bournemouth Emerging Art Fringe!

Plus there will be a post race event for all riders in the new cycle cafe opening soon in Boscombe - Velo Domestique - music, beers and good vibes!

More details here!

National Track Championship, Manchester - Schedule

The National Track Championship starts today in Manchester, here is the schedule:

DAY 1 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 2014
EVENING SESSION: 18.00 - 21.20
Women's Team Pursuit Qualification
Men's Team Pursuit         Qualification
Para-cycling Time Trial Final
Women's Team Pursuit Final
Victory Ceremony         Para-cycling Time Trial
Men's Team Pursuit         Final
Victory Ceremony         Women's Team Pursuit
Victory Ceremony         Men's Team Pursuit

DAY 2 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25 2014
EVENING SESSION: 18.00 - 21.50
Para-cycling Pursuit         Final
Women's 500m Time Trial         Final
Men's Kilometre Time Trial         Final
Victory Ceremony         Para-cycling Pursuit
Victory Ceremony         Women's 500m Time Trial
Victory Ceremony         Men's Kilometre Time Trial

DAY 3 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26 2014
AFTERNOON SESSION: 12.00 - 16.00
Women's Sprint         Qualification
Men's Individual Pursuit         Qualification heats 1-8
Women's Sprint         1st round
Men's Individual Pursuit         Qualification heats 9+
Women's Sprint         1st round repechage
Women's Individual Pursuit         Qualification heats 1-5
Women's Sprint         Quarter-finals match A
Women's Individual Pursuit         Qualification heats 5+
Women's Sprint         Quarter-finals match B
Women's Sprint         Quarter-finals match C

EVENING SESSION: 19.00 - 22.40
Women's Sprint         Semi-finals match A
Men's Keirin         1st round
Women's Sprint         Semi-finals match B
Women's Sprint         Minor final
Women's Sprint         Semi-finals match C
Men's Keirin         1st round repechage
Para-cycling 200m FS TT Final
Women's Sprint         Finals match A
Women's Individual Pursuit         5th-8th
Men's Individual Pursuit         5th-8th
Women's Sprint         Finals match B
Men's Keirin         Semi-finals
Women's Individual Pursuit         Finals
Men's Individual Pursuit         Finals
Women's Sprint         Finals match C
Victory Ceremony         Para-cycling 200m FS TT
Men's Keirin         Final
Victory Ceremony         Women's Individual Pursuit
Victory Ceremony         Men's Individual Pursuit
Victory Ceremony         Women's Sprint
Victory Ceremony         Men's Keirin

DAY 4 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 27 2014
AFTERNOON SESSION: 12.00 - 15.30
Men's Sprint         Qualification
Men's Points         Qualification heat 1
Men's Sprint         1st round
Men's Points         Qualification heat 2
Men's Sprint         1st round repechage
Women's Team Sprint Qualification
Men's Sprint         2nd round
Men's Sprint         2nd round repechage
Men's Sprint         Quarter-finals match A
Men's Sprint         Quarter-finals match B
Men's Sprint         Quarter-finals match C

EVENING SESSION: 19.00 - 22.00
Men's Sprint         Semi-finals match A
Women's Team Sprint Semi-finals
Men's Sprint         Minor final
Men's Sprint         Semi-finals match B
Women's Scratch Final
Men's Sprint         Semi-finals match C
Women's Team Sprint Finals
Men's Sprint         Finals match A
Victory Ceremony         Women's Scratch
Victory Ceremony         Women's Team Sprint
Men's Sprint         Finals match B
Men's Points         Final
Men's Sprint         Finals match C
Victory Ceremony         Men's Points
Victory Ceremony         Men's Sprint

DAY 5 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28 2014
DAY SESSION: 10.30 - 15.35
Men's Team Sprint         Qualification
Women's Keirin         1st round
Men's Scratch         Qualification
Women's Keirin         Repechage
Women's Keirin         Final
Women's Points         Final
Men's Team Sprint         Semi-finals
Victory Ceremony         Women's Keirin
Men's Scratch         Final
Victory Ceremony         Women's Points
Victory Ceremony         Men's Scratch
Men's Team Sprint         Finals
Victory Ceremony         Team Sprint

RHC Barcelona #2 Video from Raw Cycling Magazine

Red Hook Crit Milano #5 - Registration now open!

Registration is now open for RHC Milano #5, which will take place on October 11th. Head on over to the website, pay your monies and get your name down.

Race Details:
- Separate Men and Women’s fields
- 24 laps (1.27 km per lap) / total distance of 26,5 km (Men)
- 18 laps (1.27 km per lap) / total distance of 20 km (Women)
- Timed qualifying format to set 85 rider starting grid
- Electronic timing and scoring
- Track bikes required
- Lapped riders eliminated
- Points awarded towards the Red Hook Criterium Championship
- Qualifying positions 86 – 150 line up for a 14-lap ‘Last Chance Race’. The top-10 finishers will advance into the main event.

So far, the standings are looking like this:

Womens:
1 Ainara Elbusto Arteaga, 41 Points
2 Jo Celso, 38 Points
3 Stefania Baldi,  35 Points
4 Kelli Samuelson, 35 Points
5 Liz So, 33 Points
6 Fleur Faure, 30 Points
7 Vittoria Reati, 27 Points
8 Ash Duban, 27 Points
9 Debora Galvez, 24 Points
10 Hannah Todd. 24 Points

Mens:
1 Thibaud Lhenry , 68 Points
2 Mario Paz Duque, 43 Points
3 Alessandro Bruzza, 43 Points
4 Nicholas Varani, 37 Points
5 Julio Padilla, 35 Points
6 Pablo Rodríguez, 35 Points
7 Kyle Murphy, 33 Points
8 Augusto Reati, 30 Points
9 Stefan Vis, 30 Points
10 Neil Bezdek, 27 Points

Red Hook Crit Barcelona #2 2014 Video from RooDol

I'm sure this is one of many RHC vids I'll end up sharing on here and looking back on over the cold winter months...

RooDol™ - Red Hook Criterium Barcelona 2014 from RooDol™ - Wherever You Are on Vimeo.

Tunnel Sprints, Bristol, 13th September

This year's tunnel sprints will be taking place on the 13th Sept on the Bristol / Bath cycle path. Fixed only! Bring your big legs and huge gear inches! (or just spectate and get drunk in a dark tunnel with glow sticks)

More info

Last year's video:

CS Grupetto Open Track Meet, Herne Hill Velodrome, 6th September

The 2014 CS Grupetto Open Track Meeting will be taking place on Saturday 6th Spetember at Herne Hill Velodrome.

This is our fourth year hosting a race meeting as part of the Herne Hill Open Series, and we hope to bring back the same atmosphere we had last year! Except this year there will be more salami's, and a bigger cheese.

A big thank you to our main sponsors - -Look Mum No Hands

2013 sees the re-introduction of the 'Roadmans 25' as the final race of the meet with cash prizes and multiple primes, this is open to male and female riders with podium prizes and primes for both.

We like to include sprint events on our programme so this year we will be doing team sprints. This event is pre-entry only. We have eight spaces available for men, and four for women, possibly more depending on interest. The two teams with the fastest times going through to a a final, with the winner taking home the coveted CS Grupetto 2 kilo salami!
Entries can be submitted to grupetto.entries@gmail.com

Of course we will also be running the standard bunch races, with a scratch, points, win-out, and 20k (multiple prizes) open to all racers.

With a £700 cash prize pot, giant salami's, over-sized cheese, beer, and other secret prizes from friends of the club , this is surely not to be missed!

After the racers have had their fun, we shall all decamp to the Prince Regent on Dulwich Road, to discuss our illustrious wins, epic failures, and mid-table obscurity.

More info here